Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida – The 2025 players’ championship officially activated on Tuesday. Rob Gronkowski – Yes, that Rob Gronkowski – was on the bag for Will Zalatoris. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan dodged the questions Like Neo. A news from Last injury by Tiger Woods Interrupted Ludvig Åberg’s press conference. TPC SAWGRASS was filled to the brim of players and spectators following a rainy and windy Monday that closed the facilities.
As Dr. Frankenstein said, “it’s alive.”
The flagship event of the PGA Tour is starting to look more like this when approaching the tournament. Most players have fulfilled sponsors and media obligations – although Rory McILroy should speak on Wednesday morning – and can now keep the essentials.
For most of the best in the world, it means putting the start of their preparations from the start. The world n ° 1 Scottie Scheffler and the world n ° 3 Xander Schauffele shared a TEE time on Tuesday, sailing in the nine rear at TPC Sawgrass in Lockstep. They will see the first nine on Wednesday. McILroy made an appearance alongside his good friend Shane Lowry. This is not news.
One day there is one day between the start of the week and the start of the tournament, but Tuesday revealed a lot to expect.
Collin Morikawa heard you
Morikawa between this week by leaving the disappointment of his finalist result at Arnold Palmer Invitational with a clear chip on his shoulder. Although he did not admit that he had heard the noise of “he cannot close”, he admitted that he reads what people say about him. (It was in reference to a clip of him and Caddy Jj Jakovac discussing a shot.) With the victory of Russell Henley, it was Morikawa who has the most top-10 without victory since the beginning of 2024 (10).
“I think I know where I am and I know where I am with my golf course,” said Morikawa. “I just have to win. I must be able to close it. For me, it will give me back to me. I am the one who strikes the blow. I am the one who removes the shots, striking, doing what I have to do.
“But for me, these are not the words for the marrow. As we all know what happened. I think people – my team knows, as, I don’t need toil. As if I am not on the BS -IG and that I say:” Very well, good work, we do better, “as if we were going to win next week. No, we know what our goal is not much.
JT admits that it is slow
The rhythm of the game – Rather, “Speed of Play” because the PGA Tour has renamed the sentence (I hope that the consulting company obtained its pretty penny for that – was a hot topic on Tuesday. News of Get out of game speed statistics Later in the season, he was known as PGA Tour Tests of new politicians on the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour Americas in the coming month and the use of distance measuring devices on the PGA Tour after the Masters.
The players are aware of their own figures – and where they are in relation to the peers – leading Thomas at ease to make known that it is actually slower. I suppose that when you have so many photos at your disposal, it takes more time to browse all the options.
“I am the first to admit that I am the slowest of the players,” said Thomas. “It bothers me, but I have spoken to many officials, as I want to know why I am slow because, obviously, the first thing that any slowest player thinks is that they are not slow. I never want to be the guy who is twinned with someone and that person is like,” Oh my God, I have to play with Justin, he is so slow. “… This is not a good feeling because you know you are going to be on the stopwatch, and it’s not fun.”
Monahan puts a double-double
Media members have attempted to raise everything out of Monahan’s news concerning the negotiations in progress between the PGA Tour and the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia. Despite their best efforts, they failed while Monahan stuck to his discussion points and directed these questions about the Saudis, well, the Saudis.
“Listen, no surprise, I am 100% concentrated on the PGA Tour and I focused on everything I control,” replied Monahan when asked what Pif might want from his investment. “I think it’s a question for (Yasir al-Rummayyan) to answer, not for me to answer.”
I do not know if Monahan set up points, but there were a lot of blocks and helped to fill the statistics sheet.
Return to speed
The world n ° 3 Xander Schauffele returned to action last week in Bay Hill following a coast injury that had gave it up since the first week of the PGA Tour season. How much was Schauffele prepared for last week? Well, the double major champion had played nine holes with Thomas on a par-3 course and 18 other holes with some his colleagues from the US Ryder Cup team.
“(There were) a lot of nerves, a lot of thick rough, a lot of crisp green vegetables,” said Schauffele about his return. “Just things you don’t see. I can see myself hitting a correct blow. It’s just different when the pistol is triggered. It’s different to have a 6 feet after having had a for a while.
“I had an off -season, and I played at Sentry, which is generally a comfortable warm -up and then nothing, so it was literally – it was as if it were, you know, not only six weeks, but in a way, call it three months since I had to hit an important putt. So, just the nerves, do everything, have a few tokens, dump a few shots.
You say “tee” or “tree”.
There are a number of notable changes at TPC Sawgrass for this year’s tournament. While one is on the nine rear – the right of the Fairway Cart N ° 14 has been moved to introduce more rough mounds – the other is on the 6th par -4. Adding another box of tee and lengthening the hole, the tournament made sure that players will have to navigate a feature that had not been seen for many years.
In the direction of Monahan and Davis Love III, who helped in the process, TPC Sawgrass moved a 250 -ton tree near the Tee box to give players an additional variable to calculate the tee. Let’s just say … Some players may need more training on Wednesday, because at least one has been the victim of the renovated functionality.
