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THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON The Match Goes To Big Sky, Montana With Mickelson, DeChambeau, Brady And Rodgers. May 26, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Players have made 68.3% of putts from 4-8 feet on all putting surfaces since 2015. When isolating those numbers to just poa annua greens, the make percentage drops to 66.5%. While that differential of less than 2% sounds small, it can add up. For instance, that’s the difference in ranking 20th on TOUR in make percentage from that range and WALKER CUP TICKET POLICY ANNOUNCED: ONLY $500 TROPHY CLUB Walker Cup Ticket Policy Announced: Only $500 Trophy Club Passes Available. March 29, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. May’s Walker Cup now has a ticket policy: limited attendance with only $500 three-day passes offered to those who signed up requesting information. No ticket option is currently listed on the Walker Cup site. REPORT: U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN TO BE PLAYED WITH NO FANS Report: U.S. Women's Open To Be Played With No Fans — Geoff Shackelford. It is my theory that nature must precede the architect in the laying out of links. It is futile to attempt the transformation of wholly inadequate acres into an adequate course. Invariably the result is the inauguration of an earthquake. The site of a golf course should PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi ANNIKA: DON'T LET THE DRUG TESTING TRAILER DOOR HIT YOU ON Annika: Don't Let The Drug Testing Trailer Door Hit You On The Way To Retirement. It will be impossible for those in attendance Friday to forget how one of the LPGA’s greatest players ended her career. It was disappointing that several seats behind the 18th green were empty when she doffed her cap. It was emotional when she talked about how GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK Geoff Shackelford. Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books. GOLF'S LONGEST DAY IS HERE, A QUICK GUIDE In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day all because golf sites didn’t care). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE First Look At Renovated (Again) Muirfield Village — Geoff Shackelford. The need for shotmaking at Kiawah is especially evident at the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes. The Ocean Course makes a turn back east to begin its finishing stretch along the beach. The long par-three fourteenth hole is designed in the tradition of thegreat
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON The Match Goes To Big Sky, Montana With Mickelson, DeChambeau, Brady And Rodgers. May 26, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Players have made 68.3% of putts from 4-8 feet on all putting surfaces since 2015. When isolating those numbers to just poa annua greens, the make percentage drops to 66.5%. While that differential of less than 2% sounds small, it can add up. For instance, that’s the difference in ranking 20th on TOUR in make percentage from that range and WALKER CUP TICKET POLICY ANNOUNCED: ONLY $500 TROPHY CLUB Walker Cup Ticket Policy Announced: Only $500 Trophy Club Passes Available. March 29, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. May’s Walker Cup now has a ticket policy: limited attendance with only $500 three-day passes offered to those who signed up requesting information. No ticket option is currently listed on the Walker Cup site. REPORT: U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN TO BE PLAYED WITH NO FANS Report: U.S. Women's Open To Be Played With No Fans — Geoff Shackelford. It is my theory that nature must precede the architect in the laying out of links. It is futile to attempt the transformation of wholly inadequate acres into an adequate course. Invariably the result is the inauguration of an earthquake. The site of a golf course should PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi ANNIKA: DON'T LET THE DRUG TESTING TRAILER DOOR HIT YOU ON Annika: Don't Let The Drug Testing Trailer Door Hit You On The Way To Retirement. It will be impossible for those in attendance Friday to forget how one of the LPGA’s greatest players ended her career. It was disappointing that several seats behind the 18th green were empty when she doffed her cap. It was emotional when she talked about how STATE OF THE GAME 112: PGL V. PGA TOUR 11 hours ago · Washington journalist Arthur MacMillan joins Mike Clayton, Rod Morri and yours truly to discuss a range of issues, including the Premier Golf League, Jon Rahm, Covid , player interviews, the US Open and more. Listen below or get it on your favorite podcast app, with some links here. U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN, MEMORIAL 2021 RATINGS ABOUT WHAT YOU'D 1 day ago · Two of the biggest non-men’s majors went up against each other last week and as they will in the foreseeable future unless schedulers push for change. Still, with nearly matching TV windows and the conclusions happening in annoying congruity, it’s not a shock to see CBS’s 2021 Memorial broadcast a PGL: "ALL WE WANT IS A CONVERSATION" 1 day ago · Any player can win a U.S. Open, but it takes a hell of a player to win two. WALTER HAGEN BROOKS: "I JUST HAVE A HARDER TIME FOCUSING IN REGULAR PGA 10 hours ago · After missing the Palmetto Invitational cut, Brooks Koepka says he’s still having trouble focusing in non-majors. From Steve DiMeglio’s Golfweek report: “I don’t try to miss a cut. I just have a harder time focusing in regular PGA Tour events than I do majors,” he said. “Majors, I know I’m LEXI PASSES ON TV INTERVIEW, GETS BACKING FROM PEER 10 hours ago · Lexi Thompson is T15 after two rounds at Lake Merced, not quite a week removed from losing the U.S. Women’s Open at nearby Olympic Club.. Given that Golf Channel’s LPGA Tour coverage teeters on sycophantic at times, it’s pretty amazing to pass on a post-round interview that is also a fine chance to display some logos. But as feared with the recent Naomi Osaka situation, coupled with 17-YEAR-OLD AMATEUR SHARES U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN FIRST ROUND They torched the Lake! Well, not quite with a 75.173 average, but overall the play was excellent on a calm opener at The Olympic Club.Tomorrow’s forecast isn’t so kind, with 15-25 mph winds expected. Most impressive on day one: 17-year-old Megha Ganne making six birdies en route to a 67 to sit alongside Mel Reid who, Beth Ann Nichols reports, is a Brooks Koepka-channeling, distant relative RAHM OPENS UP SIX-STROKE MEMORIAL LEAD, TESTS POSITIVE FOR AP’s Doug Ferguson reported on the shocking twist Saturday, with this scene getting a lot of attention after Jon Rahm opened a six-stroke Memorial lead:. The positive test was confirmed, the results returned as he was on the 18th green. Rahm was been asymptomatic all week. He was withdrawn from the tournament, leaving Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa tied for the lead at 12-under 204. "I’M STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY BIFURCATION SCARES 1 day ago · There is plenty to chew on in Mike Whan’s conversation with Alan Shipnuck for GolfDigest.com . But mostly it’s nice to see the incoming CEO is trying to understand why rules bifurcation is the golf administrator version of gonorrhea. BBC: THE PREMIER GOLF LEAGUE IS BACK AND SHOOTING FOR 2023 BBC’s Iain Carter has the scoop: the World Golf Group’s Premier Golf League is back. While bruised from a failed merger attempt with the European Tour and Golf Saudi’s “Super Golf League” theft of the original concept once partly funded by the Public Investment Fund, they are set to announce later this week goals for a 2023 start and $20 million weekly purses. PGL CO-FOUNDER ON JUST WANTING A FAIR CHANCE TO COMPETE Phil Casey talks to Premier Golf League co-founder Andy Gardiner about the hopes of starting in January 2023 with players who would still like to earn world ranking points and possibly defect without repercussions. Choice and other offshoots of that theme play a big part in the PGL approach GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK Geoff Shackelford. Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books. GOLF'S LONGEST DAY IS HERE, A QUICK GUIDE In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day all because golf sites didn’t care). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE First Look At Renovated (Again) Muirfield Village — Geoff Shackelford. The need for shotmaking at Kiawah is especially evident at the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes. The Ocean Course makes a turn back east to begin its finishing stretch along the beach. The long par-three fourteenth hole is designed in the tradition of thegreat
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON The Match Goes To Big Sky, Montana With Mickelson, DeChambeau, Brady And Rodgers. May 26, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Players have made 68.3% of putts from 4-8 feet on all putting surfaces since 2015. When isolating those numbers to just poa annua greens, the make percentage drops to 66.5%. While that differential of less than 2% sounds small, it can add up. For instance, that’s the difference in ranking 20th on TOUR in make percentage from that range and WALKER CUP TICKET POLICY ANNOUNCED: ONLY $500 TROPHY CLUB Walker Cup Ticket Policy Announced: Only $500 Trophy Club Passes Available. March 29, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. May’s Walker Cup now has a ticket policy: limited attendance with only $500 three-day passes offered to those who signed up requesting information. No ticket option is currently listed on the Walker Cup site. REPORT: U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN TO BE PLAYED WITH NO FANS Report: U.S. Women's Open To Be Played With No Fans — Geoff Shackelford. It is my theory that nature must precede the architect in the laying out of links. It is futile to attempt the transformation of wholly inadequate acres into an adequate course. Invariably the result is the inauguration of an earthquake. The site of a golf course should PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi ANNIKA: DON'T LET THE DRUG TESTING TRAILER DOOR HIT YOU ON Annika: Don't Let The Drug Testing Trailer Door Hit You On The Way To Retirement. It will be impossible for those in attendance Friday to forget how one of the LPGA’s greatest players ended her career. It was disappointing that several seats behind the 18th green were empty when she doffed her cap. It was emotional when she talked about how GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK Geoff Shackelford. Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books. GOLF'S LONGEST DAY IS HERE, A QUICK GUIDE In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day all because golf sites didn’t care). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE First Look At Renovated (Again) Muirfield Village — Geoff Shackelford. The need for shotmaking at Kiawah is especially evident at the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes. The Ocean Course makes a turn back east to begin its finishing stretch along the beach. The long par-three fourteenth hole is designed in the tradition of thegreat
