Wow, what a crazy two weeks of story lines from the PGA Tour and Olympics.

In fact, the two merged into one when Hideki Matsuyama (Srixon Z Star XV) further elevated his profile with a bronze in the recent Olympics. Then he won his first-ever playoff with a win in the FedEx St. Jude Championship.

In between, however, he experienced plenty of drama, some of which he had no control over and the other in which he did.

Matsuyama had his wallet stolen following a stopover in a London airport from the Paris Olympics, Golf Digest Japan reported, but not the medal or his passport. His caddie, Shota Hayota, and coach, Mikihito Kuromiya, had their passports and visas stolen. Both have been instrumental in the rise of the Japanese star, who won the 2021 Masters. The embrace between Matsuyama and Hoyota were particularly memorable.

So Matsuyama had to go with a substitute caddie. Taiga Tabuchi, who had been caddying for PGA Tour rookie Ryo Hisatsune (TaylorMade TP5x). He failed to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs. It couldn’t have worked out better for both.

And it appeared Matsuyama had been cruising to an easy victory in the St. Jude Championship until he started to come undone on the back nine. But he recovered to win by two strokes at 17-under par, turning all the drama into a positive ending. Viktor Hovland (Titleist Pro V1) and Xander Schauffele (Callaway Chrome Tour) tied for second at 15-under par and Scottie Scheffler (Titleist Pro V1) finished fourth at 14-under par.

Perhaps Hovland is finally coming into form. He has been sputtering all season since an off-season coaching change with Joe Mayo, though he recently reversed that. Hovland won the FedEx Cup last year by winning the final PGA Tour’s stops, the BMW Championship and Tour Championship.

KUCHAR’S AWKWARD FINISH: The golf world had reason to collectively shake its head when Matt Kuchar (Bridgestone Tour B X) opted to not finish out his round in the Wyndham Championship and return the following morning. He had every right within the rules to do so because it was dark, but from an optics perspective it turned into a story for all the wrong reasons, in particular forcing tournament volunteers to return the following morning. It wasn’t going to have any bearing on the FedEx Cup playoffs because he wasn’t going to qualify. He parred the hole with basically no one around except for the volunteers and some media to tie for 12^th. He thought he was headed for a possible bogey because of his poor lie following his tee shot, which he said factored into his decision. Moreover, he said he watched Max Greyserman (Callaway Chrome Soft X), who had been in his group, card a quadruple bogey a few holes before that he thought was directly attributed to the darkness and shade. He had no idea when he made his decision that Greyserman would elect to finish out his round – he finished second at 16-under par – or that Aaron Rai (Titleist Pro V1) had already clinched the win.

“Nobody wants to be that guy, the one guy that didn’t finish,” he said. "I can’t to tell you how many times I have been finished with a round, bummed out thinking somebody didn’t finish and we didn’t make the cut. Here it’s me now and the guy that didn’t finish the tournament.”

You have to give Greyserman credit. Despite losing what would have been his first PGA Tour win, he regrouped to finish tied for 33^rd at four-under par in the St. Jude Championship after finishing with a final round of seven-under par. Overall it earned him a chance to qualify for the BMW Championship at 47^th overall, three under the 50-player limit.