Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) It has been exactly 90 days since I last posted a preview for a golf tournament. And, look, we all know the reason why that is, just like we’re painfully aware of the tremendous amount of suffering that’s blighted this planet in that same amount...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) When Rory McIlroy launched his golf ball through the rapidly encroaching twilight and landed it inside Matthew Wolff’s effort on the 19th hole of play last Sunday evening in Juno Beach, it officially brought the curtain down on the ‘Taylormade Driving Relief’ event and the...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Remember last week when I described the Honda Classic as having been “attritional”? Wasn’t that adorable? Because after the way Bay Hill played over the weekend just gone for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, it made what happened two and bit hours down the road at...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) The stage couldn’t have been set any better. The packed grandstands. The fading Florida light. The stakes perfectly poised. And a feeling of electricity that, even through a television screen an ocean away, felt so palpable you’d have been forgiven for thinking you were right...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Like him or loathe him, for Patrick Reed – in the wake of comments made by Brooks Koepka & Peter Kostis regarding that incident in the Bahamas & his alleged conduct on the course – to go into the tricky Club de Golf Chapultepec and...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) After years of needing to constantly run through all number of different scenarios and projections to explain to the audience watching at home who needed what to happen in order to win the FedEx Cup, the PGA Tour decided that, instead of just going all...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Rory McIlroy has always been someone who says what’s on his mind and, as such, it’s endeared him to the press over the years. In a world where the vast majority of modern athletes, especially those of McIlroy’s status, say nothing in interviews or press...
Written by Stephen Moloney (www.twitter.com/TheCheeky9) Now, I don’t want to alarm you, but I’ve spent the last few days doing some ‘important research’. And through said ‘important research’ I’ve uncovered something that could quite possibly be the biggest revelation to hit the golfing world since we all learned that perhaps...
Written by Stephen Moloney (@TheCheeky9) If there was one topic which dominated golf this year … it was that black and white polo shirt Nike made for the Open at Royal Portrush. I mean, not since Tiger Woods first debuted “the mock turtleneck” back in the early 00’s has a...