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON The Match Goes To Big Sky, Montana With Mickelson, DeChambeau, Brady And Rodgers. May 26, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Players have made 68.3% of putts from 4-8 feet on all putting surfaces since 2015. When isolating those numbers to just poa annua greens, the make percentage drops to 66.5%. While that differential of less than 2% sounds small, it can add up. For instance, that’s the difference in ranking 20th on TOUR in make percentage from that range and WALKER CUP TICKET POLICY ANNOUNCED: ONLY $500 TROPHY CLUB Walker Cup Ticket Policy Announced: Only $500 Trophy Club Passes Available. March 29, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. May’s Walker Cup now has a ticket policy: limited attendance with only $500 three-day passes offered to those who signed up requesting information. No ticket option is currently listed on the Walker Cup site. REPORT: U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN TO BE PLAYED WITH NO FANS Report: U.S. Women's Open To Be Played With No Fans — Geoff Shackelford. It is my theory that nature must precede the architect in the laying out of links. It is futile to attempt the transformation of wholly inadequate acres into an adequate course. Invariably the result is the inauguration of an earthquake. The site of a golf course should PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi ANNIKA: DON'T LET THE DRUG TESTING TRAILER DOOR HIT YOU ON Annika: Don't Let The Drug Testing Trailer Door Hit You On The Way To Retirement. It will be impossible for those in attendance Friday to forget how one of the LPGA’s greatest players ended her career. It was disappointing that several seats behind the 18th green were empty when she doffed her cap. It was emotional when she talked about how STATE OF THE GAME 112: PGL V. PGA TOUR 3 hours ago · Washington journalist Arthur MacMillan joins Mike Clayton, Rod Morri and yours truly to discuss a range of issues, including the Premier Golf League, Jon Rahm, Covid , player interviews, the US Open and more. Listen below or get it on your favorite podcast app, with some links here. U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN, MEMORIAL 2021 RATINGS ABOUT WHAT YOU'D 1 day ago · Two of the biggest non-men’s majors went up against each other last week and as they will in the foreseeable future unless schedulers push for change. Still, with nearly matching TV windows and the conclusions happening in annoying congruity, it’s not a shock to see CBS’s 2021 Memorial broadcast a PGL: "ALL WE WANT IS A CONVERSATION" 1 day ago · Any player can win a U.S. Open, but it takes a hell of a player to win two. WALTER HAGEN BROOKS: "I JUST HAVE A HARDER TIME FOCUSING IN REGULAR PGA 3 hours ago · After missing the Palmetto Invitational cut, Brooks Koepka says he’s still having trouble focusing in non-majors. From Steve DiMeglio’s Golfweek report: “I don’t try to miss a cut. I just have a harder time focusing in regular PGA Tour events than I do majors,” he said. “Majors, I know I’m LEXI PASSES ON TV INTERVIEW, GETS BACKING FROM PEER 3 hours ago · Lexi Thompson is T15 after two rounds at Lake Merced, not quite a week removed from losing the U.S. Women’s Open at nearby Olympic Club.. Given that Golf Channel’s LPGA Tour coverage teeters on sycophantic at times, it’s pretty amazing to pass on a post-round interview that is also a fine chance to display some logos. But as feared with the recent Naomi Osaka situation, coupled with 17-YEAR-OLD AMATEUR SHARES U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN FIRST ROUND They torched the Lake! Well, not quite with a 75.173 average, but overall the play was excellent on a calm opener at The Olympic Club.Tomorrow’s forecast isn’t so kind, with 15-25 mph winds expected. Most impressive on day one: 17-year-old Megha Ganne making six birdies en route to a 67 to sit alongside Mel Reid who, Beth Ann Nichols reports, is a Brooks Koepka-channeling, distant relative RAHM OPENS UP SIX-STROKE MEMORIAL LEAD, TESTS POSITIVE FOR AP’s Doug Ferguson reported on the shocking twist Saturday, with this scene getting a lot of attention after Jon Rahm opened a six-stroke Memorial lead:. The positive test was confirmed, the results returned as he was on the 18th green. Rahm was been asymptomatic all week. He was withdrawn from the tournament, leaving Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa tied for the lead at 12-under 204. "I’M STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY BIFURCATION SCARES 1 day ago · There is plenty to chew on in Mike Whan’s conversation with Alan Shipnuck for GolfDigest.com . But mostly it’s nice to see the incoming CEO is trying to understand why rules bifurcation is the golf administrator version of gonorrhea. BBC: THE PREMIER GOLF LEAGUE IS BACK AND SHOOTING FOR 2023 BBC’s Iain Carter has the scoop: the World Golf Group’s Premier Golf League is back. While bruised from a failed merger attempt with the European Tour and Golf Saudi’s “Super Golf League” theft of the original concept once partly funded by the Public Investment Fund, they are set to announce later this week goals for a 2023 start and $20 million weekly purses. PGL CO-FOUNDER ON JUST WANTING A FAIR CHANCE TO COMPETE Phil Casey talks to Premier Golf League co-founder Andy Gardiner about the hopes of starting in January 2023 with players who would still like to earn world ranking points and possibly defect without repercussions. Choice and other offshoots of that theme play a big part in the PGL approach GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK Geoff Shackelford. Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books. GOLF'S LONGEST DAY IS HERE, A QUICK GUIDE In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day all because golf sites didn’t care). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE First Look At Renovated (Again) Muirfield Village — Geoff Shackelford. The need for shotmaking at Kiawah is especially evident at the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes. The Ocean Course makes a turn back east to begin its finishing stretch along the beach. The long par-three fourteenth hole is designed in the tradition of thegreat
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON The Match Goes To Big Sky, Montana With Mickelson, DeChambeau, Brady And Rodgers. May 26, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Players have made 68.3% of putts from 4-8 feet on all putting surfaces since 2015. When isolating those numbers to just poa annua greens, the make percentage drops to 66.5%. While that differential of less than 2% sounds small, it can add up. For instance, that’s the difference in ranking 20th on TOUR in make percentage from that range and REPORT: U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN TO BE PLAYED WITH NO FANS Report: U.S. Women's Open To Be Played With No Fans — Geoff Shackelford. It is my theory that nature must precede the architect in the laying out of links. It is futile to attempt the transformation of wholly inadequate acres into an adequate course. Invariably the result is the inauguration of an earthquake. The site of a golf course should CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. PGA TOUR PLAYERS CELEBRATE PRESIDENT OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION Probably the most powerful impetus to the reputation of a golf course is historical incident, and tournaments are especially effective. If a colorful hero of times-gone-by won a tournament or played a spectacular shot on your course, it is forever etched in the publiceye.
ANNIKA: DON'T LET THE DRUG TESTING TRAILER DOOR HIT YOU ON Annika: Don't Let The Drug Testing Trailer Door Hit You On The Way To Retirement. It will be impossible for those in attendance Friday to forget how one of the LPGA’s greatest players ended her career. It was disappointing that several seats behind the 18th green were empty when she doffed her cap. It was emotional when she talked about how GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK Geoff Shackelford. Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books. GOLF'S LONGEST DAY IS HERE, A QUICK GUIDE In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day all because golf sites didn’t care). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE First Look At Renovated (Again) Muirfield Village — Geoff Shackelford. The need for shotmaking at Kiawah is especially evident at the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes. The Ocean Course makes a turn back east to begin its finishing stretch along the beach. The long par-three fourteenth hole is designed in the tradition of thegreat
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON The Match Goes To Big Sky, Montana With Mickelson, DeChambeau, Brady And Rodgers. May 26, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Players have made 68.3% of putts from 4-8 feet on all putting surfaces since 2015. When isolating those numbers to just poa annua greens, the make percentage drops to 66.5%. While that differential of less than 2% sounds small, it can add up. For instance, that’s the difference in ranking 20th on TOUR in make percentage from that range and REPORT: U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN TO BE PLAYED WITH NO FANS Report: U.S. Women's Open To Be Played With No Fans — Geoff Shackelford. It is my theory that nature must precede the architect in the laying out of links. It is futile to attempt the transformation of wholly inadequate acres into an adequate course. Invariably the result is the inauguration of an earthquake. The site of a golf course should CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. PGA TOUR PLAYERS CELEBRATE PRESIDENT OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION Probably the most powerful impetus to the reputation of a golf course is historical incident, and tournaments are especially effective. If a colorful hero of times-gone-by won a tournament or played a spectacular shot on your course, it is forever etched in the publiceye.
