Last week, I saw Cameron Young in church before he went on to win the Players Championship on Sunday. This week, I did not see any tour pros at mass, but right before heading to the 5 p.m. mass on Saturday evening back home in New Jersey, I happened to come across a video of Jerry Kelly, which made me think I was heading to the man’s funeral.
The good news is, Kelly, 59, is alive and well. Well, maybe not well at the moment. On Saturday, he pulled out of the PGA Tour Champions’ Cologuard Classic with “debilitating” spasms in his back, which he described in detail in an on-camera interview while lying down. The PGA Tour Champions main account tweeted out the interview and Golf Twitter took it an ran with it:
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We don’t mean to make light of it and we wish Kelly a speedy recovery, but this truly was one of the most PGA Tour Champions’ content moments of all time. 59-year-old pulls out of event with bad back, conducts interview lying down on a pillow. It’s too perfect. And, of course, we had just had him on The Loop podcast as a guest last week. Whatever the opposite of a “podcast bump” is, it’s this.
Hopefully, this week’s different, and we don’t get ESPN jack of all trades Matt Barrie in any trouble—injury, career, etc.—after having him on the show Monday. Barrie, in addition to the million other jobs he does for the Worldwide Leader, is TGL host, and he’ll be on the desk Monday night for Match 1 of the Finals between Jupiter Links and LA Golf Club. We broke it all down with Barrie in our full interview below. Plus, we recap Matt Fitzpatrick and Bryson DeChambeau’s big wins, explain the odd “Shadow Theory,” and have a potentially controversial discussion about mallet putter. Please, have a listen, and like and subscribe to The Loop wherever you get your podcasts:
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