{"id":37414,"date":"2026-07-16T01:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/37414\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:12:33","slug":"rory-mcilroys-ridiculously-relatable-quote-scottie-schefflers-lesser-talked-about-streak-and-the-greatest-golf-shot-you-didnt-see-golf-news-and-tour-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/37414\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy\u2019s ridiculously relatable quote, Scottie Scheffler\u2019s lesser talked about streak, and the greatest golf shot you didn\u2019t see | Golf News and Tour Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to another edition of The Grind<\/a>, where we have reached the stage of the World Cup where we\u2019re just watching to see how it ends. Kinda like the latest Harlan Coben series on Netflix. No offense to the sport and the event, because I\u2019ve watched more than ever this year and it’s been fun, but it\u2019s getting a bit dragged out now. Plus, it seems more rigged than the NBA Finals (Not that that kept my Knicks from winning!). Anyway, let\u2019s focus more on an even better sporting event (IMO) happening this week, the Open Championship, and talk about everything else going on in the world of golf. Before a mob of soccer futbol hooligans tracks me down.<\/p>\n

Haeran Ryu: And just like that, we\u2019ve got at least a debate for LPGA Player of the Year. The 25-year-old South Korean won a second consecutive major<\/a> at the Evian Championship, and she did it in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n

Ryu defeated Brooke Henderson, who had one of the craziest final rounds ever, in a playoff, but this week will be more remembered for what she did on Saturday with an insane 60, the lowest score ever shot in a major. Even crazier? She didn\u2019t even realize what she shot until after the round:<\/p>\n

Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t seem right to talk about prolonged struggles and career comebacks for a guy who just turned 24, but when you\u2019re that young, going nearly three years without a win must seem like an eternity. Incredibly, Kim was ranked outside the top 150 in the Official World Golf Ranking just last month. But after a solo third at the U.S. Open and now his fourth career PGA Tour title, he\u2019s all the way back to 33rd. And after nearly four years, it may be time for me to add another verse to \u201cThe Ballad of Tommy the Kid\u201d:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll get working on that.<\/p>\n

Steven Fisk: This 29-year-old Georgia Southern product is suddenly a multiple-time winner on the PGA Tour. Fisk first won the Sanderson Farms Championship in the fall and now he adds the opposite-field ISCO Championship<\/a> after beating Taylor Pendrith in a playoff:<\/p>\n

And if Steven needs any more inspiration, he just has to look to Tom Kim, who was playing alongside him in an opposite-field event just two months ago in Myrtle Beach.<\/p>\n

Mardy Fish: This was the least-surprising result of the week, but Fish deserves his flowers. The former tennis star won the American Century Championship for a third time to reclaim his throne as the King of Celebrity Golf:<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve done some cool stuff with Mardy over the years, including this Golf Digest profile in which he opened up about his mental health battles<\/a> and how golf has helped him. So congrats to him on adding to his trophy case with his latest Tahoe triumph.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler\u2019s streak(s) ending: The reigning King of Pro Golf didn\u2019t have quite as good of a week, missing the cut at the Scottish Open to end a remarkable four-year streak. But while his 78 consecutive made cuts got most of the attention, I think his much more impressive streak ended as well: 37 straight top-25 finishes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll say that again: THIRTY-SEVEN straight top-25 finishes. Just unbelievable consistently high-quality golf. Good luck to anyone ever beating that again.<\/p>\n

Another big betting win: For the second time in three weeks, according to DraftKings, someone has won more than $4 million(!) betting on the PGA Tour winner. First, it was a mystery gambler wagering $77K on Viktor Hovland to win the Travelers and now it was a $47,700 bet on Tom Kim at 84-to-1 odds to win the Scottish Open.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not selling this because I doubt it\u2019s true, but rather because I\u2019m really, really jealous. Imagine having so much money you could bet $77K on a longshot winning a golf tournament?! Insane stuff.<\/p>\n

Literally heating up your putter: That\u2019s what William Mouw actually did, sticking his \u201ccold\u201d flatstick in a pot of boiling water with the hopes of heating it up. And it . . . kinda worked? After an opening 68 at the ISCO Championship in which he struggled on the greens, Mouw rolled to a second-round 63 and wound up finishing T-10 in his title defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put my putter in hot water last night and it stayed hot. I woke up with it hot out of the water and stayed hot all round. That was nice,\u201d Mouw said<\/a>. Good for Mouw, but I don\u2019t try this at home. Unless you want to accidentally melt your putter.<\/p>\n

