Travelers Championship Recap

Good afternoon and welcome to Caddyshanks. We’re like that golf buddy whos always got the speaker playing good tunes. Ministers of good vibes, if you will.

Here's what we've got for ya today:

• Quick Recap: Travelers Championship

• Ruoning Yin Wins Ladies PGA Champ

• Early Lines: Rocket Mortgage

• Golf Shots Heard Round The World

• Eamon Lynch Craps All Over Cantlay

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

Quick Recap: Travelers Championship

👑 Winner: Keegan Bradley 1.6M

“When the putter is working, that’s our God.”

That’s Travelers Champion Keegan Bradley paying homage to the magic wand that carried him to victory this week.

It’s not false idolatry either - he lead the field in strokes gained approach and putting, a solid recipe for winning a golf tournament.

Bradley, a New England native, grew up going to this tournament as a kid.

He would follow David Duval around, watching with wonder as his favorite golfer worked his way around the course.

And, like every little boy who loves sports, he dreamed about himself one day holding the trophy. He competed in this event 12 times prior to this weekend, and never got to fulfill that dream.

Turns out, as the saying goes, the thirteenth time’s the charm.

Of course, he didn’t dwell on the victory for too long, with his mind shifting to the Ryder Cup before he even signed his card.

Here’s what he said about it to Golf Digest:

“Yeah, I mean, it is the first thing I said to my wife walking up to sign my card: This is a pretty big step towards doing that,” Bradley said about making the team. “I'm 37 years old. I hope to play in multiple more. I don't know how many more with everybody so good and the younger kids, just the team is incredible.

“I still got a lot to show the captain. I would love to go to Rome and be a part of that team.”

Did we mention we broke the tournament record by one shot?

Quick Recap: Ladies PGA Champ

Ruoning Yin, a 20 year old star without the hype of Rose Zhang, won the Ladies PGA Championship on Sunday. She even outdueled her landlord and fellow LPGA member Xiyu Lin.

Yin rents Lin’s second home in Orlando, Florida.

Lin joked earlier in the week that she thought about raising the rent after Yin won on the LPGA earlier this season. When Yin was asked after her victory if she thought rent might go up after that $1.5 million winner’s paycheck, Yin said: “Actually, I’m thinking about buying her house right now.”

Got eem.

Early Lines: Rocket Mortgage Classic

It feels like every week has either been a designated event or a major championship, but that changes this week. The Rocket Mortgage is one of the weakest fields on the schedule, but by no means a weak event.

This week, you have only 8 of the top 30 in OWGR competing, and none of the top dawgs, like Rahm, Scheffler, Rory, etc.

You’ll still have Homa, Morikawa, JT, Tony Finau, Sungjae Im, Tom Kim, Hideki Matsuyama, and Rickie Fowler, though.

Detroit Golf Club isn’t the most difficult track in the world either, lacking many of the traditional hazards like water.

Two questions for this week: Who’s driving the ball well and who’s got the hot putter?

May have to look further down the board for a pick this week.

Golf Shots Heard Round The World

Opinion: Rocket Mortgage Classic has created magic by catering to Detroit's sports-mad fans.

Rory McIlroy: Called TPC River Highlands obsolete after the tourney, and advocated for a golf ball rollback.

Welp: Bills S Jordan Poyer cancels charity golf event due to backlash over location at Donald Trump’s course.

Eamon Lynch Craps All Over Cantlay

"Patrick Cantlay, who carries himself with the assurance of a man convinced he'd be a partner at Goldman Sachs if he wasn't merely sporting its logo on his cap, has been trying to rally players against the deal with the Saudis, and against members of the Tour’s policy board who architected or support it.

"It hardly needs to be stated that his objections aren't based on the morality of dealing with human rights abusers. Existing PGA Tour incentives won’t much benefit Cantlay. He won't get rich from the Player Impact Program that bonuses stars on fan engagement since the only needle he moves is the gas gauge on his car.”

Read The Full Piece Here.

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

YO! Quickly head over to gfore.com for their latest sale. Yes, I know, G/Fore sale. Sounds like it’s a fake, yeah? It isn’t though. To me, G/Fore is like the top o’ the line beauty apparel for golfers and it does NOT come cheap.

So, seeing these beautiful STRIPED QUARTER G MG4+ GOLF SHOE go from $225 to $157.50 only makes it that much more painful that I have to pass on these because I’m still too broke.

I also saw this sick “Golfing Is The Sh*t” snapback (marked down from $45 to $31.50) that is sure to get me kicked out of every hoity toity country club but ehhhh who cares. The hat shows off my absurd amount of maturity on the course and that’s the way I like it.

That's all folks! See you Wednesday where we'll talk Rocket Mortgage Bets.