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Right call or outdated rule? Social media reacts to Jordan Spieth’s DQ at 2024 Genesis Invitational

Does the rule need to be changed?

Friday was a wild day at the 2024 Genesis Invitational.

First, there was tournament host Tiger Woods withdrawing from the tournament at Riviera Country Club because of an illness, even a scare with an ambulance waiting to possibly take him away. Then after the round was completed, one of the stars of the PGA Tour was disqualified.

Jordan Spieth was DQ’d after signing an incorrect scorecard. Spieth signed for a 3 after making a 4 on the 245-yard, par-3 fourth hole. He hit his tee shot into the left rough, chipped to within four feet and then missed the par putt.

Spieth owned up to his mistake, posting on his social media accounts about the ordeal.

The announcement came late Friday night, with Spieth in the third-to-final group of the day, and it sent social media into a frenzy discussing the rule and how it happened in the first place.

However, that didn’t stop the shortage of people discussing whether the rule needed to be changed or if it was the right call. Here are some of the best reactions to Spieth’s DQ:

Jordan Spieth disqualified at the 2024 Genesis Invitational

Spieth was tied for 20th, 10 back of leader Patrick Cantlay.

Jordan Spieth has been disqualified at the Genesis Invitational in Pacific Palisades, California.

Spieth, after shooting a 2-over 73 on Friday, was DQ’d after he signed an incorrect scorecard.

Spieth signed for a 3 after making a 4 on the 245-yard, par-3 fourth hole. He hit his tee shot into the left rough, chipped to within four feet and then missed the par putt.

Spieth finished 3 under after making a double bogey at 18. He was well within the cut line at the time, which is at 1 over.

The Texan opened the PGA Tour’s third signature event of the year with a 5-under 66 on Thursday, placing himself firmly in the mix.

Shortly after the DQ, Spieth posted a message on social media, saying “I take full responsibility.”

Genesis: 7 big names miss cut

Earlier in the day, tournament host Tiger Woods withdrew from the tournament due to sickness.

Spieth, who last won at the 2022 RBC Heritage, finished tied for sixth at the WM Phoenix Open last week.

Golf equipment spotted at the 2024 Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club

Close-up photos of the golf equipment stars like Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth are using.

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – This week the PGA Tour moved from the frat house atmosphere of TPC Scottsdale to one of the most posh venues on the schedule, Riviera Country Club. Instead of crowds booing bad shots in an arena-like setting, the Genesis Invitational is all about movie stars, a classic course and an ultra-elite field highlighted by Tiger Woods.

Golfweek’s David Dusek was in the practice areas and around the PGA Tour equipment vans this week with his camera and took plenty of close-up photos of the gear being used by the players who are looking to win the $4 million first-place check.

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Bombs, hole-outs and water balls: Jordan Spieth did some Jordan Spieth things during a weather-delayed WM Phoenix Open

It was some pretty vintage play from Spieth.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Jordan Spieth had only played 16 holes when the first round of the WM Phoenix Open was suspended due to unplayable conditions, but what a wild ride it already had been en route to an eventual score of 3-under 68, and, at the time, good for fourth place.

Spieth, who started his round on the back nine, got the party started at the par-5 11th by pouring in a 55-foot birdie putt. Among the morning wave competitors, he ranks fourth in Strokes Gained: Putting (+2.128). He made a more conventional birdie at the par-5 13th, pitching his third to 2 feet for a kick-in.

Then the round started to go sideways. From 283 yards at the par-5 15th, Spieth’s layup trickled into the water. He took a penalty, dropped and that unforced error led to his first bogey of the tournament. One hole later, at the iconic par-3 16th, his tee shot provoked a round of boos as his iron from 151 yards caught the left greenside bunker. Another bogey and he slipped back to even for the day. He currently ranks 80th in SG: Approach the green (-2.563).

Spieth revved up the birdie machine again and got back into red figures by draining an 8-footer an 17 and then Jordan did Jordan things at 18, holing a bunker shot from the right greenside bunker from 27 feet.

He turned in 2-under 34 and still had more tricks up his sleeve. At the par-5 third, Spieth flared his drive to the right and it rolled 376 yards into the native area, according to ShotLink. He had some tree trouble that limited his options but managed to advance it back to the fairway and then wedged inside 2 feet for yet another birdie. From there, he reeled off four straight pars before play was suspended at 12:32 p.m. local time (2:32 p.m. ET).

Fifty-seven players never started their rounds before the delay and only 15 had finished their round. Play resumed at 4 p.m. local time, after a delay of 3 hours and 28 minutes

It was some pretty vintage play from Spieth, who usually puts on a good show in the Valley of the Sun – none better than when he shot 10-under 61 in the third round in 2021 and finished T-4.

As Golfweek’s Adam Woodard put it, Spieth is “like Griswold’s jelly of the month club, the gift that keeps on giving.”

Spieth parred his last final two holes when play resumed to shoot a 68 and trailed leader Sahith Theegala by three strokes when play was suspended again — this time due to darkness.

10 of the best players at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am over the last 5 seasons

See their records here.

