Running 2021 Golf Thread

Akshay Bhatia is playing the Zurich this week with ... um ... Scott Piercy.

 

Winners. Book it.

 

Very happy to see Lydia Ko get into the winners circle again. She's won 2 majors and 16 times now and she's only 24. Hope she can add some more majors again. This with a a 3 yr drought too.

 

Tiger Woods could buy roughly 926,999 Hearty Man's Combo Platters at Perkins ($7.99 plus 8% tax) for the $8 million he'll get from the PGA Tour as an "influencer."

That's 1,569 calories per serving -- or a total of 1,454,461,181.92 calories in all.

Somebody cue up Warrant's "Cherry Pie."

 

Every one of those guys are richer for having Tiger Woods on the PGA Tour -- just like previous generations benefited from Jack and Arnie. Just look at The Players Championship purse, which the Tour keeps inflated to be the richest in golf. In the 1996 Players, four months before Tiger turned pro, Fred Couples got $630,000 and the purse was $3.5 million. Justin Thomas got $2.7 million this year, out of a $15 million purse. Yeah, the stars are richer, but so are the schlubs. I know a guy in our area who played on the Korn Ferry Tour for 6-7 years, had one cup of coffee on the PGA Tour, but because he had a steady diet of 40th place finishes on the money list, he had enough to buy a crib in a gated community for about $800K.

 

Not saying $$ is easy but is that all $800 k down or $160? Still a lot of course but difference.

 

Clearly they’ll need to see if there’s any money left after first paying Scott Piercy

 

T-16 after one round!

 

Total shitshow in Baton Rouge for one of the NCAA Women's Regionals, where officials cancel the regional after heavy rain. They say, it's playable, but "not at a championship level." Top six seeds and top three unattached individuals advance. The ladies, as you might suspect, are not pleased.

 

Is the dude's daughter one of the top six seeds?

 

The PGA bonus thing makes sense - might also encourage a few players to play some of the tournaments that are typically "off-weeks" and suffer at the gate.