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J.J. Spaun and the collective, understood feeling that we just saw something awesome. nytimes.com/athletic/64282…

The faces that saw J.J. Spaun's putt reminded us what this whole damn thing is about. nytimes.com/athletic/64282…

Thank you everyone for reading this week. Shoutout to my fellow crooked media brethren, who make these weeks some of the best times of the year, and for celebrating our Second Annual Media Of Golf Society Awards (The MOGGIES).

Artsy photo by Will Gray of me trying very, very hard not to slip in the Oakmont mud

Brian Rolapp, the PGA Tour’s new CEO is here at the Travelers Championship addressing players in a players-only mandatory meeting. The CEO search committee, which includes Tiger Woods, is also here on site in Connecticut.

Sure

Angel Yin shot 71 and is T7 after day 1 on a "quite boring" Fields Ranch East

For all the chaos of Oakmont, it was strangely the week that provided clarity on the U.S. Ryder Cup team. nytimes.com/athletic/64385…

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For every "Best at X since Tiger" thing we say about Scottie, there's really no better way to put it than the amount of "Yeah, he really didn't have it as he settled for T6" type weeks this season. Just playing with different rules

Sarcastically put this in my 2025 predictions on Jan. 1

Art Spander, 86, is one of the last of his kind, a big name of another era. Nearly blind and unable to type his own stories, why does he still cover sporting events at 86? Because of Liz, writes Brendan Quinn.

Perhaps my favorite BQ story he's ever done. Just lovely

I appreciate Chris Kirk and Aldrich Potgieter's dads walking together enjoying the moment while Greyserman's dad, a Ukrainian Ivy League professor and investment quant, is likely up in the lab thinking of ways to ruin them all

Max Greyserman now has four runner-up finishes in his last 11 months. Clearly a dude, but shoot, that is not a fun feeling

*Teaching a community college journalism class in 30 years* "Listen, we don't need more of these mediocre middle stories. No, we need you to write like Aldrich Potgieter swings. Boom or bust. Take chances. Believe in something."

Spontaneous trip to Atlanta to convince Harry Kane to come back to Spurs

He was a prodigy. Then he joined a biker gang, quit golf and spent 5 years in a supermax prison for assault. Now he’s playing in the Open Championship at Royal Portrush. Meet Ryan Peake, one of the most unlikely stories you will hear golfdigest.com/story/british-…