• …”Kay and Abbey Daniel made history on Sunday, becoming the first mother-daughter duo to reach the match-play portion of the United States Golf Association’s Women’s Amateur Four-Ball event.”

• “The Daniels earned the No. 24 seed in the Round of 32 at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla., shooting 70-71 in the two rounds of stroke play.”

• “I played awful, she played phenomenal,” said Kay, crediting her daughter. “She carried the team, and made a lot of pressure putts. I’m really proud of her.”

• “Tiger Woods conducted his first extended interview last week since winning the Masters, speaking to Henni Zuel of GolfTV.”

• “Within the  30-minute interview with the online streaming service (which the 15-time major champion has a content partnership with) Woods discussed what life has been like since claiming his fifth green jacket.”

• “Woods gave a fascinating insight into what went through his head from hole to hole on the back nine at Augusta on that Sunday afternoon. The 43-year-old spoke candidly concerning his thinking from hole to hole, how he judged the roars reverberating around the grounds, his competitors coming undone on the 12th hole, and his decision-making process after that.”

• “Woods also discussed how the win has yet to sink in, and how he hasn’t done much but relax since the victory.”

• “I haven’t gone all out with any sort of situation. I really haven’t done much, I know that sounds boring. I’ve just been home and letting everything thaw out and just trying to understand what I accomplished. But I haven’t, I don’t think, come to grips yet.”

• “Some people may be surprised by Woods’ decision not to tee it up at Quail Hollow this week for the Wells Fargo Championship. It is the logical place for him to play before competing at Bethpage Black for a number of reasons.”

• “To begin with, he’s had two weeks off since the Masters, and in the rhythm of a golf season, most players don’t like to take more than two or three weeks off at any one time. Plus, Woods has only occasionally played the week leading into a major in the past…

• “But Woods is 43-an old 43 at that, given all the various surgeries he’s been through. He’s proven in the past that he doesn’t have to play leading into a major. In fact, his final major title prior to the recent Masters came at the 2008 U.S. Open…”

• “The Ladies European Tour is set to host the first ever day-night event-dubbed the Omega Moonlight Classic-on the Faldo Course at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai. Formerly known as the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters, the new-look 54-hole tournament has been switched from December to May so it can be played in both the sunshine and floodlights.”

• “We think playing under lights is going to be absolutely awesome,” said tournament director David Spencer. “Playing the tournament in May and under lights further showcases what an incredible golfing destination Dubai has become and how long our golfing season lasts each year.”

Derek Lawrenson at the Daily Mail offers an interesting lens through which to look at Rory turning 30…

• It’s interesting in this context to look closely at the records of the illustrious pair. Faldo achieved his first major the day after turning 30 and won five more.

• In his twenties, he won 12 times in Europe and once in America – thereafter, he won 16 times and on eight occasions, respectively.

• Seve was the complete opposite. Of his 50 victories in Europe, 33 were achieved before the age of 30. Nine wins in America, but only two in his thirties. The majors were the same – four in his twenties, one thereafter.

• At 30, therefore, McIlroy is perhaps a stride behind Seve but at least a couple of laps ahead of Faldo. Now he’s grappling with the sort of mental issues that affected Seve at the same age. At 29, Ballesteros put the ball into the water at the 15th hole at Augusta to end his chances of winning the 1986 Masters and admitted to me a decade later that he was never the same again.

Full piece.

• “The two college superstars who wowed the golf world when coming down the stretch at the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur will make their professional debuts at the U.S. Women’s Open this summer after winning their qualifiers on Monday.”

• “Both Jennifer Kupcho, ANWA champion and reigning NCAA champion, and Maria Fassi deferred their LPGA status after earning their tour cards through qualifying school in order to finish out their college golf careers. “

• “Hey, this may be Howard Beale crazy, but wouldn’t it be great if a player with a math/science gift took the next step in policing and hijacked Shotlink’s “time par average” and developed an Official World Pace Ranking, to rate the worst players in pace of play. And then tweeted that out every week? This might be the perfect job for Bryson DeChambeau, if he weren’t a tortoise himself.”

• “The frustration is that some of the wisest players on Tour are throwing up their hands in surrender.”

• “…but this is more about the viewing experience, about the frustration fans feel watching a professional take three minutes to make a two-second swing with his group a hole behind. That’s what this is all about.”

• “The Florida Tech women’s golf team was one of three sports cut by the university in February, along with men’s and women’s tennis.”

• “On Monday, the women’s golf team was one of 48 to make the NCAA Div. II postseason.”

• “The Panthers enter the postseason as the No. 6 seed in the South Regional, May 6-8 at the Cleveland Country Club in Cleveland, Tennessee.”

• “…While parts 1 and 2 of “Phil Kwon Do Calves” were simple pointing and pulling exercises – either while sitting in a comfy chair or even in your sleep – the final three parts he posted to social media on Monday take it up a notch.”

• “Parts 3, 4 and 5 of this series sees Mickelson bring his patented “point and pull” methods to the gym, where he works out his calves using his body weight first, then adding a modest “couple hundred pounds or so” before finally doing the exercises one leg at a time.”