CBS Sports activities starts its 66th consecutive season masking the PGA Tour with best its 5th lead analyst in Trevor Immelman and certainly one of its busiest years, with 11 of the 17 “increased” occasions with the most important names.
It begins in top time on Saturday evening from Torrey Pines, an early end to keep away from the NFL convention championship video games. Jim Nantz will name the motion from Kansas Town, Missouri, the place CBS is televising the AFC identify recreation.
And for the primary time, CBS may have all of the FedEx Cup playoffs as a part of an alternating agenda with NBC. CBS, which for years has carried essentially the most tournaments, this yr may have 23.
“It feels just a little other, like having extra gentle shining on it,” Nantz stated. “Twenty-three in ’23. We’ve by no means had the overall playoffs. You are taking our two majors (Masters and PGA Championship) and 11 of our 23 occasions are going to have magnificent fields. I feel it’s going to be a blast.”
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Dealers Shy, the lead golfing manufacturer for CBS Sports activities, issues to the Wyndham Championship.
“We’re bullish in this alternative,” Shy stated. “Probably the most giant storylines that got here out of remaining yr used to be Tom Kim, who surfaced on the Wyndham Championship. We’re additionally lucky sufficient that designated occasions are unfold in the course of the yr. We’re seeing some gamers at usual occasions have a possibility to show off themselves.”
Immelman takes over for Nick Faldo, who retired. The 2008 Masters champion were given began remaining yr. This might be his first complete season and it makes him the youngest lead analyst in CBS historical past at age 43.
“I feel he and Jim are going to be fresh, animated and feature critiques,” stated Sean McManus, chairman of CBS Sports activities.
Coming off its first season of providing $1 million in overall prize cash, the Advocates Skilled Golfing Affiliation Tour will get going this week with the Farmers Insurance coverage Invitational.
The hole around might be Saturday at the North Path at Torrey Pines as the overall around of the PGA Tour tournament is held at the South Path. The overall around of the APGA tournament will Sunday at the South, the usage of the similar final-round pin positions because the Farmers Insurance coverage Open.
The overall around might be televised on Golfing Channel.
The 18-man box contains Kamaiu Johnson, who received 3 times at the APGA remaining yr, together with the Tour Championship. That earned him 12 occasions at the PGA Tour Latinoamerica collection.
Johnson is certainly one of 3 APGA gamers who earned standing for 2023 on more than a few excursions. Tim O’Neal made it via PGA Tour Champions qualifying, whilst Willie Mack had standing at the Korn Ferry Tour.
The APGA started in 2010 and is aimed at creating Black golfers and different minorities in golfing careers.
Justin Thomas makes a listing of golfing objectives for the yr that he received’t disclose till the tip of the season. However he did proportion a New 12 months’s solution.
“I wish to learn a ebook a month,” Thomas stated.
Don’t get the speculation Thomas is a voracious reader. He doesn’t like fiction — “I’ve a troublesome time studying one thing if it’s simply now not true,” he stated — and no, the books don’t must comprise photos.
“I love to learn, however I’m now not constant at studying,” he stated.
Thomas stated he’ll get right into a ebook, however then in finding himself sharing a area with buddies on excursion for a couple of weeks so he doesn’t contact it. And he stated he’s now not very disciplined when he’s at house.
“So I truly would find irresistible to do that,” he stated of his book-a-month purpose.
The January ebook: “Why Buddhism is True,” by way of Robert Wright, advisable to him by way of a pal.
“I will be able to’t learn too many self-help books in a row,” he stated. “However whether or not it’s about athletes or … I learn a truly excellent one a pair years in the past in regards to the Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers’ lead singer. That used to be wild, attention-grabbing.
“Once more, I don’t learn very continuously,” he stated. “Once I do it, I’ve loved it.”
The 29-year-old son of Davis Love III now has a excursion card.
Dru Love posted a 62 within the 3rd of 5 rounds within the last level of Asian Tour qualifying. He held on with weekend rounds of 72-72 in Thailand and tied for twenty sixth, averting by way of one shot a nine-man playoff for the overall two playing cards.
The Asian Tour expected its greatest yr ever now that Saudi-funded LIV Golfing Investments has poured $300 million into the circuit. Love has made 10 cuts in 33 begins on more than a few excursions since turning professional in 2017.
A couple of former PGA Tour gamers weren’t so lucky. Two-time Bay Hill winner Matt Each and every ignored the 36-hole reduce, whilst Steve Marino and Sangmoon Bae did not advance to the 5th and last around.
Steve Stricker has received a “comeback” award for the 3rd time in his profession — back-to-back years at the PGA Tour, and now the Ben Hogan Award from the Golfing Writers Affiliation of The us for staying lively within the wake of a bodily handicap or severe harm.
Stricker, simply weeks after main the U.S. to a Ryder Cup victory, advanced a mysterious sickness that brought about his white blood cellular rely to spike, his liver rely to plunge and irritation round his center.
He used to be hospitalized across the vacations, didn’t get started remaining season till Might and went directly to win 4 occasions at the PGA Tour Champions, together with a senior primary.
The GWAA additionally selected prominent membership skilled Bob Ford (Oakmont and Seminole) for the William D. Richardson Award for remarkable contributions to golfing; and Peter Jacobsen for its Jim Murray Award for his get entry to, phrases and cooperation with the media.
They’re going to be venerated April 5 at the once a year GWAA awards dinner in Augusta, Georgia.
Marcus Byrd, who led the APGA Tour’s fall collection, used to be awarded the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption to play within the Genesis Invitational at Riviera. The exemption started in 2009 and represents development of variety in golfing. … Davis Thompson turned into the 7th participant within the remaining 40 years at the PGA Tour to make 5 eagles in a single event. Dustin Johnson used to be the one participant from that checklist who received the event (2020 FedEx St. Jude Championship). … This is an anomaly on the earth {of professional} golfing: Chandler Phillips received the Korn Ferry Tour opener within the Bahamas remaining week the usage of best 4 golfing balls — one for each and every around. … Ron Inexperienced Jr., who has spent 34 years masking golfing for The Charlotte Observer and International Golfing Publish, has received the PGA of The us’s Lifetime Success Award in Journalism. Stephen Szurlej, a senior team of workers photographer at Golfing Digest for almost 30 years, is that this yr’s recipient of the Lifetime Success Award in Photojournalism. … The R&A has expanded its partnership with IMG to create business alternatives. Enterprise-owned IMG up to now helped with the Girls’s Newbie Asia-Pacific and the AIG Girls’s British Open. Now its beef up will prolong to all R&A championships.
Steve Stricker’s victory fee at the PGA Tour Champions is 25% (12 wins in 48 begins). That is the easiest of someone at the 50-and-older circuit with no less than 10 wins.
“If I had to select, I’d moderately lead. You be informed so much about your self in 18 holes. As it’s 4 to 5 hours of a large number of pressure.” — Jon Rahm.
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