Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau readily available for Showdown warmups at Shadow Creek on Monday.
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Welcome again to the Monday End, the place after watching Q-Faculty I’m simply relieved I’ve saved my card (on this case, my job at GOLF) for the 2025 season. No four-footers required. To the information!
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GOLF STUFF I LIKE
Paddy on parenting.
It’s a reflective time of yr; it’s additionally PNC Championship week. And so I’m considering again to a video that went viral this time final yr, within the lead-up to the PNC: Padraig Harrington on tips on how to introduce your child to golf.
Harrington’s soliloquy was impressed by his son Ciaran, his enjoying accomplice for the week — and what he did proper and fallacious in Ciaran’s beginnings with the sport. His insights, in 4 elements:
1. If you happen to’re having fun with your self, they’ll get pleasure from themselves.
“In hindsight, one of the simplest ways, if you wish to get your child into the sport of golf, is carry him someplace the place you’re not confused. That’s essential,” Harrington mentioned. “Youngsters choose up on that. Allow them to do what they like once they’re there, have a little bit of enjoyable in the event that they wish to hit one shot, two photographs, 10 photographs, play within the bunker, look within the water, or no matter they wanna do, allow them to do, and customarily carry them dwelling earlier than they get drained.”
2. Give up when you’re forward.
“So the perfect factor you are able to do with a child early on in golf is say, ‘hey, we have now to go dwelling,’ and don’t wait until they’re drained and hate it. Wait until once they’re truly having fun with themselves, go dwelling.”
“Keep in mind, in case your child will get good on the sport, that doesn’t essentially make them love the sport. In case your child loves the sport, it’s possible they’ll grow to be good at it. It’s the love must be first.”
“Once you’re completed, take 10 minutes to spend together with your son or daughter and go and have a Coke, a Pepsi this week, go and have a Pepsi within the bar, wherever it’s, and sit there have an ice cream, and spend 10, quarter-hour. As a result of if they’ve that quarter-hour alone time with you simply, you and them, for the remainder of their life, each time they play golf, they keep in mind the quarter-hour that they had with their father or mom, and that’s what would preserve bringing them again to golf for the following day.”
4. Hold love first.
“In case your child will get good on the sport, that doesn’t essentially make them love the sport,” Harrington mentioned. “In case your child loves the sport, it’s possible that they’ll grow to be good at it. It’s the love must be first and, and it’s much more necessary to get a love of the sport as a result of everyone knows you plateau once you play golf.
“There’s many plateaus the place it actually will get irritating. And in the event you don’t adore it, these plateaus are going to cease you enjoying, you’re going to surrender. Whereas in the event you adore it, you’ll undergo something. So try to get the love of the sport for the children first.”
Paddy’s parenting — that’s golf stuff I like.
WINNERS
Who gained the week?
Lanto Griffin gained Q-Faculty, guaranteeing he’ll have full PGA Tour standing for the 2025 PGA Tour season. One cash quote from Griffin after the spherical of Sunday, a clutch seven-under 63: I wish to expertise this with my household, now with my child and it’s — you simply don’t need it to finish. It’s like being at a extremely good live performance, you simply need there to be a pair extra songs and that’s type of what I felt this week.”
Jake Knapp and Patty Tavatanakit put a bow on their seasons with a victory on the Grant Thornton Invitational. Enjoyable reality: This was the second time this yr they gained on the identical day. The primary time got here again in February, when Knapp gained the Mexico Open and Tavatanakit on the Honda LPGA Thailand.
Shaun Norrisgained the Alfred Dunhill Championship on dwelling soil because the DP World Tour continued its African swing, capturing a final-round 67 to erase a six-shot deficit as rivals fell by the wayside coming down the stretch at Leopard Creek Nation Membership in South Africa. The win marked his second in as many begins after Norris gained the Japan Tour’s Nippon Collection JT Cup simply two weeks in the past.
“This adjustments a couple of issues for me. I’ve obtained a lot to stay up for over the following few years,” Norris mentioned of his improved standing. “However now it’s time for a vacation.”
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NOT-WINNERS
Just a few golfers who didn’t win however nonetheless kinda gained.
5 different execs made it by means of a grueling Q-Faculty week, which began wild and windy and completed with good quaint mega-pressure. A sentence on every with assist from our Jack Hirsh:
Hayden Buckley: A PGA Tour member for the previous two seasons who surprisingly fell out of the Prime 125 after simply two top-10s in 2024.
Takumi Kanaya: A seven-time Japan Tour winner who has already performed in 11 main championships. Was a former World No. 1 beginner and was ranked as excessive as No. 49 within the Official World Golf Rating in 2022.
Will Chandler: Fired a final-nine 30 Sunday to jumpstart his profession alternatives. Superior from the second stage of Q-Faculty after logging solely 10 occasions on the Korn Ferry Tour this season and 9 PGA Tour Canada occasions in 2023.
Matthew Riedel: Former standout at Vanderbilt College who graduated this spring and earned standing on the Korn Ferry Tour by means of PGA Tour U. That additionally put him straight into the ultimate stage of Q-Faculty this week.
SHORT HITTERS
Six groups to observe on the PNC Championship.
