The touching gesture of Fred couples and how to fight in Golf | Weekend 9

Welcome! Where are you, you ask. I call this the weekend 9. See it as a place to warm you up for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We will have thoughts. We have tips. We have tweets. But in total only nine, although sometimes perhaps more and sometimes perhaps less. What are I am concerned? The sections below tell part of the story. I can be reached at nick.piastowski@golf.com.

I promise this will not be preaching. Or syrupy.

After all, this starts with a tee-shot that slams a 50-feet tree about 100 meters and then ricocht around a 4-hour corner, before we finished 10 feet under the hole that we were just ready, about 50 meters on our right side. The only thing that was higher than the chance that it happened was the degree of absurdity. And Matt heard about it. It was his golf ball that he had played more like a billiard ball.

Good stuff. And that is what my annual wave is, which I went through last week. (If you are interested, I have written about it here and here.) We go to Green Lake, Wis. (About 90 minutes north of where I grew up), we play the Lawsonia Double, Mascoutin and Tuscumbia (which in the street of our Airbnb) and we play golf and watch old pro strangles on YouTube (sometimes all). Are Matt and Ethan going; They are university friends. And another mat; He is a high school friend. And Todd, which I have known since primary school. You have this group. You have this trip.

And isn’t that “point?”

Do you remember that Scottie Scheffler thinks existentially about the Open Championship? About a month after he wondered why he should try to win, and after he wondered why he should try to win when things like family infinitely more, and after he wondered: “What is the point,” I still thought of it.

Then, somewhere after a bogey and a beer, I was reminded of the answer. Sometimes it is lost at the E -mails and meeting invitations. But that’s why we respond to all those messages. That’s why we print. That’s why we keep hurrying.

The answer is the sensation of the climb, whatever your climb. And the ability to celebrate that, in all sorts of weird and beautiful ways.

Like with golf balls of trees.

Let’s see if we can find eight more items for the weekend 9.

One collection meal of the week

2. One of the best stories of the week? It was Jimmy Abdo’s game on this week’s American amateur, and below Is a video from James Colgan from Golf who looks at it.

One collection meal for the coming week

3. In anticipation of this week’s BMW championship, part of the conversation was aimed at next week’s Tour Championship, where the seasonal PGA Tour event will undergo the latest makeover. However, the last format is easy to follow-everyone even starts on the rankings, and the winner of the tournament is the winner of the seasonal trophy but for now we will not weigh whether it is the best size.

Because we want to give this suggestion:

End the pro golf season with a PGA championship in August.

Of course there is a matter of what happens to all the money and the like dedicated to the current PGA Tour -Play -offs, but someone smart may figure out that part.

One collection meal for the month before the month

4. Also at the BMW, and at every tournament this summer there were questions if Keegan Bradley should be a play captain for the upcoming Ryder Cup. To be here, I found this thought this week of our slack channel fun:

“Two weeks off, I believe that everyone who thinks he doesn’t pick himself is stupid.”

It was followed by this comment:

“He wanted to be in another team for ten years. He may not get a different chance. He would not like to play? Be serious.”

I agree. The question is how poor Bradley should play in the coming two weeks in order not to choose himself.

One collection meal for the coming weeks

5. This week’s LIV Golf event is the first of two season-dependent events, and it promises to determine whether players are “relegated” for next season. If they were to fall under the 48th in the seasonal point race, they are playing and playing, well-known names such as Henrik Stenson and Ian Poulter belonged to those who wanted to avoid that fate.

Liv Tour Card Drama will certainly be fascinating. But contract negotiations should be even more. Deals for some of the biggest stars in Liv are reportedly ending at the end of next year – Bryson Dechambeau spoke about his negotiations at the US Open – and whether they are being renewed, is the biggest story of LIV.

6. In Meer Liv Golf News, Sebastian Munoz shot a 59 during the first round of Friday – with a double bogey at the age of four. After the double he played his last 14 holes on a ridiculous 13-under par.

An instruction tip for your weekend

7. I really enjoyed this exchange on Friday between a reporter and Robert Macintyre, with the reporter’s question in italics:

Ask about Golf and Shinty. You used the word ‘fight’. I have heard that word use a lot in the past three or four years. What does it mean for you, because we are talking about fighting in shinty, when it can be physical and fight in golf, if it is not possible. What is your definition to be a good hunter if you play a very quiet sport?

“Yes, I’m not very calm on the golf course,” said Macintyre. “But Shinty is a physical contact sport where the fight is not so much physical fight, but it is as if, do not go half -hearted; do not go 50/50 in a tackle; that is when you get injured. Go 100 percent in a tackle, and hopefully you win the tackle. If you don’t come back and you go again.

“Golf is exactly – that’s how I treat it. Yesterday I hit a bad tee shot on 12 in the water. If it is a tough test, I find it easier, if you know people make bogeys. But it was just to get there, make a drop, think of what you don’t do well. In the towel, but it’s not what I do.

“For me it is just done your best until it is ready and someone tells you to stop.”

A video on Twitter that I found funny

8. The video below Is wild.