Normal Sport is presented by Seed Golf this week. Fescue seemed to be a talking point toward the end of Friday. Can’t imagine why. If you find yourself visiting it a lot at the places you play, Seed makes a great golf ball (with a great name) that’s easy to find. Just don’t trample anything on your way there.
Every so often, I think to myself, Eh Normal Sport is kinda a dumb name for a newsletter and golf media business maybe I should change it to something different.
And inevitably something will take place like what took place on Friday evening at the Open Championship where one grown man was yelling at two other grown men about which and how many blades of grass he stepped on and how that changed the trajectory of the metal stick he was swinging.
And then I think, Nope, I’m wrong. There has never been a more perfectly named newsletter than this one. I cannot believe we stumbled into this.
Let’s get right to it.
Name drops today: President Trump, Elvis, Smylie (that’s Elvis and Smylie, not Elvis Smylie), OJ, Rickie and Chad Campbell (all time list).
Today’s newsletter is presented by Holderness and Bourne.
Between two former Ryder Cuppers, stripes have gotten a bit of a bad rap this week. You can probably see why. Just lines going in every direction with possibly no rhyme or reason. As one reader noted, it looks a bit like both of their shot tracers, too.
I was also thinking about what it would look like for someone to wear the first guy’s tops and the second guy’s pants. Would be an incredible look that could enter “so bad it’s good” territory.
Thankfully, there is a salve for stripes. A stripe salve.
And that is the good folks at H&B, who are pumping out a variety of striped shirts that not only do not suck but are wonderfully designed, fit like a glove and the opposite of random lines going in every direction.
A sampling.
My all-time favorite is of course the Maxwell, but I’ve been dabbling a bit in the Springer and need to start dabbling in the Stanley. All three are worthy picks and show stripes they way they are meant to be done.
And now, onto the news.
Birkdale Biscuits Round 2
I should note that I had about 1,000 words written about a variety of things before Bryson DeChambeau got in a golf cart with an R&A official, and the entire tournament shifted. So we adjusted. We’re of course going to lead with Bryson but will talk Scottie, Cam Young and the 62s (and other stuff I wrote) at the end. This one is free for all.
And since the next round starts in about seven hours, I’m going to refrain from dropping the 40,000 words I want to drop. But I would point you to the podcast we just recorded recapping the first two rounds every single granular moment of the entire Bryson escapade. You can listen here: Spotify | Apple | YouTube.
1. OK, let’s go. The capital-B, capital-G Big Golfer.
After an extremely quiet first three majors of the year, the High King of Content has delivered more goodies over the last two days than we get from most players in an entire career.
As soon as Bryson got in that cart and Smylie tweeted out a video of them racing out to the 5th hole, I knew we were in for a “Tiger at the 2013 Masters” or “Spieth at the 2017 Open Championship” type of show. It turned out to be a strange mashing together of both of those events.
One of the great characters in the game gesticulating his face off to no avail in front of two gentlemen who have surely witnessed some epic gesticulating in their day. Even though there was no sound, I laughed through pretty much the entire thing.
New STRTG just dropped.
2. The funniest moment for me came when Bryson crossed his hands behind his back and it looked as if they were going to arrest him. Put him in handcuffs. Call the bobbies and haul him off in one of those cabs that they used to take players to their first tee shot at the original LIV London event.
I am not exaggerating when I say I was nearly crying at one point while watching all of this take place. The spectacle of the entire thing. The sheer absurdity of it all. Literal adults arguing over where one of them stepped in the woods some four hours earlier in the day. Bryson’s agent handing him a phone — “you can like and subscribe right here” — to show the officials … who knows what.
Again, the term “this is cinema” gets overused, but this truly was cinema. An institution which has — I cannot stress this enough — absolutely no concern about who they are offending or what it does to that person’s brand. A player who could not be more theatrical if he tried. The perfect melding of those two sides in this little nook of the golf course to determine whether he was -7 and solo 2nd or -5 and T5. Real stakes!
And finally, at the end of it all, one of the officials glumly driving Bryson back to the clubhouse with all the energy of a man who has just fired one of his direct reports but forgot they have a sales call to make that day that cannot be moved.
We only get a handful of real “yeah, gonna remember this one in 10 years” moments a year in golf, and this was unquestionably one of them.
Golf (even at majors) can often be pretty boring, but this was an electric current sent right to the center of the event. It was as if the entire Flo Balogun episode played out in real time with 100 cameras on everyone all at once.
