Riding a career-defining weekend performance and benefiting from his rivals’ timely stumbles, Joe Highsmith accomplished something truly remarkable – becoming the first PGA Tour player since Brandt Snedeker in 2016 to make the cut on the number then surge all the way to victory.
The solid-swinging lefty won in just his 34th start as a pro and did so with a combination that works well at PGA National’s Champion course – solid driving, a nervy short game and reliable putting.
Grace Kim desperately wants a professional win on home soil. That her first could be presented by an Australian icon whose scholarship she won four times makes this week an opportunity the 24-year-old knows is rare.
While LIV members have participated in major championships and co-sanctioned events like the Genesis Scottish Open, this marks the first instance where a player who has competed on the LIV circuit will be eligible to participate in a standard PGA Tour tournament without additional tour affiliations.
PGA Tour star Min Woo Lee made a moving phone call to Ryan Peake hours before the former bikie gang member and prison inmate transformed his life to win the New Zealand Open.
Dale Whitnell defied staggering odds to make not one, but two holes-in-one during the same round. And that was just the beginning of what will go down as one of the wildest days in pro golf history.
Tour pros swing back and down while keeping the flex in their knees, the tilts in their hips, the bends in their arms and wrists. When you maintain those angles, the swing is more repeatable.
With the inaugural TGL presented by SoFi season approaching its climax, the scorecard for the innovative and prime time team golf league backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy makes for some impressive reading.
Jake Knapp narrowly missed matching the PGA Tour single-round scoring record on the opening day of the Cognizant Classic. He happily settled for just the 15th sub-60 score in tour history.
Australian Golf Digest
