Today's Top 5 Mulligans — Tue 3 Nov 2026

Andrew Novak, a guy who clearly believes golf is just a fancy way to complain about blisters, somehow managed to avoid its usual cruel jokes for a couple of weeks. Winning the Mexico Open wasn't just a victory; it was more like a slap in the face to the odds, a two-round clinic of 19-under-par golf that made everyone else mutter, "Well, that's a fluke."

The Simmons Bank Championship wrapped up not with a polite nod, but with Darren Fichardt pulling off a trick that would make Houdini blush. For most of the day, Fichardt had been playing golf with the sort of calculated precision you'd expect from someone reading an instruction manual for assembling IKEA furniture.

So, it seems the European Ryder Cup captaincy door has officially slammed shut on the LIV defectors. We’ve all seen this movie before, haven’t we? A bunch of lads decide the grass is greener (and probably a lot more golden) elsewhere, grab the cash, and then act genuinely surprised when the folks they left behind aren't exactly clamoring for a group hug.

Some folks treat public roads like their personal NASCAR track. This one decided a swanky country club parking lot was the place to test the limits. The result? A Mercedes sedan, seemingly piloted by sheer, unadulterated dumb luck, decided to take the scenic route.

Forget the fancy rangefinders and those drivers that cost more than my first car; the real innovation hitting the golf world lately has been a humble umbrella, wielded with the kind of out-of-the-box thinking usually found in a TED Talk.