Welcome to the Monday ranking, where we drop the best stories of the weekend in the wonderful world of golf. Take a Arnold Palmer, pull a chair and start looking at the major season …
1. Trump will not buy a turnberry anytime soon
Long before continuing another occupation, Donald Trump imagined a golf magnate, and for the most part, his portfolio of elite level journey all over the world. But Trump has never welcomed a major for men to one of his lessons. He bought Turnberry – The Nicklaus -Watson Duel site in the sun in 1977, and Tom Watson's quasi -manca in 2009 – in 2014 with the expectation and the hypothesis that he would obtain an open championship in a short time. Not the case. The rhetoric of Trump's anti-elegal immigrants on the campaign track in 2015 cost him a place in open rotation, and Turnberry has not been considered since.
NOW, The open may have passed Turnberry by. The telegraph Note that the frequentation of Turnberry in 2009 was only about half of the recent openings, and access to the course on the Scottish coast is limited and delicate. Less fans means less income for R&A, which administers the opening and depends on the tournament for much of its annual income. In addition, Trump himself is apparently part of the problem. Martin Slumbers, the former president of R&A, said in November that “we will not take events there as long as we are not comfortable that all the dialogue will concern golf.” Since it is unlikely that a conversation on a golf course belonging to Trump is concentrating on the golf course in the foreseeable future, it is unlikely that Trump will see an Open in Turnberry anytime soon.
2. Charley Hull remains the biggest golf treasure
Lydia Ko won the HSBC Women's World Championship this weekend in Singapore, adding another title to her career at the renowned temple. But there is a story that is just as good for a few shots in the ranking: Charley Hull, who spent the weekend: 1. Tiring Up Smokes, 2. Running 5ks, 3. Pouking and 4. Almost win the tournament. On Saturday, Hull continued her technique for preparing for the unconventional tournament: she vomited, then ran hard in three miles and more before her turn; She still managed to finish the Tour with a single head. She faded on Sunday, but the fact that she was anywhere near the top of the ranking was amazing.
3. The young phenomenon Clanton makes his way on PGA Tour
Luke Clanton is Junior of Florida State. It is also, thanks to its spectacular performance in progress in the last nine months, about to become a member of the PGA Tour. Clanton cut the cognizant Classic last weekend, giving him the points he needed to win a tour card in season via the PGA Tour University program. What is the most impressive is that Clanton has completely struck the brand through performance, not by points drawn from the prices. He made 11 departures on the PGA Tour and scored five TOP-15, including two seconds. This is how you start a career.
4. Roll TGL: Dunlap obtains a match contract for Atlanta
Nick Dunlap, Alabama star, is the last player to go to TGL for an agreement of a match. Dunlap, who won a tournament as an amateur last year, will join Atlanta Drive GC on Tuesday for his last regular season match; He will play alongside Lucas Glover and Billy out of chencing. The Alabama graduate and the Atlanta Drive Justin Thomas player will not be present. Dunlap's first opponent? No one other than Tiger Woods and Jupiter Links. No pressure.
5. 59 is not what it was
Jake Knapp Thursday Carded one of the most beautiful towers in the history of the PGA TourA 59 which was just a stroke of the record of all time on the tour. On Sunday, he still directed the Cognizant Classic and was preparing to become the first winner of Fil à Fil à PGA National since 1996. But came the 11th hole and the disaster.
Knapp put his approach in the water around green. He needed three shots to reach green, and two other putts to enter the hole. Triple Bogey dropped him in the ranking, from 1 to T6. Joe Highsmith would continue to win the tournament, and Knapp wondered what could have been.
“I would like to have this blow on 11,” he said later. “I think that apart from that, I will think of the 59, of course, but it is not that this blow will haunt me or something like that.”
Trophy of the week: The Cognizant Classic
Joe Highsmith succeeded in a remarkable feat in cognizant: he did the number cut, then won the whole tournament. The last player to do that? Brandt Snedeker in 2016 at the Farmers Insurance Open in Torrey Pines. Highsmith award: a large crystalline trophy which seems to have a ton of jelly beans … or beans cooked in the oven, even. Be careful to bring this thing home, Joe.
Mulligan of the week: Rickie Fowler and the Buché gallery
Regarding galleries, professional golf course is constantly playing with fire. Sport wants fans to be engaged … but not too committed. Because you get scenes like this:
It is Fowler reminding a fan that they are in the stands and it is him in the arena. This is one of those moments when you would really like to see what ordinary guy would do with this putt. Probably roll the ball in a different time zone.
This week: Arnold Palmer Invitational and Puerto Rico open on the PGA Tour, Liv Golf Hong Kong, Blue Bay LPGA in China, TGL Realat Sante Wrap: Monday and Tuesday.
