In the first week of the PGA Tour’s official offseason, a few items of note have filled the void in the professional golf world.
Look, it’s healthy for the Tour to have a proper offseason so that we can actually miss it. And reports relevant to pro golf’s future have been swirling, including big-picture news like LIV’s potential replacement for Greg Norman or its potential alliance with the DP World Tour. Still, Thanksgiving Week’s biggest golf-related headline probably came from the dramatic conclusion of Bryson DeChambeau’s ace chase, a 16-day quest that showcased his precision from 100 yards, the size of his new glass mansion and his unwavering belief that he wouldn’t skull a wedge through his living room window. He picked up a half-million TikTok followers along the way and zipped past two million followers on Instagram, the latest in a year of chart-topping content creation that also saw him cross a million YouTube subscribers and [glances at notebook] win the U.S. Open.