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
“Everyone has a game plan until they are put in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson
I love that quote. It always reminds me. There is the Bravoure side – Iron Mike heard your Tjilps, but you wouldn’t bark after a glove to the chin. But there is also the lighting side. Tyson apparently implied that the game is over, and in the cases of his opponent it was usually. But looked at another way, a ‘punch’ gives you a person live and in living color. There is no more script. How they respond at the moment, says some things.
It came up in me when I looked TGL on Tuesday – and specifically while I saw Tiger Woodard Caddy Talk interpreting and his red polo was tied loose.
To catch up, while playing in the one-month old, simulator-based competition, Woods hit a TEE-SHOT 294 Yards on a 481-Yard par-4, asked his caddie, old Woods Confidant Rob McNamara, for a Yardage , for a Yardage and McNamara said: “99.” You may know where this is going. In such cases, Caddies usually falls the ‘1’, because it is a given if you just look ahead. But Woods took it as 99 meters, grabbed a wedge, threw it short and hilarity. Teammates laughed. ESPN broadcasters laughed. You laughed.
Everyone laughed at Woods, the 15-way big winner trying to guard his public image and words as if he was defending a lead on the back nine in Augusta. Sometimes he is successful. Sometimes he’s not. He wasn’t on Tuesday. He was beaten.
So what did we get? Friday afternoon I went back to watch. He was animated, especially against McNamara. He repeated himself; In the first minute after the mistake, he said “99” five times. He laughed. His tone changed. An in-play interview with ESPN’s Marty Smith was also great.
Started with Smith: “The greatest of all time, Tiger Woods, is still trying to analyze what the hell has just happened. But at least you can smile. ”
Woods said: “No, I heard 99 meters. And so I went outside and hit it 100 meters, and one of the most embarrassing moments in my golf career just happened. ”
Smith said, “But breaking it down in real life, that’s how you speak on the real golf course.”
Woods said, “Yes, I know.”
Smith said: “And you can see the pin and you know it is 200 meters.”
Woods said: “I know, I just ruined it. I mean, that was embarrassing. ‘
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It was something. It was a look in the wave bag of the forest, to say – or at least more than the one offered on TV or at Pershuddles. Regarding how it happened, I imagine that the opinions will vary, and I will leave it at that. Certainly, he welcomed some emotional release two weeks after he announced the death of his mother.
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2. The second best part of the scene? Tom Kim loses it. He can still laugh.
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3. Thursday, through a statement, we were updated on the negotiations on a financing agreement between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Aarabia Public Investment Fund. Read the statement:
We have just concluded a constructive work session in the White House with President Trump and he Yasir al-Rahalyyan.
Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, we have initiated a discussion about the reunification of Golf. We are dedicated to move as quickly as possible and will share additional details if necessary.
We share a passion for the game and the importance of reunification. The most important thing is that we all want the best players in the world to play together more often and want us to do everything we can to deliver that result for our fans. “
– Declaration by Commissioner Jay Monahan, Player Director Tiger Woods and Player Director Adam Scott
In short, a meeting was held and there are conversations, which is more than nothing, but less than something. But the feeling is that a deal is close by. What it looks like is speculative, although a comment from Adam Scott to the Associated Press’ Doug Ferguson was remarkable. Wrote Ferguson:
“It would not surprise me – or I would not judge anyone, the members – would happen as a reunification and they were not happy with how it happened,” said Scott, pausing to rub with both hands with both hands before they add: “me I hope they don’t spend as much time on it as I have.
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“I would not hold it to anyone if there were negative emotions, the thought that players are coming back.”
A deal will not stop this conversation. Far from it.
4. ‘Bringing the best players together’ is ‘Growing the Game’ from 2025.
Best Non Golf.com Read for your weekend
5. What am I reading (in addition The thoughtful prose of my colleagues)? This article is your click worth.
Here, Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal Writes about Aimpoint, a subject that has received a lot of ink here, a golf website, but not so much on a respected, company -based website, and I am always interested in the fresh perspective. The story was excellent. There is details about the proponents and opponents of Aimpoint, together with who it started and how it started. I will tease the story with only the leading role, which is also great. Wrote Beaton:
When the best golfers in the world nowadays inform a put -up, many of them look completely disturbed.
