This is the time of the year where the PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association) of America vs PGA Tour confusion reaches its peak. Confusion reigns about what golf’s other main bodies do, too.
Scotsman Stephen Gallacher has been able to play here and there due to sponsor exemptions and his DP World Tour and Challenge Tour category, but he’ll certainly be gung-ho to play a full season again now that his card’s been unrevoked.
There have been countless instances in which someone called their shot and predicted their own hole-in-one. The amount of times that actually has happened, however, is almost zero.
According to Columbia University student Will Knauth, who is on a path to earn his PhD in statistics, a 24-year-old amateur who played Division III golf and is probably more accomplished as a violinist than he is a golfer has a 4-in-1 chance of making the cut in his PGA Tour debut at this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson.
Joe LaCava must have been really anxious to get back out caddieing again. After starting last week working fulltime for Patrick Cantlay on the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods’ former caddie is making a one week cameo on another top-ranked player’s bag: Nelly Korda.
For most of us, showing up to a course with aerated greens is so demoralising that the round is over before it even starts. Now, just imagine that scenario at a US Open local qualifying venue, which is what players faced on Monday at Illini Country Club in Springfield, Illinois.
Bella Simoes is nine years of age and has a long way to go to actually qualify for the US Women’s Open, but the Brazilian kicked off the qualifying process on Tuesday morning.
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