Adam Scott has edged ever so slightly towards his goal of sneaking back inside the world’s top 60 with a solid result at the PGA Tour event at Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas.
What kind of golf is best for major championships? There are more elements at play in golf’s current ecosystem, and perhaps a reconsideration is in order.
Phil Mickelson has no problem voicing his opinion on any golf topic, but on Sunday he wound up taking something back regarding the major championships.
Golf Australia chief executive James Sutherland has encouraged golf’s powerbrokers to consider the idea to award the Australian Open winner an exemption into all four majors, saying it would “elevate our event and our tour”.
Between this and Talor Gooch’s recent comments about the Masters deserving an asterisk, you could start a winery with all the sour grapes being squeezed by LIV golfers as the majors approach.
For every LIV golfer who has called for a direct pathway from the league into the four men’s major championships, there seems to be an equal number willing to travel to the corners of the globe in search of major-championship golf.
We ran the numbers for all 50 people listed on the LIV Golf points standings and the average OWGR place on Monday was 408.76 with just six golfers currently inside the top 100.
Should the majors, including the US Open and Open Championship, find a continual proliferation of purse increases unsustainable, McIlroy said it wouldn’t stop him from competing in golf’s four biggest tournaments, but the organisations that run those championships might risk losing other players. And they can’t afford to do that.
Sydney star amateur Jeffrey Guan, as well as Western Australia’s 17-year-old phenom Joseph Buttress, have been announced as the Cameron Smith Scholarship winners for 2023.
Less than two weeks after Tiger Woods had to withdraw from the final day at the Masters—underlined by the sight of a hobbled Woods limping back to his bag during a downpour Saturday afternoon—Woods announced Wednesday that he underwent a subtalar fusion procedure to address post-traumatic arthritis from the injuries suffered in a car accident two years ago.
Thanks to a nifty little chart posted on Twitter by @Robopz, you can see that a fair number of LIV golfers have already locked up spots in the four events. However, that number, at least as of now, is considerably lower than a year ago.
Australian Golf Digest
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