The impression given when the LIV Tour started was that was where the top golfers could make the most money. As far as earnings go, Scottie made more than the top LIV golfer Rahm this season. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/scottie-scheffler-liv-golf-earnings-33584807
Nephew is off to Pine Valley for the Crump Cup. I hope he plays well. Crump Cup [edit] The Crump Cup is an invitational golf tournament for amateurs. The first tournament was held in 1922.[18] It is named for George Arthur Crump, and is played on the grounds of Pine Valley Golf Club, which Crump founded.[19] The format for the four days is two rounds of stroke play, qualifying, followed by two rounds of match play.[20] The final round has traditionally held on the last Sunday in September. Jay Sigel has won the event the most times, with nine victories between 1975 and 1993.[20] Since at least the 1970s, the public can, on the day of the final round, tour the golf course and view tournament play.[21] This is the only day each year on which the public has access to the grounds of the club.[22] Visitors park at the nearby Clementon Amusement Park, where a local youth athletic association charges $25 per car.[23] Yellow school buses then take fans on a five-minute ride down a secluded side road, away from amusement park, and unload in a gravel parking lot in the woods.[19] Visitors are not allowed to bring in cameras, video recorders, or cell phones. Admission is for the afternoon only.[24] Unrivaled Access—Pine Valley’s Crump Cup - LINKS Magazine
Hard to believe Tiger has had this many surgeries. Tiger Woods had yet another surgery on his lower back Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve some of the spasms he experienced this year. It was the sixth surgery on his lower back in the past 10 years. Tiger has latest back surgery, eyes return to golf
It's the President's Cup this week in Montreal. Everybody expects the USA to win handily. Hope that's true, but not sure it's good for the competition going forward unless it can become more equal like the Ryder Cup. Also I saw this about Fred Couples and took heart in the fact that my longest iron is a 7 iron now days. I have 4, 5, 6, 7 hybrids in the bag.
Some tidbits on the Presidents Cup. 1. USA has 8 of the top 15 in the World Rankings, the Internationals have 1 2. Patrick Cantlay is wearing a hat, unlike the Ryder Cup. I guess they fit better 3. Scottie Scheffler as the World #1 has a terrible record in team competitions. 4. The course is shorter than the Pros are used to playing and so expect a lot of low scoring.
Presidents Cup Thursday tee times, pairings All times ET 11:35 a.m. | Xander Schauffele/Tony Finau vs. Jason Day/Ben An 11:53 a.m. | Collin Morikawa/Sahith Theegala vs. Adam Scott/Min Woo Lee 12:11 p.m. | Scottie Scheffler/Russell Henley vs. Sungjae Im/Tom Kim 12:29 p.m. | Wyndham Clark/Keegan Bradley vs. Taylor Pendrith/Christiaan Bezuidenhout 12:47 p.m. | Patrick Cantlay/Sam Burns vs. Hideki Matsuyama/Corey Conners U.S. players sitting out: Max Homa, Brian Harman International players sitting out: Si Woo Kim, Mackenzie Hughes
Looks like the Internationals woke up on the right side of the bed today. They are kicking our butts so far in alternate shot format.
Langer continues to amaze me. He's my hero. PHOENIX -- Bernhard Langer won for the 18th straight year on the PGA Tour Champions, holing a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole to hold off Steven Alker in the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday at Phoenix Country Club. The 67-year-old Langer closed with a 5-under 66 -- shooting his age or better for the third straight day and 23rd time on the tour -- for a one-stroke victory over defending champion Alker -- who won the season points title and a $1 million bonus --
Nelly won this past weekend and the LPGA is playing it's year ending Championship. The PGA has finalized the rules going forward as to the size of the field and how do you get a card and keep a card. They go into effect in 2026 and the guru's on Golf Channel said it's going to be harder to get the card and keep the card at that point.
I saw an interview with the CEO of the R&A today and he said he's worried about the financial future of the game a bit. He wonders if the current purse structure is sustainable. He thinks the Majors are going to be just fine, but wonders about the rest. He also mentioned the project to standardize the golf ball and start using it in 2028.
Golf’s “Silly Season” officially begins this week in the Bahamas, a trip many of the world’s top players are happy to make. The Hero World Challenge features 20 players teeing it up for a four-round, no-cut event in the Bahamas, a nice place to shake off rust and start thinking about 2025. Tiger Woods hosts the event for his foundation, though he won’t be playing this year while he nurses a September back surgery. Without Woods, all the attention inside the ropes will be on Scottie Scheffler, the defending champion and world No. 1 by a massive margin. Put it this way: he has more than three times as many world ranking points as No. 5 Ludvig Åberg, the next highest-ranked player in the field.