If this past week was any indication, should the USGA want a Teflon coating at Winged Foot from criticism, perhaps its best move is installing Nicklaus on the greens committee.
Jason Scrivener makes his PGA Tour debut at this week’s Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in what he hopes will become a permanent move across the Atlantic.
Shane Lowry should be at Royal St George’s Golf Club defending the claret jug this week. Instead, he’s at Muirfield Village Golf Club after the Open Championship was cancelled and the Memorial was moved back six weeks.
Adam Scott intends to use the disappointment of a runner-up finish at the Memorial Tournament to feed his growing hunger to win a second Major championship at Pebble Beach Golf Links next week.
A day after Hank Haney was suspended from PGA Tour Radio for controversial comments he made regarding women’s golf and Koreans, the swing coach’s most famous former student weighed in. And Tiger Woods made clear what he thought of the situation.
Matt Kuchar found himself at the centre of an odd rules imbroglio Thursday afternoon at the Memorial, where multiple officials and a television replay were needed to sort it out.