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Best cold-weather gear 2022: Winter hats and headwear

The one time it’s good to have a hot head on the golf course.

If you’re going to play golf all winter long, you have to stay warm!

Here at Golfweek, we’re helping you extend your golf season and eliminate the term “offseason” from your vocabulary. An obvious yet often overlooked accessory when teeing off at below 60 degrees? Winter hats.

Keeping heat around your dome is more than just keeping your ears warm. Regulating your body temperature allows you to function smoothly. One of the best ways to keep heat close to our body is with a knit hat or ear muff.

If you’re looking to winterize your game, check out our men’s and women’s apparel lists to fulfill all of your winter golf needs.

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Best cold weather gear 2022: Men’s jackets

Winter rules! Keep your top half warm on and off the golf course this winter.

Much of the United States is quickly going from chilly to straight up cold.

It seemed like just yesterday that the temperature outside was perfect for a 1/4 zip and shorts. With weather fluctuating so randomly and rapidly, you need to be prepared to play golf so there’s no wasted rounds.

Here at Golfweek, we’ve curated a list of some of the best jackets on the market to make sure that you’ll be as warm as possible while still being able to make a full swing well into the fall and winter months.

When playing in colder temps, here’s a couple of tips to help maximize your experience: 1) Always have a hand warmer or two 2) Wear wool socks 3) Walk if it’s not windy 4) If in a cart, have a cart cover & butane heater. These simple tips will make your golf experience much better when it’s hovering above freezing.

Players Championship cut finally made following bitterly cold Florida morning at TPC Sawgrass

When 36 holes were complete, Sam Burns and Tom Hoge were atop the leaderboard at 7 under.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – There is no snow on the ground, but winter was definitely in the air Sunday morning at TPC Sawgrass.

When players took to the Stadium Course for resumption of the Players Championship’s second round at 8:15 a.m. ET, the wind chill factor made it feel like it was 25 degrees. Caddies were dipping towels into buckets of water to clean clubs and golf balls in the future; the towels froze up quickly.

The thermometer struggled to get past 35 for much of the morning.

It didn’t cross 50 until around 12 noon.

“It was freezing,” said Tommy Fleetwood, who finished off a 1-over 73 that left him at 5 under through 36 holes. “It was really, really cold this morning. The sun warmed things up a little bit. But this morning was like as cold as I think I’ve ever played a Tour event, for sure.”

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Storms beginning Wednesday night forced the second round into Sunday. The tournament also had to deal with ferociously high winds on Saturday. The first round took 54 hours, 16 minutes to complete. The second round? Finished in a mere 27 hours, one minute.

“It was not warm,” said Harold Varner III, who has posted consecutive 69s to sit at 6 under. “I’m in a lot of clothes right now. Funny enough, I used to live here, so I’ve played it colder. It is what it is.”

When 36 holes were complete, Sam Burns and Tom Hoge were atop the leaderboard at 7 under; Burns shot 69 in the second round, Hoge a 71.

A shot back in a tie for third were Harold Varner III (60) and Erik van Rooyen (67). Another shot back at 5 under were Fleetwood, Abraham Ancer (71), Paul Casey (69), Corey Conners (69), Keith Mitchell (72), and Taylor Pendrith (71).

The cut came in 2 over with 71 players moving on, including Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, who made the cut on the number.

Among those missing the final two rounds were Brooks Koepka, Jordan Spieth, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau, Adam Scott and Jason Day.

“I was onto my third sweater, I think, and I still wasn’t warm enough,” said Hoge, who won earlier this year at Pebble Beach. “You know what, I think we definitely got the good end of the draw. That’s golf, I guess. It was certainly difficult out there still this morning. I felt there were a lot of challenging golf shots out there.

“I just tried to hit a lot of fairways and greens. I managed it very well until the 18th hole. But it was a solid day for me, and hopefully I keep that going.”

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‘Rare winter treats’ on display in Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is full of natural wonders, and visitors this week can count snow rollers among them.

The park on Tuesday shared an image showing what it described as “nature’s snowballs,” or snow rollers, adorning a slope between Mammoth and the Norris Geyser Basin.

Snow rollers are formed, according to the park, “when the right amount of snow, wind, temperature, and moisture come together to form a snowball or doughnut shape.”

These doughnut shapes sometimes roll downslope, creating snow-roller trails (see images).

Snow rollers in Rocky Mountain National Park. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The park described this as a “rare winter phenomenon” and added that snow rollers typically form in open spaces near incline bottoms, where fresh powder is blown by wind across an icy surface.

According to National Geographic, snow rollers are also referred to as “snow bales,” “wind snowballs,” and “snow doughnuts.”

–Top image courtesy of yellowstone National Park; second image showing a snow roller in Rocky Mountain National Park is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Enough about football, what about the college basketball season?

Lost in these conversations over what could have been in regards to football is a nagging question—what will happen with college basketball?

In recent weeks, the spotlight in the college sports world has been on the management (or lack thereof) of the college football season in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The NCAA and major conferences wasted the bulk of the summer by not coming up with a suitable return plan for college athletes, and now, with two of the Power Five conferences already moving to conference-only schedules and the rest likely to follow, the entire idea of having a college football season in the fall seems to be hanging by a thread.

It seems a near certainty that the season will be at the very least delayed until late fall/early winter, the implications of which would be devastating for the sport at large.

But lost in these conversations over what could have been in regards to football is a nagging question — what will happen with college basketball?

Surely, the NCAA will do whatever is possible to avoid making any substantive changes to the season considering the entire postseason was canceled last season. Allowing the virus to significantly affect two seasons in a row is a worst-case scenario.

But if the college football season — along with other fall sports — are canceled or postponed, where would that leave college basketball?

In making these plans, many of the limitations and stipulations that affect college football’s return also apply. Players are still unpaid, and forcing them into a position of risk is a bit different from when the NBA does it to its millionaire athletes. You still have to deal with the fact that it’s inconceivable to try and replicate a bubble-type environment; travel and the freedom of movement for student-athletes (who will still be taking classes as students, and at least at UF, could be taking them in-person) will be necessities.

But there are also a number of reasons why basketball doesn’t have to suffer the same fate football inevitably will. Smaller rosters mean you only have to worry about keeping conditions safe for 12-15 people (plus support staff), as opposed to the 100+ required for football. The schedule would be easier to adjust if necessary since nonconference basketball games aren’t tied with seven-figure contracts like in football, and playing games without fans wouldn’t be as financially catastrophic as it would be for football, where schools in conferences that don’t have lucrative TV deals often need revenue from ticket sales to subsidize their entire athletics departments.

Not to mention the fact that the season isn’t set to start until November, putting several more months between the current state of the pandemic in the United States and the season’s commencement.

But there are no guarantees. The Ivy and Patriot Leagues have already canceled sports through the fall, meaning that if the basketball season were to happen in those Division I conferences, it would at the very least be delayed. It’s very possible the beginning of the season is pushed until December or January and nonconference games are eliminated entirely or severely reduced. There’s also the conflicts basketball season could have with a potential spring football season to keep in mind.

There is reason to be more optimistic that the college basketball season will happen on time than the college football season, to be sure. But if that’s going to happen, the NCAA can’t waste the next three months and repeat the mistake it made with football.

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