Ball on the ground
Ball rolling close
Ball finally stops
The best part? He was still getting after it when Rickie finished off the victory a hole and a half later as my (other) guy, Bottle Cap Thief, pointed out (quite a pull here).
"I’m not saying going for a walk will solve all your problems, I’m just saying there’s no problem that’s going to be made worse by going for a walk.”
👉️ This Q&A with Peter Malnati by Adam Schupak is very good, although it does come off as if the players believe they have true (and moral) agency over whether the Tour moves forward with this deal when the reality seems to be that the Tour has put its players in a position where there might not be a Tour if they don’t go forward with this deal.
👉️ John Nucci sums up a lot of my thoughts here on how the Tour is exposed right now and doesn’t have a lot of leverage, especially considering the December due date on the new deal (shout out FDR).
👉️ Very much enjoyed reading Meg Adkins and the Fried Egg gang (Meg and the Egg) on Rose, Pebble and the event of the week.
👉️ Haven’t finished yet, but this interview with Nathan Barry on building a $30M email company is great thus far.
👉️ I’m 20 minutes into The Duel, which is The Open’s documentary of the famous Watson-Nicklaus war, and it’s awesome.
True sicko behavior within the golf community.
We have so many submissions to get to this week.
First up is confirmed sicko Eric Cole, who has played 29 PGA Tour events and made nearly $3M this season, driving 8 hours after the Travelers and playing in something called the Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational (normal stuff).
Turns out, the tournament had given him a spot back in 2014 when he was a mini tour player, and he won it and the $40K first prize, which kick-started his career so he wanted to honor that by playing in it every year. He donated the $20K first prize this time around, which he won by a “Tiger at Pebble” like margin.
If you immediately understand this reference with no additional context or explanation, you have an illness.
Also, PGA Tour Superstore showing off a combined 24 majors with its new banner here. Legends only.
I honestly don’t know if this is sicko or psycho behavior, but it and the follow-up tweet about a kid griddying through TSA made me howl.
68: I mentioned after the U.S. Open that Scottie Scheffler had lost to 63 golfers in 2023. After his 15th event — the Travelers — that number is now up to 66, which means the hunt to break 100 in a calendar year is still alive. That’s not the most shocking part, though. The most shocking part is that, as Jamie Kennedy pointed out, Tiger lost to just 68 golfers in 22 events in 2000.
20: That’s how many more millions of dollars Fred VanVleeet — Fred VanVleet! — will make over the next 36 months than Tiger Woods has made over the course of his entire PGA Tour career. Thanks, Phil.
Two beauties.
The first will be used on every golfer who is struggling through swing changes over the next five years.
This one is a bit more specific, but please feel free to use it when Hovland is five up on Brooks and Rickie on Sunday at Hoylake.
There were some pretty incredible golf and non-golf tweets over the last week.
I disagree with this premise and am very pro-rollback, but this got me.
I’m appreciative of anyone who can poke fun at themselves like Other JT.
Soly is like LeBron. Just 28-9-7 every night, year after year after year.
This destroyed me for some reason.
So did this.
And finally, I never want to overstate any of this stuff, but this is pretty easily going to go down as the greatest tweet of all time and it’s not even close right?
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