🕵️ Someone Faked a Hole-in-One, Got Caught on Tape, and Riggs Has the Footage
The Fore Play podcast this week has a direct personal connection to a viral hole-in-one cheating scandal. Riggs claims he obtained exclusive footage — from the perpetrator themselves. The person who did it contacted Barstool and handed over the tape. (source)
Sit with that decision-making for a moment. You fake a hole-in-one. It goes viral. And then you call the Fore Play guys. And give them the evidence. This is not a golf story. This is a psychological profile.
Hole-in-one fraud deserves its own wing in golf’s hall of shame purely for the commitment involved. You survive the fake, the reaction, the backslaps, the bar tab you’re now buying for EVERY PERSON IN THE CLUBHOUSE — and then spend years collecting the story at dinner parties. “Yeah, had a hole-in-one once…” The lie compounds with interest. And unlike sandbagging your handicap, which lives in gray areas, a hole-in-one is binary. You made it or you didn’t. There were people standing right there.
We’ll get the full story when the episode drops. But we already know enough: someone cheated, it went viral, Riggs has the tape, and golf continues to be the most unhinged sport on earth.
🦟 The LPGA Is Currently Being Used as a Food Source
Edmonton is hosting the CPKC Women’s Open this week and the city sent a welcome committee: mosquitoes. Organized, aggressive, relentless mosquitoes. One player’s stated goal for the week was simply to “not become buffet meat.” (source)
The LPGA plays through wind, heat, rain, and courses designed by people who hate joy — and Edmonton added an entire biome to the scorecard. You cannot out-elite a Canadian mosquito. These bugs have never read a world ranking. They don’t care about your sponsor deal. They are just hungry and you are right there.
🎰 Your Golf Addiction Is Neurologically Identical to a Slot Machine, Per Actual Science
Golf Monthly published a full piece on why golf is so addictive and the answer — variable rewards, unpredictable dopamine, the endless chase after the one great shot — is clinically the same mechanism that keeps people feeding quarters into slots. (source) You already knew this. Now it has footnotes.
☀️ British Golf Courses Are in SHAMBLES and It’s Still Only August
A club manager described this summer as “a disaster” — then noted last year “wasn’t far behind” — as drier UK summers scorch fairways faster than the industry can adapt. (source)
🏆 Matt Fitzpatrick Is Right About the FedExCup and the Tour Doesn’t Want to Hear It
Fitzpatrick went on record calling the FedExCup Playoffs “really weird” and openly questioning whether the whole season finale is even necessary. (source) He’s being polite. The format isn’t just weird — it’s a meritocracy cosplaying as one.
The actual problem is the points reset at East Lake. A player can dominate from January to August, accumulate the most FedExCup points in the field, and have one bad Sunday in Atlanta erase all of it. That’s not a playoff. That’s an ambush. NINE MONTHS of tournament golf reduced to a three-week audition at the end.
The fix isn’t scrapping playoffs — it’s scrapping the reset. Let the points accumulate without wiping the slate. Let the drama build naturally across the full season. The player who was best over the entire year should win the thing designed to reward the entire year. If the Tour actually believed in the integrity of its own product, it would just do that. Instead it protects the TV window and calls it sport. Fitzpatrick said “really weird.” The diplomatic way to say “you built this wrong” is “really weird.”
⚔️ Scottie and Rory Were Asked the Same LIV Question and Gave Completely Different Answers
Fore Play caught this on camera — Scheffler and McIlroy, asked about LIV players returning, giving answers so far apart that the Fore Play account just put a skull emoji in the caption and let it breathe. (source) The reunion is apparently not a conversation both sides are having the same way. Shocking. Unprecedented. Etc.
💸 Arccos Built a Rangefinder That Needs a Subscription to Fully Be a Rangefinder
Arccos entered the rangefinder market with the Smart Laser, and Golf Monthly confirms the accuracy is genuinely impressive. The “hefty catch” buried one click into the headline?? The device integrates with Arccos’ platform — which already charges an annual subscription — meaning you pay hardware prices AND recurring fees to unlock what makes the thing worth buying in the first place. (source)
Arccos makes a legitimately useful product. But selling you a rangefinder that bills you annually is a level of confidence that deserves acknowledgment. Your $400 Bushnell has never sent you a renewal notice. Something to factor in.
🌑 PING Announced Their New Dark Irons Are “Sure to Turn Some Heads”
The G740 Midnight irons have a darker finish that reduces glare and makes the clubhead look smaller — and someone in the marketing department typed “sure to turn some heads,” pressed publish, and went to lunch. (source)
That’s the week. Someone faked a hole-in-one and then called Barstool about it. Stay off the buffet.
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