Arguably the most fun week on the golf calendar is here with the Open Championship, AKA the British Open, AKA THE OPEN, AKA that one where the winner gets an old silver jug. Word on the street is that this links test will be extra-linksy this week at Royal Birkdale where conditions are particularly FIRM AND FAST (Don\u2019t do any drinking games involving that phrase this week or you\u2019ll end up passed out and missing the golf). I\u2019ll never forget being there in 2017 for Jordan Spieth\u2019s bizarre bogey<\/a> on Sunday and ensuing birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie stretch that was right out of a movie. But no one will be able to recreate his recovery on 13 because of a fan village:<\/p>\n

A rare bogey for the Grow-The-Game Movement. Anyway, there”s nothing keeping him from giving us another “Go get that!” moment, though.<\/p>\n

Random tournament fact: There hasn\u2019t been a playoff in the past 10 Opens and there\u2019s only been one playoff in the 10 previous Opens at Royal Birkdale. I\u2019m not seeing any odds on if there will be a playoff this week, but talk about something being due.<\/p>\n

RANDOM PROP BETS OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n

\u2014A British Open champ will boil his putter in the claret jug: 1 MILLION-to-1 odds<\/p>\n

\u2014Tommy Fleetwood will win AND England will win the World Cup: 50-to-1-odds<\/p>\n

\u2014I won\u2019t see my English colleagues for a while if that happens: LOCK<\/p>\n

This from Pro Shop\u2019s Chad Mumm really got Golf Twitter talking:<\/p>\n

For the record, Chad is currently a plus-one so I think his main point is that most golfers don\u2019t consider themselves to be \u2018good\u2019 players.<\/p>\n

This is the greatest golf shot you didn\u2019t see last week. Congrats to our Jamie Kennedy on doing the unfathomable: Making a walk-off hole-in-one albatross. At North Berwick. While using a hickory driver.<\/p>\n

What a great\u2014and crazy\u2014game.<\/p>\n

Charles Barkley got frustrated at Lake Tahoe\u2014and took it out on his golf ball:<\/p>\n

Too bad that shot didn\u2019t count, because that might be the purest strike of Chuck\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

THIS WEEK IN PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION<\/p>\n

At least he didn\u2019t knock his swing speed, though. And he did say some nice things as well.<\/p>\n

THIS WEEK IN CELEBRITY GOLFERS (NON-TAHOE DIVISION)<\/p>\n

Erling Haaland played golf in Miami ahead of Norway\u2019s quarterfinal match with England. And Golf Twitter appreciated his tucked-in shirt and on-course etiquette.<\/p>\n

And Noah Kahan made a hole-in-one at Boston Golf Club\u2014then thanked his caddies, his host and his \u201cpure-ass 5-iron\u201d:<\/p>\n

Amazing. Maybe there\u2019s a future song from that.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my god, I\u2019m so bad at golf.\u201d \u2014Rory McIlroy, who definitely isn\u2019t bad at golf.<\/p>\n

That might be the most relatable golf quote of all time. And it ties in perfectly with that tweet about “good” golf handicaps. Golfers are never satisfied with their games. Not even Rory f-ing McIlroy.<\/p>\n

Jason Day and Malbon are up to their usual tricks this week:<\/p>\n

Honestly, the most egregious part of that outfit is the white belt. . . . Wyndham Clark has turned to a coat hanger to help him with his game:<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re on Instagram as much as me, you\u2019d know this is a pretty common drill. Just not for a guy who just won the U.S. Open. . . . And I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen a golf course embrace the Fourth of July (Keep in mind, this was a week later) like Maple Moor in White Plains:<\/p>\n

I had \u201cGod Bless the USA\u201d stuck in my head for the entire round.<\/p>\n

RANDOM QUESTIONS TO PONDER<\/p>\n

Should I wear camo on the golf course?<\/p>\n

Should I use a coat hanger on the range?<\/p>\n

What will your golf buddies say about you when you die?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we have reached the stage of the World Cup where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2635,10064,5318,2274,144,399,15112,208,82,5268,5269,2425],"class_list":["post-37414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-british-open","tag-haeran-ryu","tag-lpga","tag-openchampionship2026","tag-pga-tour","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-rory-mcilroys-ridiculously-relatable-quote-scottie-schefflers-lesser-talked-about-streak-and-the-greatest-golf-shot-you-didnt-see","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-story","tag-the-grind","tag-thegrindweekly2026","tag-tom-kim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}