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by KAREN CROUSE MELBOURNE, — Tiger Woods’s final putt on Sun- day was still rolling toward the hole when he started to remove his cap for a postmatch hand- shake with Mexico’s . It had already been a long week for Woods, but he wasn’t done, and there was no time to (Getty Images) waste. Woods’s 19-foot birdie at the by RYAN LAVNER voice in the game and estab- Royal Melbourne Club, , in continuing lished himself as the world No. 1. which secured his 3-and-2 sin- to be a major force, found his Koepka — PAGE 12 gles victory, improved his Pres- idents Cup record for the week Tiger Woods, the player-captain of the team, celebrated defeat- Comeback — PAGE 3 ing the International team, 16-14, in the Presidents Cup final. (Rob Carr/Getty Images) Storyline 2019: McIlroy Wins Everything but a Major The PGA Tour Doesn’t Know by WILL GRAY Rory McIlroy’s Player-of-the- Year season that included every- What to Do With thing but a major title. by JAY BUSBEE Golf’s full of pleasant little apho- Why It Mattered risms about honesty and hard work In a year filled with dizzying that its most ardent supporters trot heights that included an eight-fig- out like commandments — “You ure payday, the one shot that may as well praise a man for not sticks out most from Rory McIl- robbing a bank,” “Golf is a game roy’s 2019 campaign is the one of inches. The most important he’d most like to have back. are the six inches between your Such is the dichotomy of a tre- ears,” et cetera. They’re pithy, mendous and memorable season catchy little metaphors, perfect for for the Ulsterman, one where break-room motivational posters he won four times and captured and corporate-presentation Pow- Everything but a Major — PAGE 11 (Getty Images) Reed — PAGE 11 (Yahoo Sports illustration by Michael Wagstaffe) Storyline 2019: Woods Ties $550 to Play a Round of Golf at Wynn Snead With 82 PGA Tour Wins Las Vegas’ Re-Imagined Course by REX HOGGARD Tiger Woods’ record-tying by MICHAEL HILLER 82nd PGA Tour win at the Zozo Wynn Las Vegas will debut Championship in Japan. its newly re-imagined , which will be one of the Why It Mattered most expensive places to play At the depths of Tiger Woods’ in America, on Oct. 11. The struggles with injury and age, the $550-a-round luxury experience noise that always followed him will include lithium battery-pow- echoed with a familiar theme. ered golf carts, and even To many, Woods’ pursuit of Rolls-Royce cars that can fetch ’ mark of 18 major its high-rolling, off-property championships ended in 2008 guests. It will also be the only when he won his 14th Grand golf course on the Strip, a fea- Slam title. ture that Wynn President Mari- The 18th hole on Wynn Las Vegas’ new golf course finishes with a A career that was always lyn Spiegel says sets the casino dramatic waterfall and a cash prize to anyone who cards a hole-in-one. 82 — PAGE 12 (Getty Images) Wynn — PAGE 5 (Barbara Kraft)

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“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.”  Rochester GOLF WEEK • Friday, December 20/27, 2019 • Page 3 Comeback officers walked the match. They Japan’s to adding, “We are very inspired to waded into the stands or stopped salvage a half-point. play for Tiger, with Tiger, and alongside the gallery ropes to On his back nine, Finau said, it’s so satisfying to win this Cup issue warnings to spectators who he thought of the resilience dis- because of that.” spoke out of turn. played by his captain, who has Woods, the player, had dis- Karain sat out Sunday’s ses- returned from four back sur- passionately disposed of Ancer, sion and was replaced on the geries to win three individual but Woods, the captain, shed bag by Reed’s swing coach, tournaments, including the Mas- tears when the team victory was Kevin Kirk. Reed’s wife, Jus- ters, in the past 15 months. It clinched. “I love seeing other peo- tine, who used to be his , inspiredHoliday Greeting-GW him to dig • deeper.2x7 • 122216 • SH ple cry,”HOUSE , one of also was nowhere to be seen, “I basically told myself, I can’t Woods’s assistant captains, said. depriving Reed of his two main give up on my teammates, my “Especially Tiger Woods.” x pillars of support. She stayed guys, my captain,” Finau said, © The New York Times back in the team room to avoid becoming an easy target for Reed’s critics. Fortunately, Reed said, he had Woods in his corner, and in his ear. “Tiger believed in me, and that’s why he threw me out early, to get the momentum,” Tiger Woods chose himself to fill a wild-card spot on the Presidents Cup, Reed said. “Tiger’s such a great and he couldn’t have chosen better. (Speed Media/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) captain; it doesn’t matter wheth- er you are 0 and 3, he’s going (Continued from Page 1) on the 17th hole gave him a to get behind his guys no matter to 3-0 and vaulted him into first 1-up lead against Louis Oost- what, no matter what they’re place on the event’s career win huizen, guaranteeing the United doing or what’s going on.” list with an overall match record States at least a half-point for He added, “When you have of 27-15-1. the match, added, “We had a that kind of support going on, It was Woods’s ninth Presi- room full of some of the greatest that’s what makes you want to dents Cup as a player and first golfers in the world, and when go out and battle.” as a captain. He might have he speaks, we all listen.” His teammates had said all week managed an even better game Kuchar played the penultimate that Reed was a bear better left than he played in the United singles match. Woods sent him- unprovoked, and he proved them States’ 16-14, come-from-be- self out first because he wanted right against Pan, making birdies hind victory. to finish early so he could spend on his first four holes — and five The United States’ opponents, the bulk of the day spurring the of his first six —to race to a 6-up Best Wishes the Internationals, also had a rest of the team around the fast, lead after seven. first-time captain, , a firm course. When they realized they weren’t PGA Tour member who turned But as he acknowledged af- gettingRavenwood under • 3x5 Reed’s • 082316 skin • SH — he Fax: 924-6720 Email: [email protected] the appointment into another terward, he also jumped at the birdied eight of his 16 holes — FORe full-time job. 