It’s a slightly bizarre way of drawing player match-ups, but the pre-tournament selection spectacle adds to the drama of golf’s biggest individual matchplay event.
Tiger Woods didn’t quite “one-up” Phil Mickelson by winning the Valspar Championship like his longtime lefty rival suggested earlier in the week. But perhaps, this is all part of an even cooler script that is unfolding.
The bad news? Golf fans finally saw a slight wince from Tiger Woods on the 16th hole during the opening round of the Valspar Championship. The good news? It had nothing to do with his back.
Nothing was entirely what it seemed during the final-round telecast of the Sony Open in Hawaii, as Golf Channel producers scrambled to put together a broadcast disrupted when union video and audio workers went on strike.