Golf World Golf thread - Welcome to the The Masters

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I'm of the view that he's potentially our best player since Adam Scott. Huge talent. Made for PGA Tour golf too.

Whether we see the best of him now given his decision to play in limited field invitational events with no cut is obviously the question.

In terms of potential he is miles from the Scott level. Aussie players who get to more than a couple of PGAT wins are few and far between. Who are we talking this century? Scott, Appleby, Day, Leishman and Smith?

 

[IKnowtheDog]

In terms of potential he is miles from the Scott level. Aussie players who get to more than a couple of PGAT wins are few and far between. Who are we talking this century? Scott, Appleby, Day, Leishman and Smith?

Don't forget Aaron Baddeley and even Brett Rumford, although his doamin was European Tour.

The professional golf tour no matter where is extremely tough and competitive.

There's being plenty of young golfers look great as youngsters but not win on tour. At least here he's able to focus on his game whilst settinf himself up financially.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

Did anybody watch the final of the Asutralian Amatuer Masters. Seemed a tough day at Southern.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

An interesting development. The two tournaments us Aussies truly loved on the US Tour.

 

[peternorth]

Did anybody watch the final of the Asutralian Amatuer Masters. Seemed a tough day at Southern.

I played in the morning where the weather was ok. But around midday I was glad to finish. Horrible conditions for the ammos at southern.

 

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Don't forget Aaron Baddeley and even Brett Rumford, although his doamin was European Tour.

The professional golf tour no matter where is extremely tough and competitive.

There's being plenty of young golfers look great as youngsters but not win on tour. At least here he's able to focus on his game whilst settinf himself up financially.

Guess we can add in Allenby and Appleby too. Golf is hard. Pro
Golf is harder.

And Southern yesterday looked hard!

 

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Anthony Kim has snuck himself back into LIV as one of three at the LIV Promotion event - their version of tour school.

Did nit see that coming

 

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Brian Rolapp just threw down the gauntlet with LIV. His returning player scheme(particularly its limited window) seems squarely aimed at Bryson, Rahm and even Cam Smith. But specifically not Phil!

 

[Woody15]

How big is the WM going to be

Interesting couple of weeks for Bryson, Cam and Rahm. If only 1 of those decide to leave, that’ll be huge.

Poor Phil

 

[chickenonachain]

Brooks has been allowed to back to the pga tour, will others follow?

 

[Pklz]

Don't think this is the W that the PGA Tour are trying to make it out to be. LIV clearly happy to let Brooks walk.

Other than being a big name he does nothing to move the needle week to week. Guys like Rahm, Bryson etc at least go out and try to compete. Brooks did sweet fa on the pga tour when he was there originally and clearly only cares about the majors.

I cant see anyone else following tbh.

 

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Don't think this is the W that the PGA Tour are trying to make it out to be. LIV clearly happy to let Brooks walk.

Other than being a big name he does nothing to move the needle week to week. Guys like Rahm, Bryson etc at least go out and try to compete. Brooks did sweet fa on the pga tour when he was there originally and clearly only cares about the majors.

I cant see anyone else following tbh.

There are only a few other names on LIV that the PGAT would want - Rahm is probably the only one. Bryson burnt too many bridges and no one else on LIV is any kind of needle mover.

Would like to see Hatton and Reed back though

 

[sideswipe]

How big is the WM going to be

Interesting couple of weeks for Bryson, Cam and Rahm. If only 1 of those decide to leave, that’ll be huge.

Poor Phil

The speculation is that Rahm’s contract is a lot more onerous in terms of exiting.

 

[Peters_Nuts]

There are only a few other names on LIV that the PGAT would want - Rahm is probably the only one. Bryson burnt too many bridges and no one else on LIV is any kind of needle mover.

Would like to see Hatton and Reed back though

I agree. I think this is them opening the door to Rahm because he also expressed concerns last year.

Cam Smith would be 0% chance of coming back too.

 

[Woody15]

There are only a few other names on LIV that the PGAT would want - Rahm is probably the only one. Bryson burnt too many bridges and no one else on LIV is any kind of needle mover.

Would like to see Hatton and Reed back though

I'd love to see both of those guys back. Even Reed. Its one thing that the PGAT has missed, particularly with Reed, is an antagonist.

 

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I'd love to see both of those guys back. Even Reed. It’s one thing that the PGAT has missed, particularly with Reed, is an antagonist.

Add Hatton and that’s about it. Plus Aussies

 

[Woody15]

Interesting. I'd imagine watching Koepka on the 16th tee at WM Open will be a tough watch for Bryson's ego. If he were return, it would be interesting to see if the PGAT relaxes their policy of players going out on their own for Youtube etc given how much of an impact Bryson has had on the golf world the past few years.

 

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Interesting. I'd imagine watching Koepka on the 16th tee at WM Open will be a tough watch for Bryson's ego. If he were return, it would be interesting to see if the PGAT relaxes their policy of players going out on their own for Youtube etc given how much of an impact Bryson has had on the golf world the past few years.

If LIV isn’t already terminally ill, Bryson leaving would kill them. That’s a decent amount of leverage for him.

The Saudis should be piling into the Euro Tour to at least ensure some sort of sustainability for a few LIV tournaments

 

[Woody15]

I'd like to think they're terminal. PGAT was able to weather the storm of their stars leaving because they had an abundance of them remaining. LIV certainly doesn't have that luxury. They also haven't been able to attract any more stars from the PGAT since Rahm.

I'd absolutely love for Bryson to return to the PGAT and leave Rahm to battle it out with the likes of Poulter, Westwood, Phil and Kim.

 

[Woody15]

Interesting response from Bryson.

 

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With all the Brooks noise, other LIV moves aren’t getting much coverage. Two players - Kevin Na and

 

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With all the Brooks noise, other LIV moves aren’t getting much coverage. Two players - Kevin Na and

Jinichiro Kozuma exiting stage left apparently because they aren’t the right fit for the re-branded Ironheads becoming Team Korea.

Not sure this adds to the idea of it being a meritocracy when two players who qualified for this year are now no longer around.

Not sure too many care though. Won’t miss Na’s pace of play

 

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Flick on the telly to check out Sony. A Scott on his last tee for the day at -3. First shot I see of the 2026 season is him jagging it left OOB.

 

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But he makes eagle with his second ball to walk off with a par. Contrast that with a left OOB I hit last weekend followed by a double to produce a lovely 8.

 

[katana]

i say more events in hawaii. this timezone is lovely for wfh background.