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The concept of one worldwide, ciation of the USGA, the RDGA 1 — 5 will be used for handicap- to RDGA members was a list of getting an update as a result of universal golf handicap system — is the local “franchise” of the ping purposes under the new five things that every golfer who the WHS launch on January one that any player in any country USGA and has been tasked World Handicap System.” has an official handicap needs 6. This update — which will can take with them to wherever to communicate this message Since late summer, the RDGA to know about WHS, including: happen automatically if golfers they play golf and have it applied about the WHS. has been busy communicating • The Handicap Index Calcula- already have the app installed in just the same way they use it at “On January 1, 2020, the these changes to representatives tion is changing on their phones and mobile de- their home course — has been World Handicap System will of its Member Clubs throughout • You will have a new Playing vices — will include new fea- years in the making. officially launch in the United the Rochester area — including Handicap tures such as hole-by-hole score Come Monday, January 6, States, delivering the first uni- a series of four WHS seminars, • Net Double Bogey will replace posting, statistical tracking (such that concept becomes reality versal Rules of Handicapping which were attended by club ESC as fairways made, greens in reg- as the new World Handicap for all golfers. For the first time handicap chairs, head profes- • You will have a more respon- ulation, putts, etc.), as well as System (WHS) goes live for the in the U.S., every Handicap sionals and other club officials. In sive Handicap Index updates posted scores that automatically first time. Index will now be computed fact, these educational sessions • Safeguards have been added account for a player’s handicap. Although many avid golfers — through a centralized database were mandated by the USGA for to protect your handicap All a golfer needs to do is input near and far — have heard about to ensure consistency and in- any club that will be using WHS Index their raw score into the system the WHS, many other golfers have tegrity in every number,” said a beginning in 2020. As a result of Part of the “more responsive” and the system calculates their yet to learn about the new system. recent email from the RDGA to these local seminars, nearly 75 Handicap updates noted in item “net” score based on their cur- Locally, the Rochester District its members. percent of all clubs in the RDGA No.4 include “daily” handicap rent handicap. Golf Association has been busy “In anticipation of this signifi- have become officially certified in updates. In other words, when The new WHS represents a this fall getting the word out about cant change, golfers in the U.S. the use of WHS. golfers post a score for handi- major upgrade and improve- the WHS — first, to its more will NOT be able to post scores Now that the clubs have most- cap purposes, they will receive ment over the former handi- than 70 Member Clubs and or- or access their Handicap Index ly all been trained in WHS, the a new, adjusted, handicap via capping system — one that the ganizations who actively use the between January 1-5, 2020 as RDGA is making sure that rank- email by the following day — RDGA hopes that more golfers current system (the USGA Hand- we migrate to the new tech- and-file golfers throughout the rather than the former “eRevi- use in the new year. And for icap System) and now, as the nology. Starting on January 6, area also know what to expect sions” that were sent out on the those golfers who have ques- WHS prepares to launch, to the golfers will be able to post any from the changes that will occur 1st and 15th of every month. tions about the new system, the rest of its nearly 13,000 local scores they missed during this when the USGA Handicap Sys- The RDGA-issued GHIN RDGA recommends contacting GHIN Handicap-using members. temporary down time, and any tem turns over to the WHS. Handicap app that many golf- their local club representatives As an official Allied Golf Asso- rounds played between January Included in the recent email ers currently use will also be or the RDGA office. x

The19th Hole . . . News, Notes & Quotes From the World of Golf Barrow to Step Down as CBS Prepares for More Golf Changes by DOUG FERGUSON brother, former Masters champi- would be the first time for CBS MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) on . CBS also to broadcast the Tour Champi- — CBS Sports, which already has hired Michelle Wie. onship, which previously was has gone through additions and shown only on ABC and then subtractions going into its golf TV DEAL NBC during the FedEx Cup era. season, had one of the biggest Sports Business Journal is Any deal is not expected to be changes when Lance Barrow an- reporting on a new television finalized or announced until the nounced he was stepping down contract with the PGA Tour that first quarter of next year. as producer after the 2020 sea- looks similar to the one in place Still to be determined are dig- son. now, with one big change at the ital rights for PGA Tour cover- Barrow will be succeeded by end of the year. age, which currently belong to Sellers Shy, who will increase his In a daily newsletter, John NBC Sports as part of the live duties next year. Ourand of Sports Business streaming “PGA Tour Live” of Shy will be only the third Journal cited multiple sources featured groups before network coordinating producer for golf in reporting that CBS and NBC coverage begins. SBJ says ESPN at CBS over the last 60 years. have agreed on broad terms and Discovery are part of the had that role International team player Abraham Ancer of Mexico plays his second that would keep them as the negotiations; Discovery currently from 1959 until he retired in shot on the 6th hole in his singles match during the President’s Cup golf main networks for PGA Tour has international rights. 1996 and was replaced by Bar- tournament at Royal Melbourne in Melbourne, Sunday, Dec. coverage. SBJ says the rights Another part of the puzzle row. 15. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill) fee would increase by about is what this deal means for the Barrow first joined CBS in 60% and that the deal would LPGA Tour, which is having 1976 as a spotter and research- the standard of excellence in golf for the Masters and PGA Cham- be another nine-year agreement the PGA Tour negotiate its er for during NFL production,” said Sean McMa- pionship during his career at through 2030. next TV contract. Golf Channel games. In addition to golf, he nus, chairman of CBS Sports. CBS. Shy currently produces the SBJ also reported the tour broadcasts the majority of LPGA was coordinating producer of “He is a golf institution and has Asia Pacific Amateur and Latin has agreed to terms with Golf events, and there were times the NFL and lead producer from been a tremendous ambassador America Amateur. Channel. that LPGA events were shown 2004 to 2017, along with pro- of the sport on behalf of CBS Over the last few months, the The change, according to the on tape delay. Golf Channel also ducing four Super Bowls. He has Sports.” contracts of Peter Kostis and newsletter, is that CBS and NBC has a current deal to air the PGA won 12 Emmy Awards at CBS. Shy first worked with CBS Gary McCord were not renewed. would alternate years covering Tour Champions and Korn Ferry Barrow stays on in an advisory as a spotter during the 1987 Davis Love III is joining CBS in the FedEx Cup playoffs. Cur- Tour events. role. Danny Thomas Memphis Classic an analyst’s role. Frank Nobi- rently, CBS broadcasts the first “For over 40 years, Lance has in Memphis. He has produced lo will go to CBS Sports on a playoff event, with NBC hav- MASTERS PUSH embodied and his- the PGA Tour, NFL, NCAA full-time basis, with additional ing the BMW Championship With most of the attention on tory of CBS Sports golf and set basketball and highlight shows roles for Mark Immelman and his and . That 19th Hole — PAGE 13 Rochester GOLF WEEK • Friday, December 20/27, 2019 • Page 9

