Last week’s surprising announcement that the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund plan to partner has swallowed the game whole, and that includes this week’s U.S. Open.
Usually we don’t love clowning on a reporter’s question, for myriad reasons. For starters, that could be one of us asking a question at some point, and we wouldn’t want to be clowned on either. Second, things can get taken out of context, particularly in a transcript. And finally, there is no such thing as a stupid question, and even stupid questions can yield great answers.
Between the Masters victory, three other PGA Tour victories in 2023 and a host of other high finishes, Jon Rahm has made the sport look easy this season. Surely, the Spaniard would tame Oak Hill, too, entering the week as the tournament favorite.
Ahh, Tuesday of a major championship week. The day of talking, questioning and offering takes. I actually heard someone on Golf Channel today say that players might want to take Oak Hill’s “mowing patterns” of the fairways into account off-the-tee this week. True story.
Golf writer Alan Shipnuck discusses the hottest topics in golf, including how great Jon Rahm can be, how to rank LIV golfer Talor Gooch’s form, and the politisation of the world rankings.
If it wasn’t clear that Jon Rahm takes his job seriously after a bogey-free seven-under-par 64 at the RBC Heritage, then the rather awkward exchange he had with a reporter in his post-round interview took care of that.
Congratulatory voice messages from Rafael Nadal, honorary membership at Augusta National and the ability to plan the Champions Dinner menu with a celebrity chef. These are just a few of the perks that come with winning the Masters, as Jon Rahm has discovered over the past 72 hours.
If you’re wondering why limited hip mobility is a bad thing for your golf swing, Dave Phillips explains that it can cause two common faults that make hitting the ball consistently more difficult.
To get where they needed to get to, Callaway’s team used the Paradym driver’s adjustable hosel to give Rahm a degree more loft, taking his 10.5-degree head effectively to 11.5 degrees.
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