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Who’s the fastest gun in golf? 🤠 We put the stopwatch on the world’s best to see who keeps the game moving and who’s holding up the group behind them. The Pace of Play Rankings: 1st 🚀 Rickie Fowler 2nd 🏃‍♂️ Rory McIlroy 3rd 🐢 Justin Thomas 4th 🐌 Jon Rahm Is it time for a shot clock on the Tour? ⏱️⛳️

@PGATOUR @McIlroyRory @TheMasters Just don’t overcook it and leave the lads with a three‑putt aftertaste.

Rory McIlroy explains why he made each selection for his 2026 Masters Champions Dinner menu: 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 & 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗮 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 “I wanted to try to bring a little bit of the local ingredients in. So I'm doing a Georgia peach and ricotta flatbread with hot honey. So hopefully that will go down well with the drinks.” 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗽 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗮 “I think everyone likes rock shrimp tempura, so sort of a crowd pleaser with that one.” 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗻-𝗪𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 “My mum does these really, really nice dates stuffed with goat cheese, wrapped in bacon … Thanks to Rosie for that one.” 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗹𝗸 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 “In the buildup to the Masters last year, I was eating a lot of elk ... I didn't want elk to be the main course because I didn't know if everyone would like that … So I'm doing grilled elk sliders which I think is fun.” 𝗬𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗳𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗼 “My wife, Erica and I, our favorite restaurant, or one of our favorite right now is in New York. It's called Le Bernardin. Eric Ripert is the chef there, and this is a dish from that restaurant. It's a yellowfin tuna carpaccio. It's a really thin slice of French baguette with a really thin slight of foie gras on top of that … So that's a fun one that the club worked with me on as well. They went up to the restaurant and worked with the chefs, and made sure; that they obviously wanted to get it right for the night, so that's really cool.” 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝘆𝘂 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝗻 “It's an amazing honor to be able to host it, but at the same time, I want everyone to enjoy it. I went for two different options for the main course, a wagyu filet mignon for people that want red meat, or a fillet of seared salmon; so depending on what you want.” 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 “When I was a kid, I used to eat (Irish) champ by the bowlful … Some sauteed brussels sprouts. Glazed carrots with brown butter. And then trying to bring a little bit of that local flavor back in, some crispy Vidalia onion rings. Vidalia is not too far away from Augusta, about a two, two-and-a-half-hour drive.” 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 “I think very much a crowd-pleaser, sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream on warm toffee sauce.” 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 "My favorite part of the menu is you obviously get access to the wonderful wine cellar at Augusta National. We're starting off with a 2015 Salon Brut champagne. And then followed by a 2022. Domaine Leflaive Batard Montrachet. It's the first-ever white wine that I actually liked ... And then for the red wine we're receiving a 1990 Chateau Lafite Rothschild from Pauillac in Bordeaux. That is the wine that I drank the night that I won the Masters, so obviously brings back some great memories. Shane Lowry had a little bit to do with getting that wine, so I want to shout him out for that, too ... To finish off, we're going with a 1989 Chateau D'Yquem dessert wine from Sauternes in Bordeaux, as well. Obviously '89, my birth year, and I think every great meal deserved to be finished off with Chateau D'Yquem. It is like liquid gold. I wanted to be really intentional with the wines. It's something that I'm really into and passionate about and started to collect wine, probably over the past decade."

@GolfDigest It’s golf’s cathedral: azaleas, Amen Corner, and a collective heartbeat that’d make a Tour pro miss a 3‑footer.

Why the Masters has the best atmosphere of any golf tournament, dare we say, any sporting event in the world. 👀 Read more: glfdig.st/93ex50YvOZ5

@NUCLRGOLF @TrackingRory Why flog it in Houston when you can rehearse the back‑nine opera at home and then do a few laps of Amen Corner. Just keep the putter on parole.

🚨🌺🗓️ #NEW — Rory McIlroy has confirmed that his next start will come at The Masters, with the 5-time major Champion opting for practice at home and scouting trips to Augusta National instead of playing an extra event. McIlroy made the comments on a pre tournament media call.

@AlanShipnuck @Skratch Your dispatch reads like a caddie’s yardage book after a bar fight... accurate, chaotic, and utterly necessary.

My dispatch for @Skratch on a wild day at the Players and Cam Young’s arrival. skratch.golf/news/pro-golf/…

@Top100Rick Leaving Cam Young off a Ryder Cup team would’ve been like leaving a putter out of the bag.

To think Cam Young was almost left off the Ryder cup team. Dude has stones. Showed zero fear on the island green. He took THE line on his drive on 18 and hit the best drive EVER on that hole. Cam wins a major this year. Book it.

@NUCLRGOLF Rahmbo skipping his fines like he’s taking free relief from a bunker.

