Following an eventful Tuesday in which Jordan Spieth spent around 70 minutes on the driving range and played a nine-hole practice round with Jon Rahm at Oak Hill, it’s still not clear if the 29-year-old will even be playing come Thursday.
Ahh, Tuesday of a major championship week. The day of talking, questioning and offering takes. I actually heard someone on Golf Channel today say that players might want to take Oak Hill’s “mowing patterns” of the fairways into account off-the-tee this week. True story.
Modern-day Renaissance Man Bryson DeChambeau has a lot of ideas. He has ideas about ball speed and ideas about bulking up, but most importantly he has ideas about growing very, very old.
With the PGA settled into its new May spot on the calendar, there remain moments in its history that feel just so, well, PGA-like. We’d argue they give the championship a character that the rest of the Majors might actually envy – moments of humour and levity that have an appealing, let’s-not-take-ourselves-too-seriously feel. These moments deserve commemoration as well.
The PGA of America has announced its eligibility requirements for the 2023 PGA Championship, and despite past signals about LIV defectors possibly jeopardising their status for the tournament, members of the Saudi-backed circuit will indeed get to compete for the Wanamaker Trophy.
Let’s take an end-of-year detour now and tip our caps to the moments that we’ve almost already forgotten, giving them one last moment in the sun before the calendar flips and they become even more distant in time’s rearview.
According to Thomas’ Whoop strap – a digital performance and recovery tracking band – he recorded a 100-percent sleep score the night before his victory.
Australian Golf Digest
