Paddy’s parentage, Bryson’s marijuana, Ryder Cup money

Welcome back to Monday Finish, where after watching Q-School I’ve just been relieved to keep my card (this time, my job at GOLF) for the 2025 season. No four feet required. In the news!

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I LOVE GOLF EQUIPMENT

Paddy in raising children.

Season to show; and it’s PNC Championship week. So I’m thinking about a video that went viral around this time last year, before PNC: Padraig Harrington about how to introduce your child to golf.

Harrington’s monologue was inspired by his son Ciaranhis partner for the week — and what he did right and wrong in Ciaran’s first game. His understanding, in four categories:

1. If you have fun, they will have fun.

“Looking back, the best way, if you want to get your kid into golf, is to bring him somewhere where there’s no pressure. That is very important,” said Harrington. “Kids listen to that. Let them do what they like where they are, have a little fun if they want to hit one shot, two shots, 10 shots, play in the bunker, look at the water, whatever they want to do, let them do it. , and usually brings them home before they get tired.”

2. Stop being ahead.

“So the best thing to do with a kid early in the golf game is, ‘hey, we have to go home,’ and don’t wait until he’s tired and hates it.” Wait until they are really enjoying themselves, then go home.”

3. But first, get some soda.

“When you’re done take 10 minutes with your son or daughter and go get a Coke, a Pepsi this week, go get a Pepsi at a bar, wherever it is, sit there and drink ice cream, and spend a few minutes 10, 15. Because if they have that 15 minutes alone with you, you and them, for the rest of their lives, every time they play golf, they remember the 15 minutes they had with their father or mother, and that’s what will bring them. I went back to golf the next day.”

4. Keep love first.

“If your child does well in a game, that doesn’t make them love the game,” Harrington said. “If your child likes this sport, it is possible that he will do it well. Love should come first as well, and it’s very important to find love for the game because we all know how hard you are when you play golf.

“There are many mountains where it is really frustrating. And if you don’t like it, those plateaus will stop you from playing, you will stop. Although if you love it, you will overcome anything. So try to find love for the children’s game first.”

Paddy’s parenting — that’s my favorite golf thing.

THE WINNER

Who won the week?

This is Griffin won Q-School, ensuring he will have full PGA Tour status for the 2025 PGA Tour season. One money quote from Griffin after Sunday’s round, a clutch seven-under 63: I want to experience this with my family, now with my baby too – you just don’t want it to end. It’s like being at a great concert, you just want a few more songs and that’s what I heard this week.”

Jake Knapp again Patty Tavatanakit put a bow on their season with a win at the Grant Thornton Invitational. Exciting: It was the second time this year they won on the same day. The first time was back in February, when Knapp won the Mexico Open with Tavatanakit at the Honda LPGA Thailand.

Shaun Norris won the Alfred Dunhill Championship on home soil as the DP World Tour continued its African swing, shooting a final-round 67 to clear a six-shot deficit as rivals fell by the wayside at Leopard Creek Country Club in South Africa. The win marked his second start after Norris won Japan’s Nippon Series JT Cup two weeks ago.

“This changes a few things for me. I have a lot to look forward to in the next few years,” Norris said of his improved form. “But now it’s vacation time.”

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NON-WINNERS

A few golfers who didn’t win but still do.

Five more pros made it through a tough week of Q-School, which started rough and windy and finished with classic mega-pressure. A sentence to each other with our help Jack Hirsh:

Hayden Buckley: A member of the PGA Tour for the past two seasons who surprisingly dropped out of the Top 125 after only two top-10s in 2024.

Takumi Kanaya: The seven-time Japan Tour winner has already played in 11 major tournaments. He was the World No. 1 former and ranked as high as No. 49 in the Official World Golf Ranking in 2022.

Alejandro Tosti: A PGA Tour player in 2024 who made headlines for some of his big (and bold) shots, as well as some of his controversial antics.