GOLF business Haney Suing PGA Tour after Firing from Radio Show dents Cup. The logo he created for the match between two teams, one “OK, you got me,” Els said International team was a com- owner. to him with a wry grin during bination of shields and badges The PGA Tour selects the the closing ceremony at Royal culled from history that spoke site. The PGA Tour picks the Melbourne. to unity and loyalty, friendship, captains, though not without Was it really a surprise? strength and fight. And they had heavy input from all the key Sure, the Americans were the a chance, which is more than people on the International first team to rally from a deficit they’ve had some years. side. on the final day to win the Pres- “If you compare our team That magnificent logo Els cre- idents Cup, and it was their first on paper with other teams in ated for the International team? in any cup since a four-point other sport, you would have He said it required PGA Tour comeback in the at laughed us out of the building,” approval. The support staff for Brookline in 1999. Some con- Els said. “But we gave it a hell the International team are PGA text is required. They’ve won of a go and we came mightily Tour employees, even if they the Ryder Cup only twice since close to winning and upsetting hail from countries outside the then, and they hardly ever lose one of the greatest golf teams U.S. Hank Haney filed a lawsuit in Haney apologized for the the Presidents Cup. of all time.” The money — the Presidents U.S. District Court against the comment and was initially sus- Even with a 10-8 lead going But they didn’t. Cup sells extremely well — stays PGA Tour Wednesday claim- pended by Sirius XM Radio into singles, Els and his Interna- And it won’t get any easier with one organization every ing that the circuit “improperly before ultimately being fired, tional team were playing against the next time. Or the time after time. intimidated, enticed and threat- which he claims “cost [Haney] a stacked deck, as usual. that. That’s not why the Americans ened Sirius XM Radio” to have advertising revenues that would It wasn’t as bad as the time This is about more than world win, and Els wasn’t suggesting the radio host fired. have amounted to millions of Els trailed Woods by 10 shots rankings and experience, about that. They win because they The lawsuit claims that Haney dollars over the life of the agree- going into the final round at which team looks better on play better golf and hole more was terminated because the ment.” Pebble Beach in the U.S. Open. paper. Because if it were, then putts. There is a comfort level Tour wanted to “settle an old According to the lawsuit, the Still, it didn’t seem like a fair how to explain the Ryder Cup? at the Presidents Cup they don’t score relating to professional Tour had “long attempted fight. is strong now. It wasn’t experience in the Ryder Cup. golfer Tiger Woods.” Haney’s to disrupt and interfere in The Internationals had only always. It still has an 11-8-1 “I know it’s a PGA Tour-sanc- dismissal stemmed from a com- Haney’s business” following two players among the top 20 lead over the United States dat- tioned event, OK?” Els said. ment he made during his show the release of his book, in the world ranking. Woods’ ing to 1979, the start of the “But to really be able to do what in May regarding the possible “The Big Miss,” in 2012 team had 10 players from the modern era. you need to do, you need to be winner of the U.S. Women’s that chronicled his years top 20, and that didn’t even in- But while the Ryder Cup is almost a separate... you need to Open. as Woods’ swing coach. clude the injured Brooks Koep- billed as a contest between the be away from the PGA Tour.” Asked by co-host Steve John- • • • ka at No. 1 in the world. Two flags of two continents, it’s re- Nothing personal. He paused son who he thought would win of the four wild-card selections ally between two tours. to pat the back of Mark Wil- the event Haney said, “a Kore- Two Teams, for the Americans, including The European Tour picks the liams, who played professionally an,” before adding, “I couldn’t One Owner Woods, won majors this year. In venue (it usually goes to the high- in Australia and now works as a name you six players on the by DOUG FERGUSON the singles session, the outcome est bidder these days). It has full media official for the PGA Tour. LPGA Tour. Maybe I could. MELBOURNE, Australia — felt inevitable. control of all operations. Paris Last week, he was assigned to Well… I’d go with Lee. If I didn’t Ernie Els has finished second Els was gracious in defeat, last year felt like a home game the International team and fit have to name a first name, I’d to Tiger Woods more than and also gutted. — the course, not just the crowd right in. get a bunch of them right.” any other player, and he never He had fashioned 12 players — just as Hazeltine was for the “I love these guys. They work The Tour’s policy is to not looked more spectacular doing representing nine flags into a Americans. for the tour and all that,” Els comment on ongoing litigation. it than as captain in the Presi- team with identity and purpose. The Presidents Cup is a Golf Business — PAGE 13 Play Better Golf With Jack Nicklaus

