Among the many things we tell ourselves are signs of good golf, taking healthy divots ranks right near the very top. Catch ball first and a pancake-sized chunk of grass after? The stuff dreams are made of.
Golf has a way of frustrating our deepest wishes for a classic mano-a-mano duel, but if there was ever a time when perhaps the great clash of the titans seemed inevitable, it’s this week at the final Match Play in Austin.
Australia’s Min Woo Lee won over golf fans with a gutsy fight back from a disastrous triple-bogey after taking the lead during the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Kitayama has a career milestone in his sights after a gutsy even-par 72 in the third round that kept him at nine-under and atop the leaderboard at Bay Hill.
Scottie Scheffler won his second-consecutive WM Phoenix Open today, returning to the site of his first career PGA Tour victory a year ago while also returning to world No.1.
As fans gravitated towards McIlroy as he worked his way towards the chaos of the 16th hole, the man who was quietly leading the tournament had just teed off on his first hole of the day.
Australian Golf Digest
