Thanks to Bellerive, the PGA Championship has St. Louis Singing the Blues.

Now hang on a second, because I know how this sounds. The week leading up to the final major of the 2018 PGA Tour season brought out all golf course critics ripping into Bellerive and the track laid out in hot and sticky St. Louis. However, what actually happened was one of the most memorable and entertaining sporting events in recent memory which begs the thought: you gotta feel bad for the city of St. Louis and all it’s residents and fans in the area.

I mean seriously, to win a Super Bowl and almost 20 years later lose your football team to LA. To have the most exciting season in Major League Baseball in 1998 only to have its star riddled with scandal years later. To have the joy and excitement of round one of the Stanley Cup playoffs, only to feel the pain and impatience of an early exit after a year so promising for the Blues. And now the 2018 PGA Championship, to be this close to being THE location of the greatest comeback in sports history of Tiger could pull it off...St. Louis deserves better.

An authors note, I have never been to St. Louis. I’ve never stepped foot anywhere in the Midwest, although if Columbus and Milwaukee count then never mind. That being said, Brett Hull was one of my childhood favorite athletes, the Blues logo is al all-timer and Nelly still fills the speakers of my car on a regular basis. That’s really the extent to my relationship with St. Louis. Yet when the PGA decided to hold its 100th tournament at Bellerive, there had to be a reason. Yes it was hot as hell, yes players were changing shirts like the Mighty Ducks changed jerseys, the greens were fast and the grass was burnt. But what I saw this past Sunday was a stacked leaderboard better than any of 2018’s major tournaments and that made for incredible entertainment. Tiger Woods and champion Brooks Koepka both marveled at the respect shown from the crowds, Joe Buck said the same on Shane Bacon’s podcast and from the television coverage (or lack there of) we were able to tell that these crowds were into this tournament.

But what about the loyal Cardinal and Blues fans? What about the previous Ram fans? Imagine your former championship football team leaving town as fast as the Ringling Brothers? The people of this Midwest town deserve another Big Mac. They deserve another Brett Hull, but at the very least, they deserve to never be overlooked for a golf tournament again. The proof was in the pudding, so make it two scoops. I’m not driving.