Jealousy? Smoking? What I learned after hearing 188 PGA championship questions

On a full -day question, the first question did not come from a member of the media nor from a media official.

Jordan Spieth was curious, however.

“Am I the first?”

He was told it was.

“Excellent.”

Indeed, though we will leave open for his interpretation. Spieth A golf pro, of course, but before playing Pro Golf, the Pro players will be called to talk about Pro Golf, and talk about Pro Golf that players made in Hollow Quail Club Tuesday, two days before Championship’s PGA I start in total, there were eight interviews, 10 interviewees, 188 questions asked and 132 minutes back and-row-and this was without three press conferences planned but were transferred on Wednesday.

Not that we were counting.

But we were listening, anyway. For everything, from Spieth’s question around 8:30 am, through Scottie Scheffler’s last word around 3:45 pm here, are seven things we learned.

‘My left feel twice the size of my right for about half an hour’

Spieth revealed his progress of recovery after undergoing left -hand surgery Last August.

And what he sees in the morning.

“Increasingly (effects) after the year has continued, which is great,” he said. “Hard hard to say if it was preventing anything I could or couldn’t do, so I will not say it is everything.

“Just far from the course, I am able to take my children and throw them around, and the wrists do not move. You can imagine it is a good feeling.

“So when I’m golf, I really didn’t think about this last two months. I wake up in the morning, I’m very aware that I did surgery. My left feels twice the size of my right for about half an hour every morning. They say it stops about a year after-op, and this day is better than others. To do once in the season.

“It’s still there, a lot.

“Whoever has returned from an injury, you want to be there doing more and more, especially when I – it’s not like I was five years old in the world last year, right?

“She tested every bit of what I could do, and I went to the book. By the time I was able to play, I think I played well and was in discussion in Phoenix, and I was so, I am just too grateful to get back here because there were months where you were going through the process if it were going to happen again.

“I didn’t expect this year to be a ridiculous year. It would be something I had to work slowly with a long -term perspective, and I think it’s going really well so far. I’ve got a great deal and many good opportunities and much less distractions than I had last year.”

‘This is a question for Luke’

Three times, Ion Rahm was asked if he was told by the European Captain of the Ryder Cup Luke Donald that he was a choice for the team.

Three times, Rahm deviated.

Below is the exchange, with the reporter’s questions in Italy:

Has Luke told you, you are in my team anyway?

“This is a question for Luke,” Rahm said. “Team is his team. Hopefully I can qualify, and we don’t have to question it.”

Here, Rahm answered another reporter’s questions before he continued behind and on.

You said it’s a question for Luke, but my question was for you.

“I know,” said Rahm.

Has he told you, don’t worry, you are actually?

“You will need to ask Luke this question,” Rahm said. “It is not up to me to say.”

You won’t tell me if he has?

“I will not say anything about it, no,” Rahm said. “Again, this is a question for Luke, the captain.”

‘Damn, I forgot that I really want to do it’

When asked if he was driven by competitive jealousy and the desire to remind people that he is one of the best of his generation, Justin Thomas said it was.

But after looking at Mcilroy to win the Grand Slam career in Masters, he accepted his wife, Jill, that he had forgotten that this was something he wanted.

“But for some reason seeing someone do it in the first hand,” Thomas said, “he reminded me almost, cursed, I have forgotten I really want to do it. It is weird. Something something I think all of us – some people probably hit us different ways of jealousy or car or whatever you want.

“Yes, whenever someone wins I’m not me, if it’s a friend, I’m definitely happy for them, but it will always be a part of me that is jealous and wants me to be me. I think you would be crazy to say differently.”

‘Inside the ropes is actually a peaceful place’

KEEGAN BRADLEYWhen asked how his game was affected by his captain Ryder Cup, he said the hardest thing for him is not to think about the event, whether while practicing or at home with his family.

But there is a place where thoughts are distributed.

“It is constantly in my mind how we will continue to do this, the best way to do so, how to run a proper meeting last week,” Bradley said. “I think this has been the biggest obstacle is the closure of that part of my brain, which is interesting because, when I get inside the rope on a tour, it is really the only time I can do it.

“Sometimes for us players of players, being inside the ropes is actually a quiet place. I have had it from time to time, but there have definitely had times when I have practiced, and a thought will come in my head and I have to write it and then I am thinking about it, and this is a distraction. But that has not affected my preparation or nothing.”

‘We’ll see if you smoke some tonight’

Tuesday evening, as a defensive champion, Xander schauuffle It was to wait for the PGA Championship champions dinner, though he offered only one word for the chefs.

Steak.

Why?

“I didn’t even see the menu, to be completely honest,” Schauffle said. “I just trusted what they had. I knew they would do a good job.

“I saw a lot of blue cheese there. I think we’re shaking it a little, from the last of my knowledge, or making it a little more personalized; you can have some or not because it’s a really strong type, you either like it or don’t do it. My thought was that everyone enjoying the meal and having a nice time.”

Then it is his gift. It is a PGA tradition, and Schauffle had to distribute humidify and cigarettes to winners in participation.

There may also be an opportunity to smoke.

“Apparently, there will be someone around the cigarette tonight,” Schauffle said. “Maybe I can get some for later. We’ll see if you smoke some tonight.”

‘I saw it in magnification’

Last week, Bradley received a meeting for potential team members, including Bryson dechambeauwho said he lost it but observed.

“Yes, it was great,” Dechambeau said. “An extraordinary honor. Unfortunately we had massive storms that morning that was delayed for three and a half hours, and I couldn’t do it at dinner. But I saw it at Zoom and also talked to the captain for him, and I was step in step with him. We had a great conversation behind.

“Look, I have to continue playing good golf and I have to hope – I hope I can only do it in the point. That’s the goal. From everything I heard, it was very inspiring, and I know the captain will be a great leader for the team, whoever he chooses and anyone who makes the team.

‘Always is always a battle’

Scottie SchefflerA supporter of staying in the present said that doing so is a battle. But his coach at the University of Texas, John Fields, helped him.

“He really preached when you are in the Golf Course, you’re in the Golf Course, when you’re in class, you’re in class,” Scheffler said. “And when I’m doing things with my friends, I don’t want to be home hanging with my wife thinking about my golf swing. I don’t want to be here in the golf course thinking about being at home.

“We have a certain time all day, and I think that when you are in the present, you are able to use as much as possible from those situations, whether you will enjoy them to the maximum or by taking the most out of the job when I am in the Golf Course.

“I think it’s a constant battle.”

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