Wherever the PGA Tour’s season finale is held, it tends to produce moments steeped in drama and at least a little bit of weirdness. This year was no exception.
Any list of controversies for the year should inevitably begin with LIV Golf. Do a quick Google search for “golf controversies 2022” and the first page delivers only LIV-related headlines. The fledging Saudi-backed series made more news than anything else in the sport this year, and it ruffled a lot of feathers along the way, to put it mildly.
If Netflix was hoping for drama in the upcoming PGA Tour docuseries, the streaming service got all of it and then some from the group of Daniel Berger, Viktor Hovland and Joel Dahmen in the 16th fairway on Monday at TPC Sawgrass.
Straka, who birdied three of the final five holes in shooting four-under 66 to beat Lowry by one, may have been the beneficiary of the meteorological whims, but nobody can say he didn’t seize the moment.
Defending champion Daniel Berger and Jordan Spieth will be back at Pebble Beach next week to bolster a field that thus far features 13 of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking, led by No.3 Patrick Cantlay.
For the second straight week, Spieth entered the final round with the lead. And for the second straight week, Spieth left the course without the trophy.
This week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, however, has drawn the shortest end of the COVID stick. What is normally a week-long party by the sea has taken on a rather subdued atmosphere.