Video: Year End Roundtable On State Of Pro Golf
I'm sure your DVR's are rested and ready for Saturday and Sunday's year-end roundtables starring Tim Roaforte, Matt Adams and yours truly.
The shows air Saturday at 6 pm and 11 pm ET, and again Sunday at those times (ET).
In a nice development since this was recorded but validating our dicussion, Rory McIlroy has further endorsed the notion that he's getting a little more focused on his golf, announcing that he'll be adding the Northern Trust Open in 2016. This means he will play eight times in the Masters lead-up instead of six.
"I've added an extra event in the States just because I want to go play the golf course," McIlroy said. "I've heard Riviera is a great course and I want to go play there in L.A., and I think it'll be a good course for me."
In this digital exclusive, we talk about the state of the game through the lens of pro golf and naturally come away positive.
Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 11:20 PM
Reader Comments (18)
Cheers!
@ Shack - how can you say this was great year because of the majors?
Augusta - rain-soaked and receptive, dart golf. Worthy winner, but not on the usual test.
Chambers - a first class joke, the worst run tournament of the year from both an agronimical and spectating viewpoint. Spieth handed the tournament by Johnson. Lets not forget that Day, who was just coming into form, going lame.
St Andrews - wind-blown, ridiculous. Was anybody amazed that the best player in the world with a wedge in hand won this?
Straits - bomb alley. Dominated by a guy hitting it 80 yards past his opponent - a deserved winner, but if you needed a prtent of what golf will become, there it was.
Best Tournament - Irish Open
Best Player - Male - Spieth
Best player - Female - Ko
Mpst improved player - Fowler, \Day
Idiot of the Year - McIlroy
Worst thing about 2016 - the greens at Chambers.
Best Thing - Spieth's putting stroke
Take that, you Rory haters!
Stunning. LOVE IT! Somebody smart got to Rory, wonder who is was? Justin Rose? Good for Riviera....shame the event is no longer under local control.
Clacker, you're something else.....make so much sense at times, none whatsoever at others!!
Very nice post, and good calls on POY, etc.
As to the majors- this stuff is always gonna happen, with the exception of the CB greens, but the USGA will find something else to go whack on, just watch.
Geoff, watch that guy in the middle- alien abductions could be real, and we have all wondered about those axxx probes. Retief my not be the only ''goose'' out there!
Of course not, but there are those on this blog that expect top golfers to live in a bubble.
Actually, I take that back, McIlroy is just dumb enough to do that.
McIlroy, towards the end of this season, clearly was in a strange place with his golf - a resigned air about him. I would put that down to the fact that he had written off the year by his accident. But it's not and wasn't an accident - if you play football and you have a weak ankle (previously damaged), you have to understand the risk that you will damage it again and the consequences of that. McIlroy didn't. His immediate statements about not changing his lifestyle were, over the course of the summer, replaced with an acceptance that he won't be doing that again. I suspect his manager and his father pulled his chair in closely, pointed out that whilst he was lying with his foot up that he was motored over the top in the rankings, noted how pissed Nike were with Under Armour's boy taking a fair piece of market share, pointed out that the Taylor Made M1 was being used to great effect all over the planet whereas he and Tiger were lame ducks nursing their Vapors, and that he had a responsibility as an employer to grow the f**k up.
As for Day, if watching your wife and mother of two, one of which was born a month ago, being stretchered out to a hospital for a spinal scan doesn't make you think that you need to be a bit more contemplative of risk, he's as dumb as McIlroy.
It always reminds me of seeing a video of a wing suit diver hitting a bridge at full tilt and people writing at the time ''he knew the risks, he died doing what he loved, it's the way he would have wanted to go''.
When people write stuff like that, I always shake my head.
Golf's Winner of The Year = Under Armour.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=under+armour+stock
The next courtside ticket Jason Day plays for will be the first courtside ticket he ever paid for!
The skiing vs sideline seats is a good point-- I have seen many taken down the mountain on a stretcher, and only Mrs. Day taken from a gam on one, granted I am not a dribble ball follower.
The Rory story about Nike, UA, #1 ,etc. seems to hold water, and his actions will show his seriousness about his responsibilities to his sponsors--I would think Ricky Fowler misses sailing thru the air at 45 mph on 2 wheels, but......
while I agree totally, I believe the point was more toward their fiscal responsibility to sponsors than personal choice. When they signed for these large sums, they usually have a list of do's and don'ts, morals clauses ( makes it wonder don't it) and on and on.
To that, they give up some of their ''rights as people'', as their own choice.