Made while watching Bryson bang balls at 10:30 and ask us media members if we wanted snacks, which we never got. WATTBA
3. Oh, and then we got a reenactment of the reenactment. That’s Smylie, sneaking around like a burglar, trying to recreate Bryson’s shots from earlier in the day.
His earpiece was breaking up at one point because there was some sort of concert taking place 50 yards away (I was told an Elvis impersonator and I don’t want to know otherwise). I feel like my career has been careening toward this very moment for the last 12 years.
4. As for the ruling itself, I think it was actually (probably?) correct. I wrote a ton of words on the technical nature of Rule 8.1 — which is what they threw at him — but eventually erased them and simply landed back on this this from the beginning of the rule book.
You are responsible for applying your own penalties if you breach a Rule, so that you cannot gain any potential advantage over your opponent in match play or other players in stroke play.
Rule 1 principles
Rules official, Grant Moir, reiterated this on Friday.
So an improvement means to alter one or more of the conditions affecting the stroke so that the player gains a potential advantage for the stroke.
Grant Moir | R&A
The word “potential” is doing a lot of work there, but I think the point is that it is always best to not move stuff around your ball — which Bryson did a lot of! — especially in densely vegetated areas because you could be gaining a potential advantage.
Even if it wasn’t an actual advantage, the penalty seems like it could theoretically still be called based on the word “potential.” It almost feels like he was guilty by even messing with that fescue behind the ball (see below).
I’m no rules expert (obviously), and maybe technicalities like this shouldn’t rule the day at majors. But there is plenty of evidence here that enough fescue was moved around that you could say this affected the area around his swing and gave him a potential advantage. I also think if he doesn’t walk behind his ball at all, there is no way they call this.
But watch his last step with his left foot here.
That fescue goes from fairly upright to down.
You can see it bounce back a bit here. The GIF above is probably more damning.
I don’t know if all of this represents a smoking gun, and I’m certainly not claiming he was trying to do it on purpose. To be honest, you could probably argue this either way, but he was so careless with the way he was stomping around that I think the application of the rule is probably a fair outcome.
5. Where I truly sympathize with Bryson is that stuff like this — or a lesser variation of it — seems to happen somewhat regularly on the PGA Tour and at other major championships. And you guys decide to call it now?
That’s a credit to the R&A of course, but I think it highlights a problematic endemic in pro golf, which is that players are very casual about how they handle the area around their golf ball.
Watch this video of Wyndham Clark at the U.S. Open. This happens with him (and others) all the time. If it’s going to be policed here, it needs to be policed everywhere.
There is a lot of gray in all of this, and I’m not saying that anyone’s intent is ever to improve a lie. I just think that a lot of the routines of pro golfers around their golf balls are a little too close to this description in Rule 8.1 that you cannot move, bend or break any growing or attached natural object than they probably should be.
6. The tweets were (obviously) off the charts.
7. The idea of Bryson not playing Saturday was amusing for about 15 minutes. Bryson already confirmed that it’s not going to happen, but him withdrawing would have been unbelievable content. I think even threatening it here shines a light on the fact that Bryson often actually believes that he’s bigger — or maybe just more important — than the game.
8. Yes, I believe this. I want it even.
9. This tournament went from “really solid” major to a “has once-every-five-years kind of juice to it” major. The scene on Saturday when Bryson gets to the first tee is going to be outrageous, and this story is likely going to follow the tournament until the end.
I think Bryson enjoys attention so I will not be surprised if he plays the aggrieved victim card here. Although, amusingly, he will have to talk to the media to do so (which he apparently is not doing right now).
But it’s also an opportunity. He will (probably) have a ton of fan support up and down the weekend. And if he bounces back with a 66-68 to win here and talks about how important it was to display his resilience, it will rightfully sway a lot of people. I don’t actually think any of that is going to happen, but I do think Bryson is grittier than he gets credit for and a far better closer than anyone believes.
No matter what goes down this weekend, this has become the narrative of the tournament. I am ecstatic about what’s going to happen over the next two days. And just like what happened on Friday, it will surely be absolute cinema the rest of the way.
10. OK, enough on Bryson. Other stuff happened on Friday, too. Probably.
In the (I don’t know the exact number, but I’m going to say) around 20,000 rounds that had been played across 477 major championships going into Friday, there had been five 62s (or better) shot. Then there were two within 30 minutes of one another at Birkdale in the second round.
