⛳️ Super Quick Recap: Hero World Challenge
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Here's what we've got for ya today:
- Quick Recap: HWC
- Rory Weighs In On Rollback
- Shots Heard Round The World
- Fitz Snitched On Morikawa…Kinda
- Thing We’d Buy If We Weren’t Broke
Super Quick Recap: Hero World Challenge
Scottie Learned How To Putt
All year, the story on Scottie Scheffler has been brilliant ball striking (he led all players on tour in like, nine different categories) followed by lackluster putting.
Well, he showed up in the Bahamas this weekend with a new putter and a new putting coach, and guess what? He won.
He lead the field in strokes gained: tee to green. He finished 6th overall in putting (remember, this is a twenty man event) which is still an absolute improvement over the rest of the year.
The putting, however, wasn’t perfect. He actually finished last in putting for the 4th round. Still, twenty-under was enough to hold off a Sunday charge from Sepp Straka.
Tiger Looks Rusty, But Healthy
It’s important to try to measure our expectations for Tiger Woods, but it’s hard to do for obvious reasons. After a three-over round one, he played the rest of the tournament three-under and finished even.
A full 20 strokes behind the leader and best golfer in the world. That’s where the bar is.
The question that needed to be answered this weekend wasn’t “can he go toe to toe with the best in the world right now?” but ‘can he walk 72 holes and not be wrecked on Sunday?’ and the answer to that question is yes.
After the tournament, he reiterated that he thinks he can play one tournament a month, recover a few weeks, gear up for a week, and play another tournament.
We are here for it.
More Golf In 2023
Golf season never truly ends. This week is the Grant Thornton Invitational and next week, we get to see Tiger Woods tee it up with Charlie Woods at the PNC Championship.
What’s The Grant Thorton Invitational?
The LPGA and PGA TOUR’s best are teaming up in a new mixed team invitational where they’ll compete for equal prize money of $4 million.
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Rory Weighs In On Rollback
McIlroy said: "I don’t understand the anger about the golf ball roll back.
"It will make no difference whatsoever to the average golfer and puts golf back on a path of sustainability. It will also help bring back certain skills in the pro game that have been eradicated over the past 2 decades.
"The people who are upset about this decision shouldn’t be mad at the governing bodies, they should be mad at elite pros and club/ball manufacturers because they didn’t want bifurcation.
"The governing bodies presented us with that option earlier this year. Elite pros and ball manufacturers think bifurcation would negatively affect their bottom lines, when in reality, the game is already bifurcated.
"You think we play the same stuff you do? They put pressure on the governing bodies to roll it back to a lesser degree for everyone. Bifurcation was the logical answer for everyone, but yet again in this game, money talks."
As a follow up to a question on why it won’t hurt amateurs to lose distance, he said: "I don’t believe an average golfer giving up 5-10 yards off the tee is going to have a material effect on their actual score, handicap or enjoyment of the game."
When someone else asked why he got obsessed with distance himself then?
“More than anything else, ego.”
Shots Heard Round The World
LIV Golf’s Dean Burmester wins back-to-back DPWT events in South Africa.
Joaquin Niemann, Ashleigh Buhai win Australian Open titles
50 million global golfers against it, Brandel Chamblee roasts rollback.
Arizona’s first 18 hole night-golf course sells out first weekend.
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Fitz Snitched On Morikawa…Kinda
This weekend, Colin Morikawa was assessed a two-stroke penalty for violating local model rule G-11, which restricts the use of green reading material.
According to Steve Cox, PGA Tour Rules member, here’s what happened:
“In this particular situation with Collin’s caddie JJ, I met with him, and he confirmed that he had a putting system, which is very common out here on Tour,” Cox said on air with Golf Channel. “Unfortunately, how he went about formulating that putting system and that chart — he used a device to obtain that on the practice putting green, the levels of slope.”
“Using a device is not a breach itself, but when you transfer that into your yardage book and then subsequently use that for green reading use, that’s when the breach occurred.”
Morikawa was paired with Matt Fitzpatrick on Saturday, who apparently alerted officials to the rules breach, but it wasn’t really snitching. Here’s what Fitz said:
“I have wanted to use AimPoint earlier this year,” Fitzpatrick explained on Sunday after finishing T-4. “I spoke to my putting coach, Phil Kenyon, about it. He told me that he was pretty certain I can’t write the numbers down or use the AimPoint numbers. So, you know, I didn’t do it. And then obviously yesterday it happened and I asked Coxy just to clarify what the situation was. I asked the question and he was like, ‘Well, now you’ve asked the question, I need you to tell me what’s going on.’ That was it.”
Thing We'd Buy If We Weren't Broke
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