Everything you need to know about golf this week.

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

• Quick Recap: Mexico Open

• Quick Recap: LIV Singapore

• Preview: Wells Fargo Championship

• Better Than Your Desk

• Golf Shots Heard Round The World

• For The Group Chat

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

👑 Winner: Tony Finau - $1.38M

Tony Finau, who came in 2nd place behind Jon Rahm last year, won the Mexico Open by three strokes.

There was a brief moment on Sunday where Brandon Wu tied Tony Finau for the lead, but it quickly vanished with a bogey on the 8th and a double on the 10th.

Other than that, no one, not even Jon Rahm, truly pressured Finau on Sunday.

Not everyone knows how much of a grind it was for Tony Finau to become the player he is today.

He's one of eight children, and his dad taught him how to golf by hitting balls into an old mattress in their garage. They had no money for lessons or equipment. He and his brothers shared a discarded 6-iron and any sets that they put together were from the Salvation Army.

He is quite literally an against all odds story. The early part of his career wasn't easy either:

If you watched Full Swing on Netflix, you probably watched the Tony Finau episode. It was a great peak into what it's like to prioritize being a great dad while also dealing with the grind of the PGA tour.

Naturally, he caddied for his kids yesterday after the round. Awesome.

LIV Singapore Recap

Back-to-back seems to be the theme of LIV currently. Talor Gooch went back-to-back, bringing another huge win to his team, the Rangegoats. And LIV, overall, has very much enjoyed huge back-to-back tournaments on back-to-back weekends

The top 10 leaderboard during the Singapore tournament featured some of golfs most prominent players, like Sergio Garcia (finished 2nd), Brooks Koepka (finished 3rd), Cameron Smith (finished 7th), and Phil Mickelson (finished 15th) who was in 1st place at one point of the second round. It was all very exciting to see, particularly on the absolutely beautiful course that is Sentosa Golf Club.

We’ve said it once, and we’ll say it again, LIV has momentum. It helps that there’s a general increase in popularity. And it also helps that there was an exciting playoff between Garcia and Gooch. It’s getting to the point where the next big question is, if or when LIV players will start receiving world golf ranking points for their on the course performances, enabling them to play at other larger events outside of LIV.

The LIV tour will be taking time off before returning to the USA to play in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 12-14 at Cedar Ridge Country Club. Just a reminder back-to-back winner, Talor Gooch, was born, raised, and went to college in Oklahoma. Do we smell a threepeat??

Preview: Wells Fargo Championship

We're back to designated events on the PGA Tour schedule with the WF Championship on Thursday. Praise jeebus.

That means we will see a more complete field at the historic Quail Hollow to compete for a $20 million dollar purse.

Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, Max Homa, and Rickie Fowler have all won here before and will be competing this week. In all, we get 21/30 of the top golfers in OWGR.

Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Billy Horschel, Tom Hoge, Russell Henley, and Justin Rose are the dudes who are out due to “Load Management,” while Hideki Matsuyama is out due to injury.

While Quail Hollow is not necessarily a bombers course, the long hitters typically fill the leaderboard.

According to The Lines "Excluding James Hahn, all other winners at Quail Hollow dating back to 2014 (Max Homa, Jason Day, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, J.B. Holmes) have ranked top 15 in Driving Distance leading in.

The top 15 players in Driving Distance in this field entering this week are: Rory McIlroy, Cameron Young, Cameron Champ, Matthias Schmid, Byeong Hun An, Gary Woodland, Keith Mitchell, Brent Grant, Wyndham Clark, Trey Mullinax, Luke List, Will Gordon, Vincent Norrman, Callum Tarren, and Davis Thompson."

Early Lines:

Rory McIlroy +800

Patrick Cantlay +1200

Tony Finau +1400

Xander Schauffle +1600

Viktor Hovland +2000

Max Homa +2000

Collin Morikawa +2000

Matt Fitzpatrick +2200

Justin Thomas +2200

Jordan Spieth +2200

Cameron Young +2200

Sungjae Im +2500

Jason Day +2500

Golf Shots Heard Round The World

Record Breaker: Jon Rahm has set the single season money record on tour. It's only April.

Tiger Talks LIV: Talor Gooch, in his post round interview, shared a story about Tiger Woods talking to him, kindly, about LIV. Tiger will likely never speak to him again.

Hannah Green: Won her first LPGA title since 2019.

Better Than Your Desk

Quail Hollow, North Carolina.

For The Group Chat

Send this to your buddy who cries every time he misses an 7-8 foot putt.

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

If I’m not on the course, my golf clubs basically migrate around my house, usually in the least intrusive spot for the moment at hand. It often finds itself in the back of my zoom calls, where starting a bit of golf chat is pretty dope, but not really optimal when I’m trying to not talk to my co-workers more than I need to.

That’s why I want this. The GoSports wood golf bag organizer. It’s a distinguished and legit looking golf bag organizer where I can finally hold all my golf goods like balls, shoes, nicknacks and trinkets and what nots so I’m not always scrambling to find WHERE MY GOD DAMN RED NIKES ARE (they’re under my bed somehow). It’s only $130 and if I didn’t already blow my tax money on the Puma shirt we wrote about already, I’d get this!

That's all folks! See you Wednesday where we'll make some picks for Wells Fargo.