In a brief statement, the PGA Tour announced in the evening that Michael Brennan had been disqualified for a breach of Model Local Rule G-11 because he used “non-permitted green-reading materials”.
If you pair professional golfers together in a scramble format in which they get to choose the best result of every shot, and give them benign weather and pristine greens, you’re rolling out a green carpet for crazy low numbers.
Smylie Kaufman asked Brennan to share his craziest travel story from his time on the PGA Tour’s lower circuit, and he didn’t disappoint, delivering this wild retelling of his experience driving through the Rio favelas with a sketchy Uber driver.
Michael Brennan won the Bank of Utah Championship in appallingly routine fashion, firing a final-round, five-under 66 to beat Rico Hoey by four shots, defying belief, if not decorum.
Playing in just his third PGA Tour event and on a sponsor invite to boot, Brennan displayed a maturity and quality of play consistent with someone who knew they were born to play the tour.