The structure is not there this year, which will force longer hitters, at least, to decide between laying up short of the water or going for the green in two and running the risk of the ball reaching the penalty area.
The inaugural competition, a three-day affair featuring US, European and International teams, will be held in the American autumn of 2022 at an American course yet to be determined.
What Mickelson took away from his second PGA Tour Champions start was a second victory and whatever confidence one can glean form a test less stringent than those ahead of him.
The heat is likely to dominate conversations at the ANA Inspiration, upstaging talk even of the COVID-19 pandemic that’s responsible for postponing this LPGA Major championship from its scheduled start in April to the first full week in September.
Sophia Popov of Germany became a Major champion and a cause celebre, all in a matter of days, when it was revealed that her improbable victory in the AIG Women’s British Open on Sunday earned her only a two-year LPGA exemption rather than five and no exemption into the next women’s Major, the ANA Inspiration in two weeks.
Werenski, who a week earlier finished tied for third in the 3M Open, finished with 13 points for the round and 39 points for the tournament. Eleven of those 13 points came on the last seven holes of his round.
Jim Furyk needed no introduction, of course, but he emphatically made his presence known anyway by winning his PGA Tour Champions debut in the tour’s return from a five-month COVID-19 hiatus.
The golf business largely (mostly?) is on hold, but it is business as usual for one entity, and it does not require hand sanitiser or social distancing, and might even have something for the bargain hunters, though “bargain” is relative.
This then is an arbitrary list, in no particular order, of interesting, entertaining and informative golf books worth reading, most from this century, two of them recent.
Australian Golf Digest