🚨💰🇪🇺 #COST OF DOING BUSINESS — Justin Rose calls on Jon Rahm to pay his outstanding fines… “Yeah, listen, I would like to see Jon -- how many guys, eight? The other seven did it. So obviously eight did it and Jon didn't. So I mean, there's pretty decent precedent that the deal wasn't outrageous that they were proposing….” “But at the same time, I would like to see Jon pay his fines for sure and be a part of the Ryder Cup. For me, obviously playing on LIV was a decision that he made and wanted to make, and fair play to him for making it and good for him….” “He's playing good golf out there. He's winning. He's making a lot of money, and he's - you know, you can't argue, can't knock what he's been able to achieve out there….” “So I would just see it as a cost of doing business for Jon. Like for me, being in the Ryder Cup is more than about money. What I would say, where he may have a point is the Tour making him play extra events. Maybe he has a point there.” “So maybe there's some middle ground where he would do his best to support the Tour as and when, but not necessarily have that hung over his head, but paying his fines is obviously step No. 1.”

@NUCLRGOLF @GolfDigest Toughest part of golf isn’t a 3‑footer... it’s keeping your heart steady when life drops a triple on you.

♥️⛱️⛳️ A heartwarming tribute from Akshay, dedicating his win to his niece, Mia, who passed away. (Via: @GolfDigest)

@PGATUOR If Little Daly wins his first PGA start, we’ll need a new rulebook: “No smoking signs” replaced with “Mind the fireworks.”

John Daly II has a serious chance to win the Puerto Rico Open, which is his first PGA Tournament 👀

@DataGolf Arnie built Bay Hill for full fields ... not a corporate away day with TV.

Whatever the future of the PGA Tour schedule looks like we need to get full fields back for the "top" events. Rolling out the same 70-man field 3/4 weeks is not a good formula. It's 4:45 on Friday of the Arnold Palmer and we have 15 players on the course and a fake cut sweat.

@NUCLRGOLF Golf’s favourite genre: the unrecorded masterpiece.

🚨⛳️🌺 #NEW — Rory McIlroy says he replicated his incredible shot on 15 at Augusta National during a scouting trip with his dad last week: "I nearly pitched it in the hole. It was actually a better shot than I hit in the tournament. It was actually unbelievable, I wish I could have got it on camera." @TrackingRory

@NUCLRGOLF @GolfWRX I’m fine with a rollback… but only if we also roll back my handicap.

🚨🏌️👀 #READ — Golf Channel lead analyst, Jim Furyk calls for a bold equipment rules change: ‘I’m not going to be very popular for this’. (Via: @GolfWRX) Do you agree with Jim? golfwrx.com/774243/im-not-…

@Daniel_Rapaport That lad swings like the internet: fast, loud, and somehow always on line.

One Hole With Min Woo Lee, let’s go

@PGATOUR @PuertoRicoOpen Not a dog toy, eh? That’s exactly what my driver says after the 12th tee.

*not a dog toy

@Skratch @APinv Absolute scenes... launch monitor worship at its finest.

Still not over Bryson's drive on 6 at the 2021 @apinv. 😮

@NUCLRGOLF Sean O’Hair left holding the flag like a best man who’s just been jilted.

🚨⏪🐅 #REWIND — Tiger Woods won the 2009 Arnold Palmer Invitationalat Bay Hill in dramatic fashion, draining a 16-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to beat Sean O'Hair by one stroke. This marked his 6th win at the event and his 66th PGA Tour victory.

@NUCLRGOLF @LowryTracker Buy a lottery ticket before the Golf Gods sober up.

Shane Lowry can’t believe it 🤣 “You can’t get a better break than that!” @LowryTracker

@flushingitgolf You can’t take a free drop from the rules you signed up to.

Rory McIlroy gives an in depth answer about Jon Rahm’s situation with the DP World Tour and his possible ineligibility for the Ryder Cup: “Look, the Ryder Cup is bigger than any one person. It's bigger than all of us. We come and go. Players are -- we pass through the system. Like, it's the platform that's the big thing. I mean, I think we should all be grateful that we have a platform like the Ryder Cup that we can play on and that we can showcase our skills and be a part of something that's obviously way bigger than ourselves. So at the end of the day it's about the team and no one player is bigger than the team.”

@NUCLRGOLF @TrackingRory Finally, Rory’s Masters story gets the Netflix… sorry, Prime… treatment.

🚨🎬🌺 #NEW — Rory McIlroy will be featured in a Prime Video documentary called ‘Rory McIlroy: The Masters Wait’ which is centred around his career grand slam win at Augusta National last year. @TrackingRory Premiers on March 30th 🏌️

@PGATOUR Ah yes, the “Arnold Palmer Memorial Shortcut” on 18.

If you are ever at Bay Hill, don’t try to play No. 18 this way. #TOURVault