Double Cross Podcast

The Thursday afternoon wave hasn’t even made the turn and DataGolf says there’s a 68.3% chance the winner is either Xander, Rickie, Rory or Scottie

Non-Canadian note: It always feels cool to see a less-heralded player win his third PGA Tour event, especially at 35 or younger One or two, you had the week of your life and you’re a really good player. Three, you’re starting to separate among the rest of the pack

68 years, they waited for a Canadian champion and it happens like this??? Movie script What a putt

Playing a tournament with Jon Rahm has to be so annoying You wake up Saturday six strokes ahead of him, shoot a front-nine 33 and guess who you’re tied with now?

I know cameras flatten slope but the 14th green at Augusta might be the biggest victim of that, even watching this tournament for a decade I only have a general idea where tiers start and stop

It got kinda lost in all the birdies he’s made but the “Brooks back” moment for me was his bogey on 13 In the water off the tee and still had a routine 15-footer for par. Make or not, that’s how he won his majors.

Paul Tesori-Cameron Young gives me a lot of whiffs of Ted Scott-Scottie Scheffler. Young guy with world-beating talent gets a voice that saves him two strokes a week, and that can be the difference between a ton of seconds and trophies

Rory’s opponents today went 65-65 with 14 birdies in 36 holes. Wasn’t enough.

TPC Sawgrass might be prediction-proof, but creating birdie looks while avoiding trouble = valuable In 2023, four players have a Good Shot rate > 10% and a Poor Shot rate < 4% (“high ceiling, high floor”) from 150-200 yards: Rahm Scheffler Thomas Schauffele (via @DataGolf)

I see Rory’s walking a tightrope and balancing plates on his nose this morning

Jon Rahm has played five PGA Tour events this season. He’s been in the final group Sunday four times. The only tournament he wasn’t? The Sentry TOC…which he won