Scottie too Hottie?

Good Afternoon, Scottie Scheffler is your 2023 Players Champion and all around nice guy, but is he the most boring young golf star ever? He just might be. 

In todays email:

• We're messing with the format a little bit here, to make the newsletter better.

• Scottie Scheffler is boring, but a beast.

• Dell Matchplay in ATX

• Wanna play Augusta National?

• Tiger Woods: Celebrating 25 years on tour

Scottie Scheffler is boring a beast.

He won by five strokes and it was basically over before he made the turn on Sunday. He doesn't emote. He doesn't have a loud personality. Some people call that a snooze, some people love it. 

Maybe it's not that he's boring, maybe he's a god damned technician. Sometimes, great golf looks a lot like boring golf.

He was tactical, patient, and terminator like, then celebrated by having desert with his grandmother. 

Yet, with all of the greatness we've seen this season between Scottie and Jon Rahm, it does feel like somethings missing, like, last years champion Cam Smith. 

Rare air

With his win Sunday, Scottie became the first player since Tiger & Jack to hold both The Masters and The Players Championship titles. 

He's been on quite a run...

What about everybody else?

Tyrell Hatton: the most emotional golfer in the world, the anti-Scottie if you will, finished second after an insane back nine 29 on Sunday. Boosting his earnings from $135,000 to $2,725,000. Not bad. 

Min Woo Lee: The young man played great golf all weekend, but one mistake triple bogey killed him, and Scottie never looked back. On the brightside, he's 23 and he hits his driving iron 290+ yds, and he won over a lot of fans with his big personality. He's gonna be around for a while. 

Tom Hoge: Pronounced like the sandwich, shot a course record 62 on Saturday. I think Wawa should sponsor him. If you're not an east coast guy, you wouldn't get it. Another funny note, he won $1.3 million dollars, but flew home riding coach. 

Okay, we get it. 

The broadcast must've mentioned the fact that Scottie Schefflers grandma was walking every hole with him, about 400 times. As always, the internet remains undefeated.

Golf Shots Heard Round The World

Big Money: Prize money payouts for The Players were pretty dang good. 

Even Bigger Money: Some dude bet 300k on Scottie and won $3.3 milly. 

Bye Bye Austin: For seven years, toward the end of March, some of the worlds best players get together in ATX for the Dell Match Play. Usually, it's a really fun event and a highly desirable ticket, but for some reason they are cancelling it.

LIV Golf: Announced a season long contest, then immediately deleted it. 

Punching Bag: This thing is so dumb, but necessary for some. 

Play Augusta: Here are your options for playing Augusta.

Rory: I need to focus on golf

No shit, Sherlock!

After missing the cut, Rory came out and said ".. I need to get back to being purely a golfer."

We agree, because it doesn't seem like becoming the face of golf, and the official PGA Tour spokesman, has helped him win big tournaments. 

If we wants to complete the career grand slam and get his green jacket, he's got 24 days to get in the right mindset. 

Stat

Any player to make a hole in one was 150-1 this week. There were THREE. 

Better Than Your Desk

Arrowhead Golf Club, Colorado by @pjkoenig

Golf Thing We'd Buy If We Weren't Broke

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That's all folks! See you Wednesday where we'll discuss gambling on The 2023 Valspar Championship, which has the unfortunate distinction of being squeezed between The Players and The Masters. However, there are SOME top names playing and bets to be made.

Valspar Lineup: Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jordan Spieth, Keegan Bradley and two-time defending champ Sam Burns. They’re joined by Tommy Fleetwood, Brian Harman, Justin Rose, Taylor Montgomery, Kevin Kisner, KH Lee, Davis Riley, Adam Hadwin, Denny McCarthy, Gary Woodland and Mav McNealy.