Prior to the 106th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky, 2015 champion Jason Day stopped to reflect on his lone major victory nine years ago.
Maybe that’s just another term for sports psychologist, but Finau didn’t say sports psychologist. He said process coach. And whatever this guy is doing for the long-hitting Utah tour pro, it seems to be paying some immediate dividends.
There is a popular misconception that if are you taking free relief from a sprinkler head (see Rule 16.1), then you must stay in the same “cut of grass” that you were in. That is not the case.
The two-time reigning PGA Tour Player of Year is the game’s undisputed world No.1 right now, but there were questions about whether his latest life-changing event would affect his play. Well, it took all of two shots to show nothing has changed.
Cameron Smith is predicting a long, wet week upon his first trip to Valhalla Golf Club, but hot form on a globe-trotting schedule recently has prepared the major winner for anything the PGA Championship can throw at him.
Though Rahm has said he is happy with his decision to join the Saudi-backed league, he’s also admitted that leaving the PGA Tour was harder than he thought.
Valhalla is supposed to be hit with rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, and though Thursday’s opening round should provide a respite, storms are expected to return on Saturday and Sunday.
Australian Golf Digest