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As he begins his Rochester residency in the summer of 2020, the University of Rochester’s Me- morial Art Gallery will mount an The JCC is proud to announce exhibition of Rand’s magnum opus called “The 613” (2001–06). the 2020 Gala Honorees! This 1,700 square-foot multi-pan- el painting depicts emotional and Justin L. Vigdor intuitive—and, to some, surpris- Tikkun Olam Award (Repairing the World) ing—responses to the 613 Bibli- cal commandments. Images for Emily Rittenberg each of the commandments are “TheYoung man Leadership who stops Award advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” mounted as a contiguous grid; Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester each image is rimmed by formal Community Partnership Award gold edging with the Hebrew number of the commandment. Chaired by the Tulgan & Gordon Families. The enormous body of work is an example of Rand’s ground- breaking achievements in the Fill the night with light and join us January 25, 2020 to support construction of a contemporary the JCC and the honorees. For seats or to make a donation, email [email protected] or call 461.2000 ext. 368. Jewish iconography. Rand has an acclaimed his- tory of pioneering Jewish vi- sual projects, among them a commission to paint the entire Archie Rand, To Know There Is A God. (Exodus 20:2), part of The 613, 2001-06, interior of the B’nai Yosef syna- serial painting composed of 613 panels, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in. each. gogue in Brooklyn (1974–77). J (Courtesy of the artist/Photo by Mary Faith O’Neill)  Rochester GOLF WEEK • Friday, December 20/27, 2019 • Page 11 and win QBE Shootout NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Rory 185 in the three-day event at and Graeme Mc- Sabbatini and Kevin Tway won Tiburon Golf Club. Dowell were 27 under, also after the QBE Shootout on Sunday, “After my very poor perfor- a 63. birdieing the final two holes in mance putting yesterday, which Lexi Thompson and Sean best-ball play for a 12-under 60 I wasn’t very happy with, I was O’Hair were last in the 12-team and a two-stroke victory. determined to come out today,’’ field at 8 under after a 70. “Today it was mostly Rory,” Sabbatini said. “As I said to At 43, Sabbatini is 12 years Tway said. “I was just kind of Kevin, ‘Tomorrow I’ll show up.’ older than Tway. hanging out. He played unbe- Took a few holes to warm up, “I’m the old guy,” Sabbatini lievable from hole six through but I finally showed up. It was said. “I remember when I was 10. I think, birdied every hole, fun. Days like today don’t come here, the young guy playing with then an eagle after that. So, often. When they do, you’ve got John Daly as the old guy as my I was just trying to put it in to enjoy them and ride it.” partner, now I’m the old guy play, so I can take the pressure Jason Kokrak and J.T. Poston playing with the young guy as off him, because he was hot were second after a 62. my partner. All I can say about today.” Brendon Todd-Billy Horschel Kevin, what a fantastic golfer, Part of a five-way tie for the and Harold Varner III-Ryan really. He makes it a lot of fun second-round lead, Sabbatini Palmer tied for third at 28 under Kevin Tway, left, and Rory Sabbatini pose with the trophy after winning and it’s enjoyable to watch. It and Tway finished at 31-under after 63s. the QBE Shootout on Sunday, Dec. 15. (Michael O’Bryon/QBE Shootout) made for a fun week.” x Reed

(Continued from Page 1) camera angle.” The PGA Tour sand after making a putt, and This isn’t a sport with a long But those were wink-and-a-nod erPoints. And they’re no good took him at his word, even going soon afterward, his caddie got history of outspoken charac- exceptions. Reed’s the first player whatsoever when someone starts so far as to call him a “gentle- into an “altercation” with an ters; a recent list of golf’s greatest in Tour history to really challenge — metaphorically — swinging man” during the penalty discus- overly enthusiastic member of temper tantrums included three the Tour’s devotion to decorum chairs and turning over tables. sions. Verdict: two strokes, noth- the gallery. Reed’s singles victory people who aren’t even golfers, while still possessing marquee, Down the line, we may look ing more. salvaged what was otherwise a one of whom isn’t even real. major-winning talent. back on last week’s Presidents You could make a case that terrible week from total disaster. Reed, by contrast, has pushed I’m not suggesting Reed is apt Cup as the year the Internation- Reed should have been tossed Golf, as a sport, is constitution- the sport’s limits over and over to use the ol’ foot- when als started fighting back. In the from the tournament right then ally incapable of handling some- again, grousing about unfair he gets pinned up against a pine. shorter term, though, this will and there, just as Phil Mickel- one like Reed, someone who treatment both on and off the If nothing else, he’s got to know mark the point that Patrick Reed son should have been when hit- gets in your face and dares you course, threatening to blow up he’ll have a camera following pointed out the fault lines in the ting a rolling putt at the U.S. to challenge him. Golf’s spirit of team dynamics, and ripping a him around at all times now. PGA Tour. Open last year … but the Tour arm’s-length enforcement keeps (European) camera crew … and Reed stays inside the ropes, even Reed arrived in Australia took care of its own. You can call the messy business of punish- that’s just in the last couple years. if he’s pretty much guaranteed under a cloud of suspicion stem- golf’s rules nitpicky and overly ment out of sight; you’re not We’ve long known there’s he’ll never be a captain’s pick for ming from his actions two weeks punitive — and I have — but as going to see a PGA Tour official a caste system at work in the an international team again. But ago in the Bahamas, where it long as they’re in place, they’re give a player the heave-ho right Tour’s enforcement of golf’s rules he’s shown the way for someone sure seemed like he dusted away enforceable. there on the fairway like a base- both on and off the course. Tiger who won’t: deny, bluster, mock some sand and, in doing so, ille- The Australian crowds weren’t ball umpire tossing out a mouthy Woods and Mickelson have both and move on. gally improved the conditions of quite so accommodating, raining manager. Disputes are settled in evaded punishment for off-course Reed’s not the real problem. his stroke in a bunker: down insults and jeers to the tents and behind closed doors, offenses or allegations worse But he’s showing where the real Golf Twitter howled, but Reed point that Reed and his caddie because that’s how the powers- than those which incited suspen- problems exist. x pled innocence, claiming a “bad cracked. Reed mocked shoveling that-be prefer it. sions for John Daly and others. © Yahoo Sports Everything but a Major

