12 golf events you forgot about in 2023

Here’s what you may have forgotten from 2023:
I think we will be able to cover 10 years of golf news in 2023. News on the golf ball change, Michael Block Mania, Lily Wu’s big double, Rickie Fowler’s return to the winner’s circle and – oh! Of course, there is a lot going on with John Rahm signing with LIV Golf and the PGA Tour’s recent merger with Saudi Arabia’s PIF.
Of course, that wasn’t the only thing. You may have forgotten the moment Tom Kim fell into Allen Creek during the PGA Championship or when Brooks Koepka and caddy Ricky Elliott stormed the first round of the Masters in what many thought was a signal for partner Gary Woodland and his game. his players. . You’d be forgiven for thinking this converted wooden gate is older than last January. Think about it again. Here are 12 things you forgot about golf in 2023. Here are 12 things you may have forgotten when playing golf in 2023.

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January also allowed LIV golfers to compete on the DP World Tour (which ends in April), making for an interesting matchup between the PGA Tour captors and the LIV defectors across the pond.
None of these situations was more intense than the meeting on the range between Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy at the Dubai Desert Classic. What happened to Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy? The forensic overview is as follows:

It started on Tuesday of that week when Reed, an LIV fan, went to meet McIlroy, a PGA Tour fan, before the tournament. Reid “polished” the trio towards McIlroy winning four majors when he called McIlroy on Christmas Eve 2022 and spoke out against Reid.
Then things started going “he said, she said” and we had a scandal on our hands. GOLF’s Dylan Dethier details the whole ordeal here, but a few quotes from McIlroy’s pre-tournament press conference are worth noting.
“I was sitting by the bag and he came up to me and I was working and practicing and I wasn’t supposed to recognize him,” McIlroy explained. “So I never saw Tee coming in front of me and it just seemed like it happened. “If the situation changed and I threw his shirt away, I expected there would be a lawsuit,” he said.

McIlroy asked Reed if he would consider repairing the bridge, to which the Recorder responded with what the Recorder described as “an expression of disbelief”.

The story has been the talk of the town all week, but it developed further on Sunday when Reed faced none other than McIlroy. On the 17th hole of the third round, Reed’s tee shot hit one of three palm trees on the right side of the fairway. Reed and DP World Tour officials concluded that one of several balls lodged in the third tree near the green matched Reed’s description of the mark. He took one drop and dropped it from another tree to make five drops. He shot a 65 in the final round, which put McIlroy in a tie for 72nd. But in hindsight, video replays clearly show that Reed’s ball missed the first tree, resulting in a less than ideal spot. The debate recently hit the headlines when Golf Channel’s Brendel Chamblee criticized the recent decision. — Here you can see the first tree. What he said was third, leftmost,” Chamblee said. “You get lost in the first tree. . . . You have to be a lot higher up to get into the third tree, and you have to be a lot further to the left to get to the third tree.”

Reed ended up leaving the statement in second place. Apart from the pros, there was no new start in the 2023 DP World Tour. Tiger Woods’ dumb joke

Tiger Woods’ first PGA Tour start in more than two years was eventful as he tied for 45th.
Woods drew attention by shooting a 69 in the opening round of the Genesis Invitational last February. This included some big runs past his playing partner, the much younger and stronger Justin Thomas. But it was the couple’s reaction after one of their spectacular campaigns that made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

After hitting a tee shot 323 yards down the center of the 9th hole, Woods approached Thomas and secretly put a pad in Thomas’ right hand. The moment was captured by Getty Images and quickly went viral on social media.
Some commenters found the joke funny. “It’s just men against men.” Others called it ridiculous, sexist and offensive.
GOLF editor-in-chief Alan Bastile said of the joke:

You say to yourself: Wait. Woods did not intend to broadcast this episode to the world. It was a fun time between friends. But the problem is that Woods knows that every move he makes between the ropes and often outside them is being watched by the police. He should have known better. What is even more surprising is… Like a secret fraternity. Until I’m gone. PGA Tour, LIV Meet at the Masters Champions Dinner

The Masters Dinner of Champions is usually a reunion of past and present golf greats, but this year was a different kind of reunion.

LIV Golf and PGA Tour professionals will entertain you at the Masters Champions Dinner.

This year’s Masters was the first event since LIV Golf launched in June 2022 and the first time many PGA Tour stalwarts and LIV defectors met since the Open Championship. Seven of the previous 13 Masters have been won by LIV Golfers, so many expected fireworks when the annual tradition began on Tuesday night.
However, expectations of a chilled dinner were sorely missed as the two sides appeared to put their differences aside for the sake of an annual tradition. Ironically, John Rahm was one of the experts who wanted to attend that evening’s meeting. Rahm reportedly missed last year’s festivities, but will host the 2024 dinner after winning the green jacket that week. Statement by Brooks Koepka, Wild Masters

Brooks Koepka took the lead with a 7-under par 65 in the first round of the Masters. However, the tournament was not without controversy as it gave Koepka’s group an interesting decision at the end of the 15th hole. Koepka made his sixth birdie of the round on the 5th with a 5-iron from 231 yards to 24 feet, but when he returned the club to Ricky Elliott, television cameras caught Elliott hitting Gary Woodland’s putt . Like the iron, “5” Koepka appeared to hit a 5 with his left hand with the gloves off. Woodland Koepka was several feet below the shipping channel.

If true, this would violate Rule 10-2a. The rules state that players cannot tip anyone in the league playing the course during a round, and if the rules are broken, the player’s caddy is also liable.
However, all parties involved have denied the allegations. Masters gave a short answer to this. “Participants are assured that no advice has been given or solicited. Accordingly, the commission determined that there was no breach of the regulations.”

“Yeah, I went back and looked.” Koepka said. “[Gary Woodland and his players] didn’t know what I hit. They didn’t even know. I know this to be true because GW asked me what we would encounter when we went out and down. That’s all I can offer you.

Koepka eventually finished T2.
The trees are falling at Augusta National

The Masters turned into a heavyweight showdown between Jon Rahm and Koepka before suffering a sectional loss to runner-up Phil Mickelson, but two majors were wiped out when he fell on Friday the 17th. ‘Hard and then bang’: Consumer reaction to fallen trees at Augusta National

The Masters has been plagued by bad weather all week, causing the second round to be suspended twice in the afternoon.
Just before the second bogey, the wind blew and uprooted two large pins from the left side of the 17th hole. Players saw two trees fall on the nearby 16th green as patrons scattered to avoid being crushed.

“You hear the storm and then you hear the crash,” said Greg Janes, sitting nearby in booth 15. “So it sounds like a storm.”

Fortunately, no one was hurt.
The second round continued on Saturday, with most of the field forced to play more than 27 holes on Sunday due to persistent rain that later halted the third round. In classic Augusta fashion, all remains of uprooted pines were quickly removed and disposed of Saturday morning.
The big tree of Augusta! We’re still waiting for more details, but ESPN reports that “there were no injuries at all.”

Tom Kim fell into the mud

The 2023 PGA Championship will be remembered for many things. From Oak Hill’s massive rebuild to Brooks Koepka’s return, Viktor Hovland’s pain and Michael Block’s injury;