Get caught up on the week in golf.
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Good day mates and glad Zozo Championship week (A.Ok.A. the house of Tiger Woods’ most up-to-date PGA Tour victory) to all who observe! I haven’t traveled for work in over a month and it has been nice to soak up all that fall in New England has to supply whereas concurrently following all issues golf a lot too intently on my cellphone. Whereas the golf season itself is perhaps winding down, there’s been no scarcity of healthful, viral and hilarious golf moments during the last week.
Let’s kick issues off with the healthful stuff.
The perfect factor I noticed final week
Steven “Spud” Alderson turned the primary golfer with autism to win on the The G4D (Golf for the Disabled) Tour, which started in 2022. Following his victory on the G4D Tour @ Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters, the 44-year-old gave an emotional and galvanizing interview, which you’ll be able to watch under.
Host Hope Barnett supplied some extra info on the G4D Tour in addition to Alderson’s win.
Alderson will tee it up subsequent on the G4D Tour Sequence Finale @ DP World Tour Championship in Dubai subsequent month, and in the event you’re in search of a brand new favourite participant to help, that is your man.
Faculty Recreation Day and inexperienced jacket appearances
I’ve stated it a number of hundred instances and I’ll say it once more: I’m not a soccer woman. I’ve tried again and again to get into it. I learn (and annotated) the primary few chapters of “Soccer for Dummies,” I’ve requested query after query whereas the video games are on and I’ve attended a handful of NFL video games. I merely can’t get myself to get enthusiastic about, and even remotely keen on soccer. It was on the tv all weekend lengthy at my mother and father’ home and I managed to tune out each single little bit of it.
Nevertheless, once I realized that Scottie Scheffler was going to be on Faculty GameDay on Saturday, I knew I needed to buckle in. I may on the very least watch that, proper? Proper. I’ll admit that it was tough not figuring out what time Scheffler can be on (shoutout to my coworker and pal Zephyr Melton for letting me know that his phase can be the ultimate one), however aside from that, I completely loved tuning into my first-ever Faculty GameDay.
Scheffler didn’t get requested about profitable the Masters or his historic PGA Tour season, however he did get requested about his Louisville arrest and he dealt with it completely.
I see a future the place the two-time Masters champion hosts Saturday Night time Dwell.
One among my favourite issues about Scheffler is that his most important gripe with jail is that it was boring. That’s precisely how he defined it to Pat McAfee on Saturday in Texas, and I believe it’s such a humorous take. Certain, some individuals suppose golf is boring. However have you ever tried sitting in jail? That’s manner worse. By no means change, Scheffler.
Seeing Scheffler rock the inexperienced jacket to his alma mater received me excited about the perfect inexperienced jacket appearances I’ve seen over time, and folks had been very opinionated about it on Twitter.
I believe Sergio carrying the inexperienced jacket to his marriage ceremony takes the cake. Some individuals on-line referred to as it cheesy. The excellent news is that these individuals won’t ever have the prospect to put on the inexperienced jacket to their marriage ceremony (or elsewhere). I put Scheffler’s inexperienced jacket look on Faculty GameDay as No. 2, however the reality is that I had forgotten concerning the time Tiger wore it to The Woods Jupiter restaurant together with his health club garments again in 2019.
I believe the reality of the matter is that any inexperienced jacket look shall be cool.
Golf insults
I’m all the time in search of new methods to (jokingly!) trash speak my mates’ golf video games. Going after their handicap index isn’t any enjoyable. There are solely so many 3-putt jokes to be made. Driving distance digs are good however all the time anticipated. Simply when my rolodex of golf insults was getting overused and drained, Donald Trump introduced a brand new one to my consideration.
“Actually low clubhead velocity.” Not solely will I be including that to my record of golf insults, however I’ve additionally been impressed to toss that line in randomly like Trump did above. There’s a great lesson right here, mates: You may make enjoyable of your pal’s golf recreation even when it’s not the present subject at hand. Do with that enjoyable revelation what you’ll.
