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Morning 9: Turkeys and fall season facts | Sergio waives Saudi Arabia appearance fee | Anthony Kim anecdote
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By Ben Alberstadt
November 26, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. There will be no Morning 9 Wednesday through Sunday. I’ll make up for it with a Morning 36 on Monday, if we can get ’em in before darkness falls. But really, the M9 will be back Monday. Happiest of Thanksgivings in advance. I’m truly grateful for all of you who open this roundup every day!
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1. Fall season facts
Golf Digest’s Daniel Rapaport (who is availing himself nicely in the new role) compiled some takeaways from the fall swing. He begins with a point both readily apparent and easy to forget…
2. Turkey awards
Superb stuff from the Golf.com crew as they round up their turkeys of the year.
A couple of entries… “THE BENJAMIN BUTTON AWARD FOR AGING BACKWARDS…Winner: Sergio Garcia”
“THE ANTI-SHIVAS IRONS AWARD FOR VIOLATING THE SPIRIT OF THE GAME…Winner: Trey Bilardello”
3. Rory and Rickie helped
(Find me a more imposing author photo than) Martin Dempster at The Scotsman wrote this about European Tour ROY Bob MacIntyre…
4. Sergio to drop appearance fee
James Corrigan at The Telegraph…”Sergio García will return to play in next year’s Saudi International, the controversial event from which he was disqualified in February after purposefully damaging several of the greens. But as the Spaniard tries to make reparations for his outrageous meltdown, he will agree to participate without an appearance fee this time around.”
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5. To fill your quota of Anthony Kim anecdotes…
Joel Beall at Golf Digest writes…”In a promo for Golf Channel’s “Swing Expedition,” Adam Schriber, Kim’s former swing coach, relayed a tale when he and Kim visited a pizza joint in Palm Desert, Calif., in 2008.”
6. Hero Shot
Adam Woodard at Golfweek on a new component (and wise, given the fact that it is essentially an exhibition, after all) of the Hero World Challenge…”The tournament itself, which benefits Tiger Woods’ TGR Foundation, will be played Wednesday-Saturday on Dec. 4-7, but the week-long event will begin two days prior with the Hero Shot at Baha Mar on Monday, Dec. 2 at 4 p.m.”
7. Who has the most top 100 courses?
Kevin Cunningham for Golf.com...”Course architects A.W. Tillinghast, Donald Ross, Alistair Mackenzie, and Old Tom Morris each have multiple courses on the list.”
8. The craziest parlay in golf history?
If genuine, this is a heckuva ticket! Alex Myers at Golf Digest on the 8,500-1 hit…”Thanks to UK-based golf writer Ben Coley, an incredible betting slip has taken Golf Twitter by storm. As you can imagine, the odds (about 8,500-to-1) and the payout (£126,875.88 or about $163,000) are significant, but the four legs of the parlay are what have everyone talking. The parlay won thanks to Jon Rahm’s victory at the DP World Tour Championship that also gave the Spaniard the European Tour’s season-long Race to Dubai title. But it actually began at the beginning of the year.”
9. WITB Time Machine
I’d like to call your attention to new series we’re doing at WRX: WITB Time Machine. The premise is simple, but we hope the rewards of digging in will be a complex and satisfying as something from Phil Mickelson’s wine cellar.
First up, we’re featuring Tiger Woods’ WITB from August of 2015-a time when Tiger was truly a full-bag Nike staffer.
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Tour Photo Galleries
Photos from the 2024 RBC Heritage
GolfWRX is on site this week at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island for the RBC Heritage. Plenty of golfers who competed in the Masters last week will be making the quick turnaround in the Lowcountry of South Carolina as the Heritage is again one of the Tour’s Signature Events.
We have general albums for you to check out, as well as plenty of WITBs — including Justin Thomas and Justin Rose.
We’ll continue to update as more photos flow in from SC.
Check out links to all our photos, below.
General Albums
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #1
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #2
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #1
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #2
WITB Albums
- Justin Thomas – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Rose – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Chandler Phillips – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Nick Dunlap – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Thomas Detry – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Austin Eckroat – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Jason Day – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Will Zalatoris – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Patrick Cantlay – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Ludvig Aberg – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Collin Morikawa – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Sam Burns – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Stephen Jaeger – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
Pullout Albums
- Wyndham Clark’s Odyssey putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- JT’s new Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Thomas testing new Titleist 2 wood – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Cameron putters – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Odyssey putter with triple track alignment aid – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Scotty Cameron The Blk Box putting alignment aid/training aid – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Odyssey Ai One Eleven T putters – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Christian Bezuidenhout – testing new Callaway Ti 340 mini driver – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Rory McIlroy testing the new TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver Copper – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele testing the Callaway Ti 340 mini driver & the DUW – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Byeong Hun An, two new L.A.B. Golf putter builds with “T” alignment – 2024 RBC Heritage
See what GolfWRXers are saying and join the discussion in the forums.
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