1. Jason Day’s win at the BMW is further proof that the PGA Tour and men’s golf is in wonderful shape. Day, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth have rotated in and out of the number one ranking the past three weeks. If you can’t enjoy watching these thee play you’re not a fan.
2. Last season when Rory won two majors and a WGC he looked like no one could touch him. Earlier this season it was Spieth with his Masters, U.S. Open, Grand Slam charge who looked unstoppable. Now it is Day whose driving rivals Rory’s and putter challenges Spieth’s. This is good stuff…really good stuff.
3. Tiger Woods commits to play in the Frys.com on Friday and has back surgery a few days later. What is going on here? Woods must really not want to play in a B-league event.
4. Woods turns 40 in December while he’s recuperating. Are we in for another season of “non-firing glutes” with some missed cuts and WD’s thrown in.
5. The Solheim Cup was certainly some very entertaining golf. The American women went all Brookline on the Europeans and came back from a 10-6 deficit for the first time in the history of the cup.
6. The controversy on the seventeenth hole with Allison Lee and the phantom concession was the turning point in the match. The Euro’s won the battle there but that was the ammunition the Americans used to win the war.
7. Suzann Pettersen is a competitive player, some may say too competitive when it comes to team play. Her reputation has been cultivated over years of playing the “gamesmenship” game with her opponents. This time it backfired.
8. For sure Alison Lee should not have assumed her 18 inch putt was conceded but they had given putts of that length earlier and when your opponents walk off, while you are near your ball it certainly looks like a concession.
9. Charley Hull looked like she was coached as to what to say afterwards and I think I saw Pettersen pulling the strings.
10. I am just a hacker/fan that loves watching golf and the sportsmanship that usually goes along with it. But when Dame Laura Davies and Judy Rankin, both Hall of Famers come out and say that Pettersen’s behavior was “disgusting” and “poor sportsmanship” that’s good enough for me.
Bonus. The American team looked over matched during the first four sessions of the Solheim Cup. But Sunday was their day. It was an inspirational win by a group of women that so desperately wanted to get the cup back for their captain. Juli Inkster is so very loved and admired not only by her team but by most of the tour also. It has to be the high point of her career. “I’ve been a player; I’ve been a captain,” she said later, choked with emotion, “and being a captain is just – it’s the greatest feeling in the world.” I bet it is.
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