I have a couple of thoughts here. The first is how amusing it is that if this was Scottie, Rory or Rahm chasing a legit 59, I would be saying, This is what dominance looks like. You are looking at one of the premier athletes of this (or any other) era! But because it’s Rippers star, Lucas Herbert, I am saying — to quote Nick Saban — Is this what we want football to be?
As Joseph LaMagna pointed out, all seven 62s have been shot since 2017. This is not an accident. Championship golf courses are (literally) under siege from the best players in the world (and some of the not best players in the world).
62 Shocks the Southport Seagull Silly
11. Not to go full Saban, but something needs to be done about this. Otherwise …
Like you would think there would be a 60 at St Andrews in calm conditions probably next year, just the way the game is going. People are just shooting lower and lower. So I think it's a matter of time, technology and depth of golf.
Jordan Spieth | 2026 Open
Spieth — who almost certainly won’t be the one shooting that 60 — said that before these two 62s and before this tournament even started.
This is a topic I used to get incredibly worked up over (and still do at times). But as things have gone on, I have tried to be more pragmatic and calm about it.
One of the first newsletters we published — No. 7 in fact! — was entitled: Do you want to go to St. Andrews? The premise is that if you do want St. Andrews to continue hosting Opens then you will be in favor of rolling equipment back. If you don’t care about St. Andrews hosting Opens, then you won’t care about rolling back equipment. This seems very simple and straightforward.
And if the response is, Well why do you even care about what the scores are, Kyle? I think that’s a fair response. But I also think we can all agree that a good sporting event includes a matchup of high quality offense against high quality defense. And in golf — unlike almost every other sport — the defense is an inanimate object, which means it cannot adjust itself to an offensive onslaught. It needs help, it needs governance to level the playing field.
Otherwise golf courses will continue to be brought to their knees by the 109th best player in the world, and — probably more importantly — will be played in ways that they were never intended to be played. If a baked out, firm, semi windy, renovated Royal Birkdale can’t hold the line, then what course possibly can? We aren’t far from 60s and 59s taking place at major championships.
And maybe everybody wants that.
But I’m guessing probably not.
[Jason here] Maybe this is because my last time covering a life golf event was the Overserved MAGA Bro Convention at Bethpage, and I haven't been to Augusta yet, but GB&I fans make The Open the best viewing experience in golf. Great banter, respectful (for the most part), super knowledgeable, critical of shots when appropriate. And they live up to all of those qualities while being shockingly sunburnt to a crisp. When I say crisp, I’m not talking about chips, and by chips I don't mean fries. Just a bunch of lobsters who make The Open magic.
12. As for the 62s themselves, they were spectacular.
I woke up this morning to Lucas Herbert looking like 1953 Ben Hogan, shooting 28 on the front, not missing a single shot and making everything he laid eyes on. It was truly an awesome display of golf. I thought his presser afterward was terrific, too.
He said he started thinking about 62 on the third hole (!) and that he remembers his dad waking him up in 2009 when he was a kid to see if Chad Campbell could shoot 62 at ANGC (I won’t spoil it for you in case you don’t know that outcome yet).
On the flip side, you had Sam Burns — who said he didn’t even know what the major record was — holing out on 18. Burns said afterward he decided to play last Friday, didn’t prepare much and doesn’t really like links golf. I remember feeling too exhausted for my fingers to type in the weeks after each of our kids was born. Burns went out and shot the seventh 62 in major championship history.
Sick, sick stuff.
13. If I’m Herbert, this chart I’m about to show you would be concerning. Of the top six ball strikers in the field so far, four are major champions and they have a combined 14 major championships. Here they are.
None of them have putted at all. And while that sometimes doesn’t show up by the end of the tournament, it’s probably going to show up for at least one of them. That’s terrifying if you’re Herbert. And while if you make me choose someone here, I’m for sure choosing Cam Young, I will say that Scottie was hunting all day on Friday.
A pleasure to watch. A show.
He ranks in the top five in …
SG approach
SG off the tee
Driving accuracy
Greens in regulation
SG tee to green
SG ball striking
Brother this is a problem. Because if he finds any semblance of heat on the greens, it’s gonna be this all over Birkdale on Saturday and Sunday.
Thank you for reading Normal Sport. We are an algorithm-free newsletter (and podcast) that tries to present the game with all the humor and heart we can possibly muster. Some days (like this one especially!) are easier than others.
I cannot wait for a few more of them this weekend.
