PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said the tour remains committed to playing its season-opening event in Maui amid the devastation to the island from recent wildfires.
Whether this win is a springboard for more senior success, who knows. And yet, maybe it doesn’t matter. Ken Duke will always have this memory, and so will his fans.
Hovland established a record for low score in a FedEx Cup Playoff event as well as his career low while winning his fifth PGA Tour title and second this year.
Koepka, a three-time Ryder Cup participant, has only had opportunities to accrue points this year at the major championships as he plays on the LIV Golf League.
For all the jockeying for position over 72 holes at Olympia Fields Country Club, for all the drama as players moved in and out of the top 30 in the FedEx Cup points standings, only one player – Matt Fitzpatrick – was able to play his way into the Tour Championship.
There is nothing that can bring a golfer down after making a hole-in-one. At least, that’s what I imagine as someone who has never been fortunate enough to make an ace. But one random and completely irrelevant response from a golfer’s wife just might have done the trick.
British Open champion Brian Harman was able to put a more compelling—and colourful—spin on Lucas Glover’s resurgence by paraphrasing a line from the film, “The Shawshank Redemption.”
The proposed rollback of the golf ball by the R&A and USGA is now moving to its next, and perhaps most definitive – and potentially most contentious – stage.