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Carolina Speed

Carolina Speed

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After missing the first four tour tournaments due to a freak injury at home wrestling with ravioli and a glass causing a puncture wound and embedded fragments in his right hand requiring surgery, World number 1 Scottie Scheffler will make his 2025 debut at Pebble Beach this weekend.
Also making his 2025 debut will be Jordan Spieth coming off wrist surgery to repair a tendon that apparently has been hampering him for years. The 80 player field will include 17 of the top 20 players in the world.
No 8 ranked Tyrrell Hatton and No. 12 Bryson DeChambeau, the two-time major winner are banned because the play on the LIV Tour. No. 2 Xander Schauffele is recovering from a rib injury.
 
Carolina Speed said:
After missing the first four tour tournaments due to a freak injury at home wrestling with ravioli and a glass causing a puncture wound and embedded fragments in his right hand requiring surgery, World number 1 Scottie Scheffler will make his 2025 debut at Pebble Beach this weekend.
Also making his 2025 debut will be Jordan Spieth coming off wrist surgery to repair a tendon that apparently has been hampering him for years. The 80 player field will include 17 of the top 20 players in the world.
No 8 ranked Tyrrell Hatton and No. 12 Bryson DeChambeau, the two-time major winner are banned because the play on the LIV Tour. No. 2 Xander Schauffele is recovering from a rib injury.
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CS, will they be able to play this weekend because of the wildfires and mudslides? I am not familiar with the location of the course to the wildfires.
 
Booth said:
CS, will they be able to play this weekend because of the wildfires and mudslides? I am not familiar with the location of the course to the wildfires.
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Booth, I have not heard of any problems so far. Pebble Beach is over 300 miles north of Los Angeles. I would think they would be in the clear.
 
Carolina Speed said:
The 80 player field will include 17 of the top 20 players in the world. No 8 ranked Tyrrell Hatton and No. 12 Bryson DeChambeau, the two-time major winner are banned because the play on the LIV Tour. No. 2 Xander Schauffele is recovering from a rib injury.
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LIV tournaments aren't figured into the world golf rankings, which helps the PGA Tour create the image that almost all the top players are on board when that isn't the case. I'm glad as LIV is nothing more than a way for some players to show how greedy they are when they were already making a fantastic living. No loyalty, no interest in history, just a pure materialistic outlook, which unfortunately has become too often the American Way.

Hope to see Spieth bounce back in a big way this year and Scottie continue his dominance by winning at least one major, hopefully not The Masters again but one of the others, or better yet The Masters and at least one other.
 
Rory McIlroy wins the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am by two strokes. It was a very strong field as Pebble Beach is one of the "cathedrals" of U.S. golf courses as Rory put it after winning. He was on his A game, which is always enjoyable to watch. It was Rory's 27th PGA Tour win. He finished at -21, two shots ahead of fellow Irishman Shane Lowry and three shots ahead of Justin Rose and Lucas Glover. Jordan Spieth finished at even par in his first tournament since having wrist surgery.

McIlroy is still a great player, just behind Scottie Scheffler, but has developed a kind of mental block when it comes to the majors. I'd love to see Rory and Scottie both win at least one this year.
 
The opening round of the Waste Mangement Phoenix Open has some familiar names on the front page of the leaderboard!
Justin Thomas has finished his first round with 66 and is tied for first currently. Jordan Spieth had a good opening round 68 and is ina tie for 5th at -3 along with JT Poston -3 local guy from North Carolina.

T-1. J. Thomas -5
T-5 J. Spieth -3
T-5 JT Poston -3 through 15
About 75% of the players have begun their round and world number 1 Scottie Scheffler just bogeyed number 1.
 
Emiliano Grillo aces the famed number 16 hole! The ball didn't roll in. Grillo slam dunked it straight in the hole for a 1!
I've never had a hole in one, but I've holed out from the fairway 3 times for a 2 on a par 4.
 
Spieth finishes the second round in a T-4, -9. A couple of missed puts from being in the lead.
T4. J. Spieth -9
T6. J Thomas -8
T11. Scheffler -7
 
I watched part of the third round today, Spieth is one of four players tied for second at -13, five shots behind the leader Thomas Detry, who has never won a PGA event.

This tournament is always fun to watch. It has to be the most attended golf tournament in the world, with upwards of 200,000 fans on the course just on Saturdays for the third round. The par 3 16th is always set up stadium style, with some 20,000 DWFs whooping it up big time.

Here's how the crowd at 16 reacted in 2022 when Sam Ryder aced it:

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Belgian Thomas Detry still leading through 8. Spieth and Scheffler making some noise.
1. Detry -19
2. Spieth -15
T3. Scheffler
 
Belgian Thomas Detry wins The WM Phoenix Open in convincing fashion at -24. Jordan Spieth made his best showing since wrist surgery at -16. Finishing in a tie for fourth. Justin Thomas T-6 -15
World number 1 Scottie Scheffler finished T-25 at -9. He got so frustrated at one point he slammed his iron into his golf bag. I've never seen him lose his temper before.
We'll be hearing mostly about Tiger Woods this week as he's in The Genesis Open field at Torry Pines-CA
This is what the PGA is calling a "Signature Event." It's a limited field of 72 and increased purses and Fedex Cup points. Not sure how Tiger got in as he is not in the top 50 world rankings, currently 1,195th, or has won anything in years? By contrast, Spieth who finished in the top 80 in Fedex Cup standings last year and is one of the most popular golfers on tour would be heavy draw in any tournament had to qualify to get in. By finishing in the top 5 last week, he qualified.
 
Carolina Speed said:
Belgian Thomas Detry wins The WM Phoenix Open in convincing fashion at -24. Jordan Spieth made his best showing since wrist surgery at -16. Finishing in a tie for fourth. Justin Thomas T-6 -15
World number 1 Scottie Scheffler finished T-25 at -9. He got so frustrated at one point he slammed his iron into his golf bag. I've never seen him lose his temper before.
We'll be hearing mostly about Tiger Woods this week as he's in The Genesis Open field at Torry Pines-CA
This is what the PGA is calling a "Signature Event." It's a limited field of 72 and increased purses and Fedex Cup points. Not sure how Tiger got in as he is not in the top 50 world rankings, currently 1,195th, or has won anything in years? By contrast, Spieth who finished in the top 80 in Fedex Cup standings last year and is one of the most popular golfers on tour would be heavy draw in any tournament had to qualify to get in. By finishing in the top 5 last week, he qualified.
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This just in! Tiger WILL NOT be competing in The Genesis Open due to still mourning his mother Kultida's death. May she rest in peace.
 
I thought Jim Nantz was going to burst out sobbing as he read a rather long tribute to Tiger's mother during the final round of the Phoenix Open. Of course it's sad and it's very, very tough to lose a parent one was close to, but with everything when it comes to Tiger it was overdone several times over. At least viewers got to see again that Tiger is half-Asian as his mother was Thai.
 
The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass is well underway. Former Clemson player and 2009 US Open Champion Lucas Glover has the first round lead which is still in progress.
1. Glover -6, 18
T6. McIIroy -4. 13
T13. Scheffler -3. 13
T22. Spieth -2 18
 
McIlroy finishes -5, one stroke back. He can’t win majors, but I like him at the Players
 
icsept said:
McIlroy finishes -5, one stroke back. He can’t win majors, but I like him at the Players
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McIIroy starts out with a 31 on the back 9. He's now in the lead at -10 with the front 9 left to play!
Scheffler at -5 through 8.
 
There was a four hour rain delay in the middle of the final round of The Players today. Rory McIlroy finished at -12 and will be in a three hole playoff Monday morning at 9 am EST with J. J. Spaun, a 34 year old unknown with one tour victory in his career. McIlroy had a three shot lead with just a few holes left to play, but as with the U.S. Open last year and other big tournaments over the last several years was unable to close the deal. Hopefully he'll take care of business and win the playoff.

Spaun has a White father while his mother is Mexican and Filipino and he has a distinctly minority look. I thought he was Black before looking up his background. An American of Indian descent named Akshay Bhatia finished tied for third. Other than Rory the leaderboard was nondescript at best with names like Scheffler, Spieth, Justin Thomas, Schauffele and others finishing well behind.
 
Booth said:
The Players Championship playoffs will be shown on the Golf Channel, Peacock, and Sky Sports at 9 AM ET—a three-hole playoff.

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Players Championship live updates: Rory McIlroy beats J. J. Spaun to win at Sawgrass for second time

Follow live reaction to Rory McIlroy’s victory in a three-hole playoff to decide the 2025 Players Championship
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McIIroy wins The 2025 Players and earns approximately $4.5 and will pass Phil Mickelson for second on the PGA Career money list. Only Tiger Woods is ahead of Rory with $120 million. McIIroy sits at around $98-99 million.
It's McIIroy's 28th PGA win. He's looking really good right now. Maybe he'll finally get that Masters win in April and complete the career slam.
 
Justin Thomas wins the RBC Heritage on the first playoff hole. It's his 16th career PGA Tour win but his first since winning the PGA Championship in 2022. Jim Nantz said that he joins an exclusive club of players who have won at least 16 titles and at least two majors before the age of 32. The others are Palmer, Nicklaus, Woods, McIlroy and maybe one or two others, can't recall precisely, but it means Thomas remains one of the elite players in the world and it's nice to see him back in the winner's circle.
 
Scottie Scheffler dominated The CJ Cup at TPC Craig Ranch, TX over the weekend going -31. Van Rooyen the second place finisher was 8 strokes back at -23.
Jordan Spieth a respectable 4th place finish at -19 shooting a career tying 62 on Sunday.
Scheffler cementing his place as the World Number 1 golfer.
Looking forward to the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow CC in Charlotte. Maybe Spieth can get into contention and get the career slam as McIIroy did at The Masters!
 
Scheffler's -31 set a new record for lowest score under par at a four-round PGA tournament. Would like to see him add to his two majors this year and he has his A game back just in time for the PGA Championship. Besides him, I'll be rooting for Rory and Jordan.
 
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