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Welcome back, Weekend Warriors!

This week, we’re tracking TGL and the PGA TOUR. Next week, they’re off to Mexico for the World Wide Technology Championship. It’s great that Fedex Fall gives us so many cool courses, but for touring pros, the travel can be rough. Read more below. We have a lot of articles to recap for you, as well as some awesome news about tournaments happening in the near future.

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I hope you enjoy!

Golfin with the Dolphins

This past week saw a very exclusive collaboration released between Bettinardi Golf and the Miami Dolphins. With lifestyle pieces, on course clothes, and fire accessories, this collection is one for the Phins fanatics and the golf fashion aficionado. Read my article on it here.

Malbon x Palm Tree Crew

Malbon Golf teamed up with the Palm Tree Crew to give the world a collection of fire clothes while giving Miami a night of partying, networking, and sushi. The drop is small, but the designs are some of their best and help bring Miami vibes to anyone who wants a piece. Check the write up out here.

CCA has drip

Country Club Adjacent stands out as the most unique and definitely most out there golf media company to come out in the last few years. But, they can now add under their resume purveyors of extremely nice clothing, which they have proven with their most recent drop. With clothes and accessories both infused with their proprietary wit and charm, there is something for everyone even in this small batch. Read about it here.

FedEx Fall Travel

The FedEx Cup Fall is a reimagined way of playing the 8 fall tournaments on the PGA TOUR’s schedule. It gives pros the opportunity to squeeze their way into the top 125 on the rankings, which allows PGA TOUR status. It also gives an opportunity to get exemptions for things like The Players Champ or Elevated Events like the Genesis. With most of the top golfers not playing, it is an opportunity for those in the middle of the pack to rise to the top. But, one of the problems, one that plagues golf on a larger level as well, is the expected travel to these events. Golfers, unlike athletes in the big four leagues, are independent contractors, not contracted athletes. There are the obvious differences, like only being paid for their performance, but one of the biggest drawbacks is that there is no provided travel. Golfers were expected to jet from the Shriners Open in Vegas all the way to Japan for the ZOZO. A week off is given for this week, and I can’t remember the last time that was even done. It was probably done because the next week’s tournament is all the way in Mexico, with the one after in Bermuda. They come back stateside to Georgia after that. PGA TOUR travel has always been one of the biggest gripes that pro golfers have, so it is interesting to see how brutal the travel can be when the tournaments are geared towards the middlemen of the TOUR.

Rolling Loud Invitational

Eastside Golf dropped the news of the year this week by announcing the Rolling Loud Invitational to be held at Turnberry Aventura. One of the nicest courses in South Florida I have yet to play, I can only hope that Weekenders Weekly will be on the scene to cover this tournament and help find the identity and story that it will provide. More details coming soon.

Weekly Advisors

I want to discuss today a topic that is very important, and can be very complicated, so I think that my simplistic translation will be very helpful to all golfers. In the backswing, there are so many little factors that affect what happens to the ball, but one that can sometimes be lost is the idea of spine angle. I was watching videos of my swing and noticed that the times I am hitting it best and most consistently, I keep the angle of my spine in my swing. This is also, more simply, the difference between rotating in the swing and standing up or shifting weight. It is something can be seen and felt in the swing, and it should be a baseline check for any golfer. Get a video of your swing, or even just of an air swing, and try and imagine if your spine was a pole and you could see the ends, they would hold the same degree through the entire swing.

Course of the Week

This week’s course of the week is Dunwoodie golf course. Over a century old, this short course tricks you into thinking it will be a breeze with its short yardages. Next thing you know, your fairway is down a mountain, the par 5 greens are blind until you’re 50 yards away, and the course is thinner than a Weight Watchers and Ozempic collaboration. Oh, and the greens are slicker than most Miami private clubs. I know there are some great stories to be found somewhere in those hills. And I hope to get a video there soon as well.

Stories from the Sticks

Today I want to leave you all with a simple quote from one of golf’s legends, Sam Snead.

“The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.”

Stupid Golf Story

I want to trade in this week’s stupid story for a wholesome one. It was a very slow day at Dunwoodie, and we were backed up behind a threesome with a twosome following us. At one point, while we were on the cart path next to the green of our hole, one of our carts was tagged by a wayward approach shot. No harm, no foul, although they didn’t yell fore, but it happens. To our surprise, even after our apologies, the fellas decided to buy us a round of beer. We were chill, they were chill, and everyone continued on having a great afternoon. This is wise.

I hope you enjoyed this week’s edition! Bit of a slow week but everything is coming together on the back end to get ready and rearing to go with a whole batch of content and interviews. Really looking forward to what we have coming out soon. Stay locked in and go play golf!

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