Normal Sport is presented by Seed Golf this week. Fescue seemed to be a talking point toward the end of Friday. Can’t imagine why. If you find yourself visiting it a lot at the places you play, Seed makes a great golf ball (with a great name) that’s easy to find. Just don’t trample anything on your way there.
Every so often, I think to myself, Eh Normal Sport is kinda a dumb name for a newsletter and golf media business maybe I should change it to something different.
And inevitably something will take place like what took place on Friday evening at the Open Championship where one grown man was yelling at two other grown men about which and how many blades of grass he stepped on and how that changed the trajectory of the metal stick he was swinging.
And then I think, Nope, I’m wrong. There has never been a more perfectly named newsletter than this one. I cannot believe we stumbled into this.
Let’s get right to it.
Name drops today: President Trump, Elvis, Smylie (that’s Elvis and Smylie, not Elvis Smylie), OJ, Rickie and Chad Campbell (all time list).
Today’s newsletter is presented by Holderness and Bourne.
Between two former Ryder Cuppers, stripes have gotten a bit of a bad rap this week. You can probably see why. Just lines going in every direction with possibly no rhyme or reason. As one reader noted, it looks a bit like both of their shot tracers, too.
I was also thinking about what it would look like for someone to wear the first guy’s tops and the second guy’s pants. Would be an incredible look that could enter “so bad it’s good” territory.
Thankfully, there is a salve for stripes. A stripe salve.
And that is the good folks at H&B, who are pumping out a variety of striped shirts that not only do not suck but are wonderfully designed, fit like a glove and the opposite of random lines going in every direction.
A sampling.
My all-time favorite is of course the Maxwell, but I’ve been dabbling a bit in the Springer and need to start dabbling in the Stanley. All three are worthy picks and show stripes they way they are meant to be done.
And now, onto the news.
Birkdale Biscuits Round 2
I should note that I had about 1,000 words written about a variety of things before Bryson DeChambeau got in a golf cart with an R&A official, and the entire tournament shifted. So we adjusted. We’re of course going to lead with Bryson but will talk Scottie, Cam Young and the 62s (and other stuff I wrote) at the end. This one is free for all.
And since the next round starts in about seven hours, I’m going to refrain from dropping the 40,000 words I want to drop. But I would point you to the podcast we just recorded recapping the first two rounds every single granular moment of the entire Bryson escapade. You can listen here: Spotify | Apple | YouTube.
1. OK, let’s go. The capital-B, capital-G Big Golfer.
After an extremely quiet first three majors of the year, the High King of Content has delivered more goodies over the last two days than we get from most players in an entire career.
As soon as Bryson got in that cart and Smylie tweeted out a video of them racing out to the 5th hole, I knew we were in for a “Tiger at the 2013 Masters” or “Spieth at the 2017 Open Championship” type of show. It turned out to be a strange mashing together of both of those events.
One of the great characters in the game gesticulating his face off to no avail in front of two gentlemen who have surely witnessed some epic gesticulating in their day. Even though there was no sound, I laughed through pretty much the entire thing.
New STRTG just dropped.
2. The funniest moment for me came when Bryson crossed his hands behind his back and it looked as if they were going to arrest him. Put him in handcuffs. Call the bobbies and haul him off in one of those cabs that they used to take players to their first tee shot at the original LIV London event.
I am not exaggerating when I say I was nearly crying at one point while watching all of this take place. The spectacle of the entire thing. The sheer absurdity of it all. Literal adults arguing over where one of them stepped in the woods some four hours earlier in the day. Bryson’s agent handing him a phone — “you can like and subscribe right here” — to show the officials … who knows what.
Again, the term “this is cinema” gets overused, but this truly was cinema. An institution which has — I cannot stress this enough — absolutely no concern about who they are offending or what it does to that person’s brand. A player who could not be more theatrical if he tried. The perfect melding of those two sides in this little nook of the golf course to determine whether he was -7 and solo 2nd or -5 and T5. Real stakes!
And finally, at the end of it all, one of the officials glumly driving Bryson back to the clubhouse with all the energy of a man who has just fired one of his direct reports but forgot they have a sales call to make that day that cannot be moved.
We only get a handful of real “yeah, gonna remember this one in 10 years” moments a year in golf, and this was unquestionably one of them.
Golf (even at majors) can often be pretty boring, but this was an electric current sent right to the center of the event. It was as if the entire Flo Balogun episode played out in real time with 100 cameras on everyone all at once.
