Articles by E. Michael Johnson

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The clubs Corey Conners used to win the 2023 Valero Texas Open

When you rank first in strokes gained/approach, strokes gained/tee to green and first in greens in regulation, third in driving accuracy, have the fewest bogeys and are T-1 in birdies, it doesn’t take a maths major to understand you have a good chance to win.

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XXIO Prime irons: What you need to know

The technology behind the Prime model includes lightweight, counter-balanced shafts and a clubhead design intended to maximise rebound on shots hit low on the face.

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The clubs Kurt Kitayama used to win the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational

Kurt Kitayama had suffered one-shot defeats in the past year to stars such as Jon Rahm, Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy, so it was fitting that Kitayama flipped the script for his first PGA Tour win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational to hold off a star-studded leaderboard to win a wild one at Bay Hill.

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The clubs Chris Kirk used to win the 2023 Honda Classic

Despite the trouble guarding so many of the greens at PGA National’s Champion course, Kirk managed to hit 54 of 72 greens to rank T-7 for the week, while posting a strokes gained/approach mark of 7.643 strokes gained on the field to rank second.

Leaderboard

World Wide Technology Championship - 2026
Pos Player Tot Thru Rnd
-Peter Malnati--1
-Joel Dahmen--1
-Ben Martin--1
-Brice Garnett--1
-Chad Ramey--1
-Justin Lower--1
-Matthieu Pavon--1
-Rico Hoey--1
-Johnny Keefer--1
-Kevin Streelman--1
-Will Gordon--1
-David Skinns--1
-Denny McCarthy--1
-Mark Hubbard--1
-Max McGreevy--1
-Nick Dunlap--1
-Max Greyserman--1
-Jackson Suber--1
-Sami Valimaki--1
-William Mouw--1
-Kevin Yu--1
-Ryan Gerard--1
-Nick Taylor--1
-Blades Brown--1
-Harry Hall--1
-Chris Kirk--1
-Matt Kuchar--1
-Karl Vilips--1
-Tony Finau--1
-Keith Mitchell--1
-Joe Highsmith--1
-Taylor Pendrith--1
-Christiaan Bezuidenhout--1
-Rafael Campos--1
-Adam Svensson--1
-Dylan Wu--1
-Mackenzie Hughes--1
-Andrew Putnam--1
-Luke Donald--1
-Tom Hoge--1
-Patrick Rodgers--1
-Takumi Kanaya--1
-Alejandro Tosti--1
-Pontus Nyholm--1
-Alejandro Madariaga--1
-Patrick Fishburn--1
-Kensei Hirata--1
-Willie Mack III--1
-Kristoffer Ventura--1
-Nicholas Lindheim--1
-Jeffrey Kang--1
-Paul Peterson--1
-Jimmy Stanger--1
-Nicholas Marchese--1
-Adrien Dumont de Chassart--1
-Davis Chatfield--1
-Preston Stout--1
-Hayden Springer--1
-Marcelo Rozo--1
-Jorge Villar--1
-Lee Hodges--1
-Emiliano Grillo--1
-Sudarshan Yellamaraju--1
-Taylor Moore--1
-Tyler Duncan--1
-Beau Hossler--1
-Ben Kohles--1
-Kevin Roy--1
-Rasmus Højgaard--1
-Harry Higgs--1
-Hank Lebioda--1
-Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen--1
-Austin Eckroat--1
-Jordan Smith--1
-John Parry--1
-Patton Kizzire--1
-Seamus Power--1
-Zach Bauchou--1
-Jackson Koivun--1
-Ben Griffin--1
-Pi Coody--1
-Davis Riley--1
-Lucas Glover--1
-Aaron Wise--1
-Steven Fisk--1
-Billy Horschel--1
-Ben James--1
-Garrick Higgo--1
-Cam Davis--1
-Stephan Jaeger--1
-Camilo Villegas--1
-Zac Blair--1
-Chandler Phillips--1
-Erik van Rooyen--1
-David Lipsky--1
-Danny Walker--1
-Michael Kim--1
-Vince Whaley--1
-Ben Silverman--1
-Neal Shipley--1
-David Ford--1
-Lyon Lazare--1
-Isaiah Salinda--1
-Christo Lamprecht--1
-Austin Hitt--1
-A.J. Ewart--1
-Luke Clanton--1
-Tyler Collet--1
-Zecheng Dou--1
-Marco Penge--1
-Alvaro Ortiz--1
-Haotong Li--1
-Jesper Svensson--1
-Muzzy Donohue--1
-Chandler Blanchet--1
-Gordon Sargent--1
-Nathan Tseng--1
-Trace Crowe--1
-John VanDerLaan--1
-Jay Leng--1
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