Secret Tour meetings, Tiger's comeback: 10 lessons from Hero on pro golf's future

Key Highlights

• Scottie Scheffler was at Tiger Woods’ event in the Caribbean, Hovland was at the DP World Tour’s headline event in South Africa, and McIlroy was at the DP World Tour’s headline event in Australia - all while Jon Rahm chased some sort of Krispy Kreme challenge. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementTo visualize the physical distance between these three superstars was really to face the latest iteration in golf’s most elusive question: Which tournaments actually matter?
• And it didn’t take much reflection to reach a handful of angsty follow-ups: Surely these tournaments should each get their own shine?
• Surely this was an inefficient distribution of golf’s top resources?
• Surely somebody much smarter and much more powerful would figure this out?These are champagne problems to contemplate from a golf tournament in the Bahamas, so I swallowed my feelings of foreboding as I entered my resort and rode the elevator up a dozen floors.
• I entered my hotel room and stared over the Atlantic Ocean, watching the lights twinkle in the denim-blue pools of the resort spilling out in the foreground below.