🏌🏽 Matt Fitzpatrick made a birdie on the 72nd hole and won the Valspar Championship, a week after a disappointing runner-up at The Players Championship. Does that make the Players hurt less?
🏌🏽 Fitzpatrick is turning heads with his adoption of cross-handed chipping. Have you ever tried it? Thought about it?
🏌🏽 Rory McIlroy said of PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp: “I think he got into this job and realized how difficult it is to turn this big ship around, and there's a lot of cooks in the kitchen and a lot of opinions.” Is he wrong?
🏌🏽 Forty-one-year-old graybeard Paul Waring shot 63 to lead the first round of the Texas Children’s Houston Open. Prior to last year, Waring was a lifer on the DP World Tour, whose players are showing up more and more on PGA Tour leaderboards. Is that a good thing or a bad thing for the PGA Tour?
🏌🏽 Which is the bigger surprise: That Chris Gotterup is the highest-ranked player in the field at the Texas Children’s Houston Open? Or that Gotterup is actually No. 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings?
🏌🏽 Thursday was a trifecta for Houston sporting events. The Astros hosted their opening day, the University of Houston played Illinois in Houston in the NCAA men’s Sweet 16 and then there was PGA Tour golf at Memorial Park. Is it obvious which was the toughest ticket?
🏌🏽 Lydia Ko shot 60 in the first round of the Ford Championship on the LPGA Tour. Annika Sorenstam is still the only LPGA player to shoot 59. Still poetic that it’s Sorenstam?
🏌🏽 Asterisk Talley is in the field at the Ford Championship, in a warmup for next week’s Augusta National Women’s Amateur, where she is one of the favorites. The 17-year-old thinks she can win the Ford Championship. Would that be a surprise?
🏌🏽 When does the countdown for the Masters begin? Now?
