A change in iron shafts played a critical role in Woodland’s first PGA Tour win since the 2019 US Open. For the week he ranked third in strokes gained/approach the green, picking up six-plus shots on the field.
Gary Woodland won a golf tournament, his first win in seven years, in a performance so commanding the outcome was never in doubt over the final three hours. And that matters. Just not as much as what came before it.
The No.1 player in the world withdrawing from a PGA Tour event in his home state two weeks before the Masters might seem like cause for concern. But in the case of Scottie Scheffler, it was expected – and thankfully for him not injury-related.
Many speculated that Tosti was passively aggressively protesting Min Woo Lee’s slow play by marching to the beat of his own drum, a theory that the Argentinian shot down with a bazooka in tirade on X. Tosti deleted his reply about an hour later, but screenshots live forever.
Alejandro Tosti staged a conspicuous protest against playing partner Min Woo Lee’s pace during the final round of the Texas Children’s Houston Open, deliberately slow-playing Lee at Memorial Park’s 12th hole.