Like last week when he was hot with the putter and won by 5 strokes in a laugher.
Because of his top 10 in Puerto Rico, Evan got into the Valspar this week. Finished +1 after round 1, so probably 1-2 back of the cut line heading into tomorrow.
I don't even know how he does it. He looks way off balance every time he swings, and he has a little hitch in his swing. It's amazing that he's such a consistently great ball striker with near impeccable distance control.
Ha, I was literally just about to post this.
He had a severe case of the lefts yesterday. Not sure what happened today.
They do that every week. Must be a decision they made to distinguish him from Carson Young.
He’s not being naive, he’s being willfully obtuse.
So here’s the thing. I don’t think you’re being fair. I think the PGA is rudderless and without vision. To blame the fans is arrogant and missing the point.
I either explained myself poorly or I fundamentally misunderstood the tweet from Van Valkenburg, because I agree completely with you.
Fair. I didn’t understand his tweet either. I will be listening to the NLU podcast tonight and hopefully he is on to explain.
I suppose it could be read that way. To me, the “damning” referred to the state of the PGA post LIV.
I thought the "damning admission" was referring to Malnati not being able to recall being in contention on Sunday despite having played on Tour for more than a decade. I didn't think it was commentary on the current state of the PGA Tour, I thought it was just driving home how unlikely a winner Malnati was.
Oh, so, Twitter sports guy was just using strong words to draw attention? I get it. Meh.
I guess my impression at this point is the Tour / golf media went out of their way to portray him poorly. Maybe he's mellowed over the past few years (and he was early 20s when he broke out which may not be the best age to have a camera shoved in your face) but I just recall a lot of being dumped on by entrenched announcers and tour players.
It's kind of besides the point, I agree with the overall comment that the Tour sucks at marketing and promoiting their players. They do a terrible job of it. I think Bryson is a bad example. Most of his issues were self-inflicted. A non-exhaustive list:
Is it though? You can never sniff contention in a tourney for 10 years, even in watered down alternate events, and still keep your card, apparently. Doesn't sound that hard to me, if anything in the past it was hard to LOSE your card, which was KVV's whole point.
So if I'm doing this correctly, he won in 2015, thereby exempting him to 2018. Since then:
This is correct, but he could also have come to the conclusion that he wasn't going to add too much to JT's game, so better for them to part as friends (while he looks for another top player) than to continue on and end up with a (non) relationship like he has with Mickelson. Or maybe he was just fired. Who knows?
I think Bones will go back to broadcasting and if the right opportunity comes around, he'll consider caddying again. He's about to turn 60 and is financially secure. After he split with Mickelson he jumped into the broadcasting world and seemed conten and happy but the JT opportunity was too good for him to pass up (at the time JT was a 28 year old 14 time winner with a major and top 3 player in the world). Most of the stars/elite players seem entrenched with their current caddies but I guess you never know.
Bones also does more paid speaking engagements than you could imagine. He's the MC for soooo many corporate ProAms and other golf related events (and is awesome at it).
I flipped over from the B’s as he was taking the TIO. Seems he was too close to the drain thing to go towards the green and didn’t think he could punch out sideways over the rocks?
