Last month, as Playoffs FedEx Cup They were running out, another seasonal golf competition approached. But unlike Tommy FleetwoodIts winner did not receive an eight -figure payment. What he won were five high, heartfelt congratulations and the promise of a fashion memorial accessory that has not yet been produced.
That’s how it goes.
Pros play a game for a living. And the rest of us play another for rewards that cannot be measured in standard currency. We play for fresh air and training, for society, the community and the strange collections – and, of course, for the rights of boasting. Hard hard to set a price to beat your friends.
Jeff Pelizzaro understands this. What is what the league he co-founded has to do with everything.
“There is only much more for the golf that trying to post a result,” he says.
Pelizzaro, 47, is a relatively player for play. Born and raised in St. Louis, he focused on football growing up and did not swing a club diligently until the college, when the game tied it. A physical trade therapist quickly joined his passion with his profession through 18strong, a gym company and golf training he runs with his business partner, Ryan McMullen. For about a decade, the two also co-organized a podcast of the same name, which drew guests from the whole industry to talk about the link between golf and fitness, and vice versa.
One of the podcast sponsors was LinksulGolf clothing brand whose founder, John AshworthChampions a weekly tradition in Hill Hill Park In southern California called the mandatory Friday of golf – the essence is that life should not be all, all the time, and that exit at least once a week is good for your body and your mind. Pegging is pretty sought after.
Pelizzaro shares that view. Inspired by the weekly mandate of Ashworth, he sought something similar, gathering friends to join him for nine holes Friday morning at Ruth parka st. Louis Muni. These daytime generation loops became a weekly breathing welcome on a family -filled schedule and obligations.
In the early actions, Pelizzaro and his friend, Brian Daniels, borrowed Ashworth’s verb. They called the exits on the mandatory golf Friday. But when they learned that Linksoul had a copyright over the name, they changed their own in Friday’s loop.
From any label, the concept appealed. It gained popularity in Covid. Last year, about 50 players of the players returned at one time or another for Friday’s loop, ranging from age and ability from adolescent collegial players plus-Indeks up to 50 years who struggle to make Bogey.
As the attendance was inflated, the gatherings increased more formalized, with Times trapped in Ruth Park from 6am to 7am every week. For the 2025 season, Daniels also cook a system of FedEx Cup points and a friendly, 12-week disabled competition called Chase the Buckle in a belt tightening, the memorial price the winner would receive.
Ruth Park, Friday Lak House.
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(Why a belt tightening? Long short story, the idea was born during a Golfi Pelizzaro and Daniels trip to Nashville, where belt buckles are as common as the country’s music stars.)
Two weeks ago, after a full summer of competition, Chase for the Buckle ended, and Friday’s loop Optim Tommy Fleetwood. His name is John Mossotti, though his partners playing call him “Mossy”. (According to Pelizzaro, all regulations in Friday’s loop have nicknames, which, like Monikers Doll by Tiger Woods, seem to include a little more than add a “y” to the current name of a player.
Mossy entered the season with a 9 indexBut more than once this summer, he shot with 9 equal holes that set up some eyebrows among his competition. It would not be a disabled event if they did not whisper claims for Sanderia.
“I said, every champion will get arrows on their backs,” Pelizzaro says. “That’s just the way you go.”
All this, of course, is intended for fun, in the spirit of grief of players everywhere.
Mandatory golf Friday. Friday Loop. The exits of their kind are not difficult to achieve. They grow from the coast to the coast, in almost every corner of the place where the game is played. Mimets change. Participants also do. But the connections that connect them are the same. They are the reason most people play the game.
In terms of coercion, Mossy has not yet received it because the tightening still does not exist. It is manufactured by a company that Pelizzaro and Daniels found online. Mossy will have to wait. But no matter. As every golf player knows, winning something like tightening is much more important than dressing. Sandbagger or not, MSSY has rights of boasting.
Now, with autumn approaching and tracking for tightening in the back mirror, Friday’s loop is done for the season. But, says Pelizzaro, he and his friends will continue to sneeze whenever they can until the cold weather is placed on St. Louis and their course closes for the year.
In the pros, meanwhile, Fleetwood and 23 of his peers will soon go to him in Ryder cupA two -year competition for which Team USA members will be paid. This is a nice job if you can get it. But there are many other ways to enjoy the game.
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