Making this week more special for Kitayama was having his older brother Daniel on the bag for only the second time this year. They’ll get to spend more time together now as Kurt said there’s no chance he’s going to mess with a winning combination.
Taking a glance at the 72-man event at this week’s Travelers Championship in Connecticut, Jake Knapp and Australia’s Karl Vilips are not automatically in the field.
After coming close to victory on the PGA Tour a couple of times apiece, Ben Griffin and Andrew Novak used their collective talents to finally break through, winning a nail-biter at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Those yet to qualify for this year’s Masters are running short on time to do so. Here are five golfers who still have a shot at being at Augusta National next month.
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.
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.