The local Phil Mickelson rolled through for an early Monday interview to pay his compliments to the conditioning and mostly bite his tongue on the Rees Jones work at his hometown course.
The Brooks-Bryson tension enveloped much of the day, especially after some early morning scuttlebutt from a Brad Faxon radio interview in which the former PGA Tour pro said the USGA asked DeChambeau if they could pair him with Koepka, and the reigning U.S.
Both Brooks and Bryson refuted that radio interview and denied that they were asked about a potential first- and second-round grouping together.
Brooks didn’t play for two weeks and he’s all over ESPN, all over the sports news.
I would have loved it, but I think they separated … I think they’re on opposite waves to be honest with you.
Yes, you read that right! Webb Simpson! Not exactly an infamous bomb-thrower, Simpson is usually the exceedingly amenable nice guy at Ryder Cups who they pair with the quirks, loners and malcontents that may not have teammates lining up to play with them.
So when Webb was asked about the Brooks-Bryson beef, you might expect him to demur, hem and haw, and try to use as many words as possible to say absolutely nothing.
I think they’re competitors, and I think the media doesn’t see the competitiveness come out in us as much as maybe you guys need to.
I don’t know how much of them … I don’t know if they texted each other on the side and possibly went in agreement, ‘Let’s play this thing up for the player impact program.’ That was kind of one of my thoughts.
What a delightful response! He did not downplay it in any way or suggest this is somehow bad for the game or disrespectful or un-gentlemanly.
He reminds us they’re all competing on tour, but maybe they don’t exhibit or act out on the underlying über-competitiveness that has made them the absolute best in the world at this game, like we see in many other sports.
I think that, as time goes on, I hope on the weekend we can play against each other and compete.
You’re putting it in front of eyeballs, you’re putting it in front of people, the game of golf, who probably don’t normally look at golf, don’t play it, might get them involved.
Brooks seems to be “very online,” as they say, and seeing those headlines.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who follows golf even casually, but Spieth was forthright about where he was at the last U.S.
I think Winged Foot was, ‘Oh, boy, here we go,’ and I think this week is I’m in a position where I think I can stand on the 10th tee on Thursday and win this golf tournament.
Nearly everyone was asked about the difference between Torrey for the regular PGA Tour event in January and this June week, and nearly everyone responded with “firmness.” The rough was portrayed as monstrous and unpredictable, with Reed indicating some balls sink to the bottom and can barely be advanced, while others sit up on the kikuyu and could be hit with a driver.
The 2020 champ is going back to the well from Winged Foot, saying he felt this course and his strategy for it felt similar to last year.
Bryson outthought and out-executed the field last year and deserves full credit for both his skill and work.
It’s a busy place, he reminded us, so he took full advantage of the course being closed and just a drive away last week.
It’s a really busy place during the year, which I’m not sure if everyone is aware of.
Schauffele relayed stories of watching Tiger in 2008, and sitting on his couch as an amateur dreaming of a career when it was announced the U.S.
Yeah, the tricky part in high school is we played a lot on punched greens, so putts were breaking left and right when they shouldn’t be and going straight when they shouldn’t be.
The USGA officials on site offered a few queries, and there was a remote written submission, but the visit was markedly short … three questions and about four or five minutes.
2 ranked player in the world, and he seemed almost surprised there was nothing more and he was allowed to flee so soon.
This was the first we’d seen and heard from Rahm since he withdrew from the Memorial with a six-shot lead after testing positive for COVID-19.
Yeah, I think the hardest part out of all this was for just over 10 days not being able to even spend any time with my little one.
And to all the people criticizing the PGA Tour, they shouldn’t.
I’m not going to lie, I was fully aware when I was in tracing protocol that that was a possibility.
I know if you’re younger, you run less of a risk of having big problems from COVID, but truthfully, we don’t know the long-term effects of this virus, so I would encourage people to actually get it done.
He also articulated a charming little script for a short film love story, discussing what the San Diego area means to him and his wife and why he proposed to her just north of Torrey Pines.
Rahm may still be a hothead on the course, but if you’ve listened to him closely over the past year, this should have been expected.
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