If there’s one thing golfers seem to universally hate, it’s golf announcers. Short of Jim and Verne, we can’t stand anyone who steps into the booth to call the game of golf. Joe Buck, Nick Faldo, Brandel Chamblee, Zinger.
With Brian Harman sitting five strokes clear at the top of the leaderboard early Saturday morning, many UK golf fans were finally forced to learn who the hell Brian Harman is. He’s a lefty. He looks like a former Australian cricket captain.
On Friday, after lipping out a par putt on the 10th hole, fiery Spaniard Jon Rahm unleashed a muy picante F-bomb that will reverberate around Royal Liverpool for decades to come. Ear muffs, kiddos.
For Thomas, the move represents a fresh start. The two-time major winner has fallen to 20th in the Official World Golf Ranking after an ugly missed cut at the US Open, a moment he called the lowest of his professional career.
The first time you watch this you might miss it. It’s easy to get distracted by Pebble Beach’s iconic seventh hole. Zhang’s move is cocoa-butter smooth and she sticks to it six feet. There’s a lot going on. But watch it again and focus on her tee.
Wyndham Clark, still waiting to hit his wedge shot from the fairway, then asked Thomas to mark his ball to avoid the possibility it could impede his own approach once it hit the green.
Young’s tee shot flew 50 metres offline, through some trees, into the gallery and somehow, defying both odds and physics, plopped in the last place you would ever expect.
There’s rough off the tee. There’s rough around the greens. There’s rough coming out of your ears and eyes. Is it “Abandon Hope All Ye’ Who Enter Here” levels? Not quite, but it looks like a stern test and that is exactly the point.
DP World Tour pro Alex Knappe won a Care by Volvo subscription – a modern lease program that functions a little bit like Netflix for Volvos – with a hole-in-one at the Volvo Scandinavian Mixed overnight.
ESPN blabber-in-chief Stephen A. Smith takes a flamethrower to everyone and everything in golf on Wednesday’s edition of ‘First Take.’ Turn your sound well up.
Let’s not sugarcoat it: this poor sap had no business being out there. This was a regional qualifier for a PGA Tour event, not some annual boys weekend.
Australian Golf Digest
