Rory McIlroy and Lee Trevino in 2022 on the Open Championship.
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I may not watch golf this weekend.
However aren’t you … a … golf man? Yeah, I’m — and hopefully nonetheless am after the sentence above — however this house guarantees honesty, and yeah, I’ll solely scroll by X, or catch simply the ultimate couple holes of the Farmers Insurance coverage Open’s closing spherical, as a result of my spouse and I are heading out. We’re taking a brief trip. Renting a small home within the woods. Exerting as a lot effort as you’ll on a tap-in.
And watching soccer. We did it final yr. It was chic.
It was a little bit of a toast, too.
This week, the NFL’s conference-championship week, marks soccer’s penultimate week of play, earlier than it heads to the sidelines for about seven months. We’ll miss it. However we’ll take pleasure in this weekend. And, in two weeks, the Tremendous Bowl. Then we’ll rely down the times to the following kickoff. Which acquired me fascinated with golf. Watching golf, really. This week, we had TGL on Tuesday. And the PGA Tour from Wednesday by Saturday. And the DP World Tour from Thursday by Sunday. In two weeks, we’ll have everybody. PGA Tour. LIV Golf. LPGA. DP World Tour. TGL. PGA Tour Champions. Korn Ferry Tour. And we’ll get some type of golf by the center of December. For me, the golf man, that’s nice; there’s by no means a content material scarcity. For you? For some time, I’ve been questioning not a lot in regards to the quantity of golf, however this:
Do you ever miss it?
Take into consideration baseball’s opening day or the NFL’s opening kickoff. Or the Masters. You fortunately await these. You realize after they’re coming. However do you have got that feeling when golf is obtainable on nearly each calendar day? There was speak this week about dwindling TV scores. Are people merely overloaded? If each match is seemingly ‘massive,’ are none of them? This all being mentioned, nobody appears to be reducing again any time quickly, so dig in to the year-round menu. And if you should step away, I do know a considerate web site that’ll catch you again up.
With that, welcome again! The place are you, you ask? I’m calling this the Weekend 9. Consider this as a spot to heat you up for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We’ll have ideas. We’ll have ideas. We’ll have tweets. However simply 9 in all, although generally perhaps extra and generally perhaps much less. As for who I’m? The paragraphs above inform a few of the story. Golf author. Soccer fan. Cabin-in-the-woods fan.
Let’s see if we will discover eight extra gadgets.
2. So who do I like within the NFL video games?
Arduous to not just like the favorites. However let’s have enjoyable. Let’s go along with two highway wins. Washington beat Philly within the second of their two matchups this yr — and led at halftime within the first — and Jayden Daniels is particular. On the opposite facet, Josh Allen lastly breaks by.
One takeaway from the week — and the weeks forward
Justin Thomas calls PGA Tour gamers to motion with impassioned letter
3. There was extra golf TV information this week — through a letter. Justin Thomas wrote one to his fellow professionals, imploring them to be extra ‘viewer pleasant,’ with the thought that that was the ticket to raised fan curiosity. Perhaps they might do extra ‘walk-and talks.’ Perhaps they might do extra pre- and post-round interviews.
“The extra I’ve watched documentaries and specials on streaming companies on different sports activities, the extra I’ve come to appreciate the primary cause I like them a lot is the entry they supply and the perception the gamers are giving me; a fan of them and their craft,” Thomas wrote. “I had little interest in rooting for sure gamers, groups, coaches earlier than watching a handful of reveals and video games. However the best way a few of them present their playing cards and the way they go about all the pieces makes me a good larger fan.”
I agree with Thomas’ thought. Extra perception is sweet, and it will assist. However I feel anticipating golfers to immediately converse like Shakespeare is loads to ask, particularly whereas taking part in. Some are talkers. Some aren’t. You realize who’s who there.
But when the questions requested are good? Then, you will get someplace. Everybody has a narrative — you simply need to mine for it. Some recommendation? Everybody loves speaking store. Or secrets and techniques. Or household. The solutions are often good on curveballs, too. Ask the whys and hows. And no “speak abouts.”
4. Did Jason Day learn Thomas’ letter? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Whereas discussing participation at this week’s Farmers Insurance coverage, he admitted he may not be essentially the most certified speaker on the topic. And why’s that?
“I don’t know if I converse for the Tour, you realize, in addition to a few of the different guys as a result of I generally — generally the Tour sends me emails and I don’t even learn ’em,” Day mentioned. “I do know there’s guys on the market which are much more certified than me to reply for that cause.”
5. Golf actually wants a Manningcast. Motion within the background. Tales in your ears. Evaluation as wanted.
Finest non-GOLF.com learn on your weekend
Q&A: New PGA of America chief on what he most needs for the sport
6. What am I studying (moreover the considerate prose of my colleagues)? This text is price your click on.
Right here, Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch performed a Q&A with former PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh, and a number of exchanges have been notable, together with this one:
GWK: Are you a candidate for the job of CEO of PGA Tour Enterprises?
SW: It’s best to ask them. [Laughs]
GWK: I’m asking you.
SW: I don’t know. I’m undecided they’re on the lookout for a 66-year-old man. There’s no expiration date on caring in regards to the recreation and wanting so as to add one thing to the sport. I’m blissful to assist in any method I can.
