Tour pros – despite obviously being gifted with incredible hand-eye co-ordination – fail to connect properly when performing the simple celebration of a high-five way more often than you might think.
It’s not that hitting a draw or a fade is better at Augusta; it’s that hitting your shot, whatever that may be, is always a better play at any golf course.
At the Farmers Insurance Open on the PGA Tour, that meant a new driver shaft and wedge grind for Adam Scott, a putter switch for Jon Rahm and Lefty doing Lefty things. On the European Tour, Paul Casey had a new driver in the bag for his win in Dubai.
With current distance king Bryson DeChambeau considering a 48-inch driver for the Masters next week, Mickelson has been testing a 47½-inch driver that he says he’ll use to try to win his fourth green jacket.
This week’s Bermuda Championship will be the first PGA Tour event to allow fans on site since the opening round of the Players Championship in mid-March because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Just when it looked like the golf fans would be treated to a mano-a-mano duel between world Nos.2 and 3 Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas today, in sneaks Patrick Cantlay.