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GolfWRX Morning 9: Dragging the Tiger | Plenty of Merritt | Brandel gets it done
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By Ben Alberstadt ([email protected])
July 24, 2018 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. .
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1. Plenty of Merritt
Alternate title: “A heavily bearded man wins a shaving cream-sponsored tournament.”
2. Chamblee walks the walk…into the Senior Open
Love him or hate him, you’ll now be able to watch him in the Senior Open Championship. That’s right, golf fans, Brandel Chamblee has qualified for the Senior Open-and the Golf Channel analyst did so in impressive fashion.
3. Dragging the Tiger
Parsing apart the takes on Tiger Woods’ return to major championship contention is an ongoing process…especially in a week where the scribes have little else to scribble about.
Read excerpts of his harsh take with commentary from Geoff Shackelford…then read the whole darn thing…if you want to. . 4. The “did Tiger choke debate”
I outlined the perspectives on the question of whether Tiger Woods choked away The Open in a piece yesterday. It was largely interpreted as my scathing take on Woods’ performance, which it shouldn’t have been. I was merely pointing out the different camps.
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5. Feinstein relents (sort of)
Longtime Woods hater, negative take opportunist, John Feinstein, has decided that while Tiger Woods will only be “back” after tasting major glory, he’s back…ish.
If Feinstein is your cup of sour tea, check out the piece…I go no further.
6. Slumbers on the issues
The R&A isn’t sleeping on what’s being talked about in the world of golf! Martin Slumbers talked through some of the big-ticket items with Golf Digest.
7. Golf is a tease
Shane Ryan penned a piece for Digest, as he does on occasion.
8. Furyk/Woods Ryder Cup
Captain Jim Furyk is mum on handing Tiger Woods a captain’s pick for the Ryder Cup.
9. Bob battles a troll
I have great respect for ESPN’s longtime golf voice Bob Harig. Surely, Harig has dealt with his share of nonsensical under-bridge dwellers in his time because, well, #internet. But I was amused to see Harig fire back at some particularly stupid remarks on Twitter.
Apologies for Tom’s language, but when you’re in an ALL-CAPS RAGE, you’re beyond the point of self-censorship
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Tour Photo Galleries
Photos from the 2024 RBC Heritage
GolfWRX is on site this week at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island for the RBC Heritage. Plenty of golfers who competed in the Masters last week will be making the quick turnaround in the Lowcountry of South Carolina as the Heritage is again one of the Tour’s Signature Events.
We have general albums for you to check out, as well as plenty of WITBs — including Justin Thomas and Justin Rose.
We’ll continue to update as more photos flow in from SC.
Check out links to all our photos, below.
General Albums
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #1
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #2
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #1
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #2
WITB Albums
- Justin Thomas – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Rose – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Chandler Phillips – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Nick Dunlap – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Thomas Detry – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Austin Eckroat – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Jason Day – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Will Zalatoris – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Patrick Cantlay – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Ludvig Aberg – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Collin Morikawa – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Sam Burns – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Stephen Jaeger – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
Pullout Albums
- Wyndham Clark’s Odyssey putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- JT’s new Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Thomas testing new Titleist 2 wood – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Cameron putters – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Odyssey putter with triple track alignment aid – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Scotty Cameron The Blk Box putting alignment aid/training aid – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Odyssey Ai One Eleven T putters – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Christian Bezuidenhout – testing new Callaway Ti 340 mini driver – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Rory McIlroy testing the new TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver Copper – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele testing the Callaway Ti 340 mini driver & the DUW – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Byeong Hun An, two new L.A.B. Golf putter builds with “T” alignment – 2024 RBC Heritage
See what GolfWRXers are saying and join the discussion in the forums.
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Shanks Happen
Jul 24, 2018 at 5:10 pm
This series has the possibility to be great, but keeps falling flat. Try to make these stories into 4-5 sentences that tease the story.
And quit with the bullet points that are the same quote but from different sections of a story.
Mark Harr
Jul 24, 2018 at 8:13 am
Ben; if I may offer a couple comments, both (of course) relating to Tiger:
Re; Furyk/Woods Ryder Cup. Yes, Tiger said a few weeks ago he hoped for/was trying to be a playing vice-captain for this years Ryder Cup.
But that had to be expressed as a goal, not an ambition. Do you not think, that Tiger as a vice-captain that Furyk will consult with, and as much as Tiger reveres the Ryder Cup matches and traditions, he will not recommend, or even accept, a playing position if he truly does not believe he is one of the 12 best at the time. He is working that as his goal this year, but you gotta believe that he will be objective as to recommending the 12 best players for the team.
And my second point: It has only been noted briefly that Tiger’s finish in The Open now qualified him for the Bridgestone at Firestone CC. I think it sets up to a HUGE story, Tiger at one of his best courses, where he has won 8 times (most of anyone(=), and the site of his last win (2013), AND the last year PGA will have a tournament at Firestone CC (after a run of 65 years of PGA and Firestone CC together). This would be quite a fitting event for Tiger’s Comeback.
And to tie it together, would there be any question about Tiger playing the Ryder Cup when he does win at Firestone?