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.
This week’s one-time visit to Muirfield Village Golf Club for the Workday Charity Open should not be considered in any manner a warm-up for the annual Memorial Tournament that promptly follows.
The rescheduled Memorial Tournament in mid-July might be providing a blueprint for future PGA Tour events in this era of social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Jack Nicklaus has made milkshakes the calling card of the Memorial the past few seasons. But it was suds, not shakes, that stole the show on Monday at Muirfield Village.
This week at the Memorial Tournament – oddly, an event at which no tour vans are allowed on site – the company has brought out its TS2 and TS3 hybrids as well as utility irons that bear “500” and “510” engraved on the hosel.
A herniated disc, fractured rib, back soreness, partially torn tendon, partially torn meniscus, tendinitis, hernia, foot injury, stress fracture, torn labrum. No, it’s not an NRL injury report. It’s the list of some of the injuries players in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking have suffered in the past few years.
There’s no telling exactly how the cerebral Bryson DeChambeau is wound. And he doesn’t really want us to know. But there’s no doubt that his time is coming, and it will be worth watching.
Australian Golf Digest
