Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we truly sympathize with Kevin Na. Up to a point. You see, it also took me eight long years to get my first win on my annual golf trip, and overall, I have a Na-like record of nine (or so — I stopped keeping track) runner-ups to go with just a handful of victories. There’s just one big, BIG difference between us. Kevin Na has made $27 MILLION in on-course earnings despite just two titles while I’ve lost money when you factor in the three champions dinners I’ve had to foot the bill for. Even if they're usually at Chili's. Anyway, let's talk about Na and everything else happening during a busy week in golf.
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Kevin Na: No matter how much prize money you earn, nothing takes the place of winning and we saw that with an emotional Na after his five-shot romp at the Greenbrier. At first, I just thought Na was choked up over getting a congratulatory text from Tiger Woods (I know that I would be), but then he turned t..

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Practice rounds, even at a major, are typically laid back affairs, especially on Mondays, when players are just getting their weeks started and feeling everything out. On Monday at the inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open at Chicago Golf Club, the laid back level turned all the way up to 11, reaching volcanic vibes of chill the likes of which golf has never seen. That's because Jimmy Buffett, Mayor of Margaritaville, was in attendance:
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Buffett, in town for a concert at Wrigley Field on Friday, caddied for his niece Patricia Ehrhart, an amateur player competing in the event. Ehrhart is a former LPGA pro that left the tour to start a family in the late 90s and eventually got her amateur status back when she was 48. The Honolulu, Hawaii resident qualified for the U.S. Senior Women's Open in mid-June at Fairwood Golf & Country Club in Renton, Wash. Just last year, she made it to the semifinals of the U.S. Senior Women's Am..

Scott HalleranSteven Bowditch and his caddie discuss a shot at the 2015 AT&T Byron Nelson.Did you ever want to caddie for a PGA Tour winner? Well, this is your chance.
Steven Bowditch took to Twitter on Monday night to seek someone to carry his bag at this week’s John Deere Classic. And he did it in the self-deprecating fashion we’ve come to expect from the two-time PGA Tour winner as he gave himself only a 1-percent chance of making it to Sunday's final round.
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Talk about the ultimate temp job.
Although, it doesn’t necessarily have to be so temporary. One responder asked whether he could also caddie for Bowditch at next week’s Open Championship if the Aussie happens to win this week and qualify for the season’s third major. “Without doubt. Not even a question,” Bowditch replied.
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But you better hurry, because as Bowditch says, the gig starts Tuesday afternoo..

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The PGA Tour has eliminated a FedEx Cup playoff event as part of a revamped, tighter schedule that will allow its season to end a week before the football season begins in the United States.

Most of the changes to the 2018-19 schedule released Tuesday already had been announced. The final piece was where to put two new tournaments between the U.S. Open and British Open. Detroit-based Quicken Loans is calling its event the Rocket Mortgage Classic on June 27-30. It will be followed by the 3M Open in Minnesota and the John Deere Classic.

The tour will feature 46 events over 41 weeks, down from 48 tournaments this year.

The addition of new tournaments in Detroit and Minnesota is offset by eliminating the FedEx Cup playoff event in Boston, the Quicken Loans National that had been run by the Tiger Woods Foundation in the Washington, D.C. area, and a year off for the Houston Open and Greenbrier.

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One's a more memorable moment, the other a more significant accomplishment.

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We continue to be impressed by the swing of little Tommy Morrissey, who is now 7 years old. The talented young golfer was born without part of his right arm, so he swings the golf club—with amazing grace—with just his left arm. We've seen Morrissey hit the ceremonial first tee shot at a PGA Tour event, imitate the swings of Arnold Palmer, Rickie Fowler and others with incredible ease and hang out with his PGA Tour buddies on a semi-consistent basis.
So we weren't entirely surprised when we heard that Morrissey nearly recorded a hole-in-one on Pinehurst's par-3 course, The Cradle, over the weekend. Morrissey's smooth swing has been impressing for quite some time now. But to record an ace, would be, well, a special moment, for sure.
Here's video of the near ace, which ended up hitting the pin and ended up six inches from the pin, Pinehurst says:
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We're told Morrissey would've recorded the 71st ace at The Cradle since it opened in..

Less than 12 hours after earning the second-biggest paycheck of his PGA Tour career, Harold Varner was out mowing his parents' lawn in North Carolina. Talk about a man of his word.
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Varner, the 54-hole leader at the Greenbrier who was looking for his first PGA Tour win, shot a disappointing two-over-par 72 on Sunday to drop to T-5, but still earned $247,470. Before that final round, Varner had this to say:
“I hate to harp on it, but it's all about perspective,” said Varner, who wound up seven shots behind winner Kevin Na. “If I shoot 90 tomorrow, I'm gonna able to go home, and my mom is going to give me a kiss and be like, 'you're still a winner.' And I'm gonna be mad, but that's just how it is. And if I win, she's gonna humble me and be like, 'you're not better than me.' And I thoroughly enjoy that.
“I'm gonna mow my parents' grass on Monday . . …