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 check with one of our main master's characters in 2025…
The reaction to the last victory of Dechambeau speaks volumes
The same week that Bryson Dechambeau won the Liv Korean event, Rory McILroy, his master's degree, Rory McILroy Visited “The Tonight Show” and lounging in glory It has just won a green jacket. The contrast is striking: where McILroy basically loung (rightly) in his status as a newly created sport legend, Dechambeau literally plays on the other side of the planet. And although Déchambeau was one of the biggest names in the game, there was little juice, little social renown, little notice of his victory – which was just being his first in any tournament since US Open in Pinehurst. Korea was also the first time in four attempts this year that Dechambeau won a tournament he led before the last day.
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Admittedly, Sunday was a huge sporting day – a 7 -game couple, a Grand Prix in the United States and a popular winner in the PGA Tour of the day event – but even, Dechambeau's victory seemed barely to make a undulation. Admittedly, the event occurred at times before the dawn of the American public, but that is part of the problem here. Even the aura of Dechambeau is not enough to escape the gravitational attraction of LIV.
We carry out the irony of a media publication saying that Dechambeau should be a more important matter in media publications – do not control who does and cannot be a “more important affair”? Yes, but notes, clicks and social media realization numbers do not lie – Liv events simply do not have the juice that PGA Tour events do, even four years later.
Liv is not necessarily focused on the laser on the American public; The objective of the tour is more global. But the public of Dechambeau is only originally American thanks to its Youtube popularity, and many of the other VIV – Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed – are American and would probably appreciate a little more resonance in their country of origin. Decision time is approaching for several important VIV players while their contracts are exhausted, and the continuous difficulties of the tour to arouse the interest of its current product must be an important factor in their decision to re-sign.
Scottie Scheffler storms the victory of the size of Texas
Finally, Scheffler ended his long section of nightmare nightmare… eight months by claim the CJ Cup byron nelson awkwardly in Texas. Scheffler obtained a 253 for the week, equaling the lowest score of 72 holes in the history of the PGA Tour for an eight -time victory on the field. It was not exactly a victory for Rory-At-Augusta; The course is as tamed as a kitten, and the field was not particularly stacked. However, this is the last tournament that Scheffler will play before the PGA championship, and it's always nice to go in a big week with a victory. It's also nice to leave a tournament with a new hat:
LPGA becomes difficult to play slow, levels the penalty to two stages
Accelerating the pace will not solve all the golf problems, but that will certainly not hurt. After a lot of troubles and debate, the powers of sport that are starting to become more difficult in slow game, recognizing that no one is shaking in a tournament to watch the players assess the shots for four minutes. The LPGA swrooved a large (and expensive) hammer last week at the Black Desert Championship, marking Chisato Iwai with a two -step penalty for slowing down. The penalty has proven the difference between a pay check and a return trip at the start, because Iwai missed the cup of two strokes. LPGA sanctions require a fine for a violation of up to five seconds, a penalty suddenly for a violation of six to 15 seconds, and a two-step penalty for any player who takes 15 seconds or more above his time allocated to play a blow. Step Lively!
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The first penalty of the range of the tour leads to the clutch clutch
The PGA Tour is experimenting with new options for players, such as range researchers, as well as new penalties, such as using the slope parameter on your beach search. Davis Riley realized in the second round late round of the CJ Cup Saturday that he had not extinguished the frame of the slope, and he self -commissioned the penalty. Well on him, except that the penalty was two shots, he fell from the inside of the cutting line with a blow … and he was on the 17th hole. Not great! But Riley intensified on the 18th and carded a clutch eagle to cut. He finished the T45 tournament and won $ 31,185, the money he would not have had if he had missed the cup. So him gets both his honor and a payroll check! Beautiful work!
To come this week … PGA Tour: Truist Championship (Pennsylvania) and OneFlight Myrtle Beach Championship (South Carolina); LPGA: Mizuho America Open (New Jersey); PGA Tour Champions and Liv Golf: Off.
