The PGA Tour season kicks off this weekend, I WON the Bad Birdie fantasy football championship and Rory did his best Havianas impression by completely flip-flopping his stance on LIV—and those still aren't the biggest news stories of the week.
Presenting...
THE CAN'T-MISS EVENT OF 2024
It’s time to play some G with the Bad Birdie Fam.
Through 175 issues of Breakfast Balls, an idea so simple (yet exquisite) has rattled around in our heads—playing golf with our most dedicated BB homies (aka you!)
And I am so insanely excited to announce that it’s finally happening with a VIP-level golf experience at a Golf Digest Top 100 Course—Ram's Hill Golf Club.
We're hosting 20 Bad Birdie super fans in my neck of the woods, Southern California. A bottomless buffet of golf and great vibes. All designed to feel like the best buddies golf trip ever! Golf, lodging, food, bevvies, glow ball, prizes, and custom gear.
Sold already? Applications are open!
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THE DETAILS
WHEN
February 29-March 1, 2024
WHERE
Ram’s Hill Golf Club in Borrego Springs, CA
(Short-ish drive from San Diego/Palm Springs—and totally worth it!)
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Golf, 18 holes (Obviously…)
- Glow-ball happy hour
- Lodging (on-property house for you and your foursome)
- Exclusive Breakfast Balls Invitational gameday ‘fit (polo, q-zip, pants, hat)
- Food + bevys for your stay
- Goodie bag to bring home
- Prizes… and lots of ‘em
- A cherished memory with your squad + ours (priceless)
HOW MUCH
$650/person
Applications are now open as we want to find the absolute baddest birdies around.
This ain't your full field, everyone take a number kind of tourney. I want to actually meet you all. Share a drink. Play some g. And have a friggin' epic overnighter in the SoCal desert.
Applications close on Wednesday, January 10th.
I'll notify our final player field by Monday, January 15th.
In other news...
RORY: "MY B"
Seems like the winter thaw is coming early this year as news broke around a podcast interview Rory gave where he softened his stance BIG TIME on LIV.
Key pull quotes like:
"I was maybe a little judgmental of the guys who went to LIV Golf at the start, and I think it was a bit of a mistake..."
"I don’t begrudge anyone for going and taking the money and doing something different..."
"I was maybe a little judgmental of the guys who went to LIV Golf at the start, and I think it was a bit of a mistake..."
"I don’t begrudge anyone for going and taking the money and doing something different..."
(re: Rahm) "It’s a smart business move. It’s opportunistic. I think he sees that things will come back together and he’s in a lucky position."
Clearly this is an indication that a deal between PGA and LIV is imminent—as across the board the feeling on golf circles, podcasts, interviews, etc is that we're likely a year or so away from the two tours coming back together in some shape or form.
And the guys who stayed on Tour just saw Rahm's deal and are probably sitting there thinking... so you're saying I can take a year or two off PGA golf and earn HOW MUCH?!
For those wondering what the response was to Rory's complete 180... I'll let the Koepkas take it from here.
This week on r/golf...
MIND IF I JOIN YOU FELLAS?
There's a lot on golf Reddit that I, frankly, don't love. Like the neverending joke where someone posts a picture of their new club with an inside joke like "Some guy got into an argument on the 18th hole, so I bought a new putter." Let's innovate here, people.
This post is quite the opposite. To me, it's what I wish Reddit was at all times. The story is simple, this random dude thought he was going out for a normal 10:10a tee time at his local track only to discover on the first tee that he was paired with DeAndre Jordan and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
Incredible.
And better yet, he had never posted on Reddit before but it's literally the only place to go for epic tales like this.
Comments are even tame with people asking genuine questions, the poster saying how awesome it was to share the experience with people, and then the intel from locals that two current Denver Nuggets decided to pull up to a relatively rough local muni in Colorado.
Elsewhere on r/golf...
GOAT DAD MOVE
Pretty self-explanatory here. Absolute GOAT dad on our hands.
Can't wait to send stuff like this to Jack when he's older. Casually drop a link to, like, Fossil Trace in Colorado. "Hey, this place is kinda cool. Wanna go?"
Fun side note, got the call to go play Bandon this fall... so I actually am looking for Bandon reccs. Where should we eat? Course intel?
Who's looking at me now?!?
CINDERELLA STORY
Absolutely 0 shame in my game—yes, one office fantasy football league championship and I am already dropping MJ gifs for myself.
To the 17 people who cared last year when I chronicled my campaign of pain in the inaugural season. And to the 12 of those 17 who thought I was awful at fantasy because of it. Look at me now!
The cherry on top? Bucket Hat Bill lost and sends daily weather reports to the league as his punishment. Something that when first suggested I scoffed at, thinking how hard it could be?
Can confirm, only three days in, it looks miserable. Imagine starting every day by bringing up the forecasts for cities across the country. Filming yourself (and some light editing—shout out Bill for the post production work). And then having to do it all over again... every. day.
Sucks to suck. (And I look forward to the "why you gotta kick me while I'm down??" Slack in abouttttt 45 minutes.) Sorry, Bill.
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