
The Fine Line
At the Epson Tour Championship, Reagan Zibilski played the round of her life. For others, the difference between an LPGA card and heartbreak was painfully small.
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ListenNever long for the spotlight, Matt Moore made a profound impact on countless lives while quietly engaging in random acts of kindness.
ListenThe anonymous message came from the caddie himself. Days later, Cliff Ellis and Alejandro Tosti each told me their side of what happened.
Ryan French and Mark Baldwin take social media questions and discuss LIV 2.0, PGA Tour Champions pension change, DP World Tour exemptions, the impressive career of Charles Howel III, LPGA Second Stage, and more. For the interview with Austin Hitt, check out our YouTube page.
Iowa high school golf might have a 30 for 30 soon. Cheating allegations, bad drops, social media drama, adults heckling kids (allegedly), cheating allegations, more cheating allegations. And now this guy who has brought a lot of the stuff to light being kicked out of the state finals. I’m warning you to not go down the rabbit hole.
BREAKING NEWS: A very unfortunate situation at @LPGA 2nd stage in at Plantation Country Club in Venice Florida. The stage (there is only one second stage site) was set to begin Tuesday and the entire field is in Florida. However it will not be played this week. In an email sent to players they were told the course was unplayable from the rain from the Hurricane. The course wasn’t going to be able to mow until mid week and with more rain scheduled next week the decision was made to delay it for two weeks. However there is important context. One of the two courses at the club redid all of their greens starting in June. And because of weather (over 50 inches of rain) there have been delays. In fact the course is still not open to the members yet and the first rounds were to be played Sunday by the players in the Q-school field. In an email sent to players last week the tour indicated there would be areas that were marked ground under repair. “Areas not fully recovered will be marked ground under repair” So the situation seemed less than ideal to start, tho a source did tell me the conditions had improved greatly over the last few weeks. But they couldn’t recover from the latest rain and it left the Tour no choice. With so many international players this leaves a real logistical nitemare for the players and at a huge financial burden. Really unfortunate.
Defining “All-in”. This is Madison Young. She had full LPGA status 2 years ago, conditional this season. Bounced back and forth between LPGA and @EpsonTour She is broke. More than broke. She and her husband Tyler are over 100K in debt. She still knows she can play. But right now can’t afford Q-school. Sign-ups are early next week. Tyler caddies for her but also works full-time on the road. He’s up early to work and works after each round. I asked if she had a job she could do if she stopped playing “I’m a college dropout who has never had a job.” They have looked into filing bankruptcy. “The only way out at this point is play better” she told me thru tears at the pro-am party this week. The last part of this season she has borrowed from family to just get to the next event. Hoping to play well enough to pay them back. But it’s nearly impossible to play under that pressure. This week’s winner gets $100,000. One good week and the debt would be almost wiped away. Madison is -4 and T6.
No. 14 on the Epson Tour's Race for the Card talks about the pressure of trying to secure her LPGA status at the Epson Tour Championship this week at Indian Wells Resort in Palm Springs, California. Full Any Given Monday can be found on Apple or Spotify.
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| Score |
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| 1 | Adam Long Qualified | F | -8 |
| T2 | Austin Lemieux Qualified | F | -6 |
| T2 | Matthew Anderson Qualified | F | -6 |
| T2 | Willie Mack III Qualified | F | -6 |
| T5 | Brendan Valdes | F | -5 |

*won by 3. Not editing.
Awesome day with good friends. I was going to do a bunch of content with all the crazy hole locations, the 3 tiny holes, putts going in backwards etc. But decided to enjoy the day and put my phone away for the most part. We on by 3. And a skin. Netted about $100. Good day https://t.co/rtJH5U8lUJ

Last tourney of the season. Superintendent’s revenge 3 person scramble. His first revenge is to freeze my balls (golf balls, get your mind out of the gutter) https://t.co/4FfTHGCF6Y

We need questions for the pod. Liv 2.0 LPGA Q-school KFT Finals My brother’s wedding (previous tweet for context) Or whatever else. Fire away.
Confession time: (long one but pretty damn funny) My brother got married this day in Vegas. Me and a bunch of other alumnus went down to the sportsbook to watch. We drank. A lot. After this play and the 2nd half meltdown the pace of those drinks increased. At this point we were very very drunk I went back to my room, realized I didn’t have shaving cream and called my brother. He said come down to my room and get some. I went to his room in just a towel (i was about to get in the shower when i discovered i didnt have any shaving cream, i wasnt getting dressed again). I squirted some shaving cream into my hand, taking the whole bottle seemed unfair to my brother. And I headed back towards my room. However, when I left, to fuck with me, my brother called my parents room and said I wanted to talk to them. I did NOT want to talk to them. They met me in the hall, discovered I was hammered and pulled me into the room, lectured me about “it being my brother’s day” etc. Getting lectured by your parents while you are hammered, holding a pile of shaving cream in your hand and dressed in only a towel is not a great spot. After a stern talking to I headed to my room. Time would tell that also didn’t listen. I do remember the elevator opening up to go back to my room and there was a bunch of people in it. I just said “I was out of shaving cream” and got in. Thought a good idea was to get dressed and have a few more before the wedding. Fast forward to the toast. Stood up in front of a bunch of executives from my brother’s job and gave the toast that we would often say at MSU tailgates. It had nothing to do with weddings and is WILDLY inappropriate. (No I won’t tell you). My mom started crying, my dad cussed and shook his head, and the silence sobered me up instantly. I’ll never forget the looks of horror. My brother then said “well….thats my brother”. Breaking the stunned silence. Luckily he and my sister in law found it funny. And each year they have an anniversary party they will call me late at night and make me repeat the toast to the people there. I blame John L Smith for kicking that fucking field goal.