(Continued from Page 1) spent the next 35 holes trying strong finishes that didn’t feature sixth, but faded to a T-9 finish. started the week five shots off the the FedExCup but also failed to unsuccessfully to dig out of the a win, a trend that he ended in Then came Portrush, where lead but bent East Lake to his will feature prominently in any of the hole he had created for himself resounding fashion by captur- all eyes were on the native son with four straight rounds of 68 or four majors and made an early with an opening quad. ing The Players. It was his sixth returning to the course where he better to cruise to victory. exit from the most anticipated Never one to shy away from a straight top-6 finish to start the once dazzled as a youth. But it all One year after he faltered in start of his career. microphone, McIlroy has openly year, and it set the table for an- went wrong for McIlroy as soon a final-round pairing in Atlanta McIlroy entered the new year set his sights on catching and other run at the final leg of the ca- as he was introduced on the first with Tiger Woods, McIlroy beat with plenty to prove, ranked surpassing Koepka as the calen- reer at the Masters. tee, as his opening-round 79 felt Koepka in the same situation and eighth in the world and stuck in a dar flips to 2020. He’s now back “I think this is the best start to a even more out of place given his joined Woods as the only two- logjam of elite players who could to No. 2 in the world rankings, year I’ve probably made,” McIlroy consistent play in the weeks and time FedExCup champs, banking each break out in any given week, seemingly in a better position said in March. “I think I’m on a months prior. He fought valiantly a lucrative $15 million payday for but didn’t appear poised to take to play foil to golf’s alpha male really good path, and I just want the following day, shooting a 65 his troubles. the game by storm. He delivered than any of the other recent con- to keep going.” only to narrowly miss the week- Weeks later he surprised many early and often, cobbling together tenders. Unfortunately for McIlroy, the end, and the subsequent tears he by edging Koepka in the Player of a remarkably consistent year that But he still has to shake the fact hype fizzled out at Augusta Nation- shed demonstrated the level of the Year vote among his peers, featured two more victories than that he’s now made five full trips al as he finished T-21 while Tiger disappointment he felt in front of but he may have secured status missed cuts and one in which a around the sun since he last hoist- Woods took the glory. It snapped the Northern Irish fans. as 2019’s top individual with his top-10 result began to feel com- ed a major trophy — and that a run of five straight top-10s at “I’d been waiting on this mo- victory at the WGC-HSBC Cham- monplace. When he was on, like came six months before Koepka the Masters for McIlroy, who was ment for six or seven years or pions in China while Koepka was a final-round 61 to blitz the field won on Tour for the first time. largely undone by an opening 73 whatever it was, and all of a sud- at home rehabbing a sore knee. It at the RBC , it felt It will likely take a Herculean that featured six bogeys. den it’s here and you’re like, ‘Oh made him the only four-time win- like a 2014 flashback. effort to stand toe-to-toe with the A T-8 finish at the PGA Cham- wow, this is real. This isn’t a ner on Tour in the calendar year That consistency was reward- brash incumbent, but this year pionship was somewhat deceptive dream anymore. This has turned and set the stage for a potential ed by his peers, as McIlroy was McIlroy proved that he is every bit since he started the final round into reality,’” he said. “Definitely battle for supremacy with Koepka named PGA Tour Player of the up for the challenge and eager to 14 shots off the lead, but McIlroy the most ‘deer in the headlights’ in the not-too-distant future. Year over Brooks Koepka de- make his 30s as productive as his burst back to the forefront with I’ve ever been on a golf course.” “The last 18 months, I’ve been spite Koepka’s dominating per- 20s. If he solves the major riddle, his red-hot close north of the McIlroy appeared poised to very settled. I’ve been comfort- formance in the majors. McIlroy’s he just might knock Koepka off border. Rounds of 64-61 over the cede Player of the Year honors able with everything, my game, credentials were complicated by his longstanding perch. weekend turned a tight Canadian to Koepka until the season’s final my equipment, my body’s been the fact that his few missteps Open leaderboard into a rout, event, where he distanced himself healthy,” McIlroy said. “I feel came when the spotlight shined How It Played Out and it once again ratcheted up from the 30-man field by any like this year compares to 2014, the brightest, none more so than McIlroy got going from his very the anticipation for the following metric or format. With the Tour 2015, but I don’t see any reason The Open’s return to Royal Por- first start of the year, tying for week’s U.S. Open. He played his implementing a new staggered why I can’t go ahead and have an trush where McIlroy hit his open- fourth in his debut appearance at way into the mix at Pebble Beach, leaderboard to start the Tour even better year next year.” x ing tee shot out of bounds and Kapalua. That sparked a run of starting the final round alone in Championship, McIlroy actually © Golf Channel Page 12 • Rochester GOLF WEEK • Friday, December 20/27 Koepka

(Continued from Page 1) game’s top players, Koepka felt than on it. But such was the year that decision drew the ire of Golf fall, he revealed that he wasn’t Why It Mattered a responsibility — an obligation, 2019 for Koepka, who continued Channel commentator Brandel able to practice as much this year Last fall, Deadspin published really — to wield his power and his assault on both the record Chamblee, who called Koepka’s because of a lingering knee issue.) a comprehensive list of “The 19 influence the game. books and his competition. diet “the most reckless self-sabo- Koepka’s dismissiveness likely Boringest Athletes of All Time.” And so this year, Koepka took Sergio Garcia and Bryson De- tage that I have ever seen of an didn’t sit well with the Tour’s mid- Brooks Koepka has long craved no prisoners, riffing bluntly on Chambeau were in his crosshairs athlete in his prime.” That began dle class, who grind each week recognition for his supreme talent, slow play, commentators, regu- first —the former because of his a spirited, months-long back and for their livelihood, but — guess but, um, not like this — described lar-season tournaments and would- child-like outburst at the Saudi In- forth between the player and what? — he wasn’t bothered by by the author as the “world’s dull- be rivals, his confidence in the vitational, the latter because of an broadcaster, who also questioned that, either. In fact, the only thing est golfer,” a “vacuous presence” press tent growing the better he “embarrassing” pre-shot routine. whether Koepka, at that point a that seemed to get under his skin and “golfing chloroform.” performed. Nothing and no one Railing against slow play was a three-time major winner, was a was the Player of the Year award, To be fair, Koepka