Let’s have a good time Janitor Month.
Actually. Janus was the god of doorways, beginnings and the solar rising and setting in historical Roman tradition, one thing you American readers certainly know inside and outside. It led to the naming of the yr’s first month as January, for apparent motive.
Janua is an analogous phrase in Latin that meant doorway or entrance and gave delivery to the phrase janitor—a door attendant who ultimately was downgraded to custodian.
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10. Kids of the Korn
The golf season doesn’t get actual till LIV GOLF and the Korn Ferry Tour tees it up and that received’t occur till—wait a minute! The KFT’ers are already in motion. As loopy because it sounds, the thirty third KFT season began within the Bahamas on Sunday, the day you have been too busy watching meaningless NFL playoff video games. It’s the primary of 26 occasions in 18 states and 5 nations, together with Colombia and Chile. This week’s official event title is the Bahamas Nice Exuma Basic at Sandals Emerald Bay. You most likely received’t pay any consideration to who wins till that participant makes the PGA Tour subsequent yr. Bear in mind, this event doesn’t actually begin till the again 9 on … Wednesday.
9. Typically It Pays to Be an Novice
The Masters Event area added one other participant. It’s Argentina’s Mateo Fernández de Oliveira, who won last weekend’s Latin America Amateur Championship in Puerto Rico. The occasion, created by the Masters, earned Fernandez de Oliveira a coveted spot in Augusta but in addition got here with exemptions to the U.S. and British Opens. It was a cheerful ending for the 23-year-old College of Arkansas star, who missed a putt that will have gotten him right into a playoff in final yr’s LAAC. Apparently, the champ was greater than prepared on the occasion’s final day when he wakened. He mentioned, “I believed it was ‘go time’ and it was 4:40 a.m.” Don’t count on any completely different throughout a sure week in April.
8. You Can’t Purchase This for a Music … Until It’s a $160 Million Tune
Kemper Sports activities has managed Florida’s Streamsong Resort and its programs since 2012. Now, the managers are the homeowners, too. Kemper purchased Streamsong from its founder, Mosaic Firm, a worldwide phosphate producer. Streamsong must be in your bucket record as a result of it has three unbelievable programs—the Pink, Blue and Black—and it is including a brief course, The Chain, to be constructed by Invoice Coore and Ben Crenshaw. The sale consists of 5,000 acres of as-yet-unused land. What shade would you title a fourth full-length course after? The Rating nominates both Phlox, a neon violet as in, “What the phlox have been you pondering?” Or Fulvous, an orange-butterscotch often reserved for a number of duck species as in, “What the phlox have been you pondering, duck-head?” Contact The Rating for your entire advertising and marketing wants …
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J.J. Spaun stepped to the primary tee on the Sony Open in Hawaii and did a double take. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, is that Mrs. Kear?” Spaun mentioned. His principal at California’s San Dimas Excessive College? Positive sufficient, it was. What was she doing in Hawaii? Being retired, on trip and watching a well-known professional golfer she used to know. “Small world,” Spaun mentioned. And no, he nonetheless doesn’t understand how whiny Jimmy Ecklesburger bought himself locked inside that storage room. It’s a thriller.
6. Hawaii Six-0.
Who performs his first PGA Tour occasion at age 60? Michael Castillo, the pinnacle professional at Kapalua Resort. He received the Hawaii PGA of America part occasion in September and earned a spot within the Sony Open. He was an excellent larger Cinderella story as a result of he has been battling most cancers found throughout a colonoscopy and had his remaining radiation remedy in November. The massive tour was too powerful a league, although, as Castillo shot 79-74 and completed final. The one scorecard that issues, although, is the one coming in February that hopefully says his most cancers is in remission.
5. Teardrops within the Frosting: An English Tragedy
Fortunately, The Rating employees can nonetheless sort whereas laughing. The hilarious golf second of the yr was Ian Poulter bitching that Ryder Cup Europe failed to wish him a happy birthday. Till he tweeted that, LIV Golf hadn’t, both. Wait, why is that this merchandise on The Rating? Poulter complaining about one thing doesn’t qualify as information.
4. First to Worst
No person anticipated Jordan Spieth to do a Reverse Atlanta Braves Transfer on the Sony Open. The 1991 Braves have been the primary Nationwide League staff to go from final place to first place in back-to-back seasons, a milestone feat. Spieth shared the first-round Sony Open lead with a 64, then sputtered to a second-round 75 and missed the cut. That’s uncommon however not remarkable in golf. However Spieth, a Ryder Cup legend and three-time main champ? “Yeah, this sucks,” Spieth mentioned. The Rating’s insightful evaluation: Yup, agreed.
3. Someplace, Johnny Miller Did a Excessive-5
Adam Scott has a brand new function as a member of the PGA Tour’s Participant Advisory Council. NBC golf host Dan Hicks pointed that out in the course of the Sony Open telecast. Analyst Paul Azinger jumped proper in on a subject with which he was acquainted. “I used to be on that PAC for 13 years,” Azinger mentioned. “I believed it was a colossal waste of time. You suppose you’re reaching issues, however …”
Hicks jumped in, probably making an attempt to throw a lifeline. “Actually?” he requested. Azinger took the trace. “Ahh, you understand,” he mentioned. “It may be completely different these days.” Name for Mr. Azinger from Ponte Vedra Seaside, Fla., on Line 2…
2. Cup Examine
This simply in: Europe received the Cup again! No, not that Cup. The Hero Cup. It’s a Ryder Cup undercard/rehearsal dinner. After getting humiliated at Whistling Straits within the 2021 Ryder Cup, the Europeans neatly tweaked the artist previously often called the Seve Trophy to observe staff match-play. Clearly, they wanted the observe. The Hero Cup pitted Continental Europe versus Nice Britain & Eire and it was performed, naturally, within the United Arab Emirates. No home-field benefit there. Italy’s Francesco Molinari captained Europe to a 14.5-10.5 victory over GB&I as Europe prepares for this yr’s Ryder Cup matches in Italy.
Who have been the heroes of the Hero Cup? Guido Migliozzi, one other Italian, plus Victor Perez and Nicolai Hojgaard all received 3.5 factors. Poland’s Adrian Meronk received just one level however it was the purpose the clinched Europe’s win. “I might say European golf is in excellent fingers,” Molinari mentioned. If the Europeans avenge their Ryder Cup debacle in Italy this fall, they could level to the Hero Cup as motive.
1. Huge Woo …
Does anybody else really feel like Si Woo Kim should be 37 years previous by now? He received the 2016 Wyndham Championship, not that even your common golf author would keep in mind that trivia, and the 2017 Gamers Championship again when he was largely unknown to the American public. That looks as if historical occasions, the identical as something pre-pandemic. Kim is 27 now. For those who missed his 2021 American Specific Championship win, you most likely caught him taking part in a key function in final yr’s Presidents Cup. He’s a pretty good ballstriker and when he will get the lengthy putter working, as he did on the Sony Hawaiian Open, he’s world class. The Rating made him No. 1 partially as a result of he received and partially due to how he received.
He chipped in for birdie from a gunchy lie simply off the seventeenth inexperienced moments after listening to a roar at 16, which he knew was Hayden Buckley tying him for the lead. At 18, he performed a run-up shot onto the par-5 inexperienced in two and two-putted for the birdie that made the distinction. File Kim’s title away for future fantasy-draft use.