Grand Slam of Golf Review......

For my loyal viewers you know my love for Adam Scott is pretty strong.  Being able to watch him an extra week at the Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda made this shortened week of work bearable…having him win was the icing on the cake.  Four shots back with 10 holes to play and coming out on top shows you the grind and work ethic this famous golfer has shown us time and time again this season.  What’s even more impressive is the fact that he went bogey-free to shoot a seven under 64 which was a course record.  Not too shabby of a day on the course Mr. Scott.

Rose shot 67-69 to finish second at six under while PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner (69-70) was third at three-under and Padraig Harrington, filling in for British Open winner Phil Mickelson, shot 74-71 to round out the field at three over.

"I'm thrilled to come out on top. It felt like a long round out there but I was happy with the score," Scott said.  "Standing on the 11th tee, didn't look like a score like that was going to be possible, but I played very well and managed to slowly claw away at Justin."

 

Starting three shots back of Rose and dealing with tropical rain, Scott jumped out of the blocks early with a birdie on the opening hole to pull within two.  Another birdie on the third hole pulled the Australian within one shot and right into the thick of the action. But just as Scott was breathing down his neck, the Englishman lifted and rattled off four straight birdies on holes four through seven.  This is only a small review of the dynamic game these two put on for us on Wednesday.

He claimed more than $600,000 and the pink jacket for the champion.  Way to go Adam!!!

The 33-year-old now has his sights on the three major Australian tournaments and the World Cup, also to be held in Australia. Good Luck!!!

PGA Championship Moving Outside USA???....

The PGA is constantly trying to improve ratings, viewers interests and challenge the golfers.  IT has been written in the Golf Digest magazine of the possibility of moving the  PGA Championship one of the four majors of the PGA outside the United States of America as early as 2020 seeing as 2019 has already been given to Bethpage Black.

We all know that Americans seem to be the most proud people in this world.  How do you think they will react to hearing the news of the possibility that it would not be held in the USA?  I can only imagine the negative impact this will have on viewers especially the American citizens.  Put this into prospective for a minute.  Would we be willing to have the Canadian Open not on Canadian soil?? I think not!!

“This is an exercise we are going through, an analysis,' PGA of America chief executive officer Pete Bevacqua told Golf Digest.

'It is far from a fait accompli that we are going to take the PGA Championship international.

'When we sat down to map our strategic plan to service our members and grow the game the question arose as to what impact it would have to take the PGA Championship to an international location once or twice a decade.”

Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below!!

Up And Coming.....

Today’s post is going to be a feature on Jordan Spieth.  Jordan has had a fantastic year on the PGA tour and I think he could have the potential to be the next best thing in the next few years.  The twenty year old had 1 PGA win, 2 -2^nd place finishes, 3 – 3^rd place finishes 9 top 25 finishes and only missed 18 cuts.  His money total is $3,879,820 currently.  The best news for him?  His season isn’t over with he is now concentrating on the Presidents Cup.

Up for rookie of the year title and to me I feel like he has it in the bag.  He has proven time and time again that he has what it takes he’s a grinder and he wants it so bad.  I have enjoyed watching him grow over the 2013 season and I’m very impressed with what I have seen.

Kyle Porter was quoted saying: “Except that I watched it with my own eyes and I watched the 19-year-old rookie with zero PGA Tour status transform himself into a 20-year-old superstar who led the PGA Tour in top 10 finishes  and swiped a spot on the Presidents Cup squad from Jim Furyk.”

Gary Player even tweeted: “Jordan Spieth. The real deal.  Impressive young gun!”  When you get a tweet from a legend like that you know you have made it.  

His finish at the Fedex Cup was the highest finish by a rookie in the short history of the FedEx Cup:

Jordan Spieth (2013) -- 7th

Keegan Bradley (2011) -- 20th

Marc Leishman (2009) -- 20th

Brandt Snedeker (2007) -- 20th

Andres Romero (2008) -- 28th

John Huh (2012) -- 29th

With a 67.8% fairway hit statistic and 66.98% greens in regulation Jordan should been on all of our watch list come the Presidents Cup.  Good Luck Jordan!!!

Will Inbee win at the Evian-Les- Bains LPGA event.....

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France – Inbee Park wants to achieve two things at the Evian Championship – defend her title and make history.  Inbee is looking to do something that Arnold Palmer,. Jack Nichlaus or LPGA champion Annika Sorenstam haven’t not done …win four majors in a year.   


On Wednesday Park was quoted "Four out of five majors is an amazing thing to achieve, when I go outside the house and go anywhere in Korea, a lot of people come up to me. It's like I'm a celebrity." 

She has six tournament wins this year and dominantly leads the LPGA Tour money list and player of the year races. 

No. 2 Stacy Lewis will also be among the favorites in a strong field of 120 after winning her second career major at the British Open. 

Here are some photos course the ladies are challenging this weekend:

 

 

 

Part Two : Rules of Golf

Todays Post features more rules of golf...

breaking them down.

5. Procedure for a lost ball:

If a ball is lost or out-of-bounds, the player MUST go back and hit again from the point where the last shot was played (one stroke penalty). If you lose your ball on your drive, you must return to the tee (and may re-tee the ball) to play your third shot, etc.
Golfers commonly look for a lost ball longer than the 5 minutes allowed. The time begins when the golfer or partner start looking for the ball.

6. Playing a provisional ball:

When a golfer hits a ball from the teeing ground and feels the ball may be lost or out-of-bounds, she should wait for all other players in the group to tee off, then hit her “provisional” ball. If the first ball is lost or out-of-bounds, the provisional ball will become the ball in play with one penalty stroke. In other words, the player lies three. If the first ball is found on the golf course, it remains the ball in play and the provisional ball MUST be picked up without any penalty. (Remember to always announce that the second ball you’re hitting is a provisional and use the word “provisional,” or the original ball is out of play and you are lying three.)
Any other time you hit a ball that may be lost or out-of-bounds, you MUST announce and play the “provisional” ball before going forward to search for the first ball. Be sure to clearly identify the two balls with different brands, numbers or marks to be sure which ball is first and which is second.

7. Taking relief from immovable obstructions:

If a player’s ball comes to rest on or close to an immovable obstruction such as a sprinkler head, road or cart path, and the lie, stance or area of intended swing is interfered with by this obstruction, the player is allowed to drop a ball within one club length of the nearest point of relief, providing it’s no closer to the hole than where the ball originally had come to rest.
The player should determine the nearest point of relief using the club she expects to play her next stoke. Then she may use any club to measure the one club length area in which to drop the ball.
The nearest point of relief is the point where the ball will be played which is nearest to where the original ball lies, which is no closer to the hole and which, if the ball were so positioned, no interference would exist for the lie of the ball, the stance or the intended area of the swing.

8. What to do if your ball is unplayable:

When a ball comes to rest under a large bush, some golfers think they can measure the 2 club lengths from the edge of the bush. This is WRONG — the 2 club lengths MUST be measured from the ball’s position.
There are actually three options for a ball declared unplayable by a player: under penalty of one stroke, 1) play a ball from where the ball was originally played; 2) play a ball within 2 club lengths from where it lies in the unplayable position; or 3)keep the position where the ball lay unplayable between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped.