Get caught up on the week in golf.
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Howdy pals and comfortable Zozo Championship week (A.Okay.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 telephone. Whereas the golf season itself is likely to be winding down, there’s been no scarcity of healthful, viral and hilarious golf moments over the past week.
Let’s kick issues off with the healthful stuff.
The very best 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 watch beneath.
Host Hope Barnett supplied some extra data on the G4D Tour in addition to Alderson’s win.
Alderson will tee it up subsequent on the G4D Tour Collection Finale @ DP World Tour Championship in Dubai subsequent month, and if you happen to’re searching for a brand new favourite participant to assist, that is your man.
Faculty Sport Day and inexperienced jacket appearances
I’ve mentioned it a number of hundred occasions 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 interested by 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.
Nonetheless, after 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 difficult not realizing 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 apart from that, I totally loved tuning into my first-ever Faculty GameDay.
Scheffler didn’t get requested about successful 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 Evening Reside.
Considered one of my favourite issues about Scheffler is that his 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 feel 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 acquired me desirous about the most effective inexperienced jacket appearances I’ve seen through the years, and other people have been very opinionated about it on Twitter.
I feel Sergio carrying the inexperienced jacket to his marriage ceremony takes the cake. Some individuals on-line known 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 in regards to the time Tiger wore it to The Woods Jupiter restaurant together with his fitness center garments again in 2019.
I feel the reality of the matter is that any inexperienced jacket look shall be cool.
Golf insults
I’m at all times searching for new methods to (jokingly!) trash speak my pals’ 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 at all times 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 listing of golf insults, however I’ve additionally been impressed to toss that line in randomly like Trump did above. There’s a very good lesson right here, pals: You may make enjoyable of your good friend’s golf recreation even when it’s not the present matter at hand. Do with that enjoyable revelation what you’ll.
