It is no surprise, as the DP World Tour resumes this week in Dubai, to see the 10 players who qualified for their PGA Tour cards last season planning the months ahead in their own individual ways.
More than even the major championships, the biennial contest between Europe and the United States takes the game born in Scotland into the hearts and minds of those who elsewhere go about their business blissfully ignorant of all things golf.
Thomas Bjorn was a surprising name at the top of the leaderboard early on day one at the 2023 Irish Open. But no one was more surprised than the Dane himself.
The outcome will be decided by the players on the course, but it will be influenced – significantly, if you believe the words of the last two victorious captains – by the data wars being waged behind the scenes.
To be fair, while Azinger’s tone and cadence were measured, his comments felt unnecessarily acidic. Trying to belittle the European Tour to make his case isn’t right. That doesn’t mean Azinger was wrong.
Dubbed The Content Committee, Fleetwood is back leading a fivesome of deadpanning golfers as they sit in a boardroom and attempt to come up with ideas for videos that will go viral.