Griffin’s work on the greens was almost a necessity for he ranked a mediocre 54th in greens in regulation, an almost unheard of number for a tour winner.
Not surprisingly, everyone who automatically qualified for Team USA will tee it up in the Bahamas in front of captain Tiger Woods, who also happens to be the event’s host. There’s just one big exception.
Tony Finau’s third-round 62 put the big-hitting Utah native into contention at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. But even though he didn’t go on to win, Finau accomplished a PGA Tour first at TPC Summerlin that is worth acknowledging.
The Players Championship remains golf’s unofficial fifth Major, but it will be the site of a major breakthrough in golf coverage beginning next year: get ready to watch every shot hit by every player in the field during every round at TPC Sawgrass.
For decades, Latin American athletes have been making a mark in Major League Baseball, and in more recent years the NBA. They are starting to more in golf, too. And it hasn’t been an accident.