Berwick North, Scotland – Summer holidays are over, people. There is a greater test on the calendar, and most of all are studying something this week. Players are avoiding naps, grinding on short game shots, practicing more than normal, etc. It is another type of golf in the UK-Bari is high, the greens are slow, the weather is never safe-and provides a late season blow to PGA Tour systems.
All this … they do for the fascinating viewing of the tournament. Here are four observations and thoughts from one week inside the ropes.
Is this 2-week lasting a look in the future?
A popular feeling that stands out in the tournament these days is confusion that, while most pro sports are expanding, PGA Tour is doing the opposite. (Lucas Glover spoke about this loudly last week.) There will be fewer shift cards on the offer in the coming seasons, up to 100 out of 125. But I see the idea of schedule a much more interesting.
Has a more distant future where the total number of PGA Tour events may vary. (And maybe you should!) Probably for a number of less than 39 regular season events and seven autumn tournaments. (Because this is a lot! Especially in the eyes of investors.) But listening to how many players value the Scots as a pre-open stop, I wonder if the tour can really focus on a two-week prime minister schedule, one or two weeks. Sepp Straka and Justin Thomas were just two of the players I heard discussing the heat of the championship season as a real grind. Probably wouldn’t feel like that if you had more months like the last one, where the players who need to play are, and those who not You need it, it can take some rest. And if the hypothetical assignment was smart, it would link these peaks to the same minded events. Riv and pebble. Bay Hill and Sawgrass. Houston and Augusta. With the opportunity for the good to take a break in the middle. When you have Padraig Harrington bypassing the protection of his title in the old tour this week, in America, because he knows he needs some kind of golf connection in his wake to portray, he begins to make sense. I told Xander Schauffle that I asked him if he sees it as needed similarly.
“It’s a bonus I like (tie golf),” he said. “Lucky I love him. But yes, he feels like a mindless mind. I don’t know how to prepare for the task forward. And it can even be LOT Firm for next week, based on what I am listening to. Playing in a certain amount of wind, aiming at certain areas and trusting the ball moving. You can only get it here, I feel. ”
I asked Xander if, in some way, the village of Muirfield serves as a similar preparatory test immediately before it opened.
“You know, a little bit,” he said. “This is actually a good point. This is probably doing. Super super criminal. Shooting, Muirfield feels more than time open SH.BA, depending on the place you get.”
Quotable Rory is back, just in time for Bethpage
My flight to Edinburg only arrived in time to lead me to the club’s rebirth for the latest pre-Turneut press conference: Rory Mcilroy’s. Mcilroy has led a pretty strange – this is the only word that seems to fit – the path, at least publicly, since they win his marriage masters. He was held in the media, then told us he was trying to find motivation, and in Oakmont looked only mostly uninterested in offering a lot to anyone for anyone.
It’s all okay, but I’m grateful to seem to be in the past. Mcilroy’s oppressor was again in the old days, eloquencesharing a New Year’s resolution and even a delicious lost blow sent to America’s PGA for some of its choices in the country. He agreed to return to ease after some time rest and a change of landscape. (Goodni good to be (near) at home.)
On Friday afternoon, Mcilroy was remembered by a reporter who, a year ago, he said Being a successful game captain is virtually impossible. Does what does he think of what idea now that will happen?
“Hopefully it is impossible,” he said with a laugh. “Keegan has played great. He has had a great year. He had the victory among the travelers. Of course I am not in those conversations and from an external perspective, it will be interesting to see what the American team does with it. I definitely think the American team is better with Keegan than not playing.
First, he knows how he is likely to be shocked. (Bradley is forced to play.) But also, it is at this point that I would like to draw attention to the fact that when Bradley was first announced as captain a year ago, Team Europe was largely gobsmacked. They either saw Bradley as a shifted player instead of the captain, or a player that will not be able to play, as well as a result of the capture distraction.
At least, this episode of games-capital is a kind of riot from the norms. To win a Ryder cup on the road, it cannot damage the European cause. And while Mcilroy may not say it in the record (at least not just yet), some conversations I have had (and also just just the usual sense?) Tell me Team Europe wants Bradley to do dual task. Don’t be surprised if they encourage that fate publicly in the next two months.
Other Course in North Berwick
Become becomes so common for open Scottish (and cadet) competitors to play the course down the road – the West West Links of North Berwick – during this week that it is bordered by the cliché. But there is another course next to him that is, in some ways, just as popular. Wee links, a line with 9 holes of par-3 that is good enough to expect a series of Junior “Majors” Above every summer.
On Friday evening, I saw a clumsy Immelmann Trevor grab a wedge and putter and compete around him with a member of the Adam Scott team. In previous years, Jim Nantz has made time for late night with his son, Jameson. Small small holes measure somewhere from 67 to 125 yards, and are joined by benches for mothers, fathers and grandmothers to see.
What the Wee course represents is more than a fun knock for tournaments (or broadcasters) during these late Scottish evenings. It is the stone in the step of the game, literally sharing a border with the big course. Flash enough skills in the Wee course, then you can graduate in West Links, just like the 11-year-old who challenged Joel Dahmen in a match with a hole in North’s Berwick Hole on Thursday evening.
The young man’s swing was long and stunning for a young man. He had compiled him with his father and sister in the weeks of Wee. “Oh, to be young again,” Dahmen said, shaking his head on the fluidity of moving his new competition. (It was Joel’s 30th hole.) But 10 minutes later, 4 Dahmen’s had beaten 5 Junior’s 5th, which meant that they had to choose their bet: in this case, they were pushup.
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Sean zak
“I would say we’ll see when you go out on the tour,” Dahmen said as competitors were shared, “but I will go a long time by then.”
Want to leave?
The best place on Earth to play Pro Golf this week is Scotland … right? Well, the best place to hold a tour card may have been Louisville, Kent.
An intricate element of PGA Tour’s RELATIONS The strategic partnership with the DP world tour is how it should determine the advantage of Open Scottish over the opposite field event in Kentucky, Isco Championship. PGA Tour receives 75 of his best rank players in this field with 156 men, and pays them $ 7,500 stipers to make the trip across the Atlantic. But not all I DO To play in Scotland, especially when many of them are not in the open championship of next week, and are now eight time zones away from their next time, in the middle of the point tracking season. There are only so many FedEx Cup points left before the end of the regular season.
A quiet element (but annoying for some) of this tour is that, if a qualified player for the Scots, they are not allowed to enter ISCO. Only alternatives that gain access to Scottish (after WDS) have the opportunity to choose if they want to play for less money and less points against a smaller field in America, or more money and more points against the world’s best field in East Lethian. Iowa in Scotland in Nevada is less than ideal during this high season, all as the tour progresses to a future with fewer membership cards available.
Shouldn’t players be able to really choose which tour they play this week? I have been told it could be a reality, but an official decision would still be years away.
However, this fact led to an intriguing tournament watching Friday afternoon. Angsti of a lost cut was softened to anyone with a place in the open. But others who are not large -bonded, suddenly realized they would withdraw through the Atlantic (and then most of America too) for the next week’s championship. The side of following Pro Golf points? It’s getting tight. We will talk much more about it within a week. Right now, it’s out to portray.
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Sean zak
Golfit.com editor
Sean Zak is an old writer and author of Looking at St. Andrews, which followed his trips to Scotland during the most important summer in the history of the game.