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.
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What gives? Why is Scottie Scheffler, the world No.1 ubermensch who seems to win or come close to winning in every event he plays, now 0-2, and staring down a 2-4-3 career record that parallels in miniature Tiger Woods (13-21-3), the only golfer this century who played at his level?
Scheffler’s efforts at the Tour Championship earned him some $US2.6 million in prizemoney, but it would have been a lot more under the staggered-start format that had been used from 2019 to 2024.
etting the pace at East Lake Golf Club with a bogey-free 9-under 61, the Georgia native felt “at peace” with his game even if he had world No.1 Scottie Scheffler hot on his heels just two strokes behind.
Even Scottie Scheffler had to break out into a broad smile after watching his playing partner, Rory McIlroy, convert a 17-foot birdie putt on the home hole at East Lake Golf Club Thursday afternoon.
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