won’t ever were spared from his scorched- consistent theme for Koepka, who generational talent. which went, somewhat surprising- be known for any on-course his- earth approach. His brutal honesty said that golf’s governing bodies Piling even more chips onto ly, to Rory McIlroy. The vote totals trionics; his style of play is more rankled a few of his peers — per- didn’t have the “balls” to punish his sculpted shoulders, Koepka weren’t disclosed, but Koepka brawny than beautiful, and the haps contributing to why Koepka players; he revealed that he some- responded how he seemingly al- shrugged off the snub by com- former hothead has adopted a wasn’t voted PGA Tour Player times hid in the bathroom for five ways does — with top finishes paring himself to LeBron James what-me-worry attitude to access of the Year, despite a three-win, minutes so the group would be put in the biggest events, including a — because LeBron, he said, has his best stuff. But boring? No, not one-major campaign — but also on the clock and then they’d have wire-to-wire defense at the PGA been the best player more often anymore. Not since he made the earned admiration from other to play at his pace. Extreme, cer- Championship, another title at than his four MVPs suggests. That conscious decision to open up leading stars. “He talked some tainly, but Koepka was unflinching the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invita- vote, in addition to their head- more in 2019, turning what used s--- in the media room and he’s in his critiques: If he can calculate tional and a runner-up at the U.S. to-head splits in Memphis and to be mundane press briefings into backed up every word of it,” Xan- the yardage, select a club and hit Open, where he was vying for a Atlanta, seemed to set the table appointment viewing. der Schauffele said. “As a com- his shot in 40 seconds or less, why third consecutive national cham- for a potential rivalry with McIlroy, So why the sea change, because petitor, I have the utmost respect can’t everyone else? pionship. He became the fifth who had soared into the No. 2 surely it wasn’t the Deadspin list? for him, and I think it’s awesome.” But a few months later, it was player in history to record a top-4 spot in the world rankings. But Koepka noticed how NBA stars Indeed, Koepka’s ruthlessness Koepka’s turn to catch some heat. finish in every major, but curiously Koepka threw cold water on that, had become increasingly vocal remains a refreshing antidote to After another pedestrian perfor- he was a non-factor in many of too, woofing that he’s peerless — on a wide variety of issues, but the image-conscious 20-some- mance at The Players, he revealed his other regular-season starts, McIlroy, he painfully noted, hasn’t unlike LeBron James or Chris things who populate today’s Tour. to GolfChannel.com that he’d in- oftentimes looking disinterested won a major since Koepka burst Paul, Koepka never believed that As long as he keeps winning, tentionally dropped more than 20 or unmotivated. Asked about the on the scene. he had the necessary standing to Koepka won’t stop talking. pounds and that the weight loss disparity in results, Koepka said By year’s end, it was hard speak his mind. That changed had begun to affect his game. It it’s simple: He doesn’t put as to tell which left a more last- last year, when Koepka followed How It Played Out was clear that he’d slimmed down much energy into non-majors, ing impression: Koepka’s golf up his 2017 U.S. Open victory It’s not often that the undisputed for vanity purposes (it was later going so far as to say that he shots, or the ones he took at with two more majors and closed No. 1 player in the game gener- announced that he’d posed nude doesn’t practice before them. his competition. x in on world No. 1. As one of the ates more headlines off the course in ESPN’s The Body Issue), and (This wasn’t entirely true: In the © Golf Channel 82

(Continued from Page 1) victory No. 80. “That’s not something that hap- Love III said prior to the Zozo Woods aced both the physical to be measured by majors had “To kind of get to the 80 mark pens overnight. To be able to Championship. and mental test, extending his gone from official hiatus to forced is a big number. Sam is still ahead come this close to get to one be- Those expectations didn’t im- lead to three shots with a third- retirement, or so some thought. of me. I’ve still got a chance to hind Sam Snead has been pretty prove when Woods lost a skins round 66 and enduring a grueling But as the questions and con- play some more golf and maybe amazing. It’s been a pretty amaz- game to on the Mon- finish that spilled over to Monday, cerns persisted, Woods set about I’ll keep chipping away at that ing run throughout my 20 some- day before the tournament and holding off local hero Hideki Mat- changing the narrative by sug- number and maybe surpass it,” he odd years out here.” appeared to struggle with both his suyama to tie Snead with his 82nd gesting that it was Sam Snead’s said at East Lake. “I just think that ball-striking and short game. Tour victory. 82 and not Jack’s 18 that he was what I’ve gone through and what How It Played Out “It was nice to get out there and Although he’s been reluctant fixated on. I’ve dealt with, I’ve gotten lucky, When Woods arrived in Japan compete,” Woods said following throughout his career to put his For Woods, Snead’s all-time to be honest with you. I’ve gotten for the in The Challenge: Japan Skins. “To numerous accomplishments into PGA Tour victory mark of 82 very lucky.” October, expectations were sur- get back in the flow of things. My perspective, Woods admitted fol- was both immediate and easier to Woods’ “luck” only got better in prisingly low for the 43-year-old. range of motion, my strength, is lowing his victory that he started digest. He had, after all, won 14 2019, when he delivered a com- Since the emotional high of his there again. I just have to work my thinking about Snead’s record times since his last major triumph manding performance at Augusta Masters victory, he’d posted just a way back and hope I find a feel for when he eclipsed 50 Tour victo- at Torrey Pines in ’08. He also National for major No. 15 and single top-10 finish (a tie for ninth the round quickly.” ries. always believed that if he was Tour title No. 81. at the Memorial) and missed the As Love predicted, it was differ- “Unfortunately, I went through healthy, he still had the game to Although his one-stroke victory cut at the year’s final two majors. ent when the tournament started. some rough patches with my back catch Snead. over and Brooks More concerning was his with- Woods opened with a 64 that and didn’t play for a number of If Nicklaus’ benchmark felt Koepka reignited the debate over drawal from included birdies on four of his