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Greg Norman off to a hot start!
 
Greg Norman off to a hot start!

RC, good one lol! But 40 years ago was a great year for Greg despite losing the Masters by one to the come from behind Nicklaus. He was one of my favorites then and throughout much of the 1980s-1990s although I thought Nicklaus’ dramatic coming out of nowhere 1986 Masters win was amazing.

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Regarding 2026, thanks for creating this thread! Here are two highlights I mentioned in the 2024 thread:

-Brooks Koepka returned to the PGA Tour from LIV. Does he have much left in the tank? We’ll see!

-Colin Morikawa won at Pebble Beach with a -22. This was his first win since way back in Oct of 2023!
 
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RC, good one lol! But 40 years ago was a great year for Greg despite losing the Masters by one to the come from behind Nicklaus. He was one of my favorites then and throughout much of the 1980s-1990s although I thought Nicklaus’ dramatic coming out of nowhere 1986 Masters win was amazing.

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Regarding 2026, thanks for creating this thread! Here are two highlights I mentioned in the 2024 thread:

-Brooks Koepka returned to the PGA Tour from LIV. Does he have much left in the tank? We’ll see!

-Colin Morikawa won at Pebble Beach with a -22. This was his first win since way back in Oct of 2023!
The somewhat uninspired play in the first couple of events from Brooks isn’t even that different from him of old. He has historically been a guy who only seemed to show up for the majors. 9 PGA tour wins, 5 of which are majors - pretty wild stat.
 
Wow, Shane Lowry was cruising along with a 3 shot lead with only 3 holes to go at Palm Beach. What does he do? For the first time in his career, he gets double bogey on two holes in a row (both due to horrible tee shots way out in the water) and ends up 2 back tied for 2nd! What a choke! Echavarria ended up winning.
 
Wow, Shane Lowry was cruising along with a 3 shot lead with only 3 holes to go at Palm Beach. What does he do? For the first time in his career, he gets double bogey on two holes in a row (both due to horrible tee shots way out in the water) and ends up 2 back tied for 2nd! What a choke! Echavarria ended up winning.
I wish he would do that in a Ryder cup.
 
Gary Woodland is up by a whopping 7 at the Houston Open through 10. This is huge considering the brain lesion he had in 2023 that was quickly removed. This looks to be his first win since he won the US Open in 2019.
 
I’m taking Bryson as my horse

Long shot picks: Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Viktor Hovland, JJ Spaun, Justin Rose
 
Rory and Sam Burns are tied for the lead by 2 at -5 after the 1st rd. There’s no chance of rain for the entire tourney. That should allow the greens get firmer assuming they don’t water them too much. Winds will be lighter than average, however.
 
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We’ve got a totally different ballgame, folks, due to a combo of a rather poor Rory round (+1) and several folks coming from well back due to great rounds. This includes ‘26 Players winner Cam Young, who’s now tied with Rory for 1st after having an amazing -7 today!

Scottie as @broken025 mentioned, also had a -7 and is only 4 back. Five others are within 4, including Lowry, who had a rare ace on 6! Reed had been -3 for the day after the first 3 holes, but gave all 3 back to finish at only -6, 5 back.
 
We’ve got a totally different ballgame, folks, due to a combo of a rather poor Rory round (+1) and several folks coming from well back due to great rounds. This includes ‘26 Players winner Cam Young, who’s now tied with Rory for 1st after having an amazing -7 today!

Scottie as @broken025 mentioned, also had a -7 and is only 4 back. Five others are within 4, including Lowry, who had a rare ace on 6! Reed had been -3 for the day after the first 3 holes, but gave all 3 back to finish at only -6, 5 back.
Should be fun to watch tomorrow.
 
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