At the PNC Championship last week, there was a group of some of the most successful players in the game who loved golf themselves and who had fostered a love of the game in their child.
Cameron Smith enjoyed an epic year highlighted by five wins around the world. Chief among the three PGA Tour titles he claimed was the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews, but he also triumphed at the Players Championship and Sentry Tournament of Champions in stunning fashion.
Tiger Woods and son Charlie followed a 13-under 59 on Saturday with a seven-under 65 on Sunday, their 20-under total leaving them six back of eventual winners, Vijay Singh and his son, Qass. For Team Woods, the event became about other things: The bonding experience between father and son, and their family friends on Team Thomas.
For every child whose enjoyment of the sport is enhanced by the spark of competition is one whose passion is crushed by the pressure applied by his or her parents.
As for how we can actually use this information to improve our own games, The Putting Engineer says to aim a little lower than the greatest of all time.
It’s been quite a year in golf. A dramatic one, if nothing else. And like any good drama, the stage was set with different characters, hitting their lines, playing their parts in moving the story along. So, now, with that analogy not tortured enough, let’s dive into to the key plot points of the year, and what they meant at the time.
In an appearance on this week’s Bunkered Podcast, Colin Montgomerie made it very clear he thinks Woods should have made the tearful wave he gave to St Andrews in July his official goodbye to the game.
Tiger Woods and LIV Golf were Google’s most searched-for golf subjects in the United States in 2022, according to data the search engine provided Australian Golf Digest.
The genesis of the switch is that Woods was getting some questions from his team about the Tour B X and wanted to be able to speak intelligently about the differences.
Let’s take an end-of-year detour now and tip our caps to the moments that we’ve almost already forgotten, giving them one last moment in the sun before the calendar flips and they become even more distant in time’s rearview.
Australian Golf Digest
