Paul Casey passed Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed to win the 2018 Valspar Championship. Casey shot a final round of 6-under 65. Tiger could only manage a final round of 1-under and Patrick Reed scored at 3-under. Patrick Reed came to the final hole tied with Casey, but 3-putted for bogey to lose. Be sure to watch the highlights video from PGA Tour’s Youtube page (below) to see how Patrick Reed 3-putted.
The win was Casey’s second on the Tour, and first since 2009.
Just in case you missed this, because they’ve only mentioned it about 20 times this morning on the Golf Channel’s Morning Drive so far today:
129.2 MPH club head speed on this drive. 😳
Fastest swing recorded on TOUR this season. 👀 pic.twitter.com/y6OtNsEsAk
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 11, 2018
The TSN SportCentre segment of “Cabbie Presents” had a special guest this week, everyone’s favourite celebrity golfer Bill Murray. Here is the clip posted on TSN’s “TSN Tube” Youtube page:
I think this might be one of the all time great golf jokes.
Four men are finishing up a round of golf one Saturday morning, and one of the men asks the others “What are you guys doing this afternoon?”
The first guy says “I have to clean out the garage. The only way my wife would let me golf this morning was if I promised to have the garage cleaned out by this afternoon.”
The second guy then says “I have to cut my lawn and weed all the gardens. My wife told me that was the only way I could go golfing today.”
The third guy then responds “My wife told me that if I went golfing this morning then I had to clean the gutters out this afternoon.”
The final member of the group remained silent.
The other three all looked at him and said “Come on, tell us what you have to do back home since you golfed this morning.”
The the fourth guy looked at them all and smiled and says “Nothing.”
The other three can’t believe it and ask him how he managed to get to come to the golf course without having to do something around the house.
The fourth man says “It was easy. My alarm went off at 6am, I rolled over and asked the wife ‘Golf course or intercourse?’ and she said to me ‘Don’t forget your sweater'”.
Golf Channel’s Martin Hall has a tip that a small shift in your stance can greatly help aligning the rest of the body.
I noticed this last year when helping a friend at the driving range. He was very closed to the target and his front foot was almost pigeon-toed. When I suggested flaring his front foot, his feet, knees, hips and shoulders all immediately became perfectly aligned to the target.
The real show at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am is Bill Murray. Here are the highlights posted to the PGA Tour’s YouTube page.
I remember when watching the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am was fun because of all of the celebrities taking part and stress out over “making the cut” to play the final day.
Now it’s a boring tournament as the majority of the amateurs taking part seem to be corporate executives, and even the “celebrities” are not really A-list. Who would you be interested in seeing from the list below? Seriously, outside of Bill Murray, the NFL players (like Tony Romo, Aaron Rodgers, Larry Fitzgerald), there is not an A-lister to be found. Where is the new Jack Lemon and Clint Eastwood?
Here is the list of the amateurs that I found on GolfWeek.com:
As per usual, this one showed up in my e-mail inbox today from the Golf Channel, with Sir Nick Faldo giving some pitching tips. Some good ideas for those who struggle with the shorter shots.