For the second straight week, we had a long playoff and this time it went to Cam Davis.
ANNC: Cam Davis? More like ‘Crash’ Davis!
We also uncovered some audio just for you guys.
FAN: Bryson’s not ready for Tuesday, Phil?
PHIL: Uh, uh…
FAN: He ain’t got those rings.
PHIL: He doesn’t have an 8-iron either.
I didn’t really bend his 8-iron, just so you know.
In case you missed it, Phil was talking about this from earlier in the week… The two have The Match
this Tuesday with Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady.
But Phil put on a show this week. Went driver
off the deck twice! First on Thursday, from the wrong fairway, through the trees.
ANNC: A little too far left. It’s in bounds though, it’s all good.
No problem, converted birdie in the rain anyway.
ANNC: The rain comes down and the thumbs go up.
ANNC: Phil’s just getting his ducks in a row.
Sure did! He went driver off the deck for the second day in a row!
ANNC: My goodness, out of the first cut with that mini driver. That’s unbelievable.
The Detroit fans loved Phil this week.
FAN: You’re my boy!
Out of the rough from 208 yards.
ANNC: If this gets a nice kick it’ll turn out really nice.
Next time you play and you make a birdie, promise me, you’ll celebrate like Phil.
ANNC: Yeah!
What a Good, Bad & Unusual week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic! Where Cam Davis collected his
first PGA TOUR victory, outlasting Troy Merritt in a 5-hole playoff. Merritt was one of two aces this
week, we also had more drivers off the deck and Rickie and Phil were quite the pairing.
The duo played as a twosome Friday.
ANNC: What a hard shot.
Not for Rick. Can’t even see the green’s surface and did this.
ANNC: I thought you said it was a hard shot, Phil Blackmar? I thought it was a hard shot!
When you do that playing with Phil, the thumb must go up.
FANS: We love, Phil! We love, Phil! We love, Phil!
Rickie gave Phil his due all day!
ANNC: Rickie Fowler says, ‘Yeah, I love Phil too.’
So does Bubba, he had the exact same driver off the deck dilemma as Phil did on Thursday.
Took a slightly different line.
ANNC: I can’t wait to see where this one goes.
Guys, it landed just short of the green.
ANNC: Oh, here’s where Bubba is. Yeah, it was right next to Max’s ball.
No joke, Si Woo Kim also landed in 6 fairway and opted for driver on the 7th as well.
ANNC: That was really good. He looked very comfortable doing
that. Didn’t have to work hard at all to hit that off the ground.
Rickie Fowler on the other hand, did.
ANNC: Oh boy, he did not hit that very well, Whit. Oh no. That needs to just sneak by.
ANNC: Oh my goodness! I mean there’s no way that he planned that! He just almost cold topped it,
it ran around that penalty area, right onto the front of the green.
Rickie reacted just about the only way you can.
Raise your hand if you’ve done that. Now, keep it raised if you gotten the same result.
That’s because these guys are magicians. I’m still trying to figure this one out. Brandon
Hagy from the fairway bunker.
ANNC: What a shot!
See, that’s what you’ve gotta do, you’ve got to use the limbs of the tree to slow it down.
Falling short of a win in last week’s 8-hole playoff,
Kramer Hickok continued to impress, around the tree with the sidespin.
ANNC: Oh! So cool, Kramer Hickok! Side sauce!
The tournament’s Area 313 Challenge donates money to help close the digital divide in Detroit.
And Scott Brown helped raise, IN ONE SHOT,
$25,000 to the Changing the Course initiative, happening all week long and it was awesome to see.
That was Scott Brown’s sixth career ace but this was Troy Merritt’s first!
ANNC: Wow! Yes! Hello! That was a 5-iron.
And THAT was to take a 3-stroke lead at the time.
Those fans are pumped and that definitely deserves a bow.
Not an ace, but quite the birdie nonetheless, at the par 3, 15th for Max Homa.
ANNC: Haha, ‘Finally!’ He says.
HOMA: It’s a messed up game we play because we’ve been feeling like the hole’s a thimble
and you make one long one and it starts to feel like a bucket. I don’t know. It
is a messed up game we play. So I don’t have the answer to all those putting questions.
None of us do. So when you get away with one, run to the next hole like Fabian Gomez.
ANNC: Look at him, like, ‘I’m out of here.’
Kevin Tway got away with one here too. Pay attention to where he’s hitting this from.
ANNC: Wow, what a shot. I’m not sure exactly where that even came from,
is that the third tee box? That’s the third tee box back there.
We’re off to the John Deere Classic in my home state of Illinois this week,
then next up The Open Championship and Barbasol Championship,
3M Open and then the Olympics. This summer is flying by, I tell you what!
But first I will see you Thursday in The Takeaway on PGATOUR.com and social media.