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Quadrilateral: Major(s) News & Notes, June 23, 2022

If there be added to its golfing charms the charms of all its surrounding--the grand history of St. Andrews and its sacred memories, its delightful air, the song of its numberless larks, which nestle among the whines, the scream of the seabirds flying overhead, the blue sea dotted with a few fishing boats, the noise of its waves in the bay of Eden as seen from the high hole when the tide is full, the venerable towers and the broken outline of the ancient city, and in the distance the Forfarshire coast, with the range of the Sidlaws, and further off, the Grampian Hills, it may be truly said that, probably, no portion of ground of the same size on the whole surface of the globe has afforded so much innocent enjoyment to so many people of all ages from two to eighty-nine, and during so many generations. JAMES BALFOUR

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Monahan Rolls Out PGA Tour Revamped Tour: Wraparound Goes And Several Events Get $20 Million Purses

A lot of folks summed up Jay Monahan’s presser. David Dusek’s interpretation of the answers hits on the key points.

The full transcript is posted at ASAPSports.com.

There were obvious omissions in today’s slapped together reaction to LIV Golf:

After all this time of disruption, this is the most creative you’ve got? More money to events already in good shape, smaller fields and no cuts (except The Players)? All those fancy pizzamakers, perks and fancy offices producing a WGC concept light on the world or originality?

What is going on with the updated DP World Tour alliance details that were close to being unveiled?

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Rory On LIV Flippers: My Duplicitous Peers

If I had my way there would be a troupe of cavalry horses running though every trap and bunker on the course before a tournament started, where only a niblick could get the ball out and then but only a few yards. I have seen a number of traps and bunkers that afforded better lies and easier strokes than the fairway. This, of course, is ridiculous. C.B. MACDONALD

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State Of The Game 121: Joe Ogilvie Talks LIV Golf

If I had my way there would be a troupe of cavalry horses running though every trap and bunker on the course before a tournament started, where only a niblick could get the ball out and then but only a few yards. I have seen a number of traps and bunkers that afforded better lies and easier strokes than the fairway. This, of course, is ridiculous. C.B. MACDONALD

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Quadrilateral: Koepka Defects And Faldo Retires

If I had my way there would be a troupe of cavalry horses running though every trap and bunker on the course before a tournament started, where only a niblick could get the ball out and then but only a few yards. I have seen a number of traps and bunkers that afforded better lies and easier strokes than the fairway. This, of course, is ridiculous. C.B. MACDONALD

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2022 U.S. Open: Champions, Cutmakers And (Point) Missers

If I had my way there would be a troupe of cavalry horses running though every trap and bunker on the course before a tournament started, where only a niblick could get the ball out and then but only a few yards. I have seen a number of traps and bunkers that afforded better lies and easier strokes than the fairway. This, of course, is ridiculous. C.B. MACDONALD

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Faldo Goes Out On His Terms; Immelman To Step Into CBS Lead Analyst Chair

If I had my way there would be a troupe of cavalry horses running though every trap and bunker on the course before a tournament started, where only a niblick could get the ball out and then but only a few yards. I have seen a number of traps and bunkers that afforded better lies and easier strokes than the fairway. This, of course, is ridiculous. C.B. MACDONALD

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Matt Fitzpatrick Pulls Off The Brookline Sweep In Spectacular Fashion

A shot for the ages by Fitzpatrick (Robert Beck/USGA)

The Englishman's 18th hole bunker shot will go down as the shot of the week and the key to holding off Zalatoris and Scheffler. Plus, Quotables and the USGA's Whan responds to criticism of NBC.

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U.S. Open Third Round: Chaos At The Country Club

A wild third round ends with Zalatoris and Fitzpatrick ahead. Plus, the 11th hole derails a few leaders, NBC's commercial overload madness, Tweets, Quotes and Sunday Weather.

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Jimmy Dunne On Greg Norman: "The luckiest man in the world, because he had this vendetta his whole career and he found someone to bankroll it.”