When served with an advert broadcasting tomorrow’s Showdown odds, it occurred to me that the PNC Championship would be the most degenerate golf occasion to guess on, given the households and youngsters and whatnot. With that as inspiration, let’s run by means of the betting favorites (sure, actual odds):
6. Workforce Singh (+650) — Vijay and Qass. The 2022 winners and the one squad to go 59-59 in occasion historical past.
5. Workforce Langer (+650) — Bernhard and Jason. Final yr’s champs; they gained in 2019 and 2014, too. Bernhard additionally gained the final PGA Tour Champions occasion of the season so he’s getting into in fantastic type. Harmful crew.
4. Workforce Woods (+500) — Tiger and Charlie. These guys have gotten seasoned vets at this occasion; with luck this will probably be their healthiest yr but.
3. Workforce Kuchar (+450) — Matt and Carson. Shot 57 within the first spherical final yr however light to T5 on Day 2. Again hungry.
2. Workforce Cink (+450) — Stewart and Connor. They gained in 2013; can they flip again the clock?!
1. Workforce Daly (+300) — John and John II. They gained in 2021; they’re locks to have the brightest pants. John II had a 71.78 scoring common at Arkansas final yr, however I’m guessing they didn’t play any two-man father-son scrambles.
ONE SWING THOUGHT
From Daniel Berger and Nelly Korda.
Throughout Grant Thornton week it’s fascinating to listen to what the LPGA and PGA Tour execs consider their companions’ video games, and one enjoyable little bit of perception got here from Daniel Berger and Nelly Korda, who realized on one strategy shot that they had been each pulling 7-iron.
“There was a pair occasions the place I hit one in there yesterday and I regarded in her bag and he or she was hitting the identical membership I used to be hitting,” Berger mentioned. Korda was fast so as to add that her draw provides yardage, whereas Berger’s fade takes some off. However they had been mutually impressed.
“It’s been very simple, she hits it within the fairway, she hits it on the inexperienced, she makes putts. I imply, it’s fairly clear why she’s No. 1 on this planet and I have to get my act collectively,” Berger mentioned.
“He’s a really a lot finesse participant,” Korda mentioned. “I at all times recognize that when a participant exhibits his inventive aspect.”
ONE BIG QUESTION
What’s up with Ryder Cup pay?
On Monday morning the PGA of America confirmed reviews that sure, American Ryder Cuppers will probably be compensated for his or her participation on this yr’s occasion at Bethpage Black. Particularly they’ll get $300,000 to present to a charity of their alternative and one other $200,000 as a stipend.
So how do you have to really feel about this? Sometimes I simply use this house to ask a query, not reply it, however right here I’ll supply a suggestion: You don’t want to really feel any sort of means about this in any respect! You don’t want an opinion on this! Do these guys want the cash? No, they don’t. Do they deserve it? Sure, they most likely do; they’re those everyone seems to be coming to see. However the Ryder Cup shouldn’t be made or damaged by a pair million bucks in look charges and charitable donations. Professional golfers receives a commission to play nearly in every single place else they tee it up. This appears [shrugs] fantastic.
With that mentioned, Workforce Europe ought to completely lean into the concept theirs is a purer devotion to the competitors. Their crew bond has historically been stronger than the U.S. aspect — that is simple bulletin-board materials, in the event that they want any extra.
ONE THING TO WATCH
Bryson chirps Rory.
The Crypto dot com Showdown is coming Tuesday, and whereas I’m genuinely excited for Scottie/Rory vs. Brooks/Bryson I used to be a bit involved that nothing about this match had damaged by means of to the final sports activities world (by means of the NFL bubble, in different phrases). However that modified Monday with a devastating and truly fairly natural dagger thrown by Bryson DeChambeau within the course of Rory McIlroy.
The change, at a Monday clinic:
McIlroy: “I’d prefer to go up in opposition to Bryson and attempt to get him again for what he did to me on the U.S. Open.”
DeChambeau: “To be truthful, you kinda did it to your self.”
You would argue this was historical past repeating itself, with McIlroy doing it to himself as soon as once more by tossing this alley-oop to DeChambeau, nevertheless it was good, if devastating, enjoyable. Let’s hope there’s some enjoyable and loads of fireplace, too, come Tuesday evening. I’m cautiously optimistic.
NEWS FROM SEATTLE
Monday End HQ.
We haven’t but hit the shortest day of the yr, however we have now crossed an necessary milestone: Final week we noticed the earliest sundown of the yr at 4:17 p.m. and now we’re headed in the appropriate course — 4:19 as we speak! The mornings are one other story (7:52 a.m. dawn and nonetheless getting worse) however we’ll take the wins the place we will get ’em. Spring is mainly right here.
We’ll see you subsequent week!
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Dylan Dethier is a senior author for GOLF Journal/GOLF.com. The Williamstown, Mass. native joined GOLF in 2017 after two years scuffling on the mini-tours. Dethier is a graduate of Williams Faculty, the place he majored in English, and he’s the writer of 18 in America, which particulars the yr he spent as an 18-year-old residing from his automobile and enjoying a spherical of golf in each state.
