Paddy’s parenting, Bryson’s dagger, Ryder Cup cash

Welcome again to the Monday End, the place after watching Q-Faculty I’m simply relieved I’ve stored my card (on this case, my job at GOLF) for the 2025 season. No four-footers required. To the information!

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GOLF STUFF I LIKE

Paddy on parenting.

It’s a reflective time of yr; it’s additionally PNC Championship week. And so I’m pondering again to a video that went viral this time final yr, within the lead-up to the PNC: Padraig Harrington on find out how to introduce your child to golf.

Harrington’s soliloquy was impressed by his son Ciaran, his enjoying associate for the week — and what he did proper and mistaken in Ciaran’s beginnings with the sport. His insights, in 4 elements:

1. When you’re having fun with your self, they’ll take pleasure in themselves.

“In hindsight, one of the best ways, if you wish to get your child into the sport of golf, is carry him someplace the place you’re not careworn. That’s essential,” Harrington mentioned. “Youngsters choose up on that. Allow them to do what they like after they’re there, have a little bit of enjoyable in the event that they wish to hit one shot, two photographs, 10 photographs, play within the bunker, look within the water, or no matter they wanna do, allow them to do, and usually carry them house earlier than they get drained.”

2. Give up whilst you’re forward.

“So one of the best factor you are able to do with a child early on in golf is say, ‘hey, we’ve to go house,’ and don’t wait until they’re drained and hate it. Wait until after they’re truly having fun with themselves, go house.”

3. However first, get a soda.

“Once you’re completed, take 10 minutes to spend along with your son or daughter and go and have a Coke, a Pepsi this week, go and have a Pepsi within the bar, wherever it’s, and sit there have an ice cream, and spend 10, quarter-hour. As a result of if they’ve that quarter-hour alone time with you simply, you and them, for the remainder of their life, each time they play golf, they bear in mind the quarter-hour they’d with their father or mom, and that’s what would maintain bringing them again to golf for the subsequent day.”

4. Hold love first.

“In case your child will get good on the sport, that doesn’t essentially make them love the sport,” Harrington mentioned. “In case your child loves the sport, it’s possible that they’ll grow to be good at it. It’s the love ought to be first and, and it’s much more essential to get a love of the sport as a result of everyone knows you plateau whenever you play golf.

“There’s many plateaus the place it actually will get irritating. And in the event you don’t adore it, these plateaus are going to cease you enjoying, you’re going to surrender. Whereas in the event you adore it, you’ll undergo something. So attempt to get the love of the sport for the children first.”

Paddy’s parenting — that’s golf stuff I like.

WINNERS

Who gained the week?

Lanto Griffin gained Q-Faculty, making certain he’ll have full PGA Tour standing for the 2025 PGA Tour season. One cash quote from Griffin after the spherical of Sunday, a clutch seven-under 63: I wish to expertise this with my household, now with my child and it’s — you simply don’t need it to finish. It’s like being at a extremely good live performance, you simply need there to be a pair extra songs and that’s type of what I felt this week.”

Jake Knapp and Patty Tavatanakit put a bow on their seasons with a victory on the Grant Thornton Invitational. Enjoyable truth: This was the second time this yr they gained on the identical day. The primary time got here again in February, when Knapp gained the Mexico Open and Tavatanakit on the Honda LPGA Thailand.

Shaun Norris gained the Alfred Dunhill Championship on house soil because the DP World Tour continued its African swing, taking pictures a final-round 67 to erase a six-shot deficit as rivals fell by the wayside coming down the stretch at Leopard Creek Nation Membership in South Africa. The win marked his second in as many begins after Norris gained the Japan Tour’s Nippon Collection JT Cup simply two weeks in the past.

“This adjustments a couple of issues for me. I’ve bought a lot to sit up for over the subsequent few years,” Norris mentioned of his improved standing. “However now it’s time for a vacation.”

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NOT-WINNERS

A couple of golfers who didn’t win however nonetheless kinda gained.

5 different execs made it by way of a grueling Q-Faculty week, which began wild and windy and completed with good quaint mega-pressure. A sentence on every with assist from our Jack Hirsh:

Hayden Buckley: A PGA Tour member for the previous two seasons who surprisingly fell out of the Prime 125 after simply two top-10s in 2024.

Takumi Kanaya: A seven-time Japan Tour winner who has already performed in 11 main championships. Was a former World No. 1 newbie and was ranked as excessive as No. 49 within the Official World Golf Rating in 2022.

