Peter Malnati’s triumph at the Valspar Championship this past weekend may have given fans a refresher on what the sport of golf is truly about. Over the past few years, the narrative of golf media has fixated on money, contracts, LIV Golf and PGA Tour drama, and loyalty.
Peter Malnati is a member of the Player Advisory Council and a two-time PGA Tour winner with nearly $10 million in career earnings, but he might be better
Malnati’s underdog story is another example of why sports equals the best. You don’t have to be a devout Mizzou fan or a follower of the PGA Tour to have an appreciation for what happened at the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla., this past weekend.
Peter Malnati was the surprise winner of the Valspar Championship after a tournament that confused bettors and fans alike. The victory marks first since 2015, over 3,000 days ago.
After two successive signature events, the PGA Tour returned to their non-elevated events. This week, the tour hosted the Valspar Championship which saw Peter Malnati, one of the six player-director of the tour’s policy board claim his first victory since 2015.
Peter Malnati rolled in five birdies, charged up the leaderboard and captured the Valspar Championship title on Sunday in Palm Harbor, Fla.
While leadership groups of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf are expected to convene this week, with a cordial tone expected, disagreement in at least one area appears to be ahead, according to Golf Digest.
Peter Malnati, who is the PGA Tour policy board recently shared his views on the setup for LIV Golf’s teams and he’s not completely in the agreement of it.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Saying that “something needs to happen for our sport’’ and that the PGA Tour’s top event, the Players Championship, “would be even better if we had Jon Rahm here,’’ Peter Malnati expressed Saturday that he welcomes bringing the game back together even if he is unsure how that gets accomplished.
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