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Phil signs up for majors, requests release for LIV
Phil Mickelson registered to play in the PGA Championship and U.S. Open and has requested a release from the PGA Tour to allow him to play in the first event of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series.
Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky got married over the weekend
Gretzy, the daughter of the Great One, and Johnson, a two-time major winner have been engaged since 2013. The couple tied the knot at a resort in the Tennessee mountains.
Doral Is Back! Trump Resort To Host LIV Golf's Team Championship For Its Non-Team Event Tour
Bob Harig at Morning Read/SI had the news first: Trump Doral will host October’s concluding eighth event of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. The famed Blue Monster course was site of the PGA Tour’s annual Miami stop beginning in 1962 and until the PGA Tour left for Mexico City’s WGC event, now defunct.
Harig writes:
After five years away, Doral will get professional golf again under Norman’s LIV Golf banner, the $30 million Team Championship in which the four-man winning team will split $16 million.
As you may recall Commissioner Greg Norman and friends have abandoned a team concept for 7 individual events followed by this concluding tournament. Harig has also reported that 15 top 100 players have registered and may seek releases from their Tours.
Either way, expect former President Donald Trump to add to October’s spectacle, whatever format is used to give out $30 million of Public Investment Fund money. It should be fun.
A Good Reminder That Sam Snead Made A PGA Tour Cut At 67 Years Old
Reader GP was miffed at reports out of New Orleans of Jay Haas becoming the oldest player to make a PGA Tour cut. While there might be some recency bias and general silliness to a team event counting the same as an individual tournament, it’s still nice that the Haas’ competed, made the cut and acknowledged Sam Snead.
Adam Schupak handled the “record” well in this story and as you’d expect for a class act like Jay Haas who knows the history of the pro game, he said just what you’d hope after making a key putt to get to the weekend.
That included becoming the oldest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour at 68 years, 4 months, 20 days, edging past Sam Snead, who made the cut at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic at 67 years, 2 months and 23 days.
“I don’t think it should (count) because Sam Snead did it on his own and all that, but anything that I’m even remotely close to Sam Snead on would be very special,” said Haas, of Snead, who was in the field when he made his Tour debut at the 1973 Wyndham Championship.
In a lot of ways, these records or near records are more impressive for Haas:
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Nasa Wins LA Open, Norman Gets An Open Rejection
It’s outstanding glory—or its horror, according to the light in which we view the matter—is the number of narrow streambeds winding about like snakes, and which are best described to “Californians as barrancas.” These barrancas are almost an ever-present menace throughout the round; indeed they have something to say in the matter at every one of the holes, save for the second and fifteenth.
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Hataoka closes out 5-stroke LA Open victory
Nasa Hataoka ran away with the DIO Implant LA Open on Sunday at Wilshire Country Club to open the LPGA Tour's two-week run in the Los Angeles area.
Cantlay, Schauffele win Zurich Classic by 2 shots
Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele held off Sam Burns and Billy Horschel by two strokes Sunday in a record-setting, wire-to-wire victory in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Parel wins inaugural ClubCorp Classic in a playoff
Scott Parel two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th hole for a 6-under 65, and then won the inaugural ClubCorp Classic on Sunday in Irving, Texas, with a par on the same hole in a playoff for his second PGA Tour Champions title.
Larrazabal seals 7th European tour title in Spain
Spaniard Pablo Larrazabal shot 8-under 62 on Sunday to win the ISPS Handa Championship for his seventh European tour title -- and first on home soil.
Hataoka cashes in on Ko's meltdown in LA Open
Nasa Hataoka took advantage of Jin Young Ko's late meltdown Saturday to take a four-stroke lead into the final round of the DIO Implant LA Open.
Alker, chasing 2nd straight win, up by 2 in Texas
Steven Alker moved into position for his second straight PGA Tour Champions victory on Saturday, shooting a 5-under 66 to take a 2-stroke lead in the ClubCorp Classic.
Cantlay, Schauffele shatter Zurich Classic record
Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele shattered the Zurich Classic three-round record at 29 under and stretched their lead to five strokes.
L.A. Times Editorial Supporting California AB 1910 Highlights The Absurdity Of It All
The L.A. Times editorial board weighted in on the latest attempt by assemblymember Cristina Garcia to help fast track conversion of some California golf courses into affordable housing and in doing so, inadvertently highlighted how bizarre the proposal is.
It’s a sign of how desperate our housing shortage is that lawmakers and some cities are even considering converting golf courses to housing. This should be a last resort given the paucity of open space in many communities. Empty shopping malls and other unused commercial space should be the first places to look.
Yes they should.
Then there is this:
There are 960 golf courses in California, according to the National Golf Foundation, a trade association for the golf industry, but only about 200 are owned by local cities and counties.
Discovery Head Of Streaming Says Move Into Golf Has Been A Failure
The golf architect is not at all concerned with chastising bad play. On the contrary, it is his business to arrange the field of play as to stimulate interest, and hence, the province of hazards is to chasten the too ambitious. MAX BEHR
Ko, Hataoka share LA Open lead after 2nd round
Jin Young Ko had five back-nine birdies in a 7-under 64 at demanding Wilshire Country Club for a share of the second-round lead Friday with Nasa Hataoka in the DIO Implant LA Open.
Kelly (66) has hole-in-one, leads ClubCorp Classic
Jerry Kelly had a hole-in-one on the par-3 sixth hole and shot a 5-under 66 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions' ClubCorp Classic.
Cantlay, Schauffele maintain 1-shot lead in Zurich
Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele shot a 4-under 68 in alternate-shot play Friday at windswept TPC of Louisiana to maintain a one-stroke lead in the Zurich Classic.
ClubCorp Rebranding As "Invited" With IPO Plans
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