Woods-Leonard fan membership, Daly’s warm-up, tempo Olympics

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hiya, pals, and comfortable Saturday! The lodge I’m staying at is full of households right here to go to Disney World, and I can’t assist however surprise in the event that they know that the actual enjoyable is occurring down the highway on the PNC Championship this weekend. I made my approach over to the golf course good and early this morning (after a fast journey to WaWa) so I might watch a few of the teams heat up earlier than following Staff Woods and Staff Leonard all day. It was a really chilly morning on the Ritz-Carlton Golf Membership, however nothing this New Englander couldn’t deal with. It acquired as much as 60 levels by mid-afternoon, which in my humble opinion is the proper temperature to observe golf.

OK, let’s get into the motion.

On the vary

The golf world has been blessed with Nelly Korda and Fred {Couples} warming up subsequent to one another on the vary two days in a row on the PNC Championship. I seemed up “tempo” within the dictionary and this video appeared, which is fairly cool.

The most effective cheer squad on the PNC Championship

I adopted Staff Woods and Staff Leonard for 18 holes at this time, and it was a blast. My greatest takeaway is that Justin Leonard’s son, Luke, has some critical sport. I don’t assume he hit a single unhealthy shot all day. His sport is so, so constant and enjoyable to observe. He’ll play for Villanova College subsequent 12 months (longtime Rogers Report readers will know that I used to be a Wildcat for a 12 months and a half) and is at the moment highschool teammates with Charlie Woods.

Essentially the most enjoyable components of the day got here because of the buddies of Luke Leonard and Sam and Charlie Woods. A handful of their buddies from faculty made the journey as much as Orlando to cheer on their classmates and teammates, they usually stored the vitality excessive all day lengthy. They’d scream, “Go, Lenny!” whereas Luke Leonard walked by and, “Let’s go, JL!” when the 1999 Ryder Cup hero teed off. A handful of the teenage boys carried round photos of Luke Leonard’s face to carry up all all through the spherical, they usually had been essentially the most supportive bunch on the course. At any time when Tiger hit an excellent shot, they’d yell, “Nice learn, Sam!” and everyone inside and out of doors the ropes cherished it. This good friend group was actually the spotlight of the spherical, and I believe they helped hold issues free and enjoyable for the gamers and the caddies.

One other spotlight of my day was overhearing a bit of back-and-forth second between the Woods siblings, which you’ll try proper right here.