| By Ben Alberstadt with Gianni Magliocco.
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Good Thursday morning, golf followers, as day one of many Butterfield Bermuda Championship will get underway.
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1. Van Rooyen visits dying buddy
Golf Channel workers report…”Following his emotional victory on the Large Large Know-how Championship on Sunday, Erik van Rooyen stated that he couldn’t wait to see his finest buddy, and provides him a hug.”
- “Jon Trasamar, van Rooyen’s school teammate and roommate on the College of Minnesota, has terminal most cancers and texted van Rooyen final week that he has lower than three months to stay.”
- “On Tuesday, van Rooyen, together with pals and different former teammates, together with van Rooyen’s caddie, Alex Gaugert, visited Trasamar on the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.”
- “Yesterday was particular,” van Rooyen stated Wednesday on “Golf At this time.” “An opportunity to say our final goodbyes.”
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2. Revisions to USGA handicap system
Notable adjustments to the World Handicap System for Jan. 1, 2024, by way of the USGA…
- “Inclusion of Shorter-Size Golf Programs Inside the Course Ranking System: The general size necessities for Course Ranking within the WHS shall be considerably diminished. A set of tees on an 18-hole course could also be as quick as 1,500 yards [1,370 meters] to be eligible for a Course Ranking and Slope Ranking®, and a set of tees on a 9-hole course could also be as quick as 750 yards [685 meters]. This variation is meant to broaden the WHS to 1000’s of shorter size programs, together with par-3 programs, and allow extra golfers to acquire and use a Handicap Index.”
- “Use of an Anticipated Rating for a Gap Not Performed: Enhancements have been made to the tactic used to deal with holes not performed, which is able to now be based mostly on a participant’s anticipated rating fairly than a rating of web par. This new technique will produce a 9-hole or 18-hole Rating Differential that extra precisely displays a participant’s skill. As golfers the world over are enjoying extra 9-hole rounds, an anticipated rating may also be used to transform a 9-hole spherical into an 18-hole Rating Differential. For some nations, because of this 9-hole scores shall be thought of within the calculation of a participant’s Handicap Index instantly after the day of play, fairly than ready to mix with one other 9-hole rating.”
- “Taking part in Circumstances Calculation Changes Made Extra Frequent: The Taking part in Circumstances Calculation (PCC) has been modified to extend the probability of an adjustment for irregular enjoying circumstances. Nationwide associations got discretion, starting in July 2022, to introduce this revision inside their computation platforms, which shall be full by April 1, 2024.”
- “Enhanced Steerage on Conducting a Handicap Assessment: The position of the Handicap Committee is significant to the success of the WHS and the Guidelines suggest {that a} Handicap Assessment is performed often, or a minimum of every year to make sure a Handicap Index® stays reflective of a participant’s skill. New reporting instruments have been developed that nationwide associations can incorporate into their handicapping software program to help Committees in conducting the assessment course of successfully and persistently.”
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3. Stricker WD with father within the hospital
Golf Digest’s Tod Leonard…”Due to a severe household matter, Steve Stricker is not going to have an opportunity this week to cap off his great marketing campaign on PGA Tour Champions. The 55-year-old issued a press release on Wednesday that he was withdrawing from the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, which begins on Thursday in Phoenix, to be along with his father, Bob, who was admitted right into a hospital on Monday.”
- “I used to be eagerly wanting ahead to…competing on this occasion and capping off this season, which has been an extremely particular one for me, however a private emergency has come up that requires me to remain residence,” Stricker stated. “My father was admitted to the hospital on Monday afternoon. He’s presently receiving care and it’s important that I’m right here for my household throughout this difficult time.”
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4. How a 15-year-old earned a spot on this week’s area
Golf Digest’s Joel Beall…”Betschart earned his spot on this week’s Bermuda Championship by a 54-hole qualifier, posting a final-round 68 and surviving a competitor’s missed birdie attempt on the ultimate gap to achieve entry. If a 15-year-old enjoying on tour seems like an enormous deal, it’s. Betschart is the youngest participant to play in a PGA Tour sanctioned occasion in nearly a decade since Tianlang Guan competed in a handful of occasions as a 14-year-old throughout the 2013 season. Together with Guan, solely Michelle Wie West, Andy Zhang and Lorens Chan had been youthful than Betschart to make a begin on the PGA Tour this century.”