This week, a loaded 80-man field is on the Monterey Peninsula for the PGA Tour’s second signature event of the year, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

The Crosby Clambake will look a bit different this time around, with the celebrity amateurs playing in just the first two rounds. Monterey Peninsula Country Club has been removed from the rotation, so the field will play Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill over the first two days before just the pros take on Pebble over the weekend.

Thanks to its elevated status, this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am boasts its best-ever field that includes Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Xander Schaufelle, Patrick Cantlay, Max Homa, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas.

Here are 10 of the best performers from the last five AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Ams.

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An amateur won a PGA Tour event; what happens with FedEx Cup points, exemptions, money, etc.?

Dunlap’s win has fans asking so many questions. We have answers.

An amateur won on the PGA Tour for the first time in 33 years on Sunday.

In other words, Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm, the last two Masters champions, had not yet been born when Phil Mickelson won the 1991 Northern Telecom Open in Tucson, Arizona, as a 20-year-old Arizona State student.

Nick Dunlap, a 20-year-old Alabama sophomore and the defending U.S. Amateur champion, made a putt of nearly 6 feet to win the American Express by one shot over Christiaan Bezuidenhout at the Pete Dye Stadium Course in La Quinta, California. Dunlap shot 60-70 on the weekend and won with a 29-under-par 259.

It’s the 72-hole tournament record since the event went from 90 holes to 72 holes in 2012.

Here are questions and answers in the aftermath of Dunlap’s victory:

Watch: Smylie Kaufman calls golf shots from kayak in Pacific Ocean at Sony Open in Hawaii

Sit back, relax and enjoy this hilarious clip.

Seven years ago, Smylie Kaufman and Jordan Spieth had a rough time on a kayak in the Pacific Ocean.

Following their first round of play in the 2017 Sony Open in Hawaii, the duo took a kayak out on the water near Waialae Country Club in Honolulu to do some fishing. However, the waves had a different idea.

There’s some epic video of the two being tossed around, losing a lot of the gear and personal items they had on the kayak. Nevertheless, they were laughing the whole time and it made for incredible footage.

On Friday during the second round of the 2024 Sony Open in Hawaii, Kaufman had his chance at redemption. He got back into a kayak, with a microphone in hand on the Golf Channel during live coverage, and called golf shots on the par-3 17th, which runs next to the ocean.

Sit back, relax and enjoy this hilarious clip.

Chris Kirk holds off late challengers to win PGA Tour’s first event of 2024 at The Sentry in Hawaii

The win is the sixth of Kirk’s PGA Tour career.

After missing out on the Tour Championship in August, Chris Kirk rested during the off-season by working on his golf game – as a left-hander rather than as a righty, shooting a low score of 82.

“It’s really hard left-handed,” he said. “Really hard.”

Kirk, who won the Ben Hogan Award as the college player of the year, has been making the game look easy for years. His graceful, fluid swing as a right-hander long has produced his trademark natural draw and it delivered in crunch time on Sunday in the final round of the PGA Tour’s season-opening tournament, The Sentry, in Kapalua, Hawaii.

The 38-year-old veteran pro was tied for the lead at the 17th hole at Kapalua Resort’s Plantation Course and facing 209 yards to the green at the toughest hole on the back nine. With the wind, which had been non-existent all week, picking up he switched from a 7-iron to a 5-iron and struck a beauty that bounced on the fringe and rolled to inside 3 feet to set up the winning birdie.

“That one on 17, I’ll remember for a long time,” he said. “One of the best shots of my career, for sure.”

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Nursing a one-stroke lead after 54 holes, Kirk capped off a bogey-free 9-under 64 on Sunday to win his sixth PGA Tour title with a 72-hole total of 29-under 263 and one-stroke better than Sahith Theegala.

“Just kind of kept reminding myself of no matter how I felt, no matter how nervous I was, there was nothing really stopping me from hitting great shots, hitting great putts, and I was able to kind of remind myself of that before every shot,” Kirk said.

Kirk returned to Kapalua this week for the first time since 2016, booking his trip last February at the Honda Classic, where he won for the first time in nearly eight years. In November, Kirk, who took a leave of absence from the Tour in May 2019 to address issues with alcohol abuse and depression, received the PGA Tour Courage Award.

During the final round in paradise, Kirk said he was nervous but he never showed it. The lack of wind left the Plantation Course vulnerable, and the pros attacked. The final-round scoring average of 66.7 was the lowest single-round average on Tour on record (dating to 1983), on the par-73 layout. Justin Rose equaled the course record with a 12-under 61. Sungjae Im closed in 10-under 63 and set a record with 34 birdies, the most in a 72-hole tournament since 1983. Kirk birdied four holes in a five-hole stretch on the front nine to maintain a narrow lead, but Theegala birdied four in a row on both nines to keep the pressure on Kirk. Theegala caught Kirk with a birdie at 15 to get to 27 under and one group later Spieth made birdie at 15 to make it a three-way tie at the top. Theegala made his fourth birdie in a row and fifth in his last six holes at 16 to take sole possession of the lead at the time, but he lipped out for birdie on 18 that could have forced a playoff.

