The Open Championship is subsequent week and which means we’re on the verge of crowning maybe a fourth completely different main winner on the season. In the intervening time the gamers who’ve lifted probably the most coveted trophies in golf are Rory McIlroy (Masters), Scottie Scheffler (PGA Championship) and J.J. Spaun (U.S. Open).
If I’d instructed you this was the case again in March then you definately would have had no situation believing that Rory and Scottie took residence majors, though the previous doing so at Augusta was clearly the story of the yr what with it serving to him obtain the Profession Grand Slam.
In some ways this yr of golf has been the yr of Rory McIlroy due to this. Whereas he received the best event of all of them he did additionally win at Pebble Seaside and emerged victorious on the Gamers Championship. That win at TPC Sawgrass required a playoff on the Monday after, by the way towards U.S. Open Champion J.J. Spaun.
Typically issues work out that approach as nobody would have predicted the yr’s Masters and U.S. Open winners had been on the tee when the Gamers Championship playoff started. Unlucky for Spaun that playoff was not too shut as he made a few errors on that fateful Monday, together with going within the water on the long-lasting seventeenth.
In talking to Golf SubPar about his U.S. Open win, Spaun instructed a narrative that was associated to that. In keeping with him as he was headed for an additional playoff shortly after, coincidentally on the par 3 contest earlier than the Masters that Rory received, McIlroy noticed him and instructed him to make use of the “proper membership” this time.
The way in which Spaun instructed this story it sounds prefer it was a playful jab from McIlroy. Clearly it was not the most effective second from Spaun’s profession, however it’s one that’s most likely simpler to look again on after profitable a serious championship and doing so within the unbelievable vogue that he did.
Chatter forwards and backwards is a part of sports activities and definitely a part of golf. Maybe we’ll see issues choose up alongside these traces between the 2 main winners throughout the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in a few months.
