Walk down a PGA Tour driving range or meander around a practice green at a tour event and you’re bound to see all sorts of odd-looking training aids. Alignment sticks, beach balls, balls you wrap around your feet for better balance on putts (a real thing) and other assorted “Tin Cup”-like contraptions tour players have convinced themselves are helpful are all commonplace.
Not even a two-and-a-half-hour weather delay could cool off Talor Gooch’s red-hot stretch of golf, as last week’s LIV Golf Adelaide winner grabbed the first-round lead for the second consecutive week.
Australia has fallen. That should be the message echoing through the corridors of PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach following this week’s hugely successful debut of LIV Golf Adelaide.
Jordan Spieth had his typical flair for the dramatic late Sunday at the RBC Heritage, but ultimately it was Matt Fitzpatrick who prevailed on the third playoff hole after hitting a 9-iron to a foot for a kick-in birdie on the par-4 18th hole at Harbour Town Golf Links.
With form like this, all-Australian Ripper GC captain Cam Smith might have to seriously look at drafting the two-time Major winner into his line-up for Adelaide.
Beneath the floor of the media centre at Harbour Town Golf Links lies a handful of green clay tennis courts. Not the same quality of orange clay courts that French Open hero Rafael Nadal would be satisfied with. But good enough for a 6-year-old Matt Fitzpatrick back in 2001.
Australian Golf Digest
