PGA Tour’s visit to the return site a reminder that the game does not stand still

Flourtown, Pa.-par-3 last, here in Philadelphia Cricket Clubis gnarly. Left bunker, right bunker, forward creek, steep green, heartless cemetery on it. Hole played as No 16 for TrumpetIt is 5th for the regular and better member game and it was once the 8th hole, ahead of a renewal a dozen years ago. Things change.

The hole, all lying on its best Sunday, was 222 yards to the final, with pin on a shelf in the left rear corner. Xander schauufflewho next week will try to become the first player since Tiger Woods (2006-’07) To win the PGA back-back championship, hit a medium, beautiful drawing in the air, ending about 20 meters below the hole. I’ve had this blow a hundred times. (Cricket, as we call it in place, is my home club.) I positioned myself next to the CBS camera operator and on the (remote) line of Xander Putt. I read it about it.

Hit him hard enough to get that high hole, around a right foot of the hole. It will move left and go down as it dies.

Xander struck a hard blow to the hill and in the small green kitchen, almost dead straight, perhaps about an inch or two right of the hole. Almost fell at the 3pm of the hole and probably went 20 inches passing the hole. It was beautiful. He scored and did 3. I asked him for Putt after he signed for his mother’s day 66, six under par.

“It was a funny blow,” he said. “She was holding her line. Then she got into the air a little and shaken in the end.”

I didn’t see any From this.

Think about how much brain capacity requires, to process and settle in your memory bank thousands and thousands of shots in a year, and during a career. Along the way, in the previous year PGA championshipSchauffle placed an ICE title: Best (active) player never to have won a major. Two months later, he won another, British Open. Who is Bpnthwam now? Patrick Cantlay? Hmmm, maybe. Tommy Fleetwood? Tony Finau? Sam Burns? Joaquin Niemann? One week from now, that fifty can become fourth. Things change. In the following.

Creek before 5 (8th old, I 16th on TV) is called Wissahickon, and Wissahickon is the official name of this lovely old Bald course new members call it Salaries. He nicknamed Grates on me. Tilingast ashes, or some of them, were scattered in Wissahickon, near the 18th Green. I think the biographical fact only calls it for four -syllable treatment. But if kids want to call it wis, it’s not skin from your back. Thirty or 35 years ago, my wife, Christine and I tried to introduce our Mutt-Poach with the joys of swimming in Wissahickon. It was a failure (Beagle-Lap Mix), but the slippers directed a long and fruitful life. We buried it in a pillow in our side yard on a cold winter day. The life and time of a dog. The slippers liked to follow the tennis balls, but were never sent to golf. Is it a wonder?

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the cricket club was almost sleepy. We were happy with what he had, a classic old tree with trees everywhere and some shots of all pure recovery. There was a walk of thanks, where the winners took the turkeys. A three -piece group played Friday nights, for dinners with coat and tie. The last days of the country’s club life with which John Updike was so entertained. No one imagined a US PGA event for the Cricket Club then, or a USA event or a PGA Tour event. The club’s feeling for itself changed over the last 30 or more years. My dad often said this to my brother and me: Expand your horizons! The club did.

So now we expected a PGA Tour event, our first. Patrick Rodgers, in my closet for the week, ended south of the middle of the package. Corey Conners From Canada ended T11 – I notice that because his caddy, Danny Sahl, was kind enough to give me a lift on the course one morning. In the cold and clumsy rain of Friday, with three groups waiting to play in the 16th Tee, Danny and I talked about the city championship he won, decades ago, in Edmonton, in Alberta, despite being 1 down to the 18th Tee. Golf Golf!

Amanda Balionis from CBS interviewed Sepp Straka, the winner of the Truists, after a two-putt principle on our 4th, previously 7th. He had not yet signed his card, but it always goes; They do interviews on the network before signing the players. Straka has won twice on tour this year. Should he be on the short list of Bpnthwam? No, but he is moving in the right direction. Nothing is static in this game.

In my opinion, the most important event that Cricket Club has been waiting was the National Vocational PGA 2015 Championship, a 72 -holes in which the club’s benefits and teaching benefits may qualify for the PGA Championship. Brian Gaffney, then Head Pro in Quaker Ridge, won a place in the field in Whistling Straits on a Play off at the Cricket Club, then was the Low Club Pro on the Championship PGA. Jason Day won that year.

The day was on the field, here at the Cricket Club, but withdrew. Patrick Rodgers took his place. Golf loves concentric circles. The game also loves another.

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