Welcome back to the Monday Rap.
Its been a few weeks since weve done an old-fashioned recap of the week.
Its nice to return to the roots of this here column.
He did interviews galore, including the Fore Play podcast.
He signed with a talent agency.
He simply rode the wave.
The picture of humility and the embodiment of a cinderella story immediately morphed into an arrogant target for ridicule.
And this wasnt the same bang out of complaints that we saw during Oak Hill week.
Those were about the medias constant milking him for content; these were personal attacks.
Public opinion is a fickle mistressespecially in a sport like golf where fans fetishize the aw-shucks mentality.
So yes, Golf Twitters opinion turned before he teed it up at Colonial.
The whole ordeal reminded me of Rory McIlroys last 12 months.
Then, to a large section of the internet, he became sanctimonious and hypocritical.
As a result, McIlroys now making a conscious effort to say less into microphones.
Its why so many athletes go into press conference mad-libs mode.
The same is true for Rory McIlroy.
Now, back to the actual golf.
That’s the way I can put it.
If he putted at a field-average level for the week, he wins by three.
Scheffler has lost ground putting in 9 of his last 16 starts.
He has lost ground off the tee in 0 of his last 16 measured starts.
He has lost ground with his approach play in 0 of his last 16 starts.
Its a highly frustrating experience for Scheffler fans and bettors.
Played solid golf again today, Scheffler said after the round.
Hit it really nice.
Seems like the story the last couple days, putts just weren’t falling.
It was a slow bleed, particularly on Sunday after he started with birdies on his first two holes.
That shouldn’t be in play really.
Probably a really firm bounce or some adrenaline.
Even then, I didn’t think that was in play, that hazard.
Thatshouldcover his post-PGA celebrations, but itll probably be close.
He never made the grow the game noises.
He kept it real, and he did so again after winning another $4 million on Sunday.
Hello, world
Arguably the best amateur golfer since Tiger Woods will make her professional debut this week.
The inaugural event is being hosted by Michelle Wie, another amateur sensation once upon a time.
You have made it possible for me to pursue my dreams."
By rule, she forfeited her exemption into the U.S. Open when she turned professional.
Zhang held the world No.
She turned 20 six days ago.
Really, really well put.
I saw a bit of history myself this week.
My home club in New York, Quaker Ridge, has been open for 107 years.
Its not the official course record because Stew hit a breakfast ball off the first tee.
He did not birdie the second ball, so it likely wouldnt have made any difference.
I also knocked away a few tap-ins early in the round because we were playing match-play.
A bunch of questions spring to mind.
Chief among them: what kind of fucking golf tee goes through a shoe and punctures a foot?
Thats some Oregon Trail shit, not Oregon Ducks.
Hes now won the first two of the year and three of the last seven overall.
Billy Horschel is the defending champion and virtually all the top PGA Tour players are teeing it up.
