Not sure about this one.
Not sure about this team stuff down there in Avondale at the TPC Louisiana.
There’s a reason the PGA Tour hasn’t held a team event since the old Disney days that came to an end in 1981.
Professional golf is by nature a singular, individual sport. Always has been.
If you want team golf, then it’s basically back to college or high school and it’s still a game about individual low scores.
So what you can get with this team golf stuff on the professional level is a lot of strange. You glance at the scores from day one at the Zurich and you can start scratching your head.
There was some semblance of order in that alternate shot jazz. Jordan Spieth and his fellow Texas Ryan Palmer shot six-under par and basically saved the day so that all the Who Dats down there on the bayou didn’t have to holler: “Who Dey?” when glancing at the leaderboard.
Right there along side Spieth and his sidekick are Kyle Stanley and Ryan Ruffels, who can basically go anywhere in the country without anyone recognizing them.
After that it gets real strange.
K.J. Choi hasn’t been a factor on the PGA Tour for a long time. At age 46 he’s biding his time until he turns 50 and go play with the old guys. But K.J. finds himself a shot off the lead with Charlie Wi, of all people. When was the last time you saw Charlie on television? Fact is that Charlie has basically called it a career and he’s teaching a lot of golf these days out in California and hanging out with his kids. K.J. talked him into this and there they are at five-under, a digit off the lead in the testy alternate shot format.
“That score was amazing to us, or to me anyway,” Charlie said, probably blending a mixture of shock with a touch of disbelief sprinkled in.
Seriously, you’ve got K.J., ranked No. 205 in the world and Charlie, ranked 1,185. That’s so low that they’ll probably let Charlie play in the club championship. So where else could No. 205 and No. 1,185 take a look at No. 6 Henrik Stenson and No. 8 Justin Rose, step back and say to themselves: “We sure drummed those guys, didn’t we?”
It’s something Charlie can go home and tell his kids about. Wi and Choi blast Stennie and Rose by five shots!
Wait, there’s more.
Then you have the Bens — Martin and Crane. They managed to shoot five-under and clipped Jason Day and Rickie Fowler by four shots.
If you’re Day and Fowler, someone’s gotta stick the needle in you for that, no doubt.
If that’s not enough of an insult for Day and Fowler, consider the geriatric duo of Steve Stricker and Jerry Kelly beat ’em by three shots.
One of the most intriguing stories this week is the Brother Where Art Thou? duo of Brooks and Chase Koepka.
Chase is fresh out of college at the University of South Florida while Brooks is fresh off a solo second in San Antonio. Brooks swears that he and little brother can be in the hunt come Sunday and there’s motivation there because a high finish can help finance Chase’s adventures over on the European Challenge Tour.
Yes, crazy story lines galore.
This is something you’d expect to see in the old silly season.
Team golf.
Not sure about this.
Not sure.