Alejandro Tosti: PGA Tour rookie in 2024 who made headlines for a few of his enormous (and daring) tee photographs, in addition to a few of his extra controversial antics.

Will Chandler: Fired a final-nine 30 Sunday to jumpstart his profession alternatives. Superior from the second stage of Q-Faculty after logging solely 10 occasions on the Korn Ferry Tour this season and 9 PGA Tour Canada occasions in 2023.

Matthew Riedel: Former standout at Vanderbilt College who graduated this spring and earned standing on the Korn Ferry Tour by way of PGA Tour U. That additionally put him straight into the ultimate stage of Q-Faculty this week.

SHORT HITTERS

Six groups to observe on the PNC Championship.

When served with an advert broadcasting tomorrow’s Showdown odds, it occurred to me that the PNC Championship often is the most degenerate golf occasion to guess on, given the households and children and whatnot. With that as inspiration, let’s run by way of the betting favorites (sure, actual odds):

6. Group Singh (+650) — Vijay and Qass. The 2022 winners and the one squad to go 59-59 in occasion historical past.

5. Group Langer (+650) — Bernhard and Jason. Final yr’s champs; they gained in 2019 and 2014, too. Bernhard additionally gained the final PGA Tour Champions occasion of the season so he’s coming into in advantageous kind. Harmful staff.

4. Group Woods (+500) — Tiger and Charlie. These guys have gotten seasoned vets at this occasion; with luck this might be their healthiest yr but.

3. Group Kuchar (+450) — Matt and Carson. Shot 57 within the first spherical final yr however light to T5 on Day 2. Again hungry.

2. Group Cink (+450) — Stewart and Connor. They gained in 2013; can they flip again the clock?!

1. Group Daly (+300) — John and John II. They gained in 2021; they’re locks to have the brightest pants. John II had a 71.78 scoring common at Arkansas final yr, however I’m guessing they didn’t play any two-man father-son scrambles.

ONE SWING THOUGHT

From Daniel Berger and Nelly Korda.

Throughout Grant Thornton week it’s attention-grabbing to listen to what the LPGA and PGA Tour execs consider their companions’ video games, and one enjoyable little bit of perception got here from Daniel Berger and Nelly Korda, who realized on one method shot that they have been each pulling 7-iron.

“There was a pair occasions the place I hit one in there yesterday and I seemed in her bag and he or she was hitting the identical membership I used to be hitting,” Berger mentioned. Korda was fast so as to add that her draw provides yardage, whereas Berger’s fade takes some off. However they have been mutually impressed.

“It’s been very straightforward, she hits it within the fairway, she hits it on the inexperienced, she makes putts. I imply, it’s fairly clear why she’s No. 1 on this planet and I have to get my act collectively,” Berger mentioned.

“He’s a really a lot finesse participant,” Korda mentioned. “I at all times admire that when a participant exhibits his inventive facet.”

ONE BIG QUESTION

What’s up with Ryder Cup pay?

On Monday morning the PGA of America confirmed studies that sure, American Ryder Cuppers might be compensated for his or her participation on this yr’s occasion at Bethpage Black. Particularly they’ll get $300,000 to present to a charity of their selection and one other $200,000 as a stipend.

So how do you have to really feel about this? Usually I simply use this area to ask a query, not reply it, however right here I’ll supply a suggestion: You don’t want to really feel any kind of means about this in any respect! You don’t want an opinion on this! Do these guys want the cash? No, they don’t. Do they deserve it? Sure, they most likely do; they’re those everyone seems to be coming to see. However the Ryder Cup isn’t made or damaged by a pair million bucks in look charges and charitable donations. Professional golfers receives a commission to play nearly in every single place else they tee it up. This appears [shrugs] advantageous.

With that mentioned, Group Europe ought to completely lean into the concept that theirs is a purer devotion to the competitors. Their staff bond has historically been stronger than the U.S. facet — that is straightforward bulletin-board materials, in the event that they want any extra.

ONE THING TO WATCH

Bryson chirps Rory.

The Crypto dot com Showdown is coming Tuesday, and whereas I’m genuinely excited for Scottie/Rory vs. Brooks/Bryson I used to be a bit involved that nothing about this match had damaged by way of to the final sports activities world (by way of the NFL bubble, in different phrases). However that modified Monday with a devastating and truly fairly natural dagger thrown by Bryson DeChambeau within the route of Rory McIlroy.

The trade, at a Monday clinic:

McIlroy: “I’d prefer to go up in opposition to Bryson and attempt to get him again for what he did to me on the U.S. Open.”

DeChambeau: “To be honest, you kinda did it to your self.”