Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we feel for Keegan Bradley after captaining a losing team. That’s right, youth was served at the Golf Digest Seitz Cup as the geezers, under the leadership of myself and Joel Beall, lost by three points. Congrats to Team Young, including captains Daria Delfino and Meredith Bausback:

Did Joel and I not do enough motivating? Did we not make the right pairings? Did we not provide our team with the right shampoo? There are so many questions to consider between now and next fall. In the meantime, here’s what else is happening around golf.

WE’RE BUYING

Tommy Fleetwood: Scottie Scheffler remains the undisputed World No. 1, but no one is on a bigger heater right now than Fleetwood. The guy (finally) won PGA Tour title No. 1 in August (not to mention the FedEx Cup and a $ 10 million prize), led Europe to a road Ryder Cup win in September and was announced as one of four golfers competing in next month’s Skins Game return. Oh, and now he has conquered a new land after winning the inaugural DP World India Championship. Even better? He delivered with his son, Frankie, watching just days after the 8-year-old noted his dad had never won with him in attendance.

You can hear Tommy saying, “That what you wanted?” in that clip. Awww. Nice 18th hole debut for the kid. After years of being critiqued for not being able to close the door, Tommy seems to be winning at will now. Also, this might be the most successful trip by an Englishman to India since the Beatles went there in 1968. What came of that journey? Just the White Album. In other words, Tommy’s biggest achievement might still be to come.

Sei Young Kim: You know the years are flying when you learn it’s been five years since this LPGA star last won a tournament. But she certainly found a good week to end that drought, winning in front of her home crowd in South Korea at the BMW Ladies Championship.

Chung Sung-Jun

Kim also got the LPGA back on track with that crazy stat after Jeeno Thitikul became the first two-time winner in 2025. With Kim's victory, there have been 27 different winners in 28 events this season. And you thought there was parity in the NFL.

Kim Kaufman: Why are we focusing on someone who made it through to the final stage of LPGA Q School? Because it’s been quite a year for Kaufman, who was diagnosed with breast cancer exactly a year before her clutch performance on Sunday to advance.

What an inspiring story. We’re all rooting for you, Kim.

WE’RE SELLING

Tiger Woods’ ranking: First of all, yes, it’s depressing that Woods has fallen outside of the top 2,000 in the Official World Golf Ranking. And, yes, it’s depressing that the 15-time major champ could completely fall out of the ranking by April. But should we be surprised and making a big deal about it? Of course not.

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You have to play well to be ranked high. You have to at least play to be ranked. And Tiger Woods never plays anymore. So, of course, this was bound to happen. And unless they switch the rules to include points for PGA Tour Champions events or TGL matches, there’s a good chance the soon-to-be 50-year-old will never be ranked again.

Gary Player’s Ryder Cup rant: Speaking of legends, the soon-to-be 90-year-old had some choice words about what happened at Bethpage Black. In an interview with the Palm Beach Post, the South African said the Ryder Cup was in “shambles” and called it “the worst event in the world.”

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Look, the crowd crossed the line a lot, but that’s a bit harsh.

This shirt: Good Good had a mostly great week. The popular YouTube golf creators were announced as the title sponsor of a new PGA Tour event called the Good Good Championship. Here’s a look at the logo:

That’s good. But then there was the bad (and the ugly) with this sweatshirt worn by Garrett Clark:

Woof. The person who finishes last on your buddies trip should have to wear that the following year.

ON TAP

The PGA Tour fall season resumes with the Bank of Utah Championship, AKA the Black Desert Championship, which had a good one-year run as the tournament name. RIP Black Desert Championship, but not RIP to Black Desert Resort, which is still hosting the event. And what a spectacular-looking golf course it is:

Courtesy of Black Desert Resort

RIP to Tom Weiskopf, who designed it. He did some great tracks, including Forest Dunes, which, I may have mentioned before as the site of my HGGA Championship win earlier this year. Meanwhile, you’ve got the International Crown on the LPGA Tour, the Korea Championship on the DP World Tour and the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship, where one lucky winner will earn a Masters invite. I don’t think Colt Knost is eligible for that one. Yet.