Will Chandler: He fired the last nine Sunday of the 30th to begin his career opportunities. It advanced from the second round of Q-School after cutting just 10 events on the Korn Ferry Tour this season and nine events on the PGA Tour Canada in 2023.

Matthew Riedel: The former Vanderbilt University standout graduated this spring and earned a spot on the Korn Ferry Tour with PGA Tour U. That also put him directly into the Q-School finals this week.

THEY DON’T HIT SHORTS

Six teams will compete in the PNC Championship.

When it was offered in an ad promoting tomorrow’s Showdown odds, it occurred to me that the PNC Championship might be the worst golf event to bet on, considering families and kids. With that as inspiration, let’s go through the betting favorites (yes, real odds):

6. Team Singh (+650) – Vijay and Qass. Winners in 2022 and the only team to go 59-59 in event history.

5. Team Langer (+650) — Bernhard and Jason. Last year’s champions; they won in 2019 and 2014, too. Bernhard also won the final PGA Tour Champions event of the season so he’s in good form. A dangerous group.

4. Woods Team (+500) — Tiger and Charlie. These boys turned out to be veteran doctors in this event; luckily this will be their healthiest year yet.

3. Team Kuchar (+450) — Matt and Carson. Shot 57 in the first round last year but faded to T5 on Day 2. Back hungry.

2. Team Cink (+450) — Stewart and Connor. They won in 2013; can they turn back the clock?!

1. Team Day (+300) — John and John II. They won in 2021; they are key to having the most striking pants. John II had a 71.78 batting average at Arkansas last year, but I don’t think they played any father-son duos.

ONE THOUGHT

From Daniel Berger and Nelly Korda.

During Grant Thornton week it’s fun to hear what the LPGA and PGA Tour pros think about their partner’s games, and one interesting insight emerges. Daniel Berger again Nelly Kordawho saw otherwise that they were both pulling a 7-iron.

“There were a couple of times when I hit one yesterday I looked in his bag and he was hitting the club I was hitting,” Berger said. Korda quickly adds that his draw adds a yard, while Berger’s fade subtracts. But they were impressed.

“It was very easy, he hits it on the fairway, he hits it on the green, he makes putts. “I mean, it’s very clear why he’s No. 1 in the world and I need to do my thing together,” Berger said.

“He’s a very good player,” Korda said. “I always appreciate that when a player shows his artistic side.”

ONE BIG QUESTION

What about Ryder Cup pay?

On Monday morning the PGA of America confirmed reports that yes, the American Ryder Cuppers will be compensated for their participation in this year’s event at Bethpage Black. Specifically they will receive $300,000 to give to a charity of their choice and another $200,000 as a stipend.

So how should you feel about this? I usually use this space to ask a question, not answer it, but here I’ll give a suggestion: You don’t need to hear any kind of way about this at all! You don’t need an opinion on this one! Do these guys need the money? No, they don’t. Are they worth it? Yes, they probably do; they are all who came to see. But the Ryder Cup isn’t made or broken by a few million dollars in appearance fees and charitable contributions. Pro golfers get paid to play almost everywhere they join. This is visible [shrugs] good.

For that, Team Europe must rely entirely on the idea that theirs is a pure commitment to the competition. Their team bond has traditionally been stronger than the US side – this is easy bulletin board stuff, if they need anything else.

ONE THING YOU DON’T WATCH

Bryson chirps at Rory.

The Crypto dot com Showdown is coming up on Tuesday, and while I’m still excited about it Scottie/Rory vs. Brooks/Bryson I was concerned that nothing about this game had made it into the global sports world (with the NFL bubble, in other words). But that changed Monday with a devastating and truly beautiful sword thrown by it Bryson DeChambeau on the side of Rory McIlroy.

Exchange, in the Monday clinic:

McIlroy: “I’d like to fight Bryson and try to get him back for what he did to me at the US Open.”

DeChambeau: “To be fair, do it yourself.”