ANNIKA: DON'T LET THE DRUG TESTING TRAILER DOOR HIT YOU ON Annika: Don't Let The Drug Testing Trailer Door Hit You On The Way To Retirement. It will be impossible for those in attendance Friday to forget how one of the LPGA’s greatest players ended her career. It was disappointing that several seats behind the 18th green were empty when she doffed her cap. It was emotional when she talked about how PGL: "ALL WE WANT IS A CONVERSATION" 1 day ago · Any player can win a U.S. Open, but it takes a hell of a player to win two. WALTER HAGEN U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN, MEMORIAL 2021 RATINGS ABOUT WHAT YOU'D 23 hours ago · Two of the biggest non-men’s majors went up against each other last week and as they will in the foreseeable future unless schedulers push for change. Still, with nearly matching TV windows and the conclusions happening in annoying congruity, it’s not a THE LPGA TOUR HAS NOT HAD A COVID-19 CASE SINCE EARLY The Jon Rahm situation Saturday offered a stark reminder that COVID-19 can still happen and how golfers traveling the country face an increased risk of exposure.. The LPGA Tour has been traveling the globe with most of its players flying commercially. But the Tour also instituted a strict no-public dining policy through the the Asian events, a policy that was part of original PGA Tour WHAT TO MAKE OF TORREY PINES THIS TIME AROUND? 21 hours ago · I penned a Quadrilateral on Torrey Pines South that’s open to all after forgetting to hit the old Everyone box yesterday. And on this week’s McKellar podcast, I chatted with Lawrence Donegan about my Issue 5 article on Torrey Pines along with the recent U.S. Women’s Open and Pepperdine’s "CONSTRUCTION NEARS COMPLETION ON BOTH COURSES AT PGA Golf Architecture’s Richard Humphreys updates us on construction of 2027 PGA Championship host, the PGA Frisco. The Gil Hanse-designed East course and Beau Welling-designed West course are being constructed at the same time near Dallas with a June 2022 opening scheduled after the PGA of America wisely insisted on a year of grow-in.. While the property didn’t look RAHM OPENS UP SIX-STROKE MEMORIAL LEAD, TESTS POSITIVE FOR AP’s Doug Ferguson reported on the shocking twist Saturday, with this scene getting a lot of attention after Jon Rahm opened a six-stroke Memorial lead:. The positive test was confirmed, the results returned as he was on the 18th green. Rahm was been asymptomatic all week. He was withdrawn from the tournament, leaving Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa tied for the lead at 12-under 204. "I’M STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY BIFURCATION SCARES 20 hours ago · There is plenty to chew on in Mike Whan’s conversation with Alan Shipnuck for GolfDigest.com . But mostly it’s nice to see the incoming CEO is trying to understand why rules bifurcation is the golf administrator version of gonorrhea. PGL CO-FOUNDER ON JUST WANTING A FAIR CHANCE TO COMPETE Phil Casey talks to Premier Golf League co-founder Andy Gardiner about the hopes of starting in January 2023 with players who would still like to earn world ranking points and possibly defect without repercussions. Choice and other offshoots of that theme play a big part in the PGL approach BBC: THE PREMIER GOLF LEAGUE IS BACK AND SHOOTING FOR 2023 BBC’s Iain Carter has the scoop: the World Golf Group’s Premier Golf League is back. While bruised from a failed merger attempt with the European Tour and Golf Saudi’s “Super Golf League” theft of the original concept once partly funded by the Public Investment Fund, they are set to announce later this week goals for a 2023 start and $20 million weekly purses. Q&A WITH AUTHOR PETER MAY AND U.S. OPEN FINAL QUALIFYING A smart new book just in time for Father’s Day and the U.S. Open has arrived and I you enjoy this chat with Peter May in The Quadrilateral.. This one is open to all so check it and if you enjoy, buy the book and subscribe to The Quad free or because you want to read yesterday’s U.S. Women’s Open roundup and other past subscriber-only posts. Also, today’s edition features a quick GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK Geoff Shackelford. Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books. GOLF'S LONGEST DAY IS HERE, A QUICK GUIDE In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day all because golf sites didn’t care). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE First Look At Renovated (Again) Muirfield Village — Geoff Shackelford. The need for shotmaking at Kiawah is especially evident at the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes. The Ocean Course makes a turn back east to begin its finishing stretch along the beach. The long par-three fourteenth hole is designed in the tradition of thegreat
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON The Match Goes To Big Sky, Montana With Mickelson, DeChambeau, Brady And Rodgers. May 26, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Players have made 68.3% of putts from 4-8 feet on all putting surfaces since 2015. When isolating those numbers to just poa annua greens, the make percentage drops to 66.5%. While that differential of less than 2% sounds small, it can add up. For instance, that’s the difference in ranking 20th on TOUR in make percentage from that range and RAHM OPENS UP SIX-STROKE MEMORIAL LEAD, TESTS POSITIVE FOR AP’s Doug Ferguson reported on the shocking twist Saturday, with this scene getting a lot of attention after Jon Rahm opened a six-stroke Memorial lead:. The positive test was confirmed, the results returned as he was on the 18th green. Rahm was been asymptomatic all week. He was withdrawn from the tournament, leaving Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa tied for the lead at 12-under 204. MASTERS QUIETLY OFFERS FIRST-EVER GLAMPING EXPERIENCE IN Not many people get to spend the night on the grounds of the 2021 Masters.. Few enjoy the privilege besides member accommodations in familiar cabins named after former Presidents, and the lucky amateurs choosing the Crow’s Nest.. But now Augusta National is offering its first ever “glamping” experience for select guests as part of the super-exclusive Berckmans Place hospitality operation. U.S. OPEN(S): PROBABLY CAN HAVE ONLY AS MANY SPECTATORS AS Tod Leonard gets an update from USGA CEO Mike Davis, who is working on the fluid situation of how many fans can attend the U.S. Open . As California reopens and has seen a big decline in COVID cases , June 15th has been circled as the goal for full reopening of the statehosting the U.S.
MICKELSON: SUPER LEAGUE GOOD FOR FANS AND MEDIA, BUT NOT Mickelson: Super League Good For Fans And Media, But Not So Schedule Friendly. May 05, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Phil Mickelson’s remarks to Bob Harig at ESPN.com suggest he continues to be intrigued by the Super/Premier/World Golf Series/Tourdeforce League concept: "I think the fans would love it because they would see the best playersplay
PGA TOUR PLAYERS CELEBRATE PRESIDENT OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION Probably the most powerful impetus to the reputation of a golf course is historical incident, and tournaments are especially effective. If a colorful hero of times-gone-by won a tournament or played a spectacular shot on your course, it is forever etched in the publiceye.
GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK Geoff Shackelford. Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books. GOLF'S LONGEST DAY IS HERE, A QUICK GUIDE In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day all because golf sites didn’t care). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE First Look At Renovated (Again) Muirfield Village — Geoff Shackelford. The need for shotmaking at Kiawah is especially evident at the fourteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes. The Ocean Course makes a turn back east to begin its finishing stretch along the beach. The long par-three fourteenth hole is designed in the tradition of thegreat
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON The Match Goes To Big Sky, Montana With Mickelson, DeChambeau, Brady And Rodgers. May 26, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Players have made 68.3% of putts from 4-8 feet on all putting surfaces since 2015. When isolating those numbers to just poa annua greens, the make percentage drops to 66.5%. While that differential of less than 2% sounds small, it can add up. For instance, that’s the difference in ranking 20th on TOUR in make percentage from that range and RAHM OPENS UP SIX-STROKE MEMORIAL LEAD, TESTS POSITIVE FOR AP’s Doug Ferguson reported on the shocking twist Saturday, with this scene getting a lot of attention after Jon Rahm opened a six-stroke Memorial lead:. The positive test was confirmed, the results returned as he was on the 18th green. Rahm was been asymptomatic all week. He was withdrawn from the tournament, leaving Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa tied for the lead at 12-under 204. MASTERS QUIETLY OFFERS FIRST-EVER GLAMPING EXPERIENCE IN Not many people get to spend the night on the grounds of the 2021 Masters.. Few enjoy the privilege besides member accommodations in familiar cabins named after former Presidents, and the lucky amateurs choosing the Crow’s Nest.. But now Augusta National is offering its first ever “glamping” experience for select guests as part of the super-exclusive Berckmans Place hospitality operation. U.S. OPEN(S): PROBABLY CAN HAVE ONLY AS MANY SPECTATORS AS Tod Leonard gets an update from USGA CEO Mike Davis, who is working on the fluid situation of how many fans can attend the U.S. Open . As California reopens and has seen a big decline in COVID cases , June 15th has been circled as the goal for full reopening of the statehosting the U.S.
MICKELSON: SUPER LEAGUE GOOD FOR FANS AND MEDIA, BUT NOT Mickelson: Super League Good For Fans And Media, But Not So Schedule Friendly. May 05, 2021. / Geoff Shackelford. Phil Mickelson’s remarks to Bob Harig at ESPN.com suggest he continues to be intrigued by the Super/Premier/World Golf Series/Tourdeforce League concept: "I think the fans would love it because they would see the best playersplay
PGA TOUR PLAYERS CELEBRATE PRESIDENT OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION Probably the most powerful impetus to the reputation of a golf course is historical incident, and tournaments are especially effective. If a colorful hero of times-gone-by won a tournament or played a spectacular shot on your course, it is forever etched in the publiceye.
PGL: "ALL WE WANT IS A CONVERSATION" 21 hours ago · Any player can win a U.S. Open, but it takes a hell of a player to win two. WALTER HAGEN PHIL MAKES A PITCH FOR RICKIE FOWLER TO GET HIS U.S. OPEN In stark contrast to Brooks and Bryson , we have Phil Mickelson replying to a follower that he’d like to see Rickie Fowler get the special invitation no longer needed after winning the PGA Championship . Fowler has two top-5s in the U.S. Open, including a second place in2014, though based
U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN, MEMORIAL 2021 RATINGS ABOUT WHAT YOU'D 17 hours ago · Two of the biggest non-men’s majors went up against each other last week and as they will in the foreseeable future unless schedulers push for change. Still, with nearly matching TV windows and the conclusions happening in annoying congruity, it’s not a MASTERS QUIETLY OFFERS FIRST-EVER GLAMPING EXPERIENCE IN Not many people get to spend the night on the grounds of the 2021 Masters.. Few enjoy the privilege besides member accommodations in familiar cabins named after former Presidents, and the lucky amateurs choosing the Crow’s Nest.. But now Augusta National is offering its first ever “glamping” experience for select guests as part of the super-exclusive Berckmans Place hospitality operation. QUADRILATERAL: U.S. OPEN NEWS AND NOTES, JUNE 10, 2021 1 day ago · Random is the theme here from thoughts on the momentum going into this U.S. Open , to Golf’s Longest Day coverage, to the 2008 U.S. Open rebroadcast and Mike Whan’s possibly controversial take on rangefinders. Check it all out here and this weekly edition is a reminder as to why you sho USGA NAMES GREEN SECTION RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR MIKE DAVIS 1 day ago · It’s not often a CEO allows something to be named after his ownself while still on the job.. I’m open to other examples. The Lepetomane Thruway came to mind, but that was just a ruse and not a creation of the Governor or his team.. Either way, before Mike Davis leaves the USGA as CEO, the Executive Committee has named their “Golf Course Sustainability Research Program” in hishonor and