Any player can win a U.S. Open, but it takes a hell of a player to win two. WALTER HAGEN

/ Geoff Shackelford

Jimmy Dunne, whose firm lost employees in the 9/11 attacks and is current President of Seminole, spoke to SI’s Michael Rosenberg about LIV Golf and Greg Norman. He passed on discussing the Saudi role in 9/11 or in funding the rogue league.

“I don't like it when they say they're 'growing the game,’” Dunne said. “That's crap. I don't even like it when they say 'I have to do what's best for my family.' I really wonder how many of those guys, the lifestyle that they were living was so horrible that their family needed them to do this. Just say, 'I'm at a point in my career where I (want to) make five times as much money against much weaker competition and play less.' Just tell the truth. Don't cover it with a lot of crap.”

And on his fellow Florida resident Greg Norman:

Dunne said LIV CEO Greg Norman “is the luckiest man in the world, because he had this vendetta his whole career and he found someone to bankroll it.” Dunne understands that LIV is a threat to the PGA Tour. But he thinks it’s also a threat to the psyches of golfers who join it.

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Thursday At The 2022 U.S. Open

Reporting the U.S. Open is like covering an execution. A circus fire. Bring a hankerchief. The U.S. Open is a not a tournament, it's hoodoo. It's Hamlet with nine-irons. A pox, not a play. A movie where everybody dies in the end. JIM MURRAY

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Fred Couples: “It’s just amazing to hear all these people who can’t even answer simple questions about LIV Golf”

Reporting the U.S. Open is like covering an execution. A circus fire. Bring a hankerchief. The U.S. Open is a not a tournament, it's hoodoo. It's Hamlet with nine-irons. A pox, not a play. A movie where everybody dies in the end. JIM MURRAY

/ Geoff Shackelford

Tough love from Fred Couples to some of his Task Force disciples and player fanboys who’ve taken Saudi Arabia’s advances to play the LIV Golf events.

From Christine Brennan’s story about Wednesday’s USGA press conference and the struggles to recall the Saudi regime’s role in 9/11, or the struggle families have had with the United States government to better understand the Saudi involvement.

“It’s just amazing to hear all these people who can’t even answer simple questions about LIV Golf,” Couples told USA TODAY Sports in a phone interview Wednesday afternoon. “For these 9/11 families, it must be a crushing blow. 

“If I had an 18-year-old son who was killed by a drunk driver, I think I would fight my whole life to make sure people drinking at a bar did not get into a car. I’m sure it’s the same with the 9/11 families and Saudi Arabia. To not be able to answer these questions because they are getting $200 million or he can’t answer because he’s making $110 million or $65 million, it’s just crazy.”

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Wednesday At The 2022 U.S. Open

Reporting the U.S. Open is like covering an execution. A circus fire. Bring a hankerchief. The U.S. Open is a not a tournament, it's hoodoo. It's Hamlet with nine-irons. A pox, not a play. A movie where everybody dies in the end. JIM MURRAY

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Is The Tour Formerly Known As European Considering A Saudi Partnership?

The press and contestants are always grumpy at a U.S. Open. It's a grumpy event.
DAN JENKINS

/ Geoff Shackelford

GolfDigest.com’s Dan Rapaport and John Huggan talk to multiple sources suggesting the DP World Tour is mulling a “partnership of sorts” with the Saudi Arabia backed LIV Golf.

More than a dozen sources from across the DP World Tour and PGA Tour landscape have told Golf Digest that Pelley is mulling a rather impactful decision: a partnership of sorts between his tour and LIV Golf Investments, or a further integration with the PGA Tour. A spokesman for LIV declined to comment for this story, but a source intimately familiar with discussions between the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour says both sides see potential value in aligning more closely.

“[Pelley’s] getting serious pressure from his rank-and-file members to consider the Saudis,” says one high-profile player.

According to sources, Pelley was seen at Centurion Golf Club during LIV’s inaugural event last weekend, though it is not known whether any formal discussions with LIV took place. A spokesperson for the DP World Tour declined comment when asked about any conversations with either LIV Golf or the PGA Tour.


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Quadrilateral: Tuesday At The 2022 U.S. Open

The Country Club won't be a bomber friendly, Brooks gets chippy, field factoids, the best things said, Barkley's awkward Live From hit and the USGA touts digital viewing options.

