🏌️ LIV Golf finally got its wish: the Official World Golf Ranking is granting LIV world ranking points starting with this week’s event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. What pushed the OWGR to its decision all of a sudden? Seventy-two holes? More relegation?
🏌️ Yet the LIV players are, let’s say, disappointed that only the top 10 players in each tournament will earn points. Do they have a right to complain? Or should they just be grateful they’re getting points at all?
🏌️ Brooks Koepka continues his reunion tour this week at the Waste Management Open in Phoenix, where he won in 2021. Is the welcome-back now over? Doesn’t he need to start playing well?
🏌️ Koepka changed putters in Phoenix, from his longtime Scotty Cameron blade to a Taylor Made Spider, the same model that Scottie Scheffler uses. Was a lesson with Scheffler included with the putter?
🏌️ Scheffler chunked a chip and shot 2-over 73 in the first round of the Waste Management. It was his worst round since last June. People are making this a big deal. Is it?
🏌️ Yes, it’s Waste Management Open time again, site of hundreds of thousands of overserved fans, a few thousand of them surrounding the stadium that is the par-3 16th. Have we just become so numb that the behavior doesn’t matter any longer?
🏌️ Patrick Reed is playing the DP World Tour this season, where he already has a win and is second in the Race to Dubai. And he leads after two rounds of the Qatar Masters. Does this look like a smart decision from Reed?
🏌️ The LPGA’s Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions was a series of blunders, including calling off the final round because of low temperatures and not extending the tournament to Monday because the LPGA was unprepared. Not a good start for new commissioner Craig Kessler, is it?
🏌️ The PGA of America named Terry Clark as its new CEO. Did you have to Google or Chat GPT him? Is that why this wasn’t bigger news?
