A reminder that Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns, Russell Henley and Collin Morikawa were the six automatic qualifiers for the U.S. Captain Brandt Snedeker made the biggest news with his sixth and final pick when he added Jackson Koivun to his team. There had been much discussion about whether the 3M Open winner and all-world stud from Auburn should be on the team. That disussion is now over. Chris Gotterup, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay and Jacob Bridgeman are the other five joining him.

For Captain Geoff Ogilvy and the International team Si Woo Kim, Hideki Mastsuyama, Ryan Fox, Tom Kim, Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott were the automatic qualifiers from after the Tour Championship. Scott will make his 12th start, a record for the International team, which ties Phil Mickelson for most in the history of the event. Ogilvy then added Corey Conners, Nico Echavarria, Nick Taylor, Sungjae Im, Ryo Hisatsune and Christiaan Bezuidenhout. The matches are Sept. 24-27 at Medinah Country Club in Chicago. The Americans lead the series 13-1-1.

WIth Scottie Scheffler winning the FedEx Cup title this past weekend, Five Iron Golf is running a promotion through Sept. 7 where anyone with the name Scottie can get a complimentary 30-minute session at participating locations. There are a couple caveats: You must be 18, it must be your first name and you must present a valid government-issued ID to prove it. However, you don't have to just be named Scottie. Any variation of Scott, Scottie, even Scotland, is acceptable.

Long one of the game’s best putters, Snedeker in this month’s Golf Digest cover story discusses why he doesn’t like to delay over the ball once he picks his line. “I find that the longer you stand over the ball, the less natural and athletic your stroke becomes, and you can fall prey to negative thoughts and indecision,” Snedeker writes.

This isn't just Snedeker's theory. According to Dr. Scott Wylie, a cognitive neuroscientist and the co-founder of S2 Cognition, golfers create a “mental map” when they look at their line for a shot or putt, but that image recedes with time. “By about seven or eight seconds, you, you've lost a certain percentage of the quality and it starts to distort a little bit,” Wylie said. “When you get to 15 seconds, you've lost the majority of that spatial representation.”

Scottie Scheffler's $10 million Tour Championship victory on Sunday also moved him past Tiger Woods to No. 1 on the PGA Tour career money list, a spot Tiger had held since 2000. But while everyone acknowledges Scheffler has had the benefit of playing for a lot more money, you probably don't realize just how different things would be if Woods was winning his 82 tournaments now. But thanks to Arccos' Lou Stagner, now we do. The statistician adjusted Woods' $121 million for both inflation and today's inflated purses, which have outpaced inflation, and, well, see for yourself:

According to the statistician, Woods would have earned more than $400 MILLION. Or more than three times what Scheffler has earned. Pretty wild. Anyway, we're not sure if Tiger will be happy seeing that or not.

The golf swing is, in simplest terms, two turns.

➡️ One turn back.

⬅️ One turn through.

But there's a big mistake golfers often make along the way.

Often golfers get to the top of the backswing, then only think about turning on the way through. But turning too much, too soon is a classic recipe for swinging over-the-top, and hitting ugly slices.

The key is tilting your body away from the target as you turn through. And tilt is created by shifting your weight towards the target. All good golfers do both—they tilt while turning—and Golf Digest Top 50 coach Jeff Smith found that draw players tilt even more than they turn on the downswing.

So if you want to hit draws, remember: Tilt and turn.

The municipal Golden Age gem in the heart of Washington D.C. has been in the news the past year as President Trump seeks to takeover and redesign the course with the hopes of hosting future big-time tournaments. The project was set to begin Sept. 1, yet as of this morning, the course remained available for play and maintenance crews were on site working as Trump's vision is betting contested in protests and lawsuits. The past, present and future of East Potomac has been mired in debate over disputed control, lease termination, environmental issues, affordability, the reach of executive power and tradition, all distilled to a fight between the president and public golf. Read Golf Digest’s longform feature into the battle here.

That's the question golf's drip devotees are asking on Tuesday as Payntr and Min Woo Lee prepare for the release of the Aussie's first signature golf shoe, the Chef RX RS. A feast of premium features, the Chef RX RS is loaded with a full-grain leather outer layer, a waterproof gasket seal for complete moisture resistance, a "Fast Twist" insert system for "three-dimensional" traction and a PMXNITROGEN+ footbed that is sed to retain cushioning throughout the life of the shoe.

Chef RX RS is set to retail for $240 USD beginning noon EST 9/1 on payntrygolf.com. The shoe is available in white/black/copper and black/white/copper colorways in men's sizes 8-14 (both medium and wide).