Australia’s Min Woo Lee won over golf fans with a gutsy fight back from a disastrous triple-bogey after taking the lead during the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
It feels a little soon to call Jason Day’s solid play over the first two rounds at the Players Championship “vintage.” It was only seven years ago that the Australian won the Players Championship in record fashion, equalling the course record with an opening 63 and setting the lowest 36-hole total (129).
Min Woo Lee leads a seven-strong Australian contingent at the Players Championship having opened the tournament with a four-under-par 68 at TPC Sawgrass.
Harrison Endycott is a PGA Tour rookie from Sydney playing his first Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Endycott, who graduated from the secondary Korn Ferry Tour courtesy of a win, sat down with our man Evin Priest to chat about life on tour and his excitement to tee up in the PGA Tour’s $25 million flagship event.
Justin Lower has so many stories to tell it’s difficult to pick just one. Some golf fans may recall the awful tragedy the Ohio native experienced as a teenager when he lost his father and brother in a single-car accident.
The 2023 Players Championship week has arrived, albeit with the defending champion, Australia’s Cam Smith, not allowed to tee up in the event due to being banned by the PGA Tour for joining LIV Golf. Seven Australians will tee up: Adam Scott, Jason Day, Lucas Herbert, Min Woo Lee, Cam Davis, Aaron Baddeley and Harrison Endycott.
In the interview area at Bay Hill, Rory McIlroy stood hunched over a small TV that sat on the ground inside a black plastic tub, watching just like so many others along with him, the moment that Kurt Kitayama finally proved himself to the golf world. McIlroy had finished his 72 holes at the Arnold Read more…
Kitayama has a career milestone in his sights after a gutsy even-par 72 in the third round that kept him at nine-under and atop the leaderboard at Bay Hill.
Rory McIlroy has hit back at claims the strategic alliance between the DP World Tour and PGA Tour has been hurt by significant changes to the U.S. circuit’s designated events.
The difference between Arnold Palmer Invitational leader Jon Rahm and second place after one round is two shots. But the difference between the World No. 1 and his fellow PGA Tour pros is probably the standard to which he holds himself.
Cameron Young has a soft spot for Orlando, and for its famed Bay Hill Club course. As a New York native, Young’s father, David, the pro at Sleepy Hollow Country Club for 20 years, took the family out of the northeast during winters when their golf-obsessed son was a teenager.
The drastic changes to the PGA Tour plans for its $20 million designated events announced on Wednesday were largely welcomed by stars such as Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott, and even last week’s feel-good story at the Honda Classic, rookie Eric Cole. But there also were mixed feelings expressed about the exclusiveity of the events and how quickly things are moving.
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