THE Official 2024 PGA Tour Season Thread

Fitz#2 with a nice round today.

what the hell is Kitayama drinking?

I feel like players use these no cut signature events to try out and work on different things, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.

Rosey Palms signs w an F1 team to have them manufacture his irons

first tournament w the new sticks in the bag? one shot off of DFL

lol Rosey Palms

Yellamaraju could've shot a 10 under but missed a 5 foot putt, and then proceeded to **** up the next two holes.

Go look at PGA Tour Insta, there is your answer.

Wait, they’re playing at Doral again?

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Proposed thread title change: The Official 2026 PGA Tour/Scottie Ain’t No Tiger Thread

Scottie’s done. He’s really really done, as an unstoppable Terminator. Happens that fast. He really is ‘just’ a rich man’s Spieth. Top ten, mostly top five OWGR for the next decade; maybe 2-4 combined more majors/Players, 6-12 other Tour events, maybe another Fedex Cup. And i’ll fade completing the career Grand Slam.

But the aura is shattered. Impossible to bet him or use him in fantasy. The canary turned out to be how he whined about not starting with the extra strokes at the Tour Championship. And then the quadruple bagel start at Bethpage.

But he did touch the Sun for awhile, and for longer than most of the few others who managed to. I wouldn’t be shocked to see an Annika if not Borg type early retirement, or at least an MJ retirement.

Scottie ain't goin' nowhere

When did Mclaren start making golf clubs?

they just went to retail this week for the first time. pricey clubs too ($375 per iron)

i don't understand Rose's thought process. he came into MIA seventh in SG APP

Wonder how long it lasts. He axed the Honma escapade after about 15 months I think. Only four round sample size so far this time around but it doesn't look great.

From what I've read Rose is in partnership with the company, implying he basically gets the exact spec club he wants to play.

He likely also got a sizeable $ offer he couldn't refuse.

perhaps he and his agent negotiated a guaranteed dollar amount that would far exceed brain freeze expected earnings swinging his previous clubs

I'm sure somebody somewhere claimed Scottie is as good as Tiger, but not anybody to be taken seriously.

Claiming Scottie is the "next Tiger" is certainly a hot take, but at least has a realm of possibility.

To achieve that, Scottie would need to:
-win 3 more US Opens;
-win 3 more Masters;
-win 2 more British Opens;
-win 3 more PGAs;
-win 40+ more PGAT events.

Is that likely? As Nicklaus might say, it "is possible, but not probable."

Speaking of Nicklaus, when his career had reached a peak, media turned attention to the "next Nicklaus", ostensibly to hype interest in the game. Many players were mentioned, including Crenshaw, Watson, Ballesteros, Norman, and even Hal Sutton. That conversation ended sometime in the mid '90s when it was realized that there would be no "next Nicklaus". Of course we all know what happened after that.

So I'm betting if there is the "next Tiger," he will show up up out of nowhere and play the greatest golf the world has ever seen. Until then we have players like Scottie that play incredible golf but unfortunately have flaws which hold them back from that level.

scottie is the next scottie for now
why not pause to appreciate the game he is playing instead of instant instincts for whipping out record book pages to measure career arcos with incomplete data

I cannot read this and not see the Macho Man

He got a paid a lot, and also the clubs are supposed to basically be the same as his last ones. Regardless, his driver and non-irons are the same, and he was all over the place this week. Actually gained with his irons in the last two rounds. He won last time he switched, not sure if it was the same week or the next. Anyway, you'd be making a mistake not to bet him next week.

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Scottie's recent funk of finishing 2nd reminds me (a little bit) of Nicklaus finishing 2nd in majors, 19 times.

Tiger didn't show up out of nowhere though, he was in the public eye since he was a toddler. He was a pheanom his entire life and backed it up by winning 3 consecutive US junior and 3 US Am titles.

I don't think we ever see the dominance of Tiger again. Just shorter periods of time where golfers get hot and look unbeatable.

I think it's pretty amazing that Scottie plays as well as he does. He has a two-year-old and a newborn. From what I've gathered he's a pretty devoted father. Kids take a ton of time and you don't get a heck of a lot of sleep. I'd say what he's done is pretty spectacular, really.

no way SS is waking up in the middle of the night dealing w a crying baby. as an elite athlete, his sleep is certainly near the top of his priorities

wifey (and/or possibly a nanny) is dealing w the baby during sleeping hours

Yeah, certainly by 16 Tiger was known by a significant % of the golf population, except Sandy Lyle ofc. But the label "next Nicklaus" did not take true hold until his Masters win in '97. That's how I remember it at least.

With the other guys they were all established pros (except Crenshaw maybe) who the media looked upon as having that potential. Tiger did not need any of that.

After giving players grief over misplaying 72nd hole, I need to give credit to Ben Griffin for playing it smart Sunday at Doral. He was T2 with Scottie @ -13, w/ no chance of winning and a bunch of players @ -11.

After his tee shot finds the palms right, he chips out sideways leaving him about 155 to left pin. He plays to right center of green, basically locking up -12.

Scottie made a remarkable par to get solo 2nd, but if Griffin plays to that pin and tugs it 15 feet left, he is looking at a triple and changing a $1.3M check to about $600k.