WHAT TO MAKE OF TORREY PINES THIS TIME AROUND? 15 hours ago · I penned a Quadrilateral on Torrey Pines South that’s open to all after forgetting to hit the old Everyone box yesterday. And on this week’s McKellar podcast, I chatted with Lawrence Donegan about my Issue 5 article on Torrey Pines along with the recent U.S. Women’s Open and Pepperdine’s "I’M STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY BIFURCATION SCARES 14 hours ago · There is plenty to chew on in Mike Whan’s conversation with Alan Shipnuck for GolfDigest.com . But mostly it’s nice to see the incoming CEO is trying to understand why rules bifurcation is the golf administrator version of gonorrhea. QUADRILATERAL: MAJOR(S) RAHMIFICATIONS, U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN Two letters went out to paid subscribers covering Saturday’s Jon Rahm situation and prepping them for the U.S. Women’s Open final round. And in case Mel Reid struggled Saturday—78— I emptied my Wilfred Reid file to consider the life of a really cool character that also designed the first gol CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK They torched the Lake! Well, not quite with a 75.173 average, but overall the play was excellent on a calm opener at The Olympic Club.Tomorrow’s forecast isn’t so kind, with 15-25 mph winds expected. Most impressive on day one: 17-year-old Megha Ganne making six birdies en route to a 67 to sit alongside Mel Reid who, Beth Ann Nichols reports, is a Brooks Koepka-channeling, distant relative FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE As the 2020 Memorial wrapped up play work had already begun on what Jack Nicklaus called his last chance to get the course where he wanted. With the 2021 edition not far way a PDF has been created to update players and caddies on the changes made. Most notable changesare at
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! If not, well that’ll be awkward. For Immediate Release: Turner Sports DESIGN — GEOFF SHACKELFORD Having studied golf courses all over the world with a noted interest in the "classic courses" of the 1920's, Geoff is engaged in design consulting at several classic courses and has taught golf course restoration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design with noted architect Brian Silva.. He has also addressed many groups on the subject of golf course design, including the American PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi "GOLF CHANNEL ANNOUNCES MAJOR LAYOFFS COMING TO ORLANDO Golfweek’s Jason Lusk and Adam Schupak report that “most” of Golf Channel’s Orlando-based staff will be laid off in two waves. The news was delivered in a Microsoft Teams call by an unnamed executive and human resources officer. All employees will be MYGOLFSPY'S COMPREHENSIVE BALL TESTING SHOWS 17.43 YARD The gang at MyGolfSpy has undertaken an extensive testing study of all major golf balls on the market and boy is it one Hot List!. The same folks who elevated the Kirkland ball from Costco to cult status still say that’s a nice value, but the Snell MTB-X appears to be the new MyGolfSpy hero of the golf ball world while Callaway’s Chrome Soft ball landed on the list as the shortest flying NY TIMES ON SETH WAUGH NOT WANTING TO GIVE DONALD TRUMPDONALD WAUGHACTOR
David Enrich files a lengthy New York Times look at President Donald Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank and two of his key efforts at funding golf projects: Turnberry and Doral.. Former CEO and current PGA of America president Seth Waugh comes up as a key player who consistently opposed lending the Trump organization for projects after having been burned during his time at Merrill Lynch. ANNIKA: DON'T LET THE DRUG TESTING TRAILER DOOR HIT YOU ON Beth Ann Baldry sums up Annika Sorenstam's surreal LPGA farewell: It will be impossible for those in attendance Friday to forget how one of the LPGA’s greatest players ended her career. It was disappointing that several seats behind the 18th green were empty when she doffed h GEOFF SHACKELFORDBIOGRAPHYTOPICSDESIGNCONTACTBOOKSGOLFWEEK They torched the Lake! Well, not quite with a 75.173 average, but overall the play was excellent on a calm opener at The Olympic Club.Tomorrow’s forecast isn’t so kind, with 15-25 mph winds expected. Most impressive on day one: 17-year-old Megha Ganne making six birdies en route to a 67 to sit alongside Mel Reid who, Beth Ann Nichols reports, is a Brooks Koepka-channeling, distant relative FIRST LOOK AT RENOVATED (AGAIN) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE As the 2020 Memorial wrapped up play work had already begun on what Jack Nicklaus called his last chance to get the course where he wanted. With the 2021 edition not far way a PDF has been created to update players and caddies on the changes made. Most notable changesare at
THE MATCH GOES TO BIG SKY, MONTANA WITH MICKELSON Set for July 6th, they’re taking The Match to a place called The Reserve at Moonlight Basin where they have a 777-yard par-5 and property to move. And by then Aaron Rodgers might even know where he’s playing next year! If not, well that’ll be awkward. For Immediate Release: Turner Sports DESIGN — GEOFF SHACKELFORD Having studied golf courses all over the world with a noted interest in the "classic courses" of the 1920's, Geoff is engaged in design consulting at several classic courses and has taught golf course restoration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design with noted architect Brian Silva.. He has also addressed many groups on the subject of golf course design, including the American PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. CALLAWAY INVESTING $50 MILLION INTO ITS BALL PLANT AFTER First Costco and now Callaway. It’s a fairly remarkable day when an independent equipment review site can turn a Costco ball into a must have, but even more remarkable to get a pledge from a major golf company to improve their production efforts. In this unprecedented case, it’s MyGolfSpy havi "GOLF CHANNEL ANNOUNCES MAJOR LAYOFFS COMING TO ORLANDO Golfweek’s Jason Lusk and Adam Schupak report that “most” of Golf Channel’s Orlando-based staff will be laid off in two waves. The news was delivered in a Microsoft Teams call by an unnamed executive and human resources officer. All employees will be MYGOLFSPY'S COMPREHENSIVE BALL TESTING SHOWS 17.43 YARD The gang at MyGolfSpy has undertaken an extensive testing study of all major golf balls on the market and boy is it one Hot List!. The same folks who elevated the Kirkland ball from Costco to cult status still say that’s a nice value, but the Snell MTB-X appears to be the new MyGolfSpy hero of the golf ball world while Callaway’s Chrome Soft ball landed on the list as the shortest flying NY TIMES ON SETH WAUGH NOT WANTING TO GIVE DONALD TRUMPDONALD WAUGHACTOR
David Enrich files a lengthy New York Times look at President Donald Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank and two of his key efforts at funding golf projects: Turnberry and Doral.. Former CEO and current PGA of America president Seth Waugh comes up as a key player who consistently opposed lending the Trump organization for projects after having been burned during his time at Merrill Lynch. ANNIKA: DON'T LET THE DRUG TESTING TRAILER DOOR HIT YOU ON Beth Ann Baldry sums up Annika Sorenstam's surreal LPGA farewell: It will be impossible for those in attendance Friday to forget how one of the LPGA’s greatest players ended her career. It was disappointing that several seats behind the 18th green were empty when she doffed h DESIGN — GEOFF SHACKELFORD Having studied golf courses all over the world with a noted interest in the "classic courses" of the 1920's, Geoff is engaged in design consulting at several classic courses and has taught golf course restoration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design with noted architect Brian Silva.. He has also addressed many groups on the subject of golf course design, including the American GOLF'S LONGEST DAY IS HERE, A QUICK GUIDE 11 hours ago · In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. Open field will be covered in a fe "WHO PERFORMS BEST ON POA ANNUA?" Ex-Golf Channel stats maestro Justin Ray has been doing especially stellar work of late and files this beauty on poa annua greens like those found at Pebble Beach.. As always, hit the link and I’m not pasting here who the top poa putters are but this bit was fascinating given how much players believe afternoon putting is impossible (and often looks so based on the ball bouncing): QUADRILATERAL: 2021 U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONS, CUTMAKERS 22 hours ago · I’m light on blog posts tonight because it’s a long newsletter on the rapid decline of NBC Sports , as evidenced by Sunday’s blah telecast and epic show that women are (sort of) worth watching. But there are also plenty of winners and losers from a grand U.S. Women’s Open at Olympic . Here’s t "JON RAHM MADE A BAD BUSINESS DECISION." 48 minutes ago · Holy cow have I heard some ridiculous whining about Jon Rahm’s forced WD from the Memorial after testing positive for COVID-19. I realize that people think they will curry favor with players by telling them what they want to hear, but that may also be at the core of Rahm’s decision not to get BBC: THE PREMIER GOLF LEAGUE IS BACK AND SHOOTING FOR 2023 10 hours ago · BBC’s Iain Carter has the scoop: the World Golf Group’s Premier Golf League is back. While bruised from a failed merger attempt with the European Tour and Golf Saudi’s “Super Golf League” theft of the original concept once partly funded by the Public Investment Fund, they are set to announce later this week goals for a 2023 start and $20 million weekly purses. PREMIER GOLF LEAGUE JUMPS BACK IN AT AN INCONVENIENT TIME News of the Premier Golf League’s non- Saudi backed plan getting a refreshed non- Raine Group rollout seems to be designed to generate discussion at next week’s U.S. Open inside the bubble. But the news landing this week highlights just how embarrassing the PGA Tour’s “product” can be in PGA OF AMERICA COO OUT AFTER RECENT ARREST That’s two executive mugshots in just over two years for the PGA of America.. First it was 2018 with their then-President, Paul Levy, and now COO Darrell Crall is leaving after an assault arrest.. From Brian Wacker’s GolfDigest.com report:. The decision comes a month after Crall, 53, was alleged to have attacked his girlfriend of three years, Angie Jasso, on Nov. 24. WOMEN ALMOST WORTH WATCHING: NOT HEIDI BAD, BUT STILL NOT 12 hours ago · When NBC sent the U.S. Women’s Open playoff to Golf Channel without warning and viewers went wild (as AA’s Jay Rigdon documents here), we were reminded of a few things:. NBC took back the USGA package from Fox and already had plenty on its plate (Belmont Stakes, French Open, Olympic trials, etc.).It’s an Olympic year and NBC has far more invested in the Games build-up than in BRYSON LEAVES IT TO THE TOUR TO ADDRESS BROOKS WHO SAYS HE The headlines just write themselves these days! For those tracking the Brooksy saga, we have updates. Brooks Koepka spoke to Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch about his pledge to offer brewskies to his Brooksy-howling booted bros just living under par. “I’d never condone anyone being a distraction during someone’s swing or when they are about tohit,” he said.
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I DO NOT LIKE MAKING THE PACE. IT GETS HARDER AND HARDER AS YOU GO. THE OTHER FELLOWS, WITH NOTHING ON THEIR MINDS BUT THEIR HAIR, ARE SHOOTING THE WORKS WHILE YOU KEEP WONDERING IF YOU HADN’T BETTER BE CAREFUL AND TRY NOT TO LOSE ANY STROKES, WHICH IS THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY OF LOSING THEM. BOBBY JONESAugust 24, 2019
QUESTIONS ABOUND AFTER TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP LIGHTNING STRIKESAugust 24, 2019
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Saturday’s unfortunate Tweet from the Tour Championship’s @playofffinale account" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1566764938976_256"> Saturday’s unfortunate Tweet from the Tour Championship’s @playofffinale account A pair of lightning strikes at EAST LAKE left six people injured from flying debris, darkening the mood for Sunday’s TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP and FEDEXCUP conclusion. DAN KILBRIDGE with the details from Golfweek and this quote from U.S. Open champion GARY WOODLAND summing up the reaction of many: “IT’S FRUSTRATING THAT THEY DIDN’T MOVE TEE TIMES UP,” GARY WOODLAND SAID. “YOU SAW THE WEATHER, YOU SAW IT WAS 80 PERCENT (CHANCE) AT 4 O’CLOCK. I’M SURE WITH 30 PLAYERS THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD GET IT IN. BUT OBVIOUSLY NOW WISH THEY WOULD HAVE MOVED THEM UP. NOW YOU JUST HOPE PEOPLE ARE OK.” The PGA TOUR’S official statement: AT 4:17 P.M., THE THIRD ROUND OF THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP WAS SUSPENDED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER IN THE AREA. AT 4:45 P.M., THERE WERE TWO LIGHTNING STRIKES AT EAST LAKE GOLF CLUB; A TREE NEAR THE RANGE/15 GREEN/16 TEE WAS HIT, AND DEBRIS FROM THAT STRIKE INJURED FOUR PEOPLE. EMT TENDED TO THOSE FANS AND TWO OTHERS IMMEDIATELY AND TRANSPORTED THEM FROM THE PROPERTY VIA AMBULANCE FOR FURTHER MEDICAL ATTENTION. OUR LATEST REPORT IS THAT THEIR INJURIES DO NOT APPEAR TO BELIFE-THREATENING.
