The video is just five seconds long. In it, Pro hits only a driver in the range, and the caddy simply watches. But that was more than enough for more than a few people. On TwitterThe PGA Tour video post has received over 100,000 views. On Instagramis taken only under 5,000 likes.
Geno Bonnalie, one of the most popular golf loopers, is back, after all.
As shown in the video, he is associated with Isaiah Salinda, a 28-year-old professional from San Francisco, and the duo is playing this week Sanderson’s farm championship. You can like them, and we will reach it in a sec, though Salinda’s colorful socks in the video give at least one more head of what will come. But the former bonnalie chief was also a personality, and their separation even got some titles (including two in this site, and they can be found here AND here).
This is how well known Bonnalie and Pro Joel Dahmen were known. They would only win once in PGA Tour, but social media gave them a voice before Netflix’s “swing full” gave them a star. At the show, they were open. They were relays.
But then they were done. In mid -July, Dahmen wrote on Twitter that they were separated. They thought they needed “a fresh perspective”.
“Man, I love Geno,” Dahmen said a few weeks later, in the Wynham championship. “We still write almost every day. He’s doing well. Yes, I mean, I miss you, but sometimes the hardest – you have to do something hard to …”
He stopped.
“Look, it wasn’t an easy decision,” Dahmen said. “I will not say I’m not happy about it, but it’s hard. He’s my best friend. He’s still my best friend.”
And now Bonnalie returned.
This year, Salinda posted a couple of 10. Entering Sanderson, he is 104th in the seasonal points race, but only the top 100 places keep their privileges full time, so work will have to be done. But Salinda, like Dahmen, is loved. Guy is a character.
For more about this, Golf’s SEAN ZAK spoke with him in the players championship this year, and his story can be found by clicking hereor moving immediately below.
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Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla – Isaiah Salinda looks comfortable. Only this attracts you. But what he leads really makes you lean forward.
“Can I be honest?” He begins. “Are you recording this or anything else?”
“We don’t have to be,” explains one reporter.
“No, no, no – you can. F -k,” he says. “Many guys here are just a kind of cookie cookie, short vanilla cookies. You know what I mean? I’m trying to be different.”
Morningte Wednesday morning and Salinda is one of the 12 players’ championship debutors sitting in the director’s chairs, spread in a mass circle for their first -time press conferences. He is wearing a bad bird polo with a deserted sunset presented in it, which partly explains what it means with different. His mountain man’s thighs are testing the boundaries of his golf pants. He is the proud owner of what the tour calls “a strong selection of fun socks” – which included the Cookie monster pair that he wore at the beginning of the week – but he is chosen for those pure white today, not to leave his shirt. He’s different. In many ways, this is exactly what is looking for PGA Tour.
In recent months, the tournament has launched Fan Forward, a comprehensive name for initiatives driven by survey responses by more than 50,000 golf fans. Among the four takeings that are put into action is a simple paper – make the players more relevant – this is not so easy in reality. Because they prefer to keep their public thoughts as direct as their shooting. It can preserve the sponsors’ brand pillars ironed in their shirts, but that safe approach does not attract the eyes and ears that the tour requires most at this time of TV ratings and popularity competitions.
With Salinda, work is easy. He is also in the trend: he has fewer than 5,000 followers on Instagram, but wraps the tour team of the tournament they have made it by presenting it regularly exceeds those of the most popular stars. Like the one he posted after our dorm on Wednesday, which has won several hundred additional followers since then. Later that afternoon, when Caddy Collin Morikawa made an ace on the island of Green 17th Hole on Wednesday, was Salinda concentrating in front of the camera with a gladiatorial impression.
“Aren’t you fun!”
Salinda is thinking of joining Twitter, seeking to get a little in the tournament of the tournament, definitely interested in creating a personal brand. But mostly, he simply wants his tour of the tournament to be relieved a little. Go from the script. Play practical rounds with tournament rookies. Speak a little s-. He graduated from Stanford in 2019 and slowly set up through the tournament by PGA Tour Canada in two years at Korn Ferry Tour. He returned to the 28th Thursday, but the youth ribbon in many lacks the days of the team golf college. He moved to Vegas, he says, only to be able to compete with the crew of the tournament players living there, such as Morikawa and Min Woo Lee.
“I just love the juice,” says Salinda, so I ask her very clearly, “Do you speak S-?”
“Buddy, I speak a lot,” he replies. “To what point I think not many people like me here.”
To play a round of practice with Salinda – at least according to him (excuse me, I have no experience) – is to run and make fun of constantly. Judah is simply “raw confidence,” he says, regularly releasing the wicked club twirls, no matter where the ball goes.
The constant lack of Tiger Woods Pliv Liv Golf Snatching Stars means that the tournament has been eager to develop more fan favorites. The best players will gain popularity as a result of their game, but the tour hopes that more players can win fans from their personalities, and then start at higher altitudes from their best weeks in the course. The best way to notice is to gain, of course, something Salinda came to cursed near a few weeks, ending a back hook of a play -off in Mexico Open. While waiting for the leaders to finish, he said he was “clinging” to the camera, but the moment the broadcast manufacturers turned the red light in his direction, he made the button.
“I hate myself,” he said this week, laughing. “I hate that I did this. But my agent was standing by me. He didn’t tell me anything, but I knew I can’t say anything absurd. Next time, when it is, I’ll be more unique, I think I’ll stay.”
Next time may be the next transmission window. The round of the Sawgrass TPC’s opening was clean and efficient, consisting of 15 pars and three birds, leaving him three shots behind the leaders. He walked to mark only part of the fanaticism of Xanders, Jordans and JTS, who also also deal with media interviews. Despite surpassing them on Thursday, Salinda was not asked by anyone. Its relative anonymity continues if only for 18 more holes.
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