Another PGA Tour season has come and gone, glory and riches have been bestowed, and now it’s to delve into the numbers and see what gems we can unearth.
Straka, who birdied three of the final five holes in shooting four-under 66 to beat Lowry by one, may have been the beneficiary of the meteorological whims, but nobody can say he didn’t seize the moment.
In naming Sergio Garcia, Shane Lowry and Ian Poulter, the European Ryder Cup captain has added a total of 15 past appearances in the biennial contest, even with Lowry, a rookie, in that mix.
A fortnight was all the time it took for this year’s Open – what should have been the 149th playing of golf’s oldest Major – to go from scheduled to cancelled.
Only the top 125 players on the FedEx Cup points list after this week’s Wyndham Championship will qualify for the Playoff tournaments, which begin next week at the Northern Trust event.
Shane Lowry should be at Royal St George’s Golf Club defending the claret jug this week. Instead, he’s at Muirfield Village Golf Club after the Open Championship was cancelled and the Memorial was moved back six weeks.
Because of the 13 cancelled events, plenty of big-name golfers who thought they had time to play their way into the top 125 are now sitting on the bubble.
The man who claimed the claret jug by six shots at Royal Portrush last year hit the links for the first time in six weeks recently and shared a video of him attempting a pitch shot. Let’s just say, it did not go well.
Australian Golf Digest
