U.S. Open champion and low gross winner at the Tour Championship, Jon Rahm, has nailed down his first Player Of The Year award.
Rahm was the top points man in the PGA Of America’s set formula, with 70 points, he beat Bryson DeChambeau by five. Pat Cantlay and Collin Morikawa were third and fourth in the points competition. Rahm finished second to Justin Thomas for the honor last year.
Rahm only won one event this season but it was a big one — the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
Rahm is currently No. 1 in the world and is a finalist for PGA Tour Player Of The Year honors along with DeChambeau, Cantlay, Morikawa and Harris English. Tour Rookie Of The Year finalists are Garrick Higgo and Will Zalatoris.
Rahm also won the Vardon Trophy for low scoring average this season.
What? A Week Without A PGA Tour Event?
With that extended pandemic-created 2020-21 “Super Season” in the books, the PGA Tour is actually taking a breather this week with no events on the schedule.
But — that being the case — the 2021-22 season gets underway next week with the Fortinet Championship at Johnny Miller’s Silverado Resort out in Napa Valley where they fight it out for the wine cask tropy. They’ll tee it up next Thursday.
After that, the Tour takes another week off, not wanting to distract from the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits (Sept. 24-26). The following week it’s the Chicken Championship — aka Sanderson Farms — at the Country Club of Jackson, Sept. 30-Oct. 3.
The Shriners runs Oct. 7-10 at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas (Oct. 7-10) with the C.J. Cup once again moved from Asia to Vegas at the Summit Club (Oct. 14-17)
The first event overseas comes Oct. 21-24 with the Zozo Championship in Japan at the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club in Chiba (Oct. 21-24).
October closes out with what amounts to a glorified Korn Ferry event, disguised as a PGA Tour event — the Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course (Oct. 28-31), with a measly purse of $720,000.
4 Comments
baxter cepeda
Well deserved poy for rahm from yet another silly points system from golf.
This doesn’t feel like a huge honor and not just because it was not voted on by anyone. I mean Bryson was second on this silly points list when clearly MAD was 4th at best this season behind cantlay and morikawa.
Pga story for you Tom:
I just spent the weekend with a bunch of pga guys and gals. One pga of America veteran coach – who was only supposed to talk to his players and only between holes- used his authority to make one of my Junior league players move to the further back tees because the tall boy looked older. Didn’t ask him anything. Just told him he belonged in the back tees. The 14 year old kid being respectful complied and ended up playing 6 holes 40 yards or so back from his proper tees (for his age) before I finally caught it and corrected it.
Then this same pga coach argues with another match that his team got a 28 when both teams agreed they had a 29. The Coach didn’t realize it was a par 35-37 course. He scolded them, accused them of not knowing how to count. And who knows what other shenanigan.
The ironic thing is the pga spent weeks before and the whole event trying to avoid any potential issues from parents; one coach even saying the only people who ruin these events are parents… all the while forgetting some of their pga members are shmucks who don’t even belong in a GA, much less the PGA.
Tom Edrington
Doesn’t surprise me…..had a guy abusing me on Facebook who doesn’t know me and claimed to be a PGA of America professional in Ohio…..failed to know I was a sports writer in my life and know a lot of GREAT PGA Professionals…..sad to see guys who have to insert themselves into a junior tournament…..if I were you, I’d call the Section President and let him know what transpired!
baxter cepeda
I basically had to call the organizer twice that day, spending quite a bit of energy and time.
I told the organizer I respect their decision but I would have sent him back to the hotel, especially after the second incident. They said there was some additional history there but still basically just warned him. He never manned up and came up to apologize to us even though he had a few obvious opportunities.
He definitely cost us a chance to be in the final match with the distractions, confrontations and infractions.
They ended up losing the final.
We ended coming from a 4-2 deficit in the consolation final to win 5-4 thanks in large part to my oldest daughter draining a clutch 15 footer on the last hole. So we left feeling good, which is nice.
Tom Edrington
At least there were positives to go home with.