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Petulance Just Got Real! Sergio Has Only A Few More Weeks On The PGA Tour!

This is going to be tough to swallow. The emotions, the sadness, the outright misery that this man has had to endure playing the PGA Tour as a brooding, temper-tantrum prone, green vandalizing jagwagon may be coming to an end.

Having hit his shot into the 10th hole junk, Sergio Garcia vented his case for leniency to a PGA Tour rules official over the commencement of timing for his lost ball search.

"I can't wait to get out of here,” the miserable said not in reference to the overgrown penalty area, but we would soon find out, in reference to the PGA Tour. Then after more of his signature whining and petulance when he didn’t get his way, Sergio announced he’s going to be taking up residence on the LIV Golf tour where the slogan is, “Shot Just Got Real".

"I can't wait to leave this tour. ... I can't wait to get out of here, my friend,” the wee one said.

And just to be sure we were unclear, the 2017 Masters champion wrapped things up with: "a couple of more weeks, I don't have to deal with you anymore."

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Quadrilateral: Major(s) News & Notes May 5, 2022

Trees foreshorten the perspective and the wind has not full play. To get the full exaltation playing the game of golf one should when passing from green to green as he gazes over the horizon have a limitable sense of eternity, suggesting contemplation and imagination. C.B. MACDONALD

/ Geoff Shackelford

I have a few theories as to why so few top players are working just two weeks from the PGA.

Plus, a Captain America sighting in Tulsa, Fried Egg’s guide to Southern Hills, Seth Waugh questions the responsibility of long range USGA venue selection, another Postage Stamp has been born at Troon, the USGA credits its new sponsor in breaking entry record (by one) and much, much more.

As always, a reminder that The Quad is free to subscribe for the weekly news & notes along with select editions.

You can read more about the newsletter here or go to the home page for past issues.


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PGL To Players: Time To Tell The Board To Listen

Nature will often provide us with a small feature which will work in successfully with the scheme for a good hole. H.S. COLT

/ Geoff Shackelford

You can only get your phone calls and enquiries not returned for so long!

After trying to work with the PGA Tour, the Premier Golf League’s World Golf Group has decided to plea directly to players for consideration of their pro golf model. The timing speaks to some momentum for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf and little progress in convincing the PGA Tour and DP World Tour’s to contemplate major changes.

The letter was sent to players and essentially calls BS on a couple of key points, namely that the PGA Tour vetted the proposals through Allen & Co. And of course, noting that Jay Monahan “works for you” also is a concession that the commissioner is still not interested in a discussion.

It also remains confounding that a bunch of players who did nothing but be in the right place at the right time would get $2 million.


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Rudy's Golf Club-Swinging Cameo Pitch Will Haunt You For The Rest Of Your Days

Nature will often provide us with a small feature which will work in successfully with the scheme for a good hole. H.S. COLT

/ Geoff Shackelford

For $325 you too can have former New York City mayor and PGA of America consultant-turned-non-stop farce talk golf with your friends. Or wish them happy birthday.

Rudy Giuliani’s pitch, which was posted for a time on Twitter before someone told him the entire ensemble here might not lure the desired purchases, has been rescued. Thank you to all involved for leaving us this indelible image.


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SBJ: LIV Golf Close To Landing PGA Tour's Preferred Production Company; Discussions With Fox Have Died

Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand says the LIV Golf group has awarded a production deal bid to NEP Group, which also handles general production for the PGA Tour.

Awkward alert!

As Ourand notes, the PGA Tour has understandably been trying to discourage such deals by its partners.

That’s because NEP already has a deep relationship with the PGA Tour, which has been dissuading its corporate partners from working with the Saudi-backed upstart league.

Essentially, the PGA Tour’s partners have to decide whether it’s worth the risk of angering tour executives in order to grow their business — and presumably cash a big check — with LIV Golf.

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Five Families Would Be Wise To Steer Clear Of The Tours v. Greg & The Sportwashing Saudi's

I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that beauty means a great deal on a golf course; even the man who emphatically states that he does not care a hang for beauty is subconsciously influenced by his surroundings. A beautiful hole appeals not only to the short but also to the long handicap player, and there are few first rate holes which are not at the same time, either in the grandeur of their undulations and hazards, or the character of their surroundings, things of beauty in themselves. ALISTER MACKENZIE

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Norman: Players Had Cashed The Checks Until Mickelson's Remarks

A Greg Norman interview with ESPN.com’s Mark Schlabach is getting a lot of attention for the Shark opening up even more about “negative momentum” Phil Mickelson’s “scary m&^%$#@&^’s” characterization caused the startup LIV Golf.

I found a couple of other remarks more telling and they probably kept conversation lively around the Global Home’s pizza maker today.

"Quite honestly, we were ready to launch on the Tuesday or Wednesday of Genesis," Norman said. "We had enough players in our strength of field, or minimal viable product, ready to come on board. And when all of that happened, everybody got the jitters, and the PGA Tour threatened people with lifetime bans and stuff like that."

Norman said a handful of the players who had previously signed with LIV Golf have remained committed to play in the series, which now includes eight events -- including five in the U.S.

Norman said they had 15 of the world top 50 at the time committed to play in what was a league concept then and is now a come-as-you-please tour with a team event at the end. If he’s to be believed—always an if with the Shark—that would have been a more significant number of top players than the current 15 of the top 100 most recently estimated.

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PGA In Tulsa: Tiger Shows His Hand

I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that beauty means a great deal on a golf course; even the man who emphatically states that he does not care a hang for beauty is subconsciously influenced by his surroundings. A beautiful hole appeals not only to the short but also to the long handicap player, and there are few first rate holes which are not at the same time, either in the grandeur of their undulations and hazards, or the character of their surroundings, things of beauty in themselves. ALISTER MACKENZIE

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Wayne Player Speaks: I'm Still A Tool!

Just over a year since he flashed a sleeve of golf balls over Lee Elder’s shoulder and got deservedly banished from The Masters, Gary Player’s son Wayne speaks.

GolfDigest.com’s Joel Beall tracked Wayne down and learned this.

“I don’t mind letting people know,” Player says. “To be completely transparent I think it is a cool story because you know, the National never really came out formally and said, ‘Oh, we're, you know, not allowing Wayne Player to come back to the Masters.’ They never ever said that to the media. That's just the way they do it. They don't say much.”

Better than having you sleep with the fishes.

And of course Wayne has thoughts on dad’s endorsement of Saudi Arabia this year.

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Australian Open In World First: Joint Men's and Women's National Championships

Pits which day after day in practice rounds are passed unnoticed, suddenly assume terrible aspects on tournament days, but generally it is the fear of the hazards which in reality is more terrifying than the hazards themselves. A.W. TILLINGHAST

/ Geoff Shackelford

Victoria Golf Club (Geoff Shackelford)

While we’ve had tournaments of a similar format, the Australian Open becomes the first to bring the men and women together for concurrent national golf championships December 1-4, 2022.

The DP World Tour will co-sanction the men’s event.

Even better, they have lined up the magnificent Victoria Golf Club for the finale, with the incredible Kingston Heath hosting early action.


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Brooks Has Lost The Bros: Barstool Head Unleashes On Koepka

So many sad stories in the news these days and I hate sharing another.

Seems Brooks Koepka reneged on his charity-raising match with Barstool Sports founder and dream influencer of select governing bodies, Dave Portnoy.

Pausing here to let you take it all in.

At least we know this break up is a clean one. No grey area for this brospat! Essentially, Koepka backed out of their “charity” match due to a wrist injury but played Bryson DeChambeau for The Match.

From Bunkered, with Portnoy explaining how this match made in douchedom fell apart:

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LIV Golf Rolls Out Tickets Sales And A Slogan To Make Live Under Par Almost Sound OK

The true hazard should draw the player towards it, should invite the golfer to come as near as he dare to the fire without burning his fingers. JOHN LOW

/ Geoff Shackelford

Hey parents, have fun explaining that one!

Daddy, why do they say Shot Just Got Real?

Well, Tilly, it’s a play off of…oh forget it.

But more importantly, you can now reserve Grounds passes in the $70-85 range for all but the LIV Golf series tournaments except the finale at Trump Doral. And I know, this sounds pricey for one day of golf where it’s a 4-hour shotgun start. But it’s a small price to pay when you get to see the likes of Garrigus!




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Major(s) News & Notes April 28, 2022

The true hazard should draw the player towards it, should invite the golfer to come as near as he dare to the fire without burning his fingers. JOHN LOW

/ Geoff Shackelford

Plenty of notes in the weekly free edition of The Quadrilateral for all the world to see.

In a nutshell: Mickelson's return rollout is panned. Then we look at Collin Morikawa's curious Open defense plan, Scottie Scheffler surfaces in the Green Jacket, a bunch of Open and USGA notes, Tweets and Reads.

As always, here is more on The Quadrilateral.

And The Quad’s Substack home page.


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Ratings: Spieth Delivers For CBS; Zurich And Valero Have Rough Years

Immediately when we attempt to standardize sizes, shapes, and distances we lose more than half the pleasure of the game. H.S. COLT

/ Geoff Shackelford

Paulsen at Sports Media Watch with the good news for CBS’s 2022 RBC Heritage won by Jordan Spieth and viewed by the largest non-Masters audience of 2022.

Final round coverage of the PGA Tour Heritage tournament averaged a 1.9 rating and 3.68 million viewers on CBS Sunday, marking the largest audience for the event since 2003. Jordan Spieth’s win, which peaked with 5.04 million viewers, increased 20% in ratings and 43% in viewership from last year. The previous 19-year mark was 3.46 million for Spieth’s previous win in 2015.

Also noted by Paulsen and this should not be underestimated: “The 19-year high for the Heritage came on the same Easter Sunday in which the NBA scored its largest opening round playoff audience in 20 years.”

CBS had the other highest-rated non-major of the year with the WM Open in February.

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Lawrenson: LIV Event At St Albans Will Test European Tour's Ryder Cup Captaincy Threat

Immediately when we attempt to standardize sizes, shapes, and distances we lose more than half the pleasure of the game. H.S. COLT

/ Geoff Shackelford

The Daily Mail’s Derek Lawrenson considers news of Phil Mickelson possibly returning and going for the Saudi money he knows is controlled by a murderer.

And in doing so Lawrenson notes two key points worth keeping an eye on:

The interesting thing will be if the DP World Tour follow through with their threat to prevent anyone who signs up for a Saudi event from becoming a Ryder Cup captain in the future.

It looks as if Westwood, Poulter and Garcia — three shoo-ins for the job under normal circumstances — are ready to call their bluff and see who blinks first. It would certainly damage the credibility of the Ryder Cup if all three were overlooked for the post.


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Jon Rahm: "A lot of people don’t know, a lot of what we have and what we are competing for right now is because of [Phil].

Immediately when we attempt to standardize sizes, shapes, and distances we lose more than half the pleasure of the game. H.S. COLT

/ Geoff Shackelford

Here’s guessing the World No. 2 has not heard of Walter Hagen…or like 40 others.

Rahm, speaking to Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis ahead of this week’s Mexico Open, believed what Mickelson said and did shouldn’t damage his legacy.

“That guy has given his life to golf,” Rahm said about Mickelson. “A lot of what we have, a lot of people don’t know, a lot of what we have and what we are competing for right now is because of [Phil]. A lot of people focus on Tiger but he is easily one of the top 10 best players of all time. He is a Hall of Fame and we should recognise him as that. He has given his life to the public, no one has signed more autographs, no one has done more for the fans.”

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PGA Field Released With Mickelson And Woods

Steve Loy, Co-President, Americas of SPORTFIVE, issued the issued the following statement today: pic.twitter.com/okZdMIv5P4

— SPORTFIVE (@sportfiveagency) April 25, 2022

Tiger and Phil are entered, but Mickelson’s agent issues statement suggesting his disruptor client is keeping all options open, including a possible Saudi payday.

But does this already suggest Mickelson will return in the disruptor mode that got him in trouble? Thoughts in The Quadrilateral.

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Doral Is Back! Trump Resort To Host LIV Golf's Team Championship For Its Non-Team Event Tour

Bob Harig at Morning Read/SI had the news first: Trump Doral will host October’s concluding eighth event of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. The famed Blue Monster course was site of the PGA Tour’s annual Miami stop beginning in 1962 and until the PGA Tour left for Mexico City’s WGC event, now defunct.

Harig writes:

After five years away, Doral will get professional golf again under Norman’s LIV Golf banner, the $30 million Team Championship in which the four-man winning team will split $16 million.

As you may recall Commissioner Greg Norman and friends have abandoned a team concept for 7 individual events followed by this concluding tournament. Harig has also reported that 15 top 100 players have registered and may seek releases from their Tours.

Either way, expect former President Donald Trump to add to October’s spectacle, whatever format is used to give out $30 million of Public Investment Fund money. It should be fun.

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A Good Reminder That Sam Snead Made A PGA Tour Cut At 67 Years Old

Reader GP was miffed at reports out of New Orleans of Jay Haas becoming the oldest player to make a PGA Tour cut. While there might be some recency bias and general silliness to a team event counting the same as an individual tournament, it’s still nice that the Haas’ competed, made the cut and acknowledged Sam Snead.

Adam Schupak handled the “record” well in this story and as you’d expect for a class act like Jay Haas who knows the history of the pro game, he said just what you’d hope after making a key putt to get to the weekend.

That included becoming the oldest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour at 68 years, 4 months, 20 days, edging past Sam Snead, who made the cut at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic at 67 years, 2 months and 23 days.

“I don’t think it should (count) because Sam Snead did it on his own and all that, but anything that I’m even remotely close to Sam Snead on would be very special,” said Haas, of Snead, who was in the field when he made his Tour debut at the 1973 Wyndham Championship.

In a lot of ways, these records or near records are more impressive for Haas:

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Nasa Wins LA Open, Norman Gets An Open Rejection

It’s outstanding glory—or its horror, according to the light in which we view the matter—is the number of narrow streambeds winding about like snakes, and which are best described to “Californians as barrancas.” These barrancas are almost an ever-present menace throughout the round; indeed they have something to say in the matter at every one of the holes, save for the second and fifteenth.
NORMAN MACBETH on his Wilshire CC design

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