Now that the Web.com Tour Championship is finished, the 2014-2015 PGA Tour Priority Rankings have been set for the 50 lucky Web.com finishers who now have earned their PGA Tour cards for the 2014-2015 PGA Tour season.
Read the details at GolfChannel.com, but Canadian Adam Hadwin earned the top priority for the Web.com graduates.
Ever wonder what the ball sees before it gets hit? This is a ball’s eye view of the golf swing.
Smooth swings on the Symetra Tour driving range at the #STChampionship #Volvik #GoPro http://t.co/QZ0KjhELDn
— LPGA (@LPGA) September 20, 2014
Now that the “playoffs” are over, here are the current numbers for the 2014 Ryder Cup Teams according to our Power Rankings.
The table below has all of the players on each team. Each player has their current power index number followed by their power ranking position in parentheses, as of Sept. 14.
| Europe | USA |
| Rory McIlroy 21.71 (2) | Jim Furyk 20.21 (4) |
| Sergio Garcia 15.17 (15) | Rickie Fowler 18.58 (5) |
| Jamie Donaldson 12.17 (24) | Matt Kuchar 10.50 (39) |
| Stephen Gallacher 11.00 (33) | Bubba Watson 10.00 (44) |
| Justin Rose 10.54 (38) | Jimmy Walker 9.58 (48) |
| Victor Dubuisson 7.58 (73) | Hunter Mahan 8.00 (66) |
| Martin Kaymer 6.00 (96) | Webb Simpson 6.13 (95) |
| Graeme McDowell 5.83 (101) | Phil Mickelson 5.50 (108) |
| Henrik Stenson 5.71 (104) | Patrick Reed 5.42 (111) |
| Thomas Bjorn 3.45 (193) | Keegan Bradley 4.71 (134) |
| Lee Westwood 2.54 (236) | Zach Johnson 4.54 (142) |
| Ian Poulter -1.08 (691) | Jordan Spieth 4.54 (142) |
It looks like it should be a pretty close match.
Last week there was a baby bear doing a little dance around the flagstick on a green at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort in BC.
I think he was trying to figure out a way to steal the flag off of the pin. Once he gave up on that, he decided to just take a golf ball.
I think according to the rules, a baby bear is considered an outside agency.
The two teams for the 2014 Ryder Cup have now been announced. How do the teams stack up? That question will be answered by all of the talking heads over the next few weeks. In the meantime, we will compare the two teams by how players rate on our Power Rankings.
The table below has all of the players on each team. Each player has their current power index number followed by their power ranking position in parentheses, as of Sept. 2.
| Europe | USA |
| Rory McIlroy 21.00 (3) | Rickie Fowler 16.79 (5) |
| Sergio Garcia 11.75 (21) | Jim Furyk 15.63 (7) |
| Stephen Gallacher 11.00 (26) | Matt Kuchar 11.83 (20) |
| Victor Dubuisson 9.88 (37) | Hunter Mahan 11.42 (24) |
| Graeme McDowell 9.75 (38) | Jimmy Walker 8.38 (50) |
| Justin Rose 9.75 (38) | Phil Mickelson 7.83 (60) |
| Thomas Bjorn 8.41 (49) | Keegan Bradley 7.75 (63) |
| Jamie Donaldson 8.25 (52) | Webb Simpson 7.75 (63) |
| Henrik Stenson 6.96 (84) | Patrick Reed 7.21 (77) |
| Martin Kaymer 4.63 (144) | Zach Johnson 5.83 (106) |
| Lee Westwood 2.54 (241) | Jordan Spieth 0.75 (345) |
| Ian Poulter -1.08 (710) | Bubba Watson -0.21 (636) |
Looking at the current Power Rankings for the two teams, I would give the edge to the US team, even though all discussion throughout the summer has been that the Euros’ team will be stacked and that the US team will be lucky to not be blown out.
Let the endless hours of pointless analysis begin.
In the second round on the short par-4 5th hole at the Barclays, Mickelson hit his tee shot into the hospitality tent and then proceeded to play the ball as it lies.
And then in the third round, he did the same thing, although he knew how to play it from the astroturf this time.
The most amazing part of this is that he was able to hit the cart path both days. That is consistent golf, and I wonder if Mickelson will play the hole the same way next year.
Jimmy Fallon is all about the golf. He recently did his “Superlatives” about PGA Tour players, and then he had Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy on the Tonight Show where they took part in a chipping game called “Facebreakers” (okay, Tiger didn’t play but he did try to offer advice to Jimmy). “Facebreakers” is a cooler version of the Big Break’s glass breaking challenge.
Jimmy Fallon took it to some PGA Tour players with some of his “Superlatives”.
Some were better than others.