Breakfast Ball #40: Tyrrell Hatton is on the Charge

It is an abbreviated newsletter this week as I am currently on a flight back from Chicago after watching the Chicago Bears take down the Carolina Panthers at Soldier Field. If there are any typos blame it on the American Airlines wifi. Bear Down!

In This Week’s Newsletter:

Tyrrell Hatton Adds a Record Third Dunhill Links Championship

Tyrrell Hatton started 2024 in a very interesting place. He had a successful Ryder Cup in 2023, winning 3.5 out of a possible 4 points for the European team. However, he had not had an individual win since 2021 and there were rumors that he was about to leave the PGA Tour for LIV Golf to join Jon Rahm’s newly formed Legion XIII team. Hatton has always had a unique personality; he never seems to truly enjoy himself on the golf course and regularly speaks his mind without worrying about repercussions. Perhaps a transfer to LIV Golf would be the right move.

10 months later, Hatton has two individual wins under his belt and his first top 10 finish at The Masters. A different schedule and a change of scenery on LIV has given him a new lease of life to play some of the best golf of his career to date.

The Dunhill Links Championship is played across three iconic Scottish courses in the first 3 days, before finishing at the Old Course at St Andrew’s on Sunday. Going into Saturday, Hatton was inside the top 10 as he shot 65 and 68 at Carnoustie and Kingsbarns the first two days of the week. However, Hatton produced his best golf on Saturday at St. Andrew’s with an 11-under 61 that tied the course record. He then approached the final hole on Sunday tied with Nicholas Colsaerts, a Ryder Cup Vice Captain in 2023. When Colsaerts could only make par, Hatton clipped a beautiful pitch to 2 feet and sunk the putt for birdie to win.

Hatton is the first player to ever win the Dunhill Links Championship three times as he added a 7^th DP World Tour title that vaults him into 5^th in the Ryder Cup qualification standings. It would be a shame if he ended his career without a major championship. He has the talent and with a change in scenery, it looks like his mind is in the right place. Could 2025 be the time for Tyrrell Hatton to take the next step?

Other News and Results

• 🇩🇪 Jeremy Paul and 🇳🇴 Kris Ventura secured PGA Tour cards for 2025 at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship after they finished inside the top 30 in the season-long rankings

  • They joined 🇩🇪 Thomas Rosenmueller and 🇸🇪 Tim Widing, who had already wrapped up their status before the final event

• 🤑 Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the Saudi Public Investment Fund and the main negotiator with the PGA Tour, played alongside both Rory McIlroy and Jay Monahan (PGA Tour commissioner) at the Dunhill Links Championship this week

  • This was a pro-am event, and there can be no doubt that this was an intentional pairing

  • Who said doing deals on the golf course was a thing of the past?

• 🇪🇸 Jon Rahm’s appearance at the Dunhill Links means that he only needs to play one more DP World Tour event to maintain his membership and be eligible for the Ryder Cup team in 2025

• 🇳🇴 Viktor Hovland’s team announced that he will not play again in 2025 due to an unspecified injury

  • It was a tough year for Hovland, who recovered well toward the end of the season to make the Tour Championship

• 🐔 Kevin Yu won the Sanderson Farms Championship on the PGA Tour Fall Series

  • Seamus Power was the best of the Europeans in T11

Coming up this week on Tour

• The French Open at Le Golf National on the DP World Tour

  • The site of this year’s Olympic will once again play host to some of the world’s best

• The Black Desert Championship on the PGA Tour

  • As a reminder, this is part of the FedEx Cup Fall series of events that are mainly to determine which players finish inside the top 125 of the FedEx Cup rankings and keep their PGA Tour cards for 2025

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