Pin-seeker
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played 8 with 5 top 10’s & 8 top 25s I believe.
Really looking forward to the big events this year
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Really looking forward to the big events this year
BubbaP
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played 8 with 5 top 10’s & 8 top 25s I believe.
Really looking forward to the big events this year
I can barely recall him hitting a shot at the Masters and he snuck into 4th
Pin-seeker
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I can barely recall him hitting a shot at the Masters and he snuck into 4th
yeah same,not bad going that.
Arthur Wedge
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Rory , Scheffler and BDC all hitting form for Quail Hollow has the potential to be a very good battle
Rory loves playing there
Course suits all three
Add in it’s all a course where Thomas has done well
If only it was played at its old slot
Rory loves playing there
Course suits all three
Add in it’s all a course where Thomas has done well
If only it was played at its old slot
Mel Smooth
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McKibbin and Puig have received invites to the PGA Championship today. Be good to see a few more from the LIV stable get invited as well.
wjemather
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Not unexpected (to me anyway) but still great to see them get their deserved invites.
Not sure there are any others on LIV who are outside the owgr100 who have done enough (either on/off LIV) to get one. I'd say Herbert, Ortiz, Leishman, etc. are probably just a bit short; DJ is well short.
BubbaP
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Would have liked to have seen Herbert & Munoz bag invites based on 2025 form, but can totally understand Puig & McKibbin. After their last owgr events they were owgr 90 & 107 respectively. And the PGA will be cognisant of their 'best field' tag.
McKibbin was due to play in Japan this week so be interesting to see if he withdraws or plays anyway being a young 'un. He played poorly last week.
Making the cut at PGA will likely be (a tough) target, both hit a long ball which may help though.
McKibbin was due to play in Japan this week so be interesting to see if he withdraws or plays anyway being a young 'un. He played poorly last week.
Making the cut at PGA will likely be (a tough) target, both hit a long ball which may help though.
Mel Smooth
Hacker
Herbert is playing some good golf this year, it'd be good to see him get into at least 1 major - although that said, both he and Sergio are in a decent position to take the LIV qualifying spot for The Open in Portrush. Garcia will be looking to find some form after 2 poor events whereas as Herbert seems to be building some consistency.
As for the PGA, it will be tough for McKibbin and Puig but they'll both have their team captains there to hopefully keep their heads cool.
Arthur Wedge
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When it’s down to relying on invites it’s always going to be a lottery
This is perfect example of a major being too dominated or biased towards US and why an event that travelled around the would giving balanced entry from all tours
DP tour , Sunshine Tour and Asian Tour not getting any special invites
I quite like having one major a month. from April to July
wjemather
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They certainly do.
Aside from exemptions for the top 3 in the owgr federation ranking (i.e. 3 highest ranked OoM winners from the Japan, Sunshine, Asian and Australasian Tours) and the top 3 in the DPWT Asian Swing, they are included in the PGAoA special invitations (which can usually be expected to cover the top 100 owgr (leading DPWT players can just about make that), the 4th OoM winner missing out on the exemption above, leading international players not otherwise exempt, last years Ryder Cup players & current captains, etc.; it's also be made apparent that it includes the top 3 in the liv standings).
Arthur Wedge
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Looking at the reports from the Snooker final - there was 150mil viewers from China who watched him win
Imagine if they can find a way to get that level of viewers from the far east but suspect would need a big name from China to break through and golf is not as accessible
Imagine if they can find a way to get that level of viewers from the far east but suspect would need a big name from China to break through and golf is not as accessible
Haotong Li best male at 131 but Ruoning Yin at #4 in the ladies rankings. Not sure how the men get a bigger influence on the world stage as there are some excellent players even outside the world top 50 and so it will be tough to break through.
wjemather
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One way is through tournaments like the China Open and WGC Champions - but they need to be supported by the world best players in order to drive interest.
Unfortunately, the China Open rarely sees such players and the WGC wasn't really supported by the PGA Tour before they finally killed it off (with the help of COVID).
I guess the only way would be for sponsors to make it an enticing prospect for the top players to come over.
wjemather
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The PGA Tour don't want it. They don't want anything outside the US and it's immediate neighbours.
They even relocated their own Korean event to the US and persuaded the sponsor to support a different tournament.
If they could get away with moving The Open to Florida, they would.
I guess the DP would have to be leader (so no chance) and work with China and the sponsors to get a big name or two to play. Looking at previous winners of the China Open a lot of Chinese winners that clearly have never gone on to make the next step but not too many big names from European Tour
Arthur Wedge
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The PGAT is a US based tour so it’s going to be focused on the US
Most of the sponsers are US based so those companies will be looking for eyes on in the US
But again it’s all about markets the US is the massive market - golf is very much not very accessible within many areas , even when there are events in those areas the crowds show how its prob not high on many people’s lists
The last WGC in China was in 2019 and it was full of the top players apart from a couple who were injured and the same with the events before - but they played in front of 1 man and his dog
Golf can keep trying to get the markets bigger in many areas outside the US and Europe but it’s a tough sell
Not sure if Golf is even in the top ten in China
Basketball became massively popular when their players hit the NBA
To grow the markets the sport needs to find the next superstars outside the US and UK
Thats exactly what’s happened with snooker
Arthur Wedge
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Scottish Championship returns
Shame it’s on during the Fed Ex play offs
wjemather
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This just isn't true.
2019 - well over a dozen of the owgr top-50 didn't play, including 7 of the top-10 (and just 2 citing injury).
2018 - same story; almost half of the top-20 didn't play.
2017 - same again; half the top-10 missing.
2016 was the last time it was well supported by a significant majority of the top players, but the big cat was still absent.