DUE TO THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE THIRD ROUND HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR THE DAY AND PLAY WILL RESUME ON SUNDAY AT 8 A.M. ET. THE SAFETY OF OUR FANS, PLAYERS AND PARTNERS IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE. WE WILL PROVIDE FURTHER UPDATES AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. As we have seen since a spectator was killed at the 1991 U.S. Open, golf has largely taken an abundance of caution by moving up tee times, or moving people off of courses well in advance of possible storms. Unfortunately in this case, poor weather was forecast all week for Saturday afternoon. Yet, the 1 pm start of round did not budge even after play was delayed 80 minutes on Friday. Hhere was the Monday long range forecast from Dark Sky putting the possibility of Saturday precipitation—and therefore in the south in August, electricity—at 90%. Next is Saturday’s forecast at 8:19 pm ET/5:19 pm PT Friday, the same as it had been for days. This displays the Saturday window where the chance for thunderstorms were in the 60 to 80% range. Leaders vying for a $15 million first prize and what has been billed as one of golf’s most important championships, were set to begin at 3:30 pm ET even as the forecast called for likely storms with electricity. (The Apple weather app allowing anyone to slide on over to see the next 24 hours (area circled).) Had a revised tee time window accounted for the forecasts and moved up to 8 am—still a civilized hour in golf—the last group would have teed off at 10:30 am. On a four-hour pace, they would have been finished by 2:30 before the forecasted ugly stuff. While NBC’s third round telecast would have been on tape, it’s something that has occurred many times in recent years in the interest of fan and player safety, and getting a tournament played by Sunday. In the case of this championship where a $15 million first place check is on the line, leaders would have played a continuous third round. Now they restart at 8 am after play was wisely called once the strikes occurred and fans were injured. Even as the day progressed, it was apparent storms were coming. Here is a National Weather Service future cast captured at 12:20 ET showing what conditions would look like at 2:30 pm ET close to East Lake, with projections of the activity popping up all over the area and when moving, to the north. Play was called at 4:17 pm ET and lightning struck East Lake less than30 minutes later.
If anyone is ever to feel safe attending a PGA Tour event again, the organization will likely need to expedite and couple its slow play policy deliberations with an enhanced, more detailed weather warning system. While the current system in place has worked well since the awful events in 1991 at HAZELTINE (a USGA event), something went terribly wrong Saturday when times were not even moved up some to allow for plenty of time to vacate the course. Just a few questions that likely will need to be addressed by the PGATour:
—WHAT WILL INSTIGATE THE MOVING OF TEE TIMES IN THE FUTURE? The Tour’s TYLER DENNIS is quoted as saying in this ESPN.com story by BOB HARIG, "And so we have a lot of scenarios throughout the year where we look at it, and there's a very high degree of certainty that there will be storms coming. And there's a lot of other days when we look at it and we see, as it was today -- I believe it was a 50 to 60% chance of storms from 3 to 6 this afternoon -- and we just have to evaluate it and make our best decision when we make the schedule. Obviously when it comes down to suspension of play, we don't leave any room for error there. Safety is a huge priority for us.'' An error was made and it would seem that as a data-driven organization these days, they may need to set a forecast number for tee time shifts. 50% and up seems like a no-brainer. —WILL MORE TIME BE ALLOWED TO EVACUATE. A half hour ahead of when storms are projected, may not be enough. —CAN THIS EVENT RETURN TO THE SOUTH IN AUGUST? The notion of electricity in the air came as a surprise to no one in the region or maybe the country. East Lake always envisioned itself as hosting fall events, but now moving to August, is this date sustainable given weather patters in Atlanta in August? As MARK RUSSELL said Saturday,
"I think if we did that every time we had a possibility of thunderstorms in the Southeast, we'd do that basically every time weplayed golf.''
—WERE ANY OUTSIDE FORCES PART OF THE DECISION TO NOT MOVE TEE TIMES AND EXPOSE THE TOURNAMENT TO A SITUATION LIKE SATURDAY’S? Finally, the most sensitive of all questions. Having seen how the names mentioned above work along with the talented rules staff and meteorologists, and knowing how much they consider safety, I’m struggling (as are many) with the idea that the traditional decision makers went the route they did. It seems entirely plausible that the circumstances around this event—first year under new format, big boost in prize money, determination to sell this as a significant championship—somehow might have influenced the decision to keep tee times in place to show live golf as late as possible. A forceful statement from COMMISSIONER JAY MONAHAN will be needed to assure fans, players and partners that this was simply a mistake, bad luck or a terribly unfortunate event, with strong pledges made to update or strengthen weather policies.__August 24, 2019
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August 23, 2019
HOWARD MILSTEIN (ALREADY) SHAKING UP GOLF MAGAZINEAugust 23, 2019
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The NEW YORK POST’S KEITH KELLEY reports on a firing frenzy at GOLF MAGAZINE only months after a print and website reboot. Kelly says five on the editorial side were recently let go, while two sales executives brought in at the start of Milstein’s reign were recently let go (Kelly reports that they were holdovers from Meredith, the magazine’s seller to Millstein, though Cooney joined the operation in March, 2018 while Keating joined in February, 2018, the same month as Milstein took over.) Milstein has also already forced out the CEO he installed who also brokered the sale, longtime magazine and digital publishing veteran,TOM BEUSSE .
And after a much ballyhooed rollout of new columnist PAIGE SPIRANAC in November, 2018, her column and masthead presenceended in March
2019.
The magazine countered Kelly’s story with this claim: A SPOKESMAN FOR GOLF SAID HE COULD NOT COMMENT ON PERSONNEL MATTERS BUT SAID THAT AT THE TIME OF THE TAKEOVER A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, THE MEDIA PROPERTY WAS DOWN TO ONLY 22 EMPLOYEES AND HAS SINCE GROWN TO 50. HE ALSO SAID AD REVENUE IS UP 50% AND WEB TRAFFIC HAS DOUBLED. In other news, Golf recently announced the hiring of GolfClubAtlas.com founder RAN MORRISSETT to head it’s course ranking panel. A debut podcast included this social media spelling mishap that has made the rounds (it’s Cypress in case you were wondering):__August 23, 2019
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August 22, 2019
NANTZ ON WHITAKER: "HE HAD A UNIQUE ABILITY TO BLEND PEAK THOUGHT WITH CONTEXT IN PERFECT PROSE."August 22, 2019
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What a grand tribute from JIM NANTZ to his friend and mentor JackWhitaker.
THE ATHLETIC kindly made this available to non-subscribers and it’s well worth your time,
even if you are of a vintage that does not recall the days of Whitaker and the ABC golf team. He first met Whitaker at Pebble Beach when his roommate that week, BOB DRUM—oh that Chirkinian humor!—took Nantz down to CLUB XIX for a nightcap. It was a somber day after the space shuttle CHALLENGER had exploded earlier in the day: UPON ENTERING THE RESTAURANT, THERE WAS JACK WHITAKER, LEANING AGAINST THE BAR, A MARTINI FILLED TO THE TOP, PERFECTLY POURED. HE HAD ON A TWEED JACKET WITH A TURTLENECK UNDERNEATH AND HE WAS JUST THE PERSONIFICATION OF ELEGANCE, A MAN WELL-TRAVELED. I HONESTLY COULD NOT BELIEVE I WAS SHAKING HIS HAND, FEELING AS THOUGH I HAD JUST BEEN INTRODUCED TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY. HIS SHORT ESSAYS OFTEN CONCLUDED THE BIGGEST SPORTING EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD, AND HE HAD A UNIQUE ABILITY TO BLEND PEAK THOUGHT WITH CONTEXT IN PERFECT PROSE. THOUGH THERE WERE NO WORDS THAT COULD SOFTEN THE SHOCKING HORROR OF THE DAY, JACK, WITH HIS GIFT, WAS SOMEHOW ABLE TO BRING SOME SOLACE AND PERSPECTIVE TO AN OTHERWISE UNEXPLAINABLEEVENT.
The SPORTS BROADCASTING HALL OF FAME tribute piece has now been addedto YouTube:
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August 22, 2019
NEW LOOK TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP OFF TO GREAT START, BUT ISSUES LOOMAugust 22, 2019
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Geoff Shackelford
As far as first rounds go, the 2019 TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP did not feellike a Thursday.
More like Saturday of a big-time event when every JUSTIN THOMAS mistake added drama and his -10 lead to start the day slipping away. Combined with some stellar opening rounds from top players, and it was a lively opening day. That’s the fantastic news for the FEDEXCUP, and as MIKE MCALLISTER noted for PGATour.com, from here on we have clarity with theleaderboard
and
hopefully very few tutorials on the format going forward. Now, for the less peachy news. It appears that leadership lacks the privileges some projected Justin Thomas would enjoy in getting to start -10 after winning the BMW CHAMPIONSHIP. From McAllister’s story: A HOT START COULD HAVE DEFLATED THE FIELD. “IF HE CAME OUT WITH FIVE STRAIGHT BIRDIES, IT WOULD BE LIKE, OK, WE’RE DONE,” CASEY SAID. INSTEAD, WITH THOMAS SHOOTING EVEN PAR, THE FIELD IS NOW BUNCHED. FIVE PLAYERS STARTED THE TOURNAMENT WITHIN FIVE SHOTS OF THE LEAD; AFTER THE FIRST ROUND, THERE ARE NOW 12 PLAYERS IN THAT POSITION. “IF I WERE JUSTIN THOMAS, I WOULD BE MORE UPSET THAN ME IN MY POSITION,” SAID CHARLES HOWELL III, WHO OPENED AT EVEN PAR (10 SHOTS OFF THE LEAD) BUT SHOT A 68 TO CUT HIS DEFICIT TO EIGHT. “JUSTIN’S PLAYED PHENOMENAL GOLF AND HAS DONE WHAT HE’S DONE, AND HE COULD THEORETICALLY FALL QUITE A BIT, AND I COULD MOVE UP, AND HE’S PLAYED BETTER THAN I HAVE.” And ESPN.com’s MARK SCHLABACH in his game story notes how quickly the FedExCup lead turned“meaningless”,
notes how the leader may not have enough of a lead, and how quickly itwent.
