The Rating: LIV Golf-PGA Tour drama; Rory McIlroy, Lydia Ko win
In one other loopy week of golf, Rory McIlroy and Lydia Ko successful had been acquainted throwbacks.
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It was this type of week:
- Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady had a contest to see who ought to retire first. (TB has a giant lead, however AR is closing quick.)
- The PGA Tour had a pseudo-big deal match that no person besides NASA telemetry specialists and North Korean hackers may watch on TV till the ultimate three hours.
- Rory McIlroy and Lydia Ko gained golf titles; it appeared like previous instances (however it was truly new programming).
- The Yankees joined the Dodgers in NOT making the World Sequence. (Awww …)
- And Anthony Kim’s identify popped out of the crypt simply in time for Halloween.
- Right here is your week of golf happenings, ranked by The Rating, which ranks issues, therefore the identify. You’re welcome, and go the Whoppers, please …
10. Let’s Make it a Three-Piece Swimsuit
The PGA Tour filed a second swimsuit in its authorized struggle towards LIV Golf, this time suing the Public Funding Fund of Saudi Arabia and the gent who governs the fund that’s financing LIV Golf. It’s the PGA Tour’s second lawsuit towards LIV Golf, whereas LIV has filed just one lawsuit versus the PGA Tour. So the Tour has a 1 up lead, or one thing.
9. Save the Date … in 17 Years
The USGA awarded Los Angeles Nation Membership the 2039 U.S. Open and the ’32 U.S. Ladies’s Open, primarily as a result of the whole lot went so effectively the primary time it hosted the lads’s U.S. Open … subsequent June. Simply out of curiosity, will the identical brainiacs who arrange Shinnecock Hills be answerable for this setup, too?
8. An Ace Beats Considered one of a Type
Within the closing occasion of her 18-year profession, Na Yeon Choi made a hole-in-one on the BMW Women Championship in Korea in the course of the third spherical. Choi, 34, whose 9 LPGA wins embrace the 2012 U.S. Ladies’s Open, hadn’t managed a top-10 end in additional than three years and introduced her retirement earlier this month. The opening-in-one prize on the BMW Women Championship was a brand new BMW X7. Good factor she wasn’t taking part in the Cazoo Basic when she made the ace.
7. Dynasty Season Continues
In what looks like an immediate replay, Steven Alker birdied three of the final 4 holes to win the senior circuit’s Dominion Power Charity Basic. It was Alker’s fourth PGA Tour Champions win this season, tying him with Steve Stricker for probably the most on tour. A cage match ought to be subsequent. The general public calls for it.
6. The Empire Strikes Again
“Par Wars,” as The Rating calls the authorized battle between the PGA Tour and rival group LIV Golf, continues. Based on court docket paperwork, 179 assorted people and entities had been interviewed by the PGA Tour concerning LIV Golf and so they included iconic retiree Anthony Kim, 37, a former Ryder Cup star who hasn’t performed professional golf in a decade because of harm. Marvel how that interview began? “So, A.Ok., um, have you ever seen Season 2 of Barbarians on Netflix?”
5. See You on the Michelob Basic
The countless provide of younger studs might be annoying, particularly if you happen to’re not one. Rory McIlroy was stunned to study that Presidents Cup star Tom Kim of South Korea gained’t flip 21 till subsequent June. “I’m going to be 34 earlier than he should buy a drink in the US,” lamented McIlroy, who promised to take Kim out for grownup drinks when he wins after turning 21. Projection: Kim shall be over 21 when he defends his title subsequent 12 months in Las Vegas, The House of Grownup Actions (ought to be the town slogan, no?).
4. So, a Northern Irishman and a Korean Stroll right into a Bar (subsequent 12 months) …
Half Two of Deep Ideas with Tom Kim and Rory McIlroy: Kim likes quick meals. McIlroy requested him whether or not his favourite cease was Chick-fil-A or Popeye’s, and Kim mentioned he hadn’t tried Popeye’s but. “It’s important to have Popeye’s,” McIlroy mentioned. “It’s higher than Chick-fil-A.” Colonel Sanders couldn’t be reached for remark.
3. It’s All Concerning the W’s Cash
Alex Noren, a 40-year-old Swede, completed thirty seventh within the CJ Cup and gained simply sufficient dough to go the $10 million mark in PGA Tour profession earnings. He thus turned the thirteenth participant to crack $10 mill with out successful. Spectacular? Nah. Peter Uihlein racked up $11 mill in seven LIV Golf occasions this season with out successful, a profession 12 months/profession in a 12 months.
2. She Who Should Not Be Ignored
When 25-year-old Lydia Ko says that is the perfect she’s ever performed, The Rating listens as a result of her weekend victory on the BMW Women Championship in South Korea was the 18th of her profession and third within the final 18 months. She shot 21 beneath par and gained by 4. Ko has completed within the high 10 in 13 of her 20 begins this season. Welcome to Lydia 2.0.
1. The Rerun
Rory McIlroy gained the CJ Cup and regained the world No. 1 rating for the primary time in additional than two years and the ninth time in his profession. The ninth time? So meaning he misplaced it eight different instances? Nicely, The Rating want to withdraw his nomination for the Mr. Consistency Award. Sorry, dude, however we’ll take that drink now.