- “Whereas Betschart acknowledged he’s feeling nervous forward of this week’s begin, he additionally pointed to a message that’s plastered on a bracelet.”
- “My sister made it earlier than the qualifier. It says ‘the following shot’ on it,” Betschart stated on Wednesday when chatting with the media. “And it’s simply form of a reminder to me, don’t deal with the rest besides the shot that I’ve within the current second.”
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5. TGL co-founder confirms league’s prime prize
Golf Digest’s Alex Myers…“Many golf followers might view TGL, the forthcoming tech-infused league headlined by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, as some type of hit-and-giggle occasion. However there shall be some severe money on the road.”
- “The Related Press reported on Tuesday that there shall be a complete purse of $21 million on the road, with $9 million going to the successful staff. And Mike McCarley, a co-founder of TGL and TMRW Sports activities with Tiger and Rory, confirmed these figures on this week’s Marchand & Ourand Sports activities Media Podcast.”
- “They’re enjoying for $21 million, the purse is $9 million to the successful staff, so it’s legit competitors,” McCarley stated on the pod. “And these guys are a few of the best guys on the planet.”
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6. Bryan Bros take Bermuda
From PGATour.com’s Sean Martin…”This week, George IV will make his PGA TOUR debut on the age of 35 whereas Wesley fights for his TOUR card on the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. George, the higher of the brothers throughout their novice days, is lastly getting his style of life on TOUR after receiving a sponsor exemption into the occasion.”
- “I’ve all the time needed simply to say I performed in a PGA TOUR occasion, and that’s going to be actually cool,” George IV stated final week throughout an interview for the “Speak of the TOUR” podcast from the trailer at Solina Golf Membership, which they bought this previous spring.
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7. Javelinas + golf course = mayhem
Jack Bantock for CNN…”Growling, clacking tooth, the rumble of hooves – as evening falls at one of many United States’ most scenic golf golf equipment, sinister noises reverberate off the red-rock canyon partitions.”
- “And when the Arizona sunshine breaks over Seven Canyons within the morning, the destruction is revealed. Sprawling mounds of ravaged turf blot the 7,000-yard course like open wounds, soil and grass strewn in all instructions throughout in any other case pristine fairways.”
- “The perpetrators? Javelina, a pig-like creature with raking canine tooth whose capability for chaos within the city of Sedona has seen them change into a viral sensation.”
- “If you come across them and see them, it’s like The Tasmanian satan,” Seven Canyons basic supervisor Dave Bisbee instructed CNN.”
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8. RIP Dale Reid
Michael McEwan for Bunkered…”Tributes have been paid to former Solheim Cup captain Dale Reid who has died on the age of 64.”
- “Reid, a two-time winner of the Girls European Tour Order of Advantage handed away at her residence in Queensland, Australia, after a battle with most cancers.”
- “A winner of 21 LET occasions – solely Laura Davies has gained extra – the Scot performed in 4 Solheim Cups, in 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996, successful four-and-a-half factors from 11 matches earlier than guiding Europe to victory over the USA at Loch Lomond in 2000.”
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9. LIV eyeing up present KFT host course
Brentley Romine for Golf Channel…”LIV Golf is reportedly focusing on a event at one other golf course with PGA Tour ties.”
- “Sports activities Enterprise Journal first reported that The Grove in Faculty Grove, Tennessee, outdoors of Nashville, is in discussions to host a LIV Golf occasion subsequent 12 months. The course, which was designed by LIV CEO Greg Norman, can also be residence to the Korn Ferry Tour playoff occasion, the Simmons Financial institution Open for the Snedeker Basis, and was already on the schedule for Sept. 12-15, 2024, after internet hosting the occasion every of the previous two seasons.”
- “GolfChannel.com has heard related from a supply near LIV. The supply acknowledged just a few days in the past that LIV was “wanting” at The Grove as a possible host web site.”
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