![]() That isn’t sitting well with everyone, and was a topic of discussion during the Player Advisory Council meeting at Torrey Pines. Likely, it’ll be a mixture of all those things, which is to say, if you’re 100th on any list, you could be on the outside looking in. The qualification for them could be based off the World Golf Ranking, the FedEx Cup, previous-year standing or even recent performances. Perhaps it will be 70-man fields, or maybe 100, but 144-player tournaments seem unlikely at the moment. The idea of 50-man fields has clearly been pushed forward by a couple of big-name players, but if we are to trust Tour player director Rory McIlroy, these events will have more than that. Notably, how these $20 million designated events will look in the future. While the PGA Tour may be winning various PR and legal battles against LIV Golf at the moment, not everything is perfect internally. Not everything is copacetic on Tour right now It gets the mind dreaming about what Woods could do on a very flat Royal Liverpool in July. ![]() Niall Horan followed close behind with a much worse limp of his own. By the time Woods walked up the dirt hill after 18 holes, his limp was a bit more pronounced, but nothing like what we saw at Augusta 10 months ago. ![]() Bottom line: he’s making it look better than last year. If you want to understand Woods’ walking psyche right now, it’s all about taking hills straight on, and not at a side angle, so he elected for the wooden stairway rather than the meandering paved path. Woods could have easily borrowed a cart ride up the hill, no questions asked, but he hoofed it instead with strong, purposeful steps. That’s at least two more than he had played consecutively in the last nine months. Sunday morning, his fourth straight day of Golf Without a Cart. Woods popped out of the driving range bathroom around 8:30 a.m. ![]() But did you walk up the hill behind him Sunday morning? I did. Shocker! You watched what we all watched. For now, here’s a notebook dump on everything we saw and heard these last two weeks, but didn’t really get to writing about. Maybe going from The Open to Memphis or something. It’s hard to imagine two successive events with more divergent vibes. Tour players call it a “circus,” and I’ve really felt that concept. That’s a double dateline, folks, and about all my brain can muster after 14 straight days of elevated events on the PGA Tour. Tiger Woods trudges up a hill at the Genesis Invitational last weekend. ![]()
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