Random tournament fact: Well, there’s not much history with a one-year-old event, but Matt McCarty is your defending champ. Moving on …

RANDOM PROP BETS OF THE WEEK

—This tournament will never change names again: 1 MILLION-to-1 odds

—Maverick McNealy will win this week: 14-to-1 odds (Actual odds, favorite)

—We will see Frankie Fleetwood on more 18th greens in the future: LOCK

PHOTO(S) OF THE WEEK

Special shout-out to The Seawane Club for hosting this year’s Seitz Cup. Not only was the course great, but the food was off the charts. Most people will cite the pizza as the highlight (and it was amazing), but I’ve got to go with the homemade chipwiches that had a variety of flavors:

Let’s just say I ate more of those than I made birdies that day.

VIRAL VIDEO OF THE WEEK

This Brian Harman club slam/toss went viral because it was a good one. But also because he actually hit a good shot!

Man, these guys are good, huh?

THIS WEEK IN CELEBRITY GOLFERS

Stephen Curry hung with Bryson DeChambeau and staked his claim as one of the best athletes in the world. First, he busted Bryson in a game of one-on-one:

And then he outdrove DeChambeau a couple times during their amazing Break 50 episode. (NO SPOILERS!)

Including this bomb on No. 1 at Lake Merced Golf Club that set up an opening eagle by the NBA superstar:

What a stud. Steph Curry is going to be a problem on the celebrity circuit—not that the 2024 American Century Championship winner already isn’t—when he retires from basketball.

THIS WEEK IN PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION (NON-FLEETWOOD FAMILY DIVISION)

Congrats to Sahith Theegala and Juliana “Juju” Chan on getting engaged while on a trip to Hawaii. And having some of the best—and most dramatic—engagement photos ever:

Good to see Sahith is putting some of that $ 7.5 million FedEx Cup bonus from last year to use.

THIS WEEK IN PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION (NON-PGA TOUR DIVISION)

Check out the lengths one girlfriend went to create a hole-in-one gift for her boyfriend:

@othen.art Replying to @irons1996 ♬ growth – Gede Yudis

That painting is way more impressive than making a hole-in-one. Nicely done. That being said, I think I’d still rather have the hole-in-one cake my wife got for me. Just saying. (And, yes, that was partly mentioned to remind everyone I made a hole-in-one. Hey, it had been a few months weeks since I referenced it.)

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Since the Ryder Cup to now has been one of the toughest times in my life. … You win, it's glory for a lifetime. You lose, it's 'I'm going to have to sit with this for the rest of my life.' There's no part of me that thinks I'll ever get over this." —Keegan Bradley. OK, so I don’t feel that bad about losing the Seitz Cup. Hang in there, Keegan. It will be alright. Really. I promise.

THIS AND THAT

Congrats to D3 college golfer Niel Phillips on acing the same hole in a tournament two rounds in a row:

Insane stuff. Lucky for Niel it was documented by others there. Otherwise no one would believe this actually happened. … Congrats to Naoyuki Kataoka, the 500th-ranked player in the world, on winning the Japan Open and earning a Masters invite after the club's recent criteria changes to give national opens more status. What a great win—and even better timing—by the 27-year-old from Japan. … Shoutout to Noah Kahan for joining this week’s episode of The Loop podcast and for his new charity golf outing, Folk & Fairways, which raised more than $ 1 million for his mental-health charity, The Busyhead Project. You can listen here:

And, finally, my wife and I celebrated 10 years (!) of living in our house by … finally replacing the rug in the TV area.

It looks great (All credit to her), but I tweaked my back moving the furniture. Of course.

RANDOM QUESTIONS TO PONDER

What’s the best Beatles album?

How long will I live in this house?

How long will I be the Old Team captain?

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