While it’s preposterous to even think someone would record the first 59 in Major championship history this week, the current low mark of 62 isn’t out of the question.
If a player who is already in the field for the Masters wants to play the course ahead of the tournament, he just phones the club and lets them know he’s coming.
In a compelling interview, Watson opened up about his years-long battle with anxiety that on three occasions had him rushing to the hospital in recent years thinking he was having a heart attack.
This week’s Bermuda Championship will be the first PGA Tour event to allow fans on site since the opening round of the Players Championship in mid-March because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Just when it looked like the golf fans would be treated to a mano-a-mano duel between world Nos.2 and 3 Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas today, in sneaks Patrick Cantlay.
It’s all in the name of chasing even more distance for a player who led the PGA Tour in driving distance during the 2019-20 season at 322.1 yards (294.5 metres) a pop and bashed his way to the trophy at Winged Foot.
Whatever ones lingered about whether Bryson DeChambeau’s plan to bulk up and hit the ball as far as possible would hold up in the cauldron and nuance of Major championship golf have been answered. This week at Winged Foot, he killed nuance.
Last week, Dustin Johnson capped an incredible month and the 2019-2020 PGA Tour season by winning his first FedEx Cup. Overnight, he picked up more hardware.
Rahm isn’t the only big name to visit the venue recently. Two weeks ago Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas teed it up at Winged Foot en route to Boston for the Northern Trust.
As for the tour’s other two events on its Asian swing – the Zozo Championship in Japan and the WGC–HSBC Champions in China, held the two weeks after the CJ Cup – their fates are unclear.
The similarity in the number of runner-up finishes, thirds and other top 10s between the two men at that 13-year mark in their careers is pretty amazing.