It’s been nearly 24 months since the R&A named Shane Lowry its last “champion golfer of the year,” the COVID-19 pandemic causing the cancellation of the Open Championship in 2020 for the first time since World War II.
I’m here to examine the most prominent debates, and then, using the solemn power vested in me by the Golf Digest byline, to declare a victor once and for all. The decisions that follow will be binding.
Five days after Australian Golf Digest first reported that the Open Championship would be cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the R&A made it official overnight.
For most Tiger Woods fans, myself included, there’s nothing more terrifying than the prospect of another back injury occurring to derail an otherwise impressive return to competition in 2018