That Danny Willett cracked his driver at the end of his opening round Friday morning in the 84th Masters, and then shot a second-round six-under 66 later in the day without it, has to deliver some kind of message, doesn’t it?
The long-time swing instructor watched with great satisfaction from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, as his top pupil, Paul Casey, carved up the rain-softened course with a bogey-free, seven-under-par 65.
Cheer for Bryson DeChambeau to drive the first green this week at Augusta National Golf Club. There could be added entertainment value via Sir Nick Faldo.
The USGA overnight announced that Davis is stepping down as its chief executive officer, effective at the end of 2021, to embark on a career in golf course design and construction.
This week’s one-time visit to Muirfield Village Golf Club for the Workday Charity Open should not be considered in any manner a warm-up for the annual Memorial Tournament that promptly follows.
Televising golf tournaments will be even more complicated and more expensive when CBS Sports begins airing them again this week as the PGA Tour resumes its 2020 season at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
The rescheduled Memorial Tournament in mid-July might be providing a blueprint for future PGA Tour events in this era of social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Days away from hosting the Valspar Championship, tournament officials absorbed the sad news that their event was off for 2020 and braced for the impact it would have on the event and the community.
With the USGA and R&A having released the preliminary results of their Distance Insights Project – and concluding that something needs to be done to keep the cycle of distance increases from continuing – it seemed a worthwhile exercise to ask the players responsible for much of the handwringing what it is, exactly, they think needs to be done.
Australian Golf Digest
