Get caught up on the week in golf.
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Hello, buddies, and welcome to this week’s version of the Rogers Report! I’m at the moment driving the excessive of the Chiefs win and extra importantly, the unimaginable golf performed by Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko on Sunday afternoon, when the Drive on Championship clearly overshadowed any soccer. I felt like I used to be watching a serious championship — which has me feeling superb about golf in 2024. (I’m selecting to disregard the entire PGA Tour-agreement-or-no-agreement state of affairs for now.) Between Korda and Ko battling it out and Nick Dunlap profitable the American Express as an novice the week earlier than, there’s loads of nice golf to look at and I couldn’t be extra excited to get again on the street to see a few of it in particular person subsequent week.
Before we actually get into it, I’d wish to take a second to share a humorous anecdote.
My youthful brother Brendan spent the final two weeks within the Bahamas caddying for his pal Davis Chatfield on the Korn Ferry Tour. He’s bought loads of meals allergy symptoms, so he made certain to convey sufficient grub to maintain him completely happy for 14 days. (Sidenote: We’ve given him till school commencement earlier than an intervention on his dietary habits.)
Anyway, he was having a good time on Chatfield’s bag and requested me to maintain a watch out for any Getty Images he could also be in. You can’t simply go to the Bahamas for 2 weeks on winter break from school and not get some cool images, proper? But after I searched Chatfield’s identify into Getty, I noticed Brendan in only one photograph — and in that photograph he’s totally coated by a tree.
I despatched it to him anyway simply to mess with him.
Here’s the place it will get good because of Mike Mulholland, who was the photographer on the Bahamas Great Abaco Classic final week. Mulholland was tagged in my above tweet and advised me he’d get some pics for Brendan through the remaining spherical.
And let me let you know, Mulholland delivered. He took some images of Brendan’s footwear and, as soon as once more, his physique blocked by a tree.
A ten out of 10 troll job from Mulholland, who took the outing of his day to decide to an unimaginable bit. (Don’t fear, he’s sending me another images quickly in order that my brother can get his cool caddie images.)
The Alabama Nicks
The University of Alabama is down on Nicks lately. First Nick Saban retired, and now Nick Dunlap is headed to the PGA Tour.
Luckily issues are going fairly effectively for the 2 of them. Nick Saban teed it up with Travis Scott, 50 Cent and DP World Tour participant and social media star James Nicholas earlier this week on the Mr. October Celebrity Golf Classic in Palm Beach.
I want I had extra info for you about this spherical of golf, as a result of it’s positively one thing I’d have paid to see. What do two rappers, a retired soccer coach and a DP World Tour participant even speak about? I suppose that’s the great thing about our sport. It actually brings anybody and everybody collectively.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that this unlikely grouping jogs my memory of the surprising friendship between Tom Watson and Lil Wayne.
DJ and Paulina head to Aspen
It’s the lifeless of winter, so you recognize what which means. While the remainder of us are questioning if we’ll survive the icy roads, freezing climate and days the place it will get darkish out at 4 p.m., the celebrities are heading to Aspen. That’s proper, time for some vicarious trip, of us.
There’s nobody whose holidays I wish to see on social media greater than Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky’s. And because of Gretzky’s Instagram tales and DJ’s willingness to take a zillion images, that’s precisely what I used to be capable of do final week.
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Look at these sherpa jackets! I all the time overlook that DJ is kind of the model man. And I’ve an analogous (and positively a lot inexpensive) jacket. I’ll ship the Abercrombie hyperlink upon request.
I even have an outdated inexperienced corduroy jacket that type of matches the one Dustin Johnson received at Augusta in 2020, nevertheless it doesn’t have fairly the identical cachet.
Johnson and Gretzky continued their outfit coordination with cowboy hats later within the week.
And for good measure, right here’s Gretzky’s Instagram submit from their week in Colorado.
Taylor Swift x golf
Oh look — an excuse to write down about Taylor Swift within the Rogers Report! I’d wish to thank a complete lot of individuals, together with however not restricted to: Jim Nantz, Michelle Wie, Tony Romo and St. Andre Golf for permitting this to occur.
