🏌️ Tiger Woods turns 50 on December 30. Who does that make feel older: him or us?
🏌️ Scottie Scheffler won his fourth straight PGA Tour Player of the Year award. Was there any love for Rory McIlroy among the players who voted?
🏌️ The PNC Championship is the last of the year’s silly season events. Now that Woods and his son, Charlie, aren’t in the field, does that dramatically reduce the number of TV eyeballs this weekend?
🏌️ Andrew Novak won the Grant Thornton Invitational with partner Lauren Coughlin, giving Novak victories in both professional partners events this year — he also won the Zurich Classic with Ben Griffin. If Novak is that good with a partner, does he deserve a Ryder Cup look?
🏌️ A.J. Ewart was the PGA Tour Qualifying medalist to lead five players to win full playing privileges for next year. It doesn’t sound right that only five cards were awarded, does it?
🏌️ McIlroy is expanding his business portfolio with the formation of a TV production company, to be called Firethorn Productions, after the name of the 15th hole at Augusta National. Is McIlroy quietly amassing a business empire?
🏌️ Johnson Wagner is leaving Golf Channel to take Colt Knost’s old job as an on-course reporter at CBS. Wouldn’t it be a shame if Wagner couldn’t continue to be willing to embarrass himself on air attempting to recreate one of the day’s most difficult shots?
🏌️ Do golf instructors have anything to fear from AI? Club designers? Course architects? Golf writers?
🏌️ If Santa could bring you a fix for your golf game, what would be in your stocking?