Anthony Kim’s LIV Adelaide win sparks debate, Scottie Scheffler looms at Riviera, and the 10th hole remains golf’s greatest puzzle. It’s another edition of Golfpocalypse.
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Hideki Matsuyama fell to Chris Gotterup in a WM Phoenix Open play-off after struggling off the tee, hitting just three fairways as Gotterup stormed home with five late birdies.
Scheffler has seemed so inevitable and unflappable that even playing partner Si Woo Kim had to crack a clanker joke after the American surged past him for yet another win.
With his 20th PGA Tour win in 151 starts, Scheffler is the second-fastest behind Woods to reach that milestone. Of greater significance, the 29-year-old Texan joined only Woods and Jack Nicklaus to have four majors and 20 wins before age 30.
It’s often said that numbers don’t tell the true story of a sporting event. In the case of Scheffler’s surgical display in the California desert, however, they very much tell the true story.
Hideki Matsuyama, who began the year with a torrid display of scoring at the Sentry tournament in January, completed the bookend to his season in style today with a playoff victory over Alex Noren at the Hero World Challenge in Nassau, Bahamas.
The Hero World Challenge is sometimes chastised as “not a real event”. Don’t tell that to world No.1 Scottie Scheffler, the two-time defending champion who is using the competition as a proving ground for a new TaylorMade driver.
Golf Channel announced the full rosters for its upcoming “Optum Golf Channel Games,” a new rapid-fire golf competition set to take place in primetime on December 17.
We tune in for the repeat winners, because we know them and we appreciate them, and the journeyman doesn’t move our psychological needles to anywhere near the same degree … even if we remember their names.
Australian Golf Digest
