Every year at Harbour Town the defending champion hits a golf ball with a hickory-shafted club while wearing the winner’s plaid jacket while a canon literally goes off. The tradition would startle most golfers. Not Jordan Spieth, though.
The northern autumn produced an interesting mix of success stories in the men’s game. Some of the winners were obvious, some less so. Here are eight notable achievers deserving of attention.
A few days after another top-10 finish in the Masters, Australia’s top-ranked male player Cameron Smith has soared to the first-round lead in the RBC Heritage.
To be clear, it’s a little speculative that the net was put up solely for DeChambeau. But, let’s be honest, they didn’t put up that thing because they fear Zach Johnson or Luke Donald might fly one up there.
It continued a string of less-than-stellar displays at Augusta National for DeChambeau, who acknowledged on Friday his struggle to break the course’s code.
It is not a query that begets a singular, clear-cut answer. However, after speaking with tour and tournament officials, players, caddies and an epidemiologist, the response also is not as ambiguous as it may seem.
As he did earlier this year in winning at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Simpson’s work on the greens with his Odyssey Tank Cruiser V-Line putter proved key.
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