There are high stakes at this week’s Wyndham event, specifically for those players trying to finish inside the top 70 of the FedEx Cup standings, which last year became the new cut-off point to qualify for the playoffs.
At The Open, the task is navigating whatever happens to be in front of you that week, that day, that hour. It’s rarely fair, and never easy. They each reflect the culture they exist within, and the types of champions they produce.
Frenchman Matthieu Pavon birdied the 72nd hole of the Farmers Insurance Open to win his first PGA Tour title in only the third start of his rookie season.
Why is it that some fans try to hang on the balls that are hit into the gallery – or in this case a dining hall! – seem to run off with them as if no one would notice?
Especially in a wind, these links all demand thinking and strategy that goes outside the relatively one-dimensional stuff that is professional golf around the globe.
The European Tour is back at it. Their social channels have become regular stops for exotic golf feats of strength, speed, and persistence, whether it’s hitting golf balls into speeding cars or day-long hole-in-one challenges.
One week after Rasmus Hojgaard won the European Masters, the Dane’s identical twin brother, Nicolai, is, at age 20, the youngest champion of the Italian Open.
Australian Golf Digest