WHAT WAS PERCEIVED AS A BIG ADVANTAGE FOR THOMAS -- HE STARTED THE TOURNAMENT WITH AT LEAST A TWO-SHOT LEAD OVER EVERY OTHER PLAYER IN THE FIELD -- DIDN'T PROVE TO BE MUCH HELP AT ALL BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE PLAYED THE FIRST 18 HOLES. THOMAS HAD TWO BOGEYS AND ONE DOUBLE-BOGEY WITH FOUR BIRDIES. HE HIT ONLY SIX OF 14 FAIRWAYS. "COMING IN SIX SHOTS BACK, I HAVE A LOT LESS PRESSURE THAN J.T. DOES," SCHAUFFELE SAID. "J.T. HAS A TWO-SHOT LEAD . EVERYONE'S ASSUMING HE SHOULD JUST START RUNNING AWAY WITH IT. IT'S A HARD GOLF COURSE. YOU CAN PLAY GREAT GOLF AND SHOOT EVEN PAR, 1 UNDER, AND VICE VERSA." The overall sense after day one: the importance of the season long points race was severely negated by the first two playoff events. And now the advantage gained from playing well in those events also feels a bit muted. That’s great for viewers wanting a fun finish this Sunday, but has deeper ramifications for incentivizing more starts from top players. There is also the matter of subjecting fans to meaningless cup points updates in January. Or even July.__August 22, 2019
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August 22, 2019
BROOKS FIRES BACK AT HIS BODY SHAMING CRITICS: "THEY DON'T HAVE THEBALLS TO DO IT"
August 22, 2019
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ARNOLD PALMER surely lashed out at his critics when he wore an extra tight shirt for a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR spread. No, we’re in uncharted territory here. This week’s TEAM KOEPKA bulletin board apparently consisted of Tweets and Instagram comments responding to Brooks baring all.
Wait until Brooks hears where MATT KUCHAR’S mind went.
(If you don’t want to know, let’s just say he’s seen some of the leaked Vonn image portfolio.) From JULIAKATE CULPEPPER’S GOLFWEEK story: “IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT TALK CRAP AND WHATEVER ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THEY DON’T HAVE THE BALLS TO DO IT, AND THEY WOULDN’T LOOK THAT GOOD,” No argument there! Was anyone arguing it? Anyway… “IT WAS SOMETHING I ENJOYED,” KOEPKA SAID OF THE SHOOT. “I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO IT FOR MONTHS. IT’S SOMETHING I DEFINITELY DON’T REGRET DOING. IT’S BEEN ENJOYABLE TO SEE THE PICTURES OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS AND SEE, I GUESS, ALL THE HARD WORK I PUT INTO IT AND SEE THE RESULTS.” On newstands now! Oh wait, they don’t print it anymore. But you can read this Kevin Van Valkenburg story with Brooks and there is this video below where there is no holding back on the nudity front. Well, except the part Kuchar mentioned. ","resolvedBy":"manual","resolved":true}" data-block-type="22" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1566447548503_41860">__August 22, 2019
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August 22, 2019
AND HERE IS WHY THE PGA TOUR IS TAKING THEIR TIME CHANGING SLOW PLAYRULES...
August 22, 2019
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JOEL BEALL followed BRYSON DECHAMBEAU during round one of the TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP, and like ANDY JOHNSON did earlier this year, timed DeChambeau.
In neither case was it very pretty. However, this East Lake timing at the 2019 Tour Championship comes as the PGA TOUR announced it was reviewing some of its pace of play policies, with the possibility of using data to time individualplayers.
I encourage you to read how fast Bryson played up to the point when his green reading book came out and the task of putting was involved. But here’s Beall’s conclusion,
which explains why the Tour won’t be rushing out any four pointplans anytime soon.
IF THAT THEORETICAL SHOT CLOCK EXISTED, DECHAMBEAU WOULD HAVE RACKED UP 10 OVER-50-SECOND VIOLATIONS THROUGH HIS FIRST NINE HOLES, 14 IF THE BAR WAS 40 SECONDS. AFTER THE NORTHERN TRUST, DECHAMBEAU WELCOMED POSSIBLE PENALIZATION. "I AM NOT OPPOSED TO IT ONE BIT, BECAUSE IF IT IS MY ISSUE AND I'M TAKING TOO LONG A TIME, ABSOLUTELY PENALIZE ME," HE SAID. "I'VE GOT NO ISSUE WITH THAT. THAT MAY COME AS A SHOCK TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT I'M OKAY WITH THAT BECAUSE IT'S MY FAULT, IF IT'S WARRANTED, AND THAT'S WHERE WE'VE GOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENED AND WHEN WE ARE TIMING AND HOW THINGS ARE GOING ALONG."__August 22, 2019
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August 21, 2019
BROOKS KOEPKA BODY ISSUE PIC SURFACES: COUNTDOWN BEGINS ON THE, UH,HOMAGES
August 21, 2019
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The camera adds ten pounds and the ESPN BODY SHOOT calls for losing thirty. Or so the old saying goes. Forget that BROOKS KOEPKA posted an image from his long-rumored shoot that prompted him to go on a strange, golf-game affecting diet. Which then set up his first of several manspats with BRANDEL CHAMBLEE, who called it “reckless self-sabotage.” More important than manspats on a global stage though: who will be the first to shed thirty pounds for a photo shoot, get waxed and then emerge from a light spritzing to post a spoof version of this? (Which will then inspire Brooks Koepka to win three majors next year.) DUFNER? MICKELSON? CALIENDO? Anyway, I’m glad he’s eating cheeseburgers again. And giving good press conference, as he did this year at East Lake after not even getting invited in last year. EAMON LYNCH of Golfweek dissects the deadpan jabs delivered in Koepka’s lastest sitdown with the scribblers and content creators. > View this post on Instagram>
> September 4th go get a copy of the @ESPN Body Issue! #ESPNBody>
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August 21, 2019
RORY ASKS RHETORICALLY OF FEDEXCUP FINALE: IS THIS REALLY THE BESTWAY?
August 21, 2019
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Geoff Shackelford
RORY MCILROY, holder of 13 top 10 finishes in 18 starts, two of the more prestigious non-major titles in golf and unofficial title of 2019’s most consistent player week to week, is entitled to be a little annoyed with his fifth place FedExCup status. McIlroy had his usually wise take on big picture items, not surprising since he’s one of the few players who will step back and ponder questions beyond his game or life. BRIAN WACKER reports for GolfDigest.com on McIlroy’s doubts about,well
anything related to this reimagined FedExCup finale at East Lake, aka the TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP. “IF THE FEDEX CUP REALLY WANTS TO HAVE THIS LEGACY IN THE GAME, LIKE SOME OF THESE OTHER CHAMPIONSHIPS DO, IS PEOPLE STARTING THE TOURNAMENT ON DIFFERENT NUMBERS THE BEST WAY TO DO IT?” HE SAID.Of course not.
He also brought up the increase in overall winner’s take, to $15million.
“ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I’VE TALKED ABOUT OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS IS I DON’T THINK THE MONEY NEEDS TO BE FRONT AND CENTER, BECAUSE I DON’T THINK THAT'S WHAT THE FANS CARE ABOUT,” HE SAID. “PLAYERS MIGHT CARE ABOUT IT, AND WE WANT TO BE REWARDED AND PAID FOR WHAT WE DO. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, COMPETITIVELY, IT’S NOT ABOUT THAT. IT’S ABOUT TRYING TO WIN GOLF TOURNAMENTS.” And that he will do, just starting five strokes back before he puts his peg in the East Lake grounds.__August 21, 2019
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August 20, 2019
LITTLE LEAGUE PUTTING AN END TO LAUNCH ANGLE CHASE WITH NEW "DEADER"BATS
August 20, 2019
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Geoff Shackelford
The WALL STREET JOURNAL’S AMANDA CHRISTOVICH looks at the crackdown on what had been a speed and distance chase in youth baseball. Home runs are way down in the Little League World Series two years in a row now since “deader” bats mimicking wood were introduced for avariety of reasons.
Thanks to reader LS who detected the many things golf can learn from the USA BASEBALL moves, which seemed determined to keep the sport sane and safe both instead of emphasis on exit velocity, particularly since most young lads may not be physically ready for the emphasis on speed. BUT THAT KIND OF POWER SURGE IS NOT LIKELY TO HAPPEN AT THIS YEAR’S LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES, WHICH IS NOW UNDERWAY. REGULATION CHANGES—MOST NOTABLY, THE SWITCH TO A “DEADER” BAT THAT MIMICS WOOD BATS—MEAN HOME RUNS IN WILLIAMSPORT THIS YEAR ARE ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING EXTINCT. “THE DIFFERENCE IS ASTOUNDING,” SAID PATRICK GLORIOD, WHO COACHED THE PEACHTREE CITY LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM IN THE 2018 LLBWS AND WITNESSED THE STEEP DECLINE IN HOME RUNS AT THAT TOURNAMENT ONCE THE NEW BATSWENT INTO USE.
NONE OF THIS WOULD BE A PROBLEM, IF NOT FOR THE FACT THAT THE BEST YOUTH PLAYERS HAVE SPENT THE LAST FEW YEARS DEVELOPING A SWING DESIGNED FOR ONE THING: TO HIT AS MANY HOME RUNS AS POSSIBLE. They’ll get over it. Will TV? “TELLING EVERYONE TO SWING UP IS THE SAME AS TELLING EVERYONE TO SWING DOWN,” SAID BLEECKER. IF LAST YEAR’S TREND CONTINUES, THOSE DISMAYED THAT THE MAJOR-LEAGUE BALL IS JUICED CAN REJOICE IN HOW THE LITTLE LEAGUE BAT IS DEADENED. “I’M NOT SURE HOW MUCH ESPN IS GONNA LIKE WATCHING SMALL BALL,”SAID GLORIOD.
