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The Starter: Questions heading into 2025 PGA

With recent wins in their back pocket, are Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau the players to beat at Quail Hollow? And don't forget about Rory McIlroy.

🏌️ Scottie Scheffler won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson by eight shots at 31-under par. Any questions?

🏌️ Phil Mickelson said he didn’t think Scheffler would win in 2025 before the Ryder Cup. Can Mickelson ever resist the opportunity to look foolish?

🏌️ Just as talk was getting louder about Bryson DeChambeau’s final-round woes, he closed out victory at LIV Golf Korea for his first league win since 2023. Statement victory?

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Scottie Scheffler won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson by a whopping eight strokes in his preparation for the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club.

🏌️ This week’s PGA Championship: Scheffler? Rory McIlroy? DeChambeau? Justin Thomas? Or someone else?

🏌️ At the PGA champions’ dinner, defending champ Xander Schauffele will give each former winner a humidor and cigars. “If they don’t like it, they can re-gift it pretty easily,” he said. Would you re-gift it?

🏌️ The PGA Tour’s four-week rangefinder experiment ends at the Truist Championship, although the PGA Championship will also use distance measuring devices next week. Do they improve pace of play?

🏌️ Davis Riley was assessed a two-stroke penalty at the Byron Nelson for having slope measuring switched on in his rangefinder. But the Tour gave each player a rangefinder without slope measuring. So, was the penalty too harsh or did Riley get what he deserved?

🏌️ Average pace of play at the RBC Heritage was 3 hours, 50 minutes — in twosomes at Harbour Town, the easiest-to-walk course on the PGA Tour. Is that something to brag about?

🏌️ Can you name the one major champion in the field at the Tour’s OneFlight Myrtle Beach Classic?


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