I fired up Instagram instantly after the Chiefs win on Sunday to see each piece of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce content material from each doable angle after I determined to take a fast breather and watch some Instagram tales. And boy am I glad I did, as a result of I instantly got here throughout Michelle Wie West’s story, which supplied the Taylor Swift-golf crossover I’ve desperately been trying to find.
Would you take a look at that! The bracelet Taylor Swift wore on Saturday was designed by main champion Michelle Wie West. It’s the Custom Tennis Friendship Bracelet from Wove. In different phrases, Michelle Wie West designed a (or ought to I say the) friendship bracelet for the queen of friendship bracelets herself.
Wove’s description of the bracelet says “Created by Michelle Wie West, this diamond tennis friendship bracelet is meant to be made your own. Celebrate the bond of friendship and select your personalized letters to customize this one-of-a-kind, classic with twist.”
“Celebrate the bond of friendship” Travis Kelce did certainly. He purchased the 2 of them matching friendship bracelets with the letters “TNT,” for “Travis N Taylor.”
An enormous congratulations is to ensure that Wove and Wie West!
Next up now we have notable mid-amateur golfer and CBS broadcaster, Tony Romo. The 2023 Invited Celebrity Classic champion could also be well-known within the golf and media circuit, however that apparently doesn’t imply a lot to Taylor Swift’s safety crew. They have been fast to cease the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Q-School pre-qualifying hopeful from stepping into for the hug with Swift — that was, till she advised her safety element that the three-time American Century Championship winner was not a menace.
Anyway, as soon as Romo bought round to introduce himself, they sung one another’s praises.
Yes, Taylor. Selling out stadiums on a world tour is very completely different than being a lead analyst and adorned novice golfer. But sport respects sport, and I for one am certain glad that these two bought to cross paths.
Alright, another Taylor notice, and I’ll have saved the perfect for final. St. Andre Golf shared maybe the perfect skit I’ve ever seen (which is probably not saying a lot; I don’t watch Saturday Night Live). This Taylor Swift vs. Tiger Woods fan comedy sketch actually nailed it.
Shout out to Golf Unfiltered’s Nikki Dunagan for placing collectively this masterpiece.
Jordan Spieth’s humorous want
Two years in the past this week, Jordan Spieth put his life on the road to aim (and pull off) a particularly harmful shot on the sting of a cliff at Pebble Beach. In that second, golf was essentially the most harmful sport of all of them. Spieth make clear that second — and on his relationship together with his caddie, Michael Greller — in a rerun this week on the Smylie Show.
Spieth defined that when he says “Mikey, this one’s on me,” he’s keen to take the blame for no matter occurs subsequent on the golf course. The solely time he needs Greller actually pushed again on that? At the 2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. But he doesn’t simply want Greller pushed again. He needs that his looper “took a 7-iron” to his ankle and kicked the facet of his knee in order that he was out for six months with an ACL tear.
While I personally loved watching Spieth flirt with the sting of a cliff from the consolation of my lounge sofa in 2022, I perceive the place he’s coming from. I’d even be curious to get his spouse and oldsters’ tackle the entire thing.
Olympic uniforms
Are you accustomed to the 1999 hit Disney Channel film Zenon: Girl of the twenty first Century? It could have been snubbed for an Oscar nomination, nevertheless it’s positively probably the most fascinating movies of our time.
This is simply related once more now as a result of I strongly consider that that is the place J.Lindeberg bought its inspiration for Team USA’s Olympic golf uniforms. I haven’t seen any participant reactions to what JL has in retailer for them in Paris this summer time, however I can’t wait to study what they should say.
Unfortunately, we received’t get to see Viktor Hovland tee it up in these outfits. We could, nonetheless, get to see Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay and Max Homa in these uniforms which might actually be one thing.
Miscellaneous
I go away you all with this video from the nineteenth gap at Payne’s Valley. How enjoyable does that look?!
And only for reference, right here’s how the nineteenth gap normally seems to be.
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