Their process for reading greens everywhere, from Augusta National to St. Andrews, means that they are over the line of the putt, close one eye and stick a few fingers in the air as if they are trying to greet a taxi to the clubhouse . Never started chopping balls in the centuries since a couple of Scots started in the direction of a cup, someone had previously studied so greens.
Best instruction tip for your weekend
6. A video from Andrew Lewis, a Dallas -based education, caught my attention, both because of his information and its creativity. In it, Lewis dropped a ball on a mat, placed a wind meter to the left and turned on the “fancy new hair dryer” of his wife, through which he read when wind can influence the ball on a well.
You can watch the video below.
A golf story that can only interest me
7. The name of Adri Arnaus, an old DP World Tour Pro from Spain – or what sounds like his name – is in “Ladies”, a song by Biggy, a South African rapper. Below is the song, (most words are in African) and below is a recently shared video of Arnaus that raps the song.
The chorus is now deep in my head.
Another golf story that can only interest me
8. The Holyhead Golf Club in Noord -Wales was forced to close his 18th hole – after a neighbor complained that too many golf balls went on their property. The story was first reported by David Powell of the Daily mailAnd you can read it completely here.
Which live golf is on TV this weekend?
9. Here is an overview of Live Golf on TV this weekend:
– Saturday
10.30 pm (Friday) -3: 30 am et: Honda Lpga Thailand Third Round, Golf Canal
4:30 am et: Magical Kenya Open Third Round, Golf Canal
13.00-15.00 et: Mexico Open Third Round, Golf Canal
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm et: Mexico Open Third Round, NBC
– Sunday
10.30 pm (Friday) -3: 30 am et: Honda Lpga Thailand Last round, Golf Canal
4 AM-9 AM ET: Magical Kenya Open Final Round, Golf Canal
13.00-15.00 et: Mexico Open Final Round, Golf Canal
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm et: Mexico Open Final Round, NBC
What you e -mail me
10. Let’s do 10 items! I will occasionally hold this space for thoughts that e-mail me, and this was more reaction to a slow-play item written two weeks ago.
I couldn’t help it, but respond to the fact that players were unnecessarily told to speed up the golf course. I live in the south of Arizona and my neighborhood courses are flooded with tourists and snow birds every year from November to April. Most of them are polite and respectful, but I constantly come across people who seem to think that taking six hours to play a 6,300-yard course is fine. I hear them constantly say things like: “I am retired, so I don’t care if it takes me eight hours” or “if they are in a hurry, they don’t have to play golf” or “if they want to do something fast, they have to Running, “etc. (I think these are the same people who come in the left lane from the highway and then ride exactly the speed limit and say: “I’m going to speed the speed limit so they can just go around!”).
These people do not seem to realize that most of us are not retired and do not have the whole day to play golf! When four routine lasts 20 minutes to play each hole (make multiple tee-shots, look for lost balls as if they were made of gold, taking 4-5 practice fluctuations for every shot, etc.) just ruin it for everyone otherwise. It all comes down to just common courtesy and simply let groups play faster.
A feel-good moment for your weekend
11. Let’s do 11 items! Below is a video of Dean Burmester during the Liv Golf Adelaide event last week.
The gesture wins the week. Shooting, it may have just won the year. (Click on the white arrow to watch the video in the middle of the photo.)
Nick Piastowski
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Nick Piastowski is a senior editor at Golf.com and Golf Magazine. In his role he is responsible for editing, writing and developing stories in the wave space. And when he does not write about ways to get the golf ball further and judge, the resident of Milwaukee probably plays the game, the ball touches on the left, right and short and drinks a cold beer to wash his score away. You can reach him about all these topics – his stories, his game or his beers – on nick.piastowski@golf.com.