Made while watching Bryson bang balls at 10:30 and ask us media members if we wanted snacks, which we never got. WATTBA
3. Oh, and then we got a reenactment of the reenactment. That’s Smylie, sneaking around like a burglar, trying to recreate Bryson’s shots from earlier in the day.
His earpiece was breaking up at one point because there was some sort of concert taking place 50 yards away (I was told an Elvis impersonator and I don’t want to know otherwise). I feel like my career has been careening toward this very moment for the last 12 years.
4. As for the ruling itself, I think it was actually (probably?) correct. I wrote a ton of words on the technical nature of Rule 8.1 — which is what they threw at him — but eventually erased them and simply landed back on this this from the beginning of the rule book.
You are responsible for applying your own penalties if you breach a Rule, so that you cannot gain any potential advantage over your opponent in match play or other players in stroke play.
Rule 1 principles
Rules official, Grant Moir, reiterated this on Friday.
So an improvement means to alter one or more of the conditions affecting the stroke so that the player gains a potential advantage for the stroke.
Grant Moir | R&A
The word “potential” is doing a lot of work there, but I think the point is that it is always best to not move stuff around your ball — which Bryson did a lot of! — especially in densely vegetated areas because you could be gaining a potential advantage.
Even if it wasn’t an actual advantage, the penalty seems like it could theoretically still be called based on the word “potential.” It almost feels like he was guilty by even messing with that fescue behind the ball (see below).
I’m no rules expert (obviously), and maybe technicalities like this shouldn’t rule the day at majors. But there is plenty of evidence here that enough fescue was moved around that you could say this affected the area around his swing and gave him a potential advantage. I also think if he doesn’t walk behind his ball at all, there is no way they call this.
But watch his last step with his left foot here.
That fescue goes from fairly upright to down.
You can see it bounce back a bit here. The GIF above is probably more damning.
I don’t know if all of this represents a smoking gun, and I’m certainly not claiming he was trying to do it on purpose. To be honest, you could probably argue this either way, but he was so careless with the way he was stomping around that I think the application of the rule is probably a fair outcome.
5. Where I truly sympathize with Bryson is that stuff like this — or a lesser variation of it — seems to happen somewhat regularly on the PGA Tour and at other major championships. And you guys decide to call it now?
That’s a credit to the R&A of course, but I think it highlights a problematic endemic in pro golf, which is that players are very casual about how they handle the area around their golf ball.
Watch this video of Wyndham Clark at the U.S. Open. This happens with him (and others) all the time. If it’s going to be policed here, it needs to be policed everywhere.
There is a lot of gray in all of this, and I’m not saying that anyone’s intent is ever to improve a lie. I just think that a lot of the routines of pro golfers around their golf balls are a little too close to this description in Rule 8.1 that you cannot move, bend or break any growing or attached natural object than they probably should be.
6. The tweets were (obviously) off the charts.
7. The idea of Bryson not playing Saturday was amusing for about 15 minutes. Bryson already confirmed that it’s not going to happen, but him withdrawing would have been unbelievable content. I think even threatening it here shines a light on the fact that Bryson often actually believes that he’s bigger — or maybe just more important — than the game.
8. Yes, I believe this. I want it even.
9. This tournament went from “really solid” major to a “has once-every-five-years kind of juice to it” major. The scene on Saturday when Bryson gets to the first tee is going to be outrageous, and this story is likely going to follow the tournament until the end.
I think Bryson enjoys attention so I will not be surprised if he plays the aggrieved victim card here. Although, amusingly, he will have to talk to the media to do so (which he apparently is not doing right now).
But it’s also an opportunity. He will (probably) have a ton of fan support up and down the weekend. And if he bounces back with a 66-68 to win here and talks about how important it was to display his resilience, it will rightfully sway a lot of people. I don’t actually think any of that is going to happen, but I do think Bryson is grittier than he gets credit for and a far better closer than anyone believes.
No matter what goes down this weekend, this has become the narrative of the tournament. I am ecstatic about what’s going to happen over the next two days. And just like what happened on Friday, it will surely be absolute cinema the rest of the way.
10. OK, enough on Bryson. Other stuff happened on Friday, too. Probably.
In the (I don’t know the exact number, but I’m going to say) around 20,000 rounds that had been played across 477 major championships going into Friday, there had been five 62s (or better) shot. Then there were two within 30 minutes of one another at Birkdale in the second round.