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August 20, 2019
DISTANCE DEBATE: FOCUS IS TURNING AWAY FROM THE BALL AND TOWARDDRIVERS
August 20, 2019
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The MAULING AT MEDINAH is MIKE CLAYTON’S label for the shock and awe at the 2019 BMW, whereJUSTIN
THOMAS and many others overwhelmed the rain-softened 7600 yard course. (Random thought interruption here: I thought it was the improved agronomy that meant tons of roll, yet Medinah was a sponge…anyway, we now return to our regularly scheduled distance post). After looking at past Medinah majors and what scores were needed to succeed, Clayton writes: JUSTIN THOMAS WAS UNQUESTIONABLY BRILLIANT THIS PAST WEEK AT MEDINAH, WHERE HE ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS THE COURSE POSED. HIS 263 REPRESENTS AMAZING GOLF, BUT IS IT A FULL 24 SHOTS MORE COMPELLING THAN GRAHAM’S 287 WAS 44 YEARS AGO? THE QUESTION FOR THE GAME, FOR THE PROFESSIONAL TOUR AND THE ADMINISTRATORS IN NEW JERSEY AND ST ANDREWS IS: HOW WILL YOU MANAGE THE TECHNOLOGICAL ASSAULT ON THE GAME’S GREAT COURSES AND A GAME SO OUT OF BALANCE AT THE TOP LEVEL? OR DO THEY ABDICATE THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO RESTORE THE BALANCE MACKENZIE AND HIS GREAT CONTEMPORARIES UNDERSTOOD AND BUILT? THE EVIDENCE OF WHAT WE WATCHED FROM MEDINAH IS THE GOLF ISN’T SO INTERESTING WHEN THE QUESTIONS ARE SO EASILY ANSWERED WITH POWER ANDWEDGES.
Much was made of ADAM SCOTT’S comments calling out designers and officials to set courses up to require shaping the ball, but that’s tough to do overnight. But it was his comment as reported by EVIN PRIEST about drivers that accelerated his previous public statements about driver head size. SCOTT WARNED SUPERSTAR DRIVERS MAY NO LONGER STAND OUT, SUCH AS AUSTRALIA'S GREG NORMAN AND AMERICAN DAVIS LOVE III DID IN PREVIOUSERAS.
"THE DRIVER IS THE MOST FORGIVING CLUB IN THE BAG NOW; IT'S JUST SWING AS HARD AS YOU CAN AND GET IT DOWN THERE FAR," HE SAID. "IT'S NOT A SKILFUL PART OF THE GAME ANYMORE AND IT'S REALLY UNFAIR FOR SOME GUYS WHO ARE GREAT DRIVERS OF THE GOLF BALL. "I DON'T THINK THEIR TALENTS ARE SHOWING UP AS MUCH AS THEY SHOULD." And there was Tiger as well at Medinah, echoing comments he’s beenmaking all year
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“NOW YOU JUST PULL OUT DRIVER, BOMB IT DOWN THERE AND YOU’RE LOOKING FOR THREE TO FOUR GOOD WEEKS A YEAR,” WOODS SAID. “THAT’S HOW YOU PLAY. IT’S NOT THE CONSISTENCY, IT’S NOT ABOUT MAKING A BUNCH OF CUTS. IT’S ABOUT HAVING THREE, FOUR GOOD WEEKS A YEAR. THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE. GUYS UNDERSTAND THAT.” These comments have all presumably been made to the USGA and R&A as part of their distance insights research. No one mentions the ball much these days—calm down Wally!—some because they are paid not to, while others genuinely believe it’s maxed out. So are we seeing a shifting focus to reducing the driver head size for elite players and would it make a difference? There is only one way to find out, once the manufacturers stop kicking and screaming about the massive R&D expenditures needed to knock 75 cc’s off their currentmodels.
TAYLOR MADE has a jump start with this mini-driver released earlierthis year.
Anyone test it out on a launch monitor?__August 20, 2019
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August 20, 2019
COMMISH ON PGA TOUR'S PACE OF PLAY EFFORTS: "WHEN WE’RE READY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO, I’LL BE EXCITED TO TALK TO ALLOF YOU ABOUT IT.”
August 20, 2019
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PGA TOUR COMMISSIONER JAY MONAHAN met with TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP media Tuesday and talked about his round Saturday with DONALD TRUMP, FRED RIDLEY and PETE BEVAQUA (STEVE DIMEGLIO reports here)
along with the slow play debate. DiMeglio endorsed Monahan’s view that the PGA Tour should take things more cautiously,
despite the European Tour’s aggressive moves this week. Here wasMonahan’s remark:
“I WOULDN’T SAY WE’RE GOING TO BE INFLUENCED IN ANY WAY,” BY THE EUROPEAN TOUR’S FRESHLY MINTED DIRECTIVE, MONAHAN SAID. “I THINK EVERYBODY LOOKING AT THIS, TALKING ABOUT IT IS A GOOD THING, AND THEY’VE OBVIOUSLY DECIDED THAT THAT’S THE RIGHT THING FOR THE EUROPEAN TOUR. AND WHEN WE’RE READY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO, I’LL BE EXCITED TO TALK TO ALL OF YOU ABOUT IT.” Rex Hoggard at GolfChannel.com saw Monahan’s comments differently, sensing the Commish did his best Heisman pose in a contradiction of the tour’s normally boundary-pushing efforts on other fronts, calling the current strategy “reactionary at best and indifferent atworst.”
Hoggard writes of the tour’s plan to keep studying data: STILL, IT’S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE HOW ENDLESS DATA POINTS CAN SPEED UP A GAME THAT’S BEEN GRINDING ALONG AT A SNAIL’S PACE FOR DECADES. OR HOW THE TOUR, WHICH LEADS THE GAME ON SO MANY FRONTS, CAN BECOME MORE THAN JUST A FOLLOWER WHEN IT COMES TO PACE OF PLAY. Also confounding: every major sport is looking for ways to speed things up, trim game or season time and the PGA Tour has gone the opposite direction, resisting such efforts and endorsing exploding distances that only add time to rounds.__August 20, 2019
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August 20, 2019
EDOARDO'S WHISTLEBLOWER TWEETS INSTIGATED EUROPEAN TOUR'S SLOW PLAYCRACKDOWN
August 20, 2019
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EDOARDO MOLINARI’S Tweets earlier this year exposing Europe’s slow pokes was the final straw forEUROPEAN
TOUR CHIEF KEITH PELLEY and his Tournament Committee. Luckily for Molinari, they agreed with his views that something more drastic needed to happen. From PHIL CASEY’S report: THE FORMER US AMATEUR CHAMPION WAS TRUE TO HIS WORD AND PUBLISHED THE DATA, EVEN THOUGH HIS BROTHER FRANCESCO, THE 2018 OPEN CHAMPION, WAS AMONG THE OFFENDERS. “I SPOKE TO EDOARDO SHORTLY AFTERWARDS AND WHILE I DIDN’T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH HIS CHOSEN METHOD, HE WAS ENTIRELY RIGHT TO CONFRONT THE PROBLEM AND IT PROMPTED A DISCUSSION AT THE NEXT TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE MEETING, HELD AT THE BETFRED BRITISH MASTERS IN MAY,” SAID PELLEY, PICTURED. “THANKFULLY, OUR TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE SHARED EDOARDO’S BELIEF THAT ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH, AND THEY WERE PREPARED TO MAKE SOME HARD DECISIONS, ACCEPTING THE NEED TO BE MORE PUNITIVE.” So no matter what happens, he’ll always have this.__August 20, 2019
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August 19, 2019
ALLITERATION WORKS: THE FEDEXCUP FINALE INSTEAD OF THE TOURCHAMPIONSHIP?
August 19, 2019
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Geoff Shackelford
RANDALL MELL at GolfChannel.com lands some great counterpunches against naysayers perplexed by the new TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP format—this is an improvement over the confusion of year’s past—and also makes a smart suggestion to call it the FEDEXCUP FINALE to avoid confusion. Unfortunately, he lands what is a knockout punch regarding the new format, less than a year since TIGER WOODS’ 80th and arguably most inspiring PGA TOUR event win. WITH THIS NEW FORMAT IN PLACE LAST YEAR, WOODS WOULDN’T HAVE WONANYTHING.
IMAGINE THE OUTRAGE THAT WOULD HAVE CAUSED. WHAT IF BROOKS KOEPKA SHOOTS A 267 TOTAL THIS WEEK, PUTTING HIM AT 20 UNDER WITH HIS STAGGERED START (7 UNDER). AND WHAT IF THOMAS SHOOTS 269 AND WINS THE FEDEXCUP AT 21 UNDER, WITH HIS STAGGERED START (10UNDER)?
TO BE SURE, WE, THE MEDIA, WILL POINT OUT THAT KOEPKA WOULD HAVE WON THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP AS A 72-HOLE EVENT, BEFORE PHANTOM STROKES WERE FIGURED INTO THE TOTALS. WE WILL THEN POINT OUT THAT KOEPKA WON THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP, A WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE CLASSIC SENSE OF THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR, BUT THOMAS CLAIMED THE FEDEXCUP WHILE ACTUALLY ONLY WINNING A SINGLE TOURNAMENT ALL SEASON. THAT’S WHY IT’S BEST TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS WEEK’S EVENT TO THE FEDEXCUP FINALE, TO BEGIN THE MIND WIPE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, TO HELP FANS UNDERSTAND THERE REALLY IS NO TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP TO WINANYMORE.
