Running 2024 golf thread

If I've learned anything working in golf it's just how narrow the margins are. My place hosts a big amateur tourney every summer. I've covered it for 12 years in being here, and in every edition, there's been a future Tour pro in the field.

Only one of them has actually won in my time here.

Pendrith played it twice. Never made the cut. Bryson lost in the Round of 16. Cameron Champ lost in the Round of 32. Corey Conners was a runner-up.

That's how hard golf is.

 

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The Nelson and Colonial used to be consecutive weeks not too many years back. Allowed those staying in the Metroplex to stay put for a while.

I think Houston, for a while, was the last stop prior to Augusta.

Houston, then the Metroplex tournaments, then San Antonio would make a lot of sense. But I'm guessing the Tour has some sort of $$$$ reason(s).

Also, the Nelson used to have a much, much better field. It's almost as if now that Byron Nelson is gone, the Tour is treating it like the B.C. Open and/or a hit-and-giggle.

The week before a "Signature" event, then the PGA? Yeah ... you're begging a lot of "name" players to simply skip this one in preparation. Not hand-wringing, Hondo ... I agree that it gives some players who aren't as prominent or who are just getting their professional feet wet a chance. It's a field of 70 or 156 ... not just the two or three players whose names are known by everyone.

 

Maybe. But they're not going to LIV.

 

I tried for a solid half hour to watch the LIV event this weekend and couldn't. The scoreboard on the left hand side is a busy, distracting nightmare. Ended up watching Rick Steves tour Paris instead.

 

I still am considering attending their "Nashville" event just to see the circus up close. Maybe.

 

SJ LIV outing?