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Spieth Admits ‘Maybe’ He Should Not Have Got Involved In McIlroy Ruling Debate

Jordan Spieth admitted, and what so many had suggested, that he should not got involved in the long drawn-out and painful rules debate that took place involving Rory McIlroy on day one of the Players Championship. We know that McIlroy’s tee shot at the par-4 seventh hole, and that McIlroy, Spi eth and Viktor Hovland were playing as their 15th on Thursday, hit a bank down the left side of the fairway and kicked straight left into the water. Spieth’s drive landed safely down the right ...

Nicklaus: “We’ve Got Issues We Need To Clean-Up”.

The inaugural Players Championship champion Jack Nicklaus has been a very welcome guest at the 50th anniversary of the PGA Tour’s flagship tournament. Nicklaus, 84, won the inaugural Players in 1974 and was again successful in 1976 and 1978, and still the only player to capture the title three times, and one more than a bunch of others including Tiger Woods, Fred Couples, Davis Love 111, Hal Sutton and Aussie Steve Elkington. And whenever golf’s ‘Golden Bear’ speaks and everyone ...

Scheffler Undergoing On-Course Treatment For Neck Concern At Players

World No. 1 and defending champ Scottie Scheffler has been undergoing on-course treatment for what is believed a stiff neck on day two of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Three times over his opening seven holes Scheffler has had a physio working on his neck with the first after paring the par-4 12th hole, he was playing as his third, when he speaking to a rules official while someone worked on his neck. He asked the official if he could receive some Biofreeze, according to Sean Martin of ...

Spieth Questions McIlroy Over His Penalty Drop As Rors Posts Career Lowest Players Opener

Jordan Spieth was hardly being co-operative nor comforting in his questioning of Rory McIlroy over the location of his penalty drop after finding water down the left-side of the par-4 seventh hole they were playing as their 15th on the opening day of the Players Championship. After a long wait on the tee, McIlroy stepped-up and for a second time in 15 holes he sent his drive left hitting a grassy bank and finding water on the host TPC Sawgrass course at Ponte Vedra in Florida. Earlier, had been ...

McIlroy Backs Monahan Remaining as PGA Tour Commissioner

No sooner had World No. 2 Rory McIlroy stop to speak to the waiting media he was asked his reaction to Xander Schauffle’s negative comments concerning Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and whether Monahan remains the right person to lead the Tour. Schauffele did not hide his feeling a day earlier declaring, in part, Monahan ‘had a long way to go’ before he regained the trust of the Olympic Games Gold Medal winner. “I think so.  Yeah, I think so”, was McIlroy’s answer ...

Monahan Continues To Tread On Thin Ice As Calls Mount For Him To Go.

In reading the transcripts from the opening round of pre-Players Championship interviews I don’t think there has even been so many controversial topics put to a PGA Tour Commissioner in all prior 49 years of the flagship tournament. In the usual ‘State of the Tour’ address Commissioner Jay Monahan was asked 31 questions and with the transcript boasting 1,670 words. Monahan faced questions ranging from what would he have done differently the past three years, whether there is a path ...

Monahan’s Gentle Dig At LIV Golf: “Fans Want To Watch The World’s Best Compete In Events With History”.

Embattled PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan delivered his annual ‘State of the Tour’ address at TPC Sawgrass. The annual address by the reigning PGA Tour CEO is a long, drawn-out address and Monahan kept to that script presenting an opening address of 1,670 words. Monahan then accepted 31 questions with the last, dealing with his opinion of the worth of the new Signature events, all of 901 words. Without dimishing the worth of each of the large number of questions it was his comments ...