The 2023 LPGA season is record-breaking year of lengthy travel – there are a total of 18 times where there are at leasy 3,000 kilometres between tour stops, up from 13 in 2022.
The golf world so desperately wants Woods back, so any positive sign – that initial swing video, or his range sessions, or his PNC plans – can easily be mistaken for concrete evidence that the comeback train’s trundling towards glory.
We’re all pretty used to seeing golfers with athletic tape on their overused, injured bodies. But the flesh-coloured patch of tape that Rory McIlroy had on his right forearm at the PGA Championship is a bit different.