The sports world is incredible here in the last days of April. Consider that the NBA and the NHL are in the middle of its playoffs, the place of only NFL place, MLB has bone at play for a month, the LPGA tour had its first great season in the Chevon championship … it is almost almost almost almost almost a full time.
With regard to male professional golf, Liv Tour was in Mexico City, while the PGA Tour had its own team event in the annual Zurich classic in New Orleans. Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin came out victorious with a low torque score. It is the first professional victory for Novak and Griffin.
With regard to Novak, he almost broke the thought in that capacity a week earlier in Harbor Town. Novak went to a playoff at the RBC Heritage with Justin Thomas and lost in the first hole. Approaching his first victory in his career and letting he escape had to hurt, which surely makes the victory in New Orleans quite sweet to him.
Something particularly interesting about Novak’s victory with Griffin in New Orleans, the thought is that he repeated a level of history that the tour had not deepened in three years. Andrew Novak became the first player to win an event the week after losing a playoff since Patrick Cantlay did it in 2022 (we threw this possibility during the weekend).
However, what was particularly surprising about that? Like Novak, Cantlay lost the RBC Heritage in a playoff before winning the Zurich Classic. Those are some crazy coincidences!
From what is worth if we are following the script that 2022 presented for us, reminds the main winners of the rest of that season (remember that Scottie Scheffler won his first masters earlier that year):
Of the three in question, the most likely to be repeated is Thomas given its recent form (the aforementioned victory in Hilton Head) and the PGA championship of that year is taking in Qual Hollow, where Thomas won his champion.
We will see what else has us all.