I think two lessons from LIV will be ...
1. You can't solve time problems with money. It took 40 years of playing the Masters before people *really* started to care. You can't speed that up by signing big checks. You can't microwave history.
2. A modicum of humility goes a long way. Thumping your chest out of the gate and saying "we're gonna redefine a 200-year-old sport over the next few seasons" is not a good strategy. It might eventually be true (spoiler: it wasn't), but it does the opposite of what it probably feels like it's going to do. Most fans are smart, and immense hubris is rarely attractive in any business setting.
26 year old American, Ryan Gerard, travelled 10,000 miles to Mauritius in a last ditch attempt to qualify for his first ever Masters next year. He needed a T4 or better and he’s narrowly lost a playoff to finish 2nd and qualify easily.
Huge respect!
If I’m the PGA Tour, I contact Brooks Koepka and see if he’s being serious about not playing LIV this year. If he is, waive the 1 year suspension, give him his Tour card, and let him play this year. It would be a death blow to LIV.
If any Tour members want to complain, tell them if they win 5 majors they can get the same treatment
.@NBCSports should be absolutely ashamed and embarrassed with this Ryder Cup coverage. Missing golf shots when there are only 8 balls on the course, commercials flooding the broadcast, audio out of sync. Unacceptable for arguably the best spectacle in golf.
Scottie Scheffler has now finished 8th or better in 13 consecutive PGA Tour starts.
Per @PGATOUR there are only 3 longer such streaks since 1945
Byron Nelson, 27 (1945)
Byron Nelson, 14 (1946-48)
Ben Hogan, 14 (1951-54)
Truly inspirational season by Jon Rahm. I’m sure he’s super thrilled to win the individual title against about 5 competitive golfers, 0 wins, and 0 top 5s in majors. At least he got a lot richer today!
Scottie rewriting the golf history books while Rahm plays in lala land