| 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 pal
Golf Channel workers report…”Following his emotional victory on the Broad Broad Know-how Championship on Sunday, Erik van Rooyen mentioned that he couldn’t wait to see his finest pal, 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 reside.”
- “On Tuesday, van Rooyen, together with mates 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 mentioned Wednesday on “Golf At this time.” “An opportunity to say our final goodbyes.”
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2. Revisions to USGA handicap system
Notable modifications to the World Handicap System for Jan. 1, 2024, through the USGA…
- “Inclusion of Shorter-Size Golf Programs Inside the Course Ranking System: The general size necessities for Course Ranking within the WHS might be considerably lowered. 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 develop the WHS to hundreds 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 strategy used to deal with holes not performed, which can now be based mostly on a participant’s anticipated rating reasonably than a rating of internet par. This new methodology will produce a 9-hole or 18-hole Rating Differential that extra precisely displays a participant’s skill. As golfers internationally are taking part in extra 9-hole rounds, an anticipated rating can be used to transform a 9-hole spherical into an 18-hole Rating Differential. For some international locations, because of this 9-hole scores might be thought-about within the calculation of a participant’s Handicap Index instantly after the day of play, reasonably 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 chance of an adjustment for irregular taking part in situations. Nationwide associations got discretion, starting in July 2022, to introduce this revision inside their computation platforms, which might be full by April 1, 2024.”
- “Enhanced Steering on Conducting a Handicap Evaluate: The position of the Handicap Committee is significant to the success of the WHS and the Guidelines suggest {that a} Handicap Evaluate is carried out repeatedly, or no less than yearly 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 overview 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 critical household matter, Steve Stricker is not going to have an opportunity this week to cap off his super marketing campaign on PGA Tour Champions. The 55-year-old issued an announcement on Wednesday that he was withdrawing from the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, which begins on Thursday in Phoenix, to be together with his father, Bob, who was admitted right into a hospital on Monday.”
- “I used to be eagerly trying 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 house,” Stricker mentioned. “My father was admitted to the hospital on Monday afternoon. He’s at present 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 discipline
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 strive on the last gap to realize entry. If a 15-year-old taking part in on tour feels 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 in the course of 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 mentioned on Wednesday when talking to the media. “And it’s simply form of a reminder to me, don’t deal with anything besides the shot that I’ve within the current second.”
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5. TGL co-founder confirms league’s high 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 form of hit-and-giggle occasion. However there might be some critical money on the road.”
- “The Related Press reported on Tuesday that there might be a complete purse of $21 million on the road, with $9 million going to the profitable workforce. 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 taking part in for $21 million, the purse is $9 million to the profitable workforce, so it’s legit competitors,” McCarley mentioned on the pod. “And these guys are among 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 newbie days, is lastly getting his style of life on TOUR after receiving a sponsor exemption into the occasion.”
- “I’ve at all times wished simply to say I performed in a PGA TOUR occasion, and that’s going to be actually cool,” George IV mentioned 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 enamel, 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 enamel whose capability for chaos within the city of Sedona has seen them develop into a viral sensation.”
- “Once you stumble upon them and see them, it’s like The Tasmanian satan,” Seven Canyons normal supervisor Dave Bisbee advised 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 Women European Tour Order of Advantage handed away at her house in Queensland, Australia, after a battle with most cancers.”
- “A winner of 21 LET occasions – solely Laura Davies has received extra – the Scot performed in 4 Solheim Cups, in 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996, profitable 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 School Grove, Tennessee, outdoors of Nashville, is in discussions to host a LIV Golf occasion subsequent yr. The course, which was designed by LIV CEO Greg Norman, can also be house 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 a number of days in the past that LIV was “trying” at The Grove as a possible host web site.”
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