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1. Welcome to the Tour! (You’re now tournament favorites)
Golfweek’s Bill Speros…:”Matthew Wolff and Collin Morikawa, who finished first and tied for second respectively in the 3M Open last week, have officially accepted invitations to join the PGA Tour ranks.”
  • “Wolff, who played at Oklahoma State, will be part of the PGA Tour through the 2020-21 season. He earned membership status thanks to his 1-shot victory at TPC Twin Cities.”
  • “Wolff got 500 FedEx Cup points for the 3M Open victory and is projected to be 73rd on the list once it is updated, right behind Jordan Spieth.”
  • “Morikawa received Special Temporary Membership for the remainder of the 2018-19 season by virtue of his finish at the 3M Open. That means he is eligible for an invite to every PGA Tour stateside event until the FedEx Cup playoffs begin.”
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2. Wolff on the equipment tweaks (mentioned yesterday in one Morning 9 newsletter)
Talking with Digest’s E. Michael Johnson…
“A couple of changes to the wood lineup at the 3M Open, going to the M5 driver and 3-wood from the M6. What was the impetus for that change?”
“It was actually a change back. I used both the M5 driver and 3-wood in college and it brought me a lot of success and I felt really confident with both of them. I took a little bit of time off after college to get ready for the transition from amateur to pro, and I wasn’t hitting my driver very well because I hadn’t been practicing much. I switched to the M6 driver and 3-wood because they’re more forgiving and I was hitting them better. But once I got under pressure, I didn’t have the confidence because it was a new driver to me and I didn’t know what my tendencies were going to be with it. I went back to the same driver I used in college as well as the 3-wood and it made me feel more comfortable out there at the 3M and it definitely helped me get that win.”
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3. A purchase for Acushnet
Golf Digest’s Mike Stachura…”Acushnet, parent company of the Titleist and FootJoy golf brands, announced Wednesday it has acquired KJUS, the Swiss-based global high-performance ski and golf-apparel maker.”
  • “Terms of the deal were not disclosed.”
  • “KJUS was founded in 2000 by champion skier Lasse Kjus of Norway and Swiss entrepreneur Didi Serena. The two founded their company on the idea of developing performance apparel for skiing, and eventually golf came as part of that, one day after a round of golf. Kjus told Golf News U.K. that the golf business has always been a natural fit for the company that started as a ski apparel business.”
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4. Rory’s not here to go through the motions
McIlroy on teeing it up in the Scottish Open (per the BBC)…
  • “My second week of competitive golf is usually my best week,” said the Northern Irishman.
  • “It’s not as if I want to just come here and go through the motions and get myself ready. I want to play well this week.
  • “There’s no better preparation to compete in majors than to get yourself in contention the week before. This is a very important event to me. It’s good to get back here and re-familiarise myself with links golf.
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5. Harris English and the tour truck
Nice to see USA Today’s Steve Dimeglio stepping inside a tour truck to talk to Ping’s Christian Pena…
  • “The 29-year-old who was an all-American at the University of Georgia trusts Christian Pena, Ping’s manager who travels with the Tour, and Pena’s team to build clubs and adjust clubs whenever needed.”
  • “We’re a mobile, fitting, building and just pure taking-care-of-the-player van,” Pena says. “We can build clubs, we can adjust clubs, we want our players to perform their best.”
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6. CBD on tour
ESPN’s Tom VanHaaren on “golf’s not-so-secret fascination with CBD oil”
…”I went and tried it about two weeks later when I went home. I measure my sleep with a device called WHOOP,” McCarron said. “That’s a sleep and strain device. Major League Baseball, NFL and Olympic athletes use the device. For the first time in about two years that I’d been wearing the device, I was taking the CBD oil, started on Monday and had sleep in the green, which is fantastic sleep, for seven days straight the first time I took this CBD oil at night to help me sleep.”
  • “McCarron has now been using the products for nearly two years and is among a growing list of PGA Champions Tour players using CBD oil for various reasons, including sleep, recovery, anxiety and inflammation. Through word of mouth of the perceived benefits, the products have spread on the Champions Tour.”
  • “Despite its open popularity among the senior players, it has taken longer to surface as an acceptable practice to discuss publicly with the PGA Tour players. That is rapidly changing, though, as the perception of and education about the product are growing as well.”
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7. Renaissance Club on display 
Jeff Shain on the Doak-designed course stepping out of Muirfield’s shadow this week…
  • “The Renaissance Club soon carved its own niche, now with more than 250 members drawn by the Tom Doak design, stunning views of the Firth of Forth and modern touches not found among its older neighbors.
  • “This week, the club has the opportunity to introduce itself to a wider audience as host of the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open.”
  • “It’s the national Open of Scotland,” said Sarvadi, now the club’s managing director. “There’s only a couple of others that get the TV coverage this one has. It’s pretty unique. We’re excited about it.”
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8. Remembering the last Open winner at Royal Portrush
Excellent profile of the flamboyant Max Faulkner from the BBC…
  • “One that would turn Max Faulkner into a household name and not just a golfer known as much for his flamboyant attire as his undoubted talent.”
  • “His incredulous playing partner called it “the greatest shot I’ve ever seen” but had Faulkner’s four wood from beside an out-of-bounds fence not sliced to the heart of Royal Portrush’s 16th green, Anthony Cerda could have become the first Argentine to win one of golf’s four majors.
  • “In the month that he’d celebrate his 35th birthday, Max Faulkner clinched the biggest prize of all.”

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9. The biggest Anser ever!
Andrew Tursky on a 300-pound putter collab between Ping and John Deere…
“While the John Deere headquarters are based in Moline, Illinois, just miles down the road from TPC Deere Run where the putter is currently displayed, John Deere engineers flew out to Ping headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona about a month ago to start the design process with Tony Serrano, Senior Design Engineer at Ping. During the collaboration, John Deere and Ping used CAD (computer aided drafting) to design the putter head; Serrano says they first designed the putter to be the traditional size of a putter, and John Deere later blew it up to scale.”
“The putter head was meticulously designed with iconic features of Ping’s famous Anser putters, with John Deere tractor-inspired designs interweaved throughout. For example, the face “insert” of the putter is an ode to the grill of John Deere tractors and excavators, and the yellow colorway is an obvious shoutout to the iconic John Deere-yellow color featured on its machines and products.”
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