The FM Championship 

Sunday August 31, 2025 

After what I’d been through for the previous two days of this tournament, I was glad that the final day was a return back to normal, meaning a reasonable 12:10pm midday teetime. Our player group consisted of Aditi Ashock, India and Minjee Lee, Australia. We were back to twosomes which meant for a much more reasonable 4 1/2 hour round.

I had another great talk with Mike over lunch waiting for our respective rounds to begin. He gave me a lot more details about walking scoring for the PGA and how it differed in complexity to the LPGA system. He said there’s less margin for error and it’s a more complex, exacting system, which is tied into video recording as well. I had been thinking about pursuing walking scoring at the PGA level, specifically at Travelers, but I might have some second thoughts about that. This past weekend may have been the peak of my comfort level; laser focused for five hours to record every shot accurately and I sort of can’t imagine taking it to an even higher level.

Our standardbearer for today, Jill, was terrific, a super LPGA fan, who seemed to know all of the players and filled me in with lots of tidbits. My contribution generally amounted to telling her little stories about incidents that happened at certain holes around TPC Boston back when the PGA played the FedEx cup here. It was a lively discussion and the day went by fast.

Both Minjee & Aditi started this round at -8 and played really well although didn’t gain enough ground to catch the leader Miranda Wang who ultimately won at -20. Still, it was great to watch the precision ball striking and accuracy of women’s golf at the professional level up close from the fairway. 

13,127 steps 

4.5 miles