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.
Use Jake Knapp’s putter-like takeaway for a power boost Jake Knapp might have the latest wrist set in a backswing in pro golf, says his coach John Ortega. His wrists don’t fully hinge until the club nears the top- – evidence of a wide swing arc that helped Knapp finish top-25 in driving distance (309.5 Read more…
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.