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Post Thanksgiving Musings
Thoughts on winter in Wisconsin and lack of playing time. Awaiting spring so another season will begin and I will have a refuge from the trials and tribulations of life in general.
Tiger Woods and Lorena Ochoa tie for golfer of the year.
The Fedex Cup is bizarre. Golf is not a playoff sport and never will be considered one. The Match Play Championship is the playoff and a lot of people don’t care or think it’s interesting. Silly idea for a silly reason.
To think it’s not even officially winter in Wisconsin and already I find myself anxiously awaiting Spring.
Not because a young man’s fancy turns to love, I ceased qualifying as a young man long ago, but because I want to begin another golf season. I pass by my clubs, forlornly tucked in the corner, several times a day. Occasionally I’ll remove one, grip it, address a make believe ball, take my stance, and waggle a couple of times. Sometimes I’ll even give one of those Mike Weir abbreviated backswings (it is the basement after all, low ceiling). The club always winds up back in the back while I trundle off to whereever it is I have to go to do whatever it is that has to be done. Perhaps that’s why I miss golf season so, I’ve no excuse for putting off household chores and no refuge from the demands of the five women who so thoroughly dominate my activities.
How do you choose between Tiger Woods and Lorena Ochoa for Golfer of the Year? I can’t, doing so would feel like slighting a remarkable performance. Akin to deciding if Grandma’s chocolate chip cookies are better than her oatmeal raisin cookies. A decision that will be second guessed before it’s made. Call it a tie, raise a glass of milk in salute to both.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the Fedex Cup. I’m not sure why exactly except that I must have important things to think about that I’m avoiding. This may come as a shock to some readers, but I can’t escape the conclusion that golf is not a playoff sport. At least not in the format currently extant. The World Match Play Championships is a playoff, and how many complaints have you heard, read, and personally muttered about that event?
I think the complaints about Mr. Woods and Mr. Mickelson skipping events are bogus, the top two seeds always get a bye week, this is no different. Where is the drama, beyond say the last 3 groups or so on Sunday. How do you make this compelling? Can’t. Not possible. Did anyone sit on pins and needles waiting to see that Ken Duke finished T52 at the Western, oops sorry, BMW Championship? I don’t think I believe you if the answer is yes, you should be ashamed, unless of course you are a direct member of Mr. Duke’s family in which case I apologize for using him as my example of irrelevance in the playoff format. What this Fedex Cup showed itself to be is a weird idea. Note to Mr. Finchem: Golf has Four Major Championships. Those are your yardsticks of greatness. This playoff do-hickey is acceptable for football, baseball, auto racing, and basketball but not for golf. Scrap the idea.
Disclaimer: My thoughts may be tainted because I am still bitter over the demise of the Western Open. I will not apologize for that and have promised those closest to me I will no longer wail and gnash my teeth over this subject. I will acknowledge this backslide and attempt to keep those folks away from the computer until this post has had time to disappear.
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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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