A million different thoughts had to be racing through the mind of Emiliano Grillo as he waited to see if his blunder on the 18th hole at the Charles Schwab Challenge would cost him a shot at ending a nearly eight-year victory drought on the PGA Tour. Making a couple young kids’ days likely wasn’t Read more…
This week at Colonial showed Grillo has the game and form to be one of the game’s better international players, to be the performer that was promised so many years ago.
Last week, California club pro Michael Block had a flight booked for 10 a.m. on Saturday from western New York back to Orange County, where he lives. “So that gives you [an indication of] how much confidence I had in making the cut at the PGA Championship,” Block said.
Spieth will try to play up and through the US Open next month in Los Angeles, then will take a few weeks off to rest before heading to Europe for the Scottish Open and Open Championship. If at any point between now and then he feels more pain, he knows enough to instantly stop playing golf.
This is why people pay to watch Spieth play golf, and we’d venture to say he’s often the most “worth the price of admission” golfer in the field any time he tees it up.
As one of the first professional sports to resume play, golf has an opportunity to set an example about how sports can return to some form of responsible competition and entertainment.
Players on site will be asked to pause for reflection as a demonstration of support for the tour’s commitment to addressing racial and social injustices.
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.