An ill-timed Rory McIlroy WD (due to a back injury) almost cost Gary the lead. However, a 5th-place, $148,000 payday by Matti Schmid kept him in the lead by a mere $62,624 over your beloved Comish. Brett and your Comish were teased by Colin Morikawa's 5th-place, $840,000 finish.

On we go to Ponte Vedra Beach and $25,000,000 for THE PLAYERS Championship . 

THE PLAYERS Championship 

TPC Sawgrass (THE PLAYERS Stadium Course)

Ponte Vedra Beach, FL • USA

Purse -$25,000,000

The Genesis Invitational

My guy, Michael Thorbjornson, missed the cut at the Cognizant. I suppose I hadn't considered that the Thunder Cub might get caught by The Bear Trap at PGA National. A bear trap is designed specifically for trapping bears, after all. I will make a note of this for next year. If you're not winning, you're learning, as they say! 

We find ourselves at the Bay Hill Club in Orlando for yet another $ignature Event, the prestigious Arnold Palmer Invitational...presented by MasterCard! I love how advertisements have creeped into just about everything these days, and I realize I have been missing out. "Presented by Jack Daniels," "Brought to you by Titleist," or "Driven by Audi" would make nice taglines for the monetization of the weekly Jean's Musings column. I doubt they will be doing a Modelo beer commercial about me, but I really should inquire. ("You've been sitting around in your sweatpants, typing away, researching stupid anecdotes about golfers for hours. Your attempts at humor are amateurish at best, but you remain undeterred. You could be spending your time doing more important things, but you don't. You are a fighter...and THIS is your reward!") My agent has been slacking, so I need to have some hard conversations with him.

We have all the heavy hitters to choose from this week, and mine is the heaviest hitter of all. He is the closest we have to a "sure thing" out here on TOUR. At age 29, he is already 3rd on the all time career money list (!) and has racked up 20 wins, so he's pretty good at golf. While I am sure he is not looking forward to whatever Irish fare Rory will be serving at the Masters Champions Dinner next month ("Mmmm, the shepherd's pie and soda bread are divine, Rory!"), my guy, a previous winner of The Arnie, is using everything as motivation to lay waste to everyone in sight to continue his dominance in the golfing universe. Also, he hasn't been arrested yet this season, so that is a good thing. Give it up for the pride of the Texas Longhorns, husband of Meredith, father of Bennett, and a man with an encyclopedic knowledge of The Office, Mr. Scottie Scheffler!

But wait, there's more! Those who didn't qualify for The Arnie are being shipped off to Puerto Rico for a deescalated event. Welcome to the Puerto Rico Suave Open at the Grand Reserve Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico Suave. I had never heard of my guy until last week. From Coquitlam, British Columbia, he is no doubt reeling from his Canadian squad's stinging defeat in Olympic hockey at the hands of the U.S.A. But I am going to take a flyer on him because he posted a T13 at the Cognizant, so he's in pretty good form and should perform well in an event with a depleted field. Three cheers for a guy who learned the game of golf from his father, Brad, a Class "A" assistant golf coach with PGA Canada, and a man who claims to be awesome at the NBA 2K video game series, Barry University's very own, A.J. Ewart! 

** Comish's Note ** I copied Jean's Musings into Google Gemini and asked it to create an image with only ONE caviot: use "The Most Interesting Man in the World" add campaign as your inspiration.  Enjoy!!!