Given this is a no-cut event, Ken Weyand will play three more rounds in Dubai this week. And given how day one went, we’re guessing this won’t be the last his presence there will be talked about.
When news broke that LIV Golf had once again been denied Official World Golf Ranking points and that was enough to bring Pepperell – a steadfast LIV sceptic – out of retirement with this self-deprecating knee-slapper.
The Englishmen got into a testy Twitter spat over the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league with Pepperell eventually pointing out that Westwood got paid £100,000 last week for “playing like a turnip”.
We’ve all made a drunken mistake or two, but when you’ve had a few too many it’s best to stay away from Twitter so it’s not captured for the rest of eternity.
There are a multitude of theories emerging as to why just about everything went so disastrously wrong (on the course at least) for the European side in Wisconsin.
Depending on who you talk to, the course is either a disaster waiting to happen or just another in a long line of so-so Old World venues for the biennial contest between Europe and the United States.
For at least two of the 132 competitors at the Forest of Arden in the English Midlands, the €1 million event is going to be a special occasion no matter how well or badly each performs.
Whether a bulked-up Bryson is a true force of disruption is a separate conversation; that focus is on the future and a movement, which will play out in weeks and months and years to come.
Many international players remain inactive and some have moved onto the “Cracking jokes on Twitter” stage of grief when it comes to their Official World Golf Ranking.
Australian Golf Digest
