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VIKTOR? YOUR THOUGHTS
The biggest tease of the PGA calendar is upon us as the Hero World Challenge, holiday Match, and the PNC Championship wet our collective whistle for meaningful professional action—only to get smacked with the winter break.
Doesn't mean there can't be meaningful moments though as Viktor Hovland defended his title at the Hero—becoming the second in the tournament's history to do it. The first? Shocker, it's Tiger.
And the quote above was Viktor's live reaction to being told that only he and Tiger had accomplished the feat. I'll take candid sports moments for $800, Mayim. (Sad, just doesn't have the same ring as Alex. RIP, my man.)
Ok, I'll go Candid Sports Moments for $1000.
SIR CHARLES V. XANDER—SPORTS NEWEST RIVALRY?
Held onto this one from before the Cyber madness. (Which, by the way, just delighted to be back and appreciate the shout outs last week. We had our biggest week yet on readers, and I missed you all!)
Click through the image for full video but Golf Digest did a feature with Charles on the leaps and bounds he's made on his golf game and the guy just couldn't help himself on calling out his own golfing insecurities.
The juicy part of the quote is above but he drops about 5 or 6 pro names in the full video, starting with Rory. Though it's the tone and how his hand drops another few inches when he calls out Xander that makes me think there's bad blood there. Almost like he listed everyone prior to make it seem like there was nothing to it. But call me crazy if they didn't cross paths at some point in a pro-am and Xander won a $#%& ton of money off Chuck.
Future Match competitors, perhaps??
The Match is back!
THE NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME
I miss the COVID-level excitement for The Match. We were all so starved for competitive, well, anything that it may have just been right place, right time.
But hey, I'll take the win in that we get four actual golfers and zero actual quarterbacks in this edition. Meaning the on-course vibes should be back at early Match levels.
Despite being on TNT (who DEFINITELY know drama), there hasn't really been much leading up to the event so I fear ratings may suffer and, especially with Rory and Tiger introducing their new network golf show, the end of The Match could be near.
That said, Justin and Jordan are lifelong BFFs and absolutely ELITE match play partners. Rory and Tiger have become the poster children for the anti-LIV movement but are also quite dynamic in on-course commentary and zingers. So my expectations here are sky high.
And finally, it's being played under the lights!!! Which means we get a decidedly different energy and a bit more mystery with the floodlight-like studio setup for each hole.
"Welp—I joined the office fantasy league" update
<MASSIVE SIGH>
Has the season been enjoyable from a traditional, I look forward to the week ahead, this is fun, I am connecting with my coworkers sense? Debatable.
Has the season been enjoyable from a nontraditional, everyone at the office seems to have been rooting for me to lose so I had to fly in and sing karaoke for them so perhaps this ended up being a great bonding experience for everyone else involved sense? I think so.
But sorry suckers, I won my week and I am officially SAFE from the singing.
AND I still have a 1% chance to make the playoffs. All I need to do is win by roughly 200-300 points and have several other teams lose. Easy peasy. Let's go Geno!
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