Welcome! Where are you, you ask. I’m calling this the Weekend 9. Think of it as a spot to warm you up for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We’ll have thoughts. We’ll have tips. We’ll have tweets. But just nine in all, though sometimes maybe more and sometimes maybe less. As for who I am? The paragraphs below tell some of the story. I can be reached at nick.piastowski@golf.com .

In the Milwaukee airport, across from the Dunkin Donuts, my throat wouldn’t let go of the words. Then a tear or two came.

Damn you, iced coffee. But this wasn’t that. (I think.)

That morning, after a week back home for me while covering the U.S. Women’s Open , I’d watched my nephew play in the Wisconsin state golf sectionals, and he’d played — see, this is where things start to hit. His round was better than a

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