JOHN COCKAYNE: Golf’s merry-go-round in a Covid environment

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Tales of the expected impact on some players, whirlwind rankings and some things that never change

Brooks Koepka plays his shot from the fifth tee during the final round of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational golf tournament at TPC Southwind. Aug 2, 2020; Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Picture: CHRISTOPHER HANEWINCKEL/USA TODAY SPORTS

The merry-go-round with the now reopened world golf rankings continues as Rahm ascended to the top spot , and this after his somewhat nervy finish in winning the Memorial Tournament. On the European Tour, Marc Warren of Scotland was fastest out of the blocks and broke a six-year winless streak at the Austrian Open. Perhaps for these players it is rather like us mere golfing mortals having a horror first nine holes on a Saturday morning and then stopping at the halfway house, where the break seems to rejuvenate mind and body and we are then able to put together a much better second nine.

Golf and soccer’s big revenue tickets are the TV rights, with the spectators adding the raucous fizz so essential to a Ryder Cup. Waters believes the lack of crowds, at levels where TV rights are of no benefit, could have a very profound impact on the wellbeing of clubs, which are reliant on people coming through the turnstiles each weekend to remain financially viable.

Stadler took the penalty like a man and moved on. Oddly, if he had put on his waterproof trousers and then played the shot, there would have been no penalty.

 

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