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Rahm: "I play for the love of the game, and I want to play against the best in the world. I've always been interested in history and legacy"

Jon Rahm at the 2022 U.S. Open, discussing the LIV Golf exodus and why he won’t be joining.

JON RAHM: I almost feel -- I feel for Jay Monahan. If you see his time as a commissioner, he had to deal with COVID and now this. I don't know if he signed up for all this or not.

I consider the PGA TOUR has done an amazing job giving us the best platform for us to perform. I do see the appeal that other people see towards the LIV Golf. I do see some of the -- I'll put this delicately -- points or arguments they can make towards why they prefer it.

To be honest, part of the format is not really appealing time. Shotgun three days to me is not a golf tournament, no cut. It's that simple. I want to play against the best in the world in a format that's
been going on for hundreds of years. That's what I want to see.

Yeah, money is great, but when Kelley and I -- this first thing happened, we started talking about it, and we're like, will our lifestyle change if I got $400 million? No, it will not change one bit.

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Monday At The 2022 U.S. Open

Phil Mickelson’s pensive presser, tee times are announced, the perilous 9th fairway could be wild and of course, Quotable, Reads and the latest weather forecast.

All live on tape from Brookline.

Join the Quad family and thanks to all who have been so supportive.

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Across The Street From The Country Club

Francis Ouimet, helped by his kind brother Wilfred, started the game on a little course in the back of their home near the seventeenth hole at The Country Club. It’s ironic that young Francis, with his modest upbringing, would make history so nearby, in an entirely different world. During that incredible week in September 1913 a legend materialized. Ouimet, who was a local success but relatively untried in national competitions, beat the two best British players at the time, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, in a playoff for the U.S. Open title. BEN CRENSHAW

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Monahan: “Why is this group spending so much money--billions of dollars--recruiting players and chasing a concept with no possibility of a return?”

Doug Ferguson files an AP report on PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan’s booth visit—finally!—blasting the Saudi Arabia government backed golf league. Facing questions from Jim Nantz, a severely overdue dicussion about the money source took place on national televsion.

Speaking of the folks who brought us 9/11, journalist carvings, beheadings galore and high oil prices because it’s fun for the Crown Prince—Monahan offered this:

“It’s not an issue for me, because I don’t work for the Saudi Arabian government,” Monahan said, a veiled dig at the notion of being a free agent. “But it probably is an issue for players who chose to go and take that money. I think you have to ask yourself a question: Why.

“Why is this group spending so much money — billions of dollars — recruiting players and chasing a concept with no possibility of a return?” he said. “At the same time, there’s been a lot of questions, a lot of comments, about the growth of the game. And I ask, ‘How is this good for the game?’”

Monahan also focused on the relative integrity of PGA Tour competition compared to the first LIV stop.

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Latest Governing Body Notice To Manufacturers Outline Significant Rollback Possibilities (For Elites)

GolfDigest.com’s Mike Stachura reports the latest notice to manufacturers outlining new “areas of interest” proposals that would have a huge impact on golf balls and driver faces.

While we already knew of these were the focus, the June 8th specifics suggest as much as a thirty percent reduction for the longest of long hitters. Stachura writes:

The original proposed change was to raise the test swing speed for the Overall Distance Standard from the current 120 miles per hour to 125. The June 8 announcement now proposes studying a test speed “between 125 and 127 mph and will include studies of the effects of these test speeds on the launch conditions and aerodynamics of the golf ball.” At the maximum, that speed would be more than 12 mph faster than the current average clubhead speed on the PGA Tour but only a little more than two mph faster than the two current fastest swings on tour, Cameron Champ (124.76) and Branden Hagy (124.41).

As the USGA’s John Spitzer previously indicated when the speed being considered was 125 mph, nearly all of the balls played on tour would be non-conforming under the new standard, and of course many of those balls are also among the most purchased balls on the market.

The bigger set of changes proposed in the June 8 notice, however, would not affect average golfers, but could dramatically alter the performance of drivers at the elite level. The new proposal suggests tournaments or tours could institute a “model local rule” for equipment that would severely roll back how springy faces are and how forgiving drivers are on off-center hits.

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