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MORE READS ON THE LATE JACK WHITAKERAugust 19, 2019
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My original post was here but some wonderful tributes have rolled in to celebrate the life, work and times of JACK WHITAKER. FRANK FITZPATRICK of Whitaker’s home town Philadelphia Inquirer with a sensational remembrance,including this:
AS ONE OF SPORTS BROADCASTING’S FIRST AND BEST ESSAYISTS, WHITAKER, WHO DIED SUNDAY AT 95, INTRODUCED ELEGANCE AND ERUDITION INTO THE GENRE. HIS WORK WAS INFUSED BY A BROAD VOCABULARY, A TWEEDY WARDROBE, AND A THOUGHTFUL DEMEANOR. BUT WHILE HE ADDED A PROFESSORIAL AIR TO DECADES’ WORTH OF TELECASTS FROM SUPER BOWLS, MASTERS, OLYMPICS AND KENTUCKY DERBYS, THE GERMANTOWN NATIVE NEVER FORGOT THAT HE ONCE STOOD BEFORE A CAMERA DRESSED LIKE A GUNSLINGER. “IT WASN’T MY FINEST HOUR,” WHITAKER TOLD THE INQUIRER IN 2007, “BUT YOU DID WHAT YOU HAD TO DO AND YOU HOPED IT MADE YOU BETTER.” RICHARD GOLDSTEIN filed another superb New York Times obituary,
writes:
BUT HE WAS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ESSAYS ABOUT SPORTS, INSPIRED BY WRITERS HE ADMIRED LIKE ALISTAIR COOKE AND HEYWOOD HALE BROUN. HE RECEIVED AN EMMY IN 1979 AS “OUTSTANDING SPORTS PERSONALITY” AND A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT THE SPORTS EMMY AWARDS IN 2012. “I KNOW THAT I’M REGARDED AS THE TALKING HEAD,” HE TOLD SPORTS ILLUSTRATED IN 1977. “I’D LIKE TO BE EXACTLY THAT AND SAY SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER OR GET EXCITED ABOUT. I’D LIKE TO BRING SPORTS INTO THE THINKING PROCESS.” BILL GOODYKOONTZ of the Arizona Republic respected Whitaker’s talentas
a writer, but he said the combination of that talent with his voice prompted him to wonder if we’ve lost one of the last broadcastingicons:
BUT, LIKE WITH MOST BROADCASTERS, IT WAS HIS VOICE THAT MATTERED MOST, IN TONE AND IN AUTHORITY. DICK ENBERG HAD ONE, TOO. SO DID VIN SCULLY, WHO’S STILL ALIVE BUT STOPPED CALLING BASEBALL GAMES IN 2016. WHO ARE THE VOICES WHO WILL TAKE THEIR PLACE? NOT AS ANNOUNCERS, WHETHER CALLING A CAME OR PROVIDING ANALYSIS. WHO WILL REPLACE THEM AS ICONS? ANYONE? We discussed Whitaker this morning on Morning Drive. Your browser does not support iframes. ","resolvedBy":"manual"}" data-block-type="32" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1566272530262_55290"> Your browser does not support iframes. " data-provider-name="" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1566764938976_119"> Your browser does not support iframes.__August 19, 2019
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SHARK: TAKE THE BALL BACK TO 1996 SPECSAugust 19, 2019
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Greg Norman has been a consistent advocate for a golf ball that spins more. But unlike his recent shift away from shirtless Instagram posts, he has remained consistent on the distance matter. And now he’s responding to Instagram posts on the hot button topic that became popular again as PGA Tour pros made a mockery of 7,600yard MEDINAH.
This is the Shark we know has the game’s best interests at heart: > View this post on Instagram>
> Do you agree with @shark_gregnorman\u2019s suggestion to wind the > ball back rather than redesign courses for Tour events?>
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> Do you agree with @shark_gregnorman’s suggestion to wind the ball > back rather than redesign courses for Tour events?>
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> A post shared by GOLF.com // GOLF Magazine > (@golf_com) on Aug 19, 2019 at> 10:26am PDT
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TIGER WILL CONSULT OTHERS ON WHETHER TO PICK TIGER FOR THE PRESIDENTSCUP
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From TIGER WOODS’ Monday teleconference after the first eight spots on the 2019 PRESIDENTS CUP teams were solidified, as reported byGolfweek’s
STEVE DIMEGLIO:
AND HE SAID HE WON’T BE PRESSURED – NOT BY THE PGA TOUR OR TV EXECUTIVES – TO PICK HIMSELF. “MY JOB AS THE CAPTAIN IS TO PUT TOGETHER THE BEST TEAM POSSIBLE AND TRY AND PUT TOGETHER THE BEST 12 GUYS,” HE SAID. “WE’LL BE GOING THROUGH THE WHOLE PROCESS OF HAVING OPEN COMMUNICATION WITH OUR TOP EIGHT GUYS AND MY VICE CAPTAINS. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL CERTAINLY TALK ABOUT, WHETHER I SHOULD PLAY OR NOT PLAY. “ULTIMATELY IT’S GOING TO BE MY CALL WHETHER I DO PLAY OR NOT AS THE CAPTAIN. BUT I WANT TO HAVE ALL OF THEIR OPINIONS BEFORE THAT DECISION IS MADE.” Oh boss, you’re game looks great, I’d pick you if I were captain! Here are the eight USA participants who can be fitted for a sports coat they’ll wear once. And the International’s first eight with three Aussies on the team.__August 19, 2019
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STEPH CURRY CONTINUES TO DO HIS PART TO HELP GOLFAugust 19, 2019
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The WARRIORS star (legend yet?) visited Howard University, was inspired by a meeting with a student and golfer, and the school is now pledging to rebuild its defunct golf program into a DI team by the 2020-21 season. All thanks to STEPH CURRY with help from UNDER ARMOUR, CALLAWAY and his foundation. ROXANNA SCOTT of Golfweek reporting from the launch Monday at Howard. CURRY SPENT SOME TIME WITH A GROUP OF STUDENTS THAT LEFT A BIG IMPRESSION ON HIM. “EVERY STUDENT HAD A PASSION, A VISION SOMETHING THEY WANTED TO DO TO CHANGE SOMETHING AT HOWARD, SOMETHING THEY WANTED TO DO TO CHANGE THE WORLD,” CURRY SAID MONDAY AT A NEWS CONFERENCE AT LANGSTON GOLF COURSE. “HEARING EACH ONE OF THEIR STORIES WAS EMPOWERING AND ENCOURAGING. “OTIS, WE CONNECTED IN GOLF IN TERMS OF OUR PASSION FOR THE GAME, IN TERMS OF WHAT THE GAME HAS TAUGHT BOTH OF US,” CURRY SAID. “THE IDEA OF RECREATING HOWARD’S GOLF TEAM, TURNING IT INTO A DIVISION I PROGRAM FOR MEN AND WOMEN WAS BORN THAT NIGHT.”__August 19, 2019
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August 19, 2019
WILL NAME PLAYERS GET POLICED LIKE THE REST UNDER NEW EUROPEAN TOURPOLICIES?
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I was excited about EUROPEAN TOUR Chief KEITH PELLEY’S rollout of enhanced speed of play techniques and do believe they will make a difference until I read what GOLFWEEK’S ALISTAIR TAIT wrote. While he liked many of the changes—including the name shaming of showing groups where they stand in terms of on-course positioning—Tait has been on the pace of play situation for years and will not be surprised if little happens. This was interesting… MY OTHER FEAR IS THAT “NAME” PLAYERS WILL ESCAPE CENSURE WHILE OTHERS WILL TAKE THE BRUNT OF THE ACTION. APPEARANCE FEES ARE STILL A REGULAR OCCURRENCE ON THE EUROPEAN TOUR. SPONSORS PAY LARGE AMOUNTS TO LURE STARS TO PLACES LIKE ABU DHABI, DUBAI, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, ETC. SOME SPONSORS WON’T BE HAPPY IF THE GUY THEY’VE SPENT A SMALL FORTUNE ON IS PUT OFF FROM RETURNING BECAUSE OF A ONE-SHOT PENALTY FOR IMPERSONATING A TORTOISE. JORDAN SPIETH PLAYED IN THAT 2016 ABU DHABI TOURNAMENT AND WAS WARNED FOR SLOW PLAY. THE TOUR WAS CORRECT TO IMPLEMENT THE PACE OF PLAY RULES, BUT SPONSORS WEREN’T HAPPY. IT’S A MOOT POINT IF THAT SLOW PLAY WARNING IS THE REASON SPIETH HAS NEVER RETURNED TO ABU DHABI, BUT IT CLEARLY HASN’T HELPED. We shall see soon enough as the policies announced Monday will see a trial run at the 2019 BMW PGA in September. But given the precedent set with SERGIO GARCIA’S non-suspension for vandalizing greens during competition in January, Tait’s concern is legitimate.__August 19, 2019
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REMINDER: LEGENDS OF EAST LAKE DOC DEBUTSAugust 19, 2019
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Debuting August 19 at 10 pm ET and great to see ALEXA STIRLING and BOBBY JONES prominently featured. Your browser does not support iframes.\n","resolvedBy":"manual","resolved":true}" data-block-type="22" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1566186900012_102268"> Your browser does not support iframes. As I noted in this column for Golfweek, the film is most enjoyable as is the story of EAST LAKE…every fewyears.
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OVERNIGHTS: 2019 BMW A 2.4, U.S. AMATEUR AT PINEHURST A .3August 19, 2019
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According to Sports Business Daily, the 2019 BMW Championship drew a 1.9 Saturday audience and a 2.4 for Sunday’s final round on NBC, well up over non-Tiger-contending WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP’S previously played in this schedule spot. The 2018 Wyndham drew a 1.9. The slide in US AMATEUR interest and visibility continued with a .4 Saturday and a .3 for Sunday’s finale on FOX going head-to-head with most of the BMW final round. Talk about an event screaming out for a change in its Monday to Sunday format to avoid being an afterthought. Two notes on the audiences from TUNITY regarding the BMW final andfirst rounds:
> The final round of the @BMWchamps on #NBC averaged 557,720 #OOH TV > viewers and peaked at 5:22 PM with 872,791 #OOH viewers. > \u26F3\uFE0F #BMWChamps @PGA @PGATOUR @NBCSportsPR > — Tunity Analytics (@TunityAnalytics) August 19, 2019 ","resolvedBy":"manual","resolved":true}" data-block-type="22" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1566186900012_69361"> > The final round of the @BMWchamps> on #NBC
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> averaged 557,720 #OOH> TV
> viewers and peaked at 5:22 PM with 872,791 #OOH>
> viewers. ⛳️ #BMWChamps>
> @PGA @PGATOUR
> @NBCSportsPR
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> — Tunity Analytics (@TunityAnalytics) August 19, 2019>
> The first round of the @BMWchamps on @GolfChannel averaged 344,510 > #OOH TV viewers and peaked at 5:16 PM with 471,880 #OOH viewers. The > audience skewed 51% A25-54. \u26F3\uFE0F @GolfChannelPR > — Tunity Analytics (@TunityAnalytics) August 16, 2019 ","resolvedBy":"manual","resolved":true}" data-block-type="22" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1566186900012_70796"> > The first round of the @BMWchamps > on @GolfChannel> averaged
> 344,510 #OOH
> TV
> viewers and peaked at 5:16 PM with 471,880 #OOH>
> viewers. The audience skewed 51% A25-54. ⛳️ @GolfChannelPR>
> — Tunity Analytics (@TunityAnalytics) August 16, 2019>
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