I have a couple of thoughts here. The first is how amusing it is that if this was Scottie, Rory or Rahm chasing a legit 59, I would be saying, This is what dominance looks like. You are looking at one of the premier athletes of this (or any other) era! But because it’s Rippers star, Lucas Herbert, I am saying — to quote Nick Saban — Is this what we want football to be?
As Joseph LaMagna pointed out, all seven 62s have been shot since 2017. This is not an accident. Championship golf courses are (literally) under siege from the best players in the world (and some of the not best players in the world).
62 Shocks the Southport Seagull Silly
11. Not to go full Saban, but something needs to be done about this. Otherwise …
Like you would think there would be a 60 at St Andrews in calm conditions probably next year, just the way the game is going. People are just shooting lower and lower. So I think it's a matter of time, technology and depth of golf.
Jordan Spieth | 2026 Open
Spieth — who almost certainly won’t be the one shooting that 60 — said that before these two 62s and before this tournament even started.
This is a topic I used to get incredibly worked up over (and still do at times). But as things have gone on, I have tried to be more pragmatic and calm about it.
One of the first newsletters we published — No. 7 in fact! — was entitled: Do you want to go to St. Andrews? The premise is that if you do want St. Andrews to continue hosting Opens then you will be in favor of rolling equipment back. If you don’t care about St. Andrews hosting Opens, then you won’t care about rolling back equipment. This seems very simple and straightforward.
And if the response is, Well why do you even care about what the scores are, Kyle? I think that’s a fair response. But I also think we can all agree that a good sporting event includes a matchup of high quality offense against high quality defense. And in golf — unlike almost every other sport — the defense is an inanimate object, which means it cannot adjust itself to an offensive onslaught. It needs help, it needs governance to level the playing field.
Otherwise golf courses will continue to be brought to their knees by the 109th best player in the world, and — probably more importantly — will be played in ways that they were never intended to be played. If a baked out, firm, semi windy, renovated Royal Birkdale can’t hold the line, then what course possibly can? We aren’t far from 60s and 59s taking place at major championships.
And maybe everybody wants that.
But I’m guessing probably not.
[Jason here] Maybe this is because my last time covering a life golf event was the Overserved MAGA Bro Convention at Bethpage, and I haven't been to Augusta yet, but GB&I fans make The Open the best viewing experience in golf. Great banter, respectful (for the most part), super knowledgeable, critical of shots when appropriate. And they live up to all of those qualities while being shockingly sunburnt to a crisp. When I say crisp, I’m not talking about chips, and by chips I don't mean fries. Just a bunch of lobsters who make The Open magic.
12. As for the 62s themselves, they were spectacular.
I woke up this morning to Lucas Herbert looking like 1953 Ben Hogan, shooting 28 on the front, not missing a single shot and making everything he laid eyes on. It was truly an awesome display of golf. I thought his presser afterward was terrific, too.
He said he started thinking about 62 on the third hole (!) and that he remembers his dad waking him up in 2009 when he was a kid to see if Chad Campbell could shoot 62 at ANGC (I won’t spoil it for you in case you don’t know that outcome yet).
On the flip side, you had Sam Burns — who said he didn’t even know what the major record was — holing out on 18. Burns said afterward he decided to play last Friday, didn’t prepare much and doesn’t really like links golf. I remember feeling too exhausted for my fingers to type in the weeks after each of our kids was born. Burns went out and shot the seventh 62 in major championship history.
Sick, sick stuff.
13. If I’m Herbert, this chart I’m about to show you would be concerning. Of the top six ball strikers in the field so far, four are major champions and they have a combined 14 major championships. Here they are.
None of them have putted at all. And while that sometimes doesn’t show up by the end of the tournament, it’s probably going to show up for at least one of them. That’s terrifying if you’re Herbert. And while if you make me choose someone here, I’m for sure choosing Cam Young, I will say that Scottie was hunting all day on Friday.
A pleasure to watch. A show.
He ranks in the top five in …
SG approach
SG off the tee
Driving accuracy
Greens in regulation
SG tee to green
SG ball striking
Brother this is a problem. Because if he finds any semblance of heat on the greens, it’s gonna be this all over Birkdale on Saturday and Sunday.
Thank you for reading Normal Sport. We are an algorithm-free newsletter (and podcast) that tries to present the game with all the humor and heart we can possibly muster. Some days (like this one especially!) are easier than others.
I cannot wait for a few more of them this weekend.
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