“I knew I just needed to keep making birdies and there was a bunch of chances, especially with the wind laying down,” Theegala said. “Really wish I could have had that second shot on 18 back. It’s not how it works.”

Spieth was done in by a bad break at 16, where his tee shot plugged in a bunker and he made bogey. He closed in 65 and finished third.

Kirk stayed cool and calm to win the shootout, playing with “more self-belief than I’ve had in years,” he said. Along the way, he’s rediscovered his love of the game.

“Had it for a long time and then lost it,” he said. “I lost the joy of most things in life for awhile there. But, yeah, it’s certainly back. I think I just love how hard this is. Like, it’s so hard to be great at this, and I love the process that it takes. I love the work that it takes to try to be the best version of myself. I definitely have fallen back in love with that process, and sometimes you get rewarded for it, like today, and sometimes you don’t.”

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A pair of Texans lead, Tiger’s travails at 15 and Lucas Glover comes up aces among 5 things to know at Hero World Challenge

Here’s what you need to know from the second round in the Bahamas.

NASSAU, Bahamas — The world No. 1 is reminding us at the end of the year just how good he can be.

On Friday, Scottie Scheffler made eight birdies en route to shooting 6-under 66 at Albany Club to share the lead with Jordan Spieth at 9-under 135 at the halfway point of the Hero World Challenge. Brian Harman was alone in third a stroke back and Tiger Woods, who is making his first start since the Masters, roared to an opening-nine 32 before his round stalled and he settled for a 2-under 70.

There was a lot to like about Scheffler’s round —the low one of the day by the 20-man field — but when asked to name what he did best, he said, “I drove it well, gave myself a lot of chances. Yeah, that’s probably the thing I did best.”

Scheffler, who opened in 69, made birdie on three of his first seven holes before making a bogey on No. 8 after getting what he called a bad break. He heated up on the back nine with four birdies in a five-hole stretch beginning at No. 11.

“Kind of got into a nice groove there,” he said. Hit a good iron shot into 10, two good shots into 11, good iron shot on 12 and then I just hit a lot of quality shots and got some looks. That’s really just what I did best.”

Scheffler is trying to end the year on a high note. He’s a candidate for Player of the Year after notching two wins but hasn’t hoisted a trophy since the Players Championship in March.

Here are four more things to know from the second round of the Hero World Challenge.

With rumors flying that Jon Rahm could leave for LIV, new PGA Tour board members Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth weigh in

“Jon Rahm is one of the biggest assets that we have on the PGA Tour.”

NASSAU, Bahamas — Rumors continue to fly that Jon Rahm is considering a lucrative offer to join LIV Golf.

For now, they are just that – rumors. But as Rahm remains mum on the subject, his fellow players have been left to address questions. Jordan Spieth, who recently rejoined the PGA Tour Policy Board as a replacement for Rory McIlroy was asked after his round how he thought Rahm leaving would affect negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s PIF, which funds LIV.

“I’m not sure specifically how it would impact those negotiations, but all in all, Jon Rahm is one of the biggest assets that we have on the PGA Tour,” Spieth said on Friday after shooting 67 in the second round of the Hero World Challenge. “It would be a really, really not very good for us in general because we want to play against the best players in the world, and that’s what Jon is.

“I know there’s been some guys that have talked to him. I know he’s maybe weighing some decisions, maybe not. I really don’t know, so I don’t want to insult him and say he’s weighing decisions if he already knows he’s not or he is. You know, that’s somewhat out of my control in a way.

“Obviously I could speak probably on behalf of 200-plus PGA Tour players in saying that we really hope that he’s continuing with us.”

In a follow-up question, he was asked what he would say to convince Rahm to stay.

“What’s weird is if he’s not considering it at all, which I really don’t know, then it would be an insult to be just playing this game with him to even answer these questions. He might be insulted by it,” Spieth said. “If it were me, and I don’t even know if I ever got an offer, but I like the way that I play four rounds of stroke play the same way we play the majors. I believe that we’re playing against the best players in the world, and it’s what I’ve always wanted to do is to play out here and try and catch PGA Tour wins, catch the legends of the game. It’s a history thing, and the money’s a bonus.”

Tiger Woods, who also joined the board as an independent director in the aftermath of the June 6 framework agreement was asked whether he was surprised there had been so much chatter about players leaving for LIV again. “Hypothetically would it surprise me? Yes, but there’s so many different things that have happened in the last, as you said, 48 hours but also in the last few weeks. Things have changed and will continue to change. Our deadline’s coming up here soon, so there’s a lot of moving parts, a lot of different things are happening very quickly because we know, you know, I think today’s the first day in December, we don’t have a whole lot of time.”

Pressed whether he wasn’t surprised, Woods said, “Nothing has really surprised me other than the fact that there’s so many different things that have happened so fast. That’s one of the things that all of us as player directors we’ve been working on, just that everything is now at a time crunch. It’s 24 hours a day just trying to figure it out.”

The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and PIF said in June that they would reach an agreement by the end of the year.