The framework agreement between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia reached its one-year anniversary on Thursday, and while tour players continue to express optimism that a deal can be reached, they also seem resigned to the possibility that a resolution might still be quite a way off.
The Murrays, through the PGA Tour, said that they’ve grieved over the previous 24 hours attempting to come to terms with the fact that Grayson is no longer alive.
The tour announced Murray’s death in an e-mail overnight, Australian time, with statements from commissioner Jay Monahan. No details have been provided about the nature of Murray’s death.
The lone player director on the PGA Tour’s policy board who truly represents the little guy used his temporary platform to remind anyone who would listen that the game is full of little guys who cherish signature moments as much or more than signature events.
It seems only fitting that at a tournament littered with colourful paint buckets that Peter Malnati, wearing a bucket hat and using a yellow golf ball, won.
When McIlroy assumes the role of player director next year, it will mark the first time that an international player has served on the tour’s policy board since its inception in 1969.
The Spaniard ranked third in strokes gained/approach-the-green, picking up more than seven shots on the field while also leading the field in greens in regulation, missing just 12 greens over 72 holes.
For much of the round, it looked as though Peter Malnati had done enough to claim his second Sanderson Farms Championship. Sergio Garcia had other ideas…
With the USGA and R&A having released the preliminary results of their Distance Insights Project – and concluding that something needs to be done to keep the cycle of distance increases from continuing – it seemed a worthwhile exercise to ask the players responsible for much of the handwringing what it is, exactly, they think needs to be done.
Cameron Davis’s hopes of a US PGA Tour card in 2019 have been brought back to life after the defending Australian Open champion finished third in the opening event of the Web.com Tour Finals in Ohio.
Australian Golf Digest
