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Sean Zak

Chicago

Writer, Senior Editor and Host at Golf Magazine

Writer at https://t.co/VBQFNbTh4c; Author of ‘Searching in St. Andrews’ ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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  • 1 week ago | golf.com | Sean Zak

    AUGUSTA, Ga. — Six-hundred and sixty-five days ago, Rory McIlroy stood at the front of a white tent, his ego dented and his score one too many. He looked out over a gaggle of golf media and left us with one final sentence: “I would go through 100 Sundays like this to get my hands on another major championship.”You wanted to believe him but you couldn’t be sure. We were in Beverly Hills, at Los Angeles Country Club, the site of his latest woulda-coulda-shoulda, the 2023 U.S. Open.

  • 1 week ago | golf.com | Sean Zak

    AUGUSTA, Ga. — Video games are designed to be conquered. There is a start and a finish, with limited lives in between. You collect goods, face mini-challenges and claim incremental victories, each of which prepare you for what’s coming: the final boss. Who is, in this case, Bryson DeChambeau.

  • 1 week ago | golf.com | Sean Zak

    AUGUSTA, Ga. — A Yes or No question faced Justin Rose Friday afternoon in the Augusta National media center, probing to see if he views pro golf the same way we do. Many of us bucket pro golfers into generations, I asked. Do you look at your contemporaries in terms of generations? Rose answered the question — “Yes” — answered the obvious follow-up — which generation are you in? — and then kept going, detailing his battle with age on the PGA Tour.

  • 2 weeks ago | golf.com | Sean Zak

    AUGUSTA, Ga. — Patrick Reed’s putter is on vacation, he said, quite angrily, Thursday. Somewhere far from Augusta — location unclear. And if he’s going to do anything in this Masters tournament, “it needs to get on a flight and meet me here,” he said. Don’t worry, he shot under par in the first round. The reporter asking questions of Reed gave him every opportunity to feel good about his 71. Hey, that’s under par! You finished in the top 10! Reed wasn’t interested.

  • 2 weeks ago | golf.com | Sean Zak

    AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Masters is the year’s first major, but there’s increasingly a connectivity between this week and last month’s Players Championship. If you can win the Players, you can certainly win the Masters. If you can contend at Sawgrass, you can certainly contend in Augusta. But also — if you say something controversial in Florida, you’re bound to hear about it three weeks later in Georgia.

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Sean Zak
Sean Zak @Sean_Zak
9 Apr 25

"I think it's safe to assume that next year you'll see some time constraints [placed] on the competition" -- Fred Ridley on pace of play and seeing AimPoint at the Drive, Chip and Putt competition.

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Sean Zak @Sean_Zak
9 Apr 25

RT @ben_walton_: So I recently came across an incredible trove of old Augusta National photographs. I decided to print a few of them out…

Sean Zak
Sean Zak @Sean_Zak
9 Apr 25

RT @GabbyHerzig: Is scar tissue real? Ahead of the Masters, I talked to Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and top performance psychologists abo…