This year’s Players Championship will celebrate its 48th edition and marks the 40th anniversary that the prestigious event is being played at the Pete Dye-designed Stadium course.
The 23-year-old, who became the fourth golfer in history to lead from start-to-finish and the first since Charlie Sifford in 1969, describes the joy of winning his second PGA Tour tournament which featured the top-10 golfers in the world.
Now English is trying to pull off an Aloha double the way Justin Thomas did when he won both of the PGA Tour’s Hawaii events in 2017. And he’ll have the familiar flatstick by his side.
Only the top 125 players on the FedEx Cup points list after this week’s Wyndham Championship will qualify for the Playoff tournaments, which begin next week at the Northern Trust event.
Day joins fellow countrymen Adam Scott, Marc Leishman and rookie Cameron Smith, bringing the number of Australians who have played in the Presidents Cup to 54, by far the most on the International team.
For decades, Latin American athletes have been making a mark in Major League Baseball, and in more recent years the NBA. They are starting to more in golf, too. And it hasn’t been an accident.
Australian Golf Digest
