Running 2020 PGA Tour thread

Trump’s favorite golfer wins

Round with President Trump could be 'omen' for Jim Herman at Wyndham

 

Herman was once an assistant pro at Bedminster, I believe, so he and Trump go back aways. I'd like to know if there's been a winner on Tour in the last three years who ISN'T for Trump.

 

There might be ... but keep in mind that David Duval was a story on the PGA Tour not because of his play, but because he was a Democrat.

 

61-63.
Yeh.
That'll do.

 

Last nine played in the fog. Strafaci wins. Bandon Dunes likely picked up some business this week. The visuals were stunning.

 

It looked like that Eagles-Bears Fog Bowl. How they hit anything in that stuff is beyond me. Both players had their struggles in it, but both had some spectacular shots.

 

You're nuts. David Duval won 13 times, the British Open, The Players, the Tour Championship, a scoring title, a money title and was ranked No. 1 in the world for most of the 1999 season. Being a Democrat was the third item in a lot of notebooks.

 

Both of their drives on the final hole were balls-out good.

 

Right. The big storyline was a David vs. Tiger rivalry that seemed poised to be the dominant story in golf for the next decade or more.

 

I know this. So do you, obviously. I neither squelched nor disputed Duval's stellar play during that time.

But John Feinstein made note of it in books because he's not worried about someone going from a 66 to make the cut on the number to an 82 on Saturday.

The fact that Duval is a Democrat on a conservative Tour was part of the landscape. Didn't mean it needed to put in every story following every round or in the ADVs for Thursday editions (or Wednesday or Tuesday or any other day for that matter for majors). And the fact that it was part of his personal story seemed to annoy Duval for likely understandable reasons. It wasn't the reason he surged 20 years ago. It wasn't the reason he suddenly lost his game and never really got it back.

But it is part of his story, especially when viewing the Tour in the bigger picture.

So, yeah ... I'm nuts. And no outing.

 

Really felt for Duval when he lost it; inexplicable. Seems like a great guy on TV and hearing he was such a devoted step-father. My last memory of him was him coming up just short at the 2005 Masters. He had a great run but unfortunately despite all the times in the hunt at Augusta, only got the 1999 Open.