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  1. Tiger Woods commits to The Genesis Invitational - PGA TOUR Will mark first official PGA TOUR start of season after injury-plagued 2024
  2. Tiger’s walking at the PNC and people say he’s not limping.
  3. Even if you calculated inflation, I would never use earnings for this purpose. The purses has grown a lot the past thirty years and inflation won’t explain most of that. As an example, Tiger won $1m at the Masters in 2001 and Scottie won $3.6m in 2024. Adjusted for inflation, $1m in 2001 is $1.7m today. Wins, including majors and maybe significance of won events along with the most important SG data is what I would use to rank the best seasons, as Erik already has said. Top 10-15 seems reasonable, without having done any numerical comparisons. Datagolf has touched on the topic of peak Tiger vs Scottie: Newsletter No. 56 Letzig's Latest archive.
  4. What’s the statistic for the years they’ve been using this format where they start under par? How often does the leader end up winning?
  5. The players that went out in the middle of the field today got the worst conditions and many of them struggled. Quite different from the conditions the later groups faced.
  6. It may be difficult to tell exactly where your weight is and how it is distributed. Weight and pressure may be felt different. What feels like on the balls of your feet may be more centered than you think. Here are a few topics with some info and resources:
  7. Phil might be needing it to fuel his gambling.
  8. All weather, but very rarely if it’s pouring. Some rain is fine. Wind is a more no-go than rain. Especially wind and rain. I’d rather play in cool light drizzle than 80° F+ and sunny. My body is not designed for hot weather. My perfect conditions are 60-70° F and cloud cover. If it’s a bit nippy I can wear more clothes. I can only remove so much clothes if it’s 75+ and still get too hot. Warm and cloudy can work too.
  9. Scheffler’s at it again.
  10. Tom Kim stands over the ball 25-ish seconds before starting the swing. Ludvig Åberg barely gets into his stance before he is done. I don’t know what their total time per shot is, just find it fascinating.
  11. Luck will always be part of a tournament. You can analyze all 72 holes and try to see who got more lucky, but to what end? Next tournament it’ll be the other way around. Bryson shot the lowest score and won. Rory could have won with fewer mistakes on the last four holes. Or any of the other 68 holes.
  12. This discussion and Bryson’s media figure reminds me of a trend you see all over the place in social media and Internet in general: staging. I don’t use Instagram a whole lot, but enough to come across videos that are obviously staged, but presented as happening randomly. It falls in like with the “fake news” part of the world where you can’t trust anything. People (influencers, celebrities, politicians etc.) throws stuff out all the time that are straight up lies, pretending ignorance, or twisted to make it sound more interesting than it actually is. Then there’s the overreactions. Youtube and Instagram are filled with thumbnails of shocked content creators “LOOK WHAT HAPPENED 🫣😲🫣”, then it’s some staged or stupid shit. I miss the time when most of what you found online was not staged or stupid. The sad part is that it works, generate clicks, ad revenue and people make millions on that stuff. At least Bryson is primarily a professional golfer. Bryson raking the 18th bunker while holding the trophy puts more of his face in the media. There’s no reason to do it, but it makes for some good photos and he’s building his persona. From the entire week you can see how he interacts with the audience way more than most of them out there. Part of it is probably just being Bryson and giving the audience something extra, but I always have the thought in the back of the head that it’s not the entire reason. Players being emotional, engaging and showing more of themselves than hitting a golf ball is good, but at some point you cross the line into being fake for the sake of attention.
  13. Yeah, it’s the local course where I live. Closest next one is over an hour drive away. Longest club I bring is a 4i, so not a long one, but tricky to get around. Small landing spots, elevation changes, small greens.
  14. 496/496 putts inside 3 feet. The number of putts made by Rory before the 16th today. At least on the PGAT. Great tournament. The course kept it entertaining all four days.
  15. Clutch bunker shot. I don’t mind BDC winning stuff, but Rory…..
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