final years, so that record seemed like like a longshot in some circles, whether or not he’d reach Nick- with an oblique strain. five holes for a share of the lead it was out of reach,” Woods said. Woods’ pursuit of Snead’s record laus’ Grand Slam haul, for Woods After being bounced from the and matched that score in Round “Having had my fourth back pro- was somehow more realistic. That it moved him to within a single playoffs early, Woods announced 2 for a two-stroke lead. cedure and being able to come optimism grew with each start in trophy of tying Snead. For a play- he underwent an arthroscopic pro- Heavy rain from a passing ty- back and play at a decently high 2018 following his fourth back er who has carved out a Hall of cedure on his left knee on Aug. phoon washed out Round 2 and level again, it put the number back procedure. Fame career by focusing on the 27. It was the fifth procedure on officials scrambled to finish the in the conversation again. Lo and He finished second at the Val- process, and not the outcome, his left knee dating to 1994, when event on time, which meant early behold, here we are tied.” spar Championship and was back being so close to a lifelong goal he was an amateur and Woods starts and late finishes for a player While the world fixated on in the hunt the next week at Bay was impossible to ignore. earmarked the new event in Japan with a fused back and a recently his pursuit of Nicklaus’ major Hill, where he tied for fifth place “To get into those numbers it as his return date. repaired knee. mark it was Snead’s record and before closing the season with takes longevity and hot years. I “I spoke with him a couple “It’s going to be a bit of a test the demands of prolonged con- top-10 finishes in the year’s final think you need multiple winning weeks ago and he said he was physically and mentally to play sistency that’s driven Woods three majors. The breakthrough seasons. You need to do that for doing really well, but I told him it’s for, what, up to 10 hours. So, it’s through injury and back to com- came at the Tour Championship, decades. That’s something I’m always different when you have going to be a long day,” Woods petitive relevance. x where he dominated the field for proud of,” Woods said in June. a scorecard in your hand,” Davis said following the second round. © Golf Channel  Rochester GOLF WEEK • Friday, December 20/27, 2019 • Page 13 Player, Captain, Ambassador. In Australia, Tiger Woods Is Game.

by KAREN CROUSE 2011, and he won the Australian captain picking Woods the player flag sticks out in the spot that is MELBOURNE, Australia — Be- Masters in 2009 in his only other to fill out this year’s 12-man team. roughly Georgia, had morphed fore he took aim at a makeshift competitive appearance as a pro “I was just getting started with into the form of a goat. The back target floating on the Yarra River, in Australia. This year’s installment my comeback, and next thing you listed the dates of Woods’s five Shane Luke, an accomplished dis- starts on Thursday with a four-ball know I’ve won three tournaments Masters victories: 1997, 2001, abled golfer, glanced up at Tiger session. since then,” Woods said on Tues- 2002, 2005, 2019. Woods, whom he knew only from , the Adelaide native day with a Cheshire cat grin. “It “The short-sleeved shirts haven’t television. and former world No. 1, recent- was nice to earn a pick from the arrived yet,” Ku said, shrugging. Luke was one of the local stars ly challenged Australia’s sports- captain.” He also wore a baseball cap participating in the made-for-TV crazed public to refrain from The run that Woods is on, span- with the TW emblem and a tiger kickoff event at the Crown River- rooting for Woods and to instead ning 16 starts and three titles, driver-head cover on his hand like walk ahead of the 13th edition of support the underdog Internation- including his 15th major, evokes a puppet. In his other hand he the Presidents Cup. Faced with his als, which counts three Australian the Tiger of old. At the same time, held a vinyl figurine of a miniature big moment in front of the crowd, team members. Woods seems different in ways Woods. and his one shot at connecting But Scott might as well have that people can’t quite pinpoint. “This is probably the only op- with Woods, Luke decided to go been spitting into the wind that (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill) One Presidents Cup volunteer portunity I’ll ever have to see for broke. regularly buffets Royal Melbourne. walking with Woods’s foursome him,” said Ku, who explained why “Will you hold my leg for me?” The biennial competition, which Woods can count on his body on Tuesday said: “Has he lost his respect for Woods, perhaps Luke asked Woods. gets underway on Thursday, is bending to his will. Woods, who weight? He looks a lot thinner.” the sport’s all-time best performer, Luke, a nine-time Australian most likely the last professional turns 44 at the end of the month, Woods does carry himself these had recently grown into full-blown Amputee Open champion, re- playing appearance on Australian raised his hand to captain this days with a palpable lightness. fandom. moved his right prosthetic limb soil for Woods, who is in the midst year’s United States team at a During a stopover in Australia last “He seems to be having more and handed it to a surprised of a career renaissance after re- time when his competitive play- December to promote this event, fun,” said Ku, who also was Woods. sorting to spinal fusion surgery in ing career appeared done, or at he dropped the game face that he moved by Woods’s embrace of “It’s really heavy,” he warned. 2017 to try to improve his quality least in the gloaming. In 2017, had worn like a mask for the better his two children after his Masters Woods smiled and replied, “I’ve of life. five months after his fourth back part of two decades. victory in April. “He’s just a father got it.” If Woods is not exactly on an surgery and four months removed “You know, 20 years ago it now playing for his kids.” Balancing on his left leg, Luke extended farewell tour like anoth- from a D.U.I. arrest stemming was a totally different deal. I was By the time the event started, hit a wedge shot that landed on er icon, the musician Elton John from the use of prescribed pain- trying to just play and compete Ku’s unobstructed view of the the improvised green as Woods who is also in town this week to killers, Woods resurfaced to serve and beat everyone,” Woods said stage had been despoiled by a watched intently, leaning on the perform, signs abound that he is as an assistant captain for the during a news conference. “Now phalanx of photographers. Ku’s prosthetic leg as if it were his playing on borrowed time. United States’ winning Presidents I’m appreciative of having the vantage point was better on Tues- . Monday’s exhibition started a Cup team. opportunity to come back and day when he walked the course “Obviously it was good of him few hours after Woods and the Working with younger players play again. I’m just so thankful to with Woods’s group and managed even to do it,” Luke said, calling it rest of the United States team like Justin Thomas and Patrick be part of the game of golf as a to stake out spots just behind the “the favorite moment of my life.” arrived following a 29-hour jour- Reed had a salutary effect on competitor again.” gallery ropes. Despite the cold, “He could have said, ‘No, I’m ney from the Bahamas. Hitting Woods, who described as “uplift- He was also grateful for the drizzly, windy weather, a crowd not touching that!’ It was meant in jeans, without the benefit of ing” their subsequent enthusiastic support of the fans. “They’ve been of several thousand turned out to to be a bit of fun and to get a bit a warm-up, a stiff and sleep-de- support of his comeback. Shortly so great and so into it, and I think watch Woods. of a reaction from the crowd, a prived Woods deposited both of after returning home from the that was the culmination of all this On a par-3 on the front nine, few claps and cheers, that’s all. his shots in the river, with swings event at Liberty National, Woods anxiety and just all this anxious- Woods was setting up to hit from But who knows what his reaction that called to mind mechanical reached out to Jay Monahan, the ness about my comeback,” Woods off the green when a spectator would be?” arms in need of oiling. PGA Tour commissioner, to take added. standing behind him cried out, This is not the first time that The next morning, Woods him up on his offer of the cap- One of the first fans to arrive “We love you, Tiger.” Australians are seeing Woods, looked only slightly revived. Play- taincy of the next Presidents Cup for Monday’s river walk event was Woods stopped what he was the playing captain of the United ing a practice round that started team for the United States. Woods David Ku, a local pharmacist who doing. “I love you, too,” he said. States team, but it is as if they in a cold mist and ended in a crisp figured that the next logical step showed up 90 minutes before the His words set off giggles from are seeing him with fresh eyes. wind, Woods on occasion hopped in his career would be serving as scheduled start wearing a long- his besotted fans, whose rooting Woods represented the United in a cart to get from shot to shot to a guide for the next generation. sleeved hoodie in the 90-degree interest this week may be with States in each of the two previous preserve his energy and, presum- When Woods made that phone heat. The front featured an altered the International team but whose Presidents Cups held at Royal ably, his back. call to Monahan, he had no re- Masters logo; the outline of the hearts are clearly elsewhere. x Melbourne Golf Club, in 1998 and The days are long gone when alistic expectation of Woods the United States, from which the pin © The New York Times

GOLF business CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 said. “But to make our own own thing and the U.S. do their Carolina, a home game for the in Asia or the first one in a Latin do, that might only remind Els rules, to get our own choices, own thing. It’s two groups that U.S. team. And then? A group America country is possible after of the one problem that can’t to do our own thing, it’s hard to clash. We’re trying to do it under from Thailand was at Royal Mel- that. be solved. explain. But we need to be sep- one umbrella.” bourne last week expressing in- It would help if the Internation- Where would the International arate... The Ryder Cup works The next Presidents Cup will terest. The best bet is a return als would win. Keeping it close team display the trophy? because the Europeans do their be at in North to Royal Montreal. Another one only does so much. If they ever ©Golf Channel

The19th Hole . . . CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 the Presidents Cup last week, and Erik Van Rooyen are assured LOST IN TRANSLATION par putt and Ancer missed from would have gained a lot. I would Jazz Janewattananond won the of finishing in the top 50 and One of his best weeks in golf just inside that to fall 2 down. have become a better player just Indonesian Masters for his third securing spots in the Masters. ended on a sour note for Abra- Woods closed him out with a from being in that situation.” Asian Tour victory of the year This week will determined ham Ancer, not just because he birdie on the 16th hole, turning Woods was asked later if he and secured a spot in the real another spot. lost his singles match to Tiger to remove his cap just as the ball was aware of the comment and Masters. is projected to finish the year Woods, but because of scrutiny reached the center of the cup. replied, “Yes,” before the report- The 24-year-old Thai moved at No. 50, but he could get to his reply in Mexico last month “Abe wanted it — he got it,” er finished asking the question. to No. 45 in the world rank- bumped if two-time Australian about the Presidents Cup. Woods said during the winner’s As the question resumed, Woods ing and is guaranteed to finish PGA champion Asked during the Mayakoba press conference. simply said, “Next.” among the top 50, one of the finishes in a two-way tie for third Classic about his debut in the Ancer says the question in Ancer, meanwhile, went criteria used by Augusta National of better. matches, specifically singles, Mayakoba was in Spanish and 3-1-1 for the week, sharing with for its Masters field. That would put the field at 87 Ancer said he’d like to play the tone wasn’t presented the Sungjae Im the largest points This is the final week of tour- players, with the Latin Ameri- Woods, “but the truth is that our right way. contribution for the Internation- naments around the world, with can Amateur Championship in objective is do everything we can “It was never like cocky or chal- al team. He made a prophet Australian PGA Championship January. Winners of PGA Tour to win. Winning a match in the lenging or anything like that,” he out of Adam Scott, who said in Gold Coast and the Thailand events that offer full FedEx Cup singles would be very special, so said. “At the moment I thought on the eve of Ancer’s first Pres- Masters on the Asian Tour. points will be eligible, along with we need to try to get the Cup.” it would be a great experience, idents Cup, “I’ll be shocked if That means Victor Perez of the top 50 published a week The match turned on the 14th which it was. No matter what, he’s not a big points-earner for France (No. 44), Andrew Putnam before the Masters. hole when Woods made a 6-foot with the outcome of the match, I us this week.” x