Phil Mickelson remains in his self-appointed penalty box, although a Monday statement from his agent Steve Loy conveyed that Mickelson may be nearing a return.
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 28-year-old Queenslander scored better than any other PGA Tour player ever has during the course of a golf tournament. At least in relation to Old Man Par.
With a five-shot buffer to the next-best player, American Daniel Berger, and a further shot back to Australian Matt Jones, it seems likely to be a two-man tete-a-tete again tomorrow.
The OWGR uses a rolling two-year period to calculate a player’s average points per event, but if it only went back 52 weeks, things would look a lot different.
Jon Rahm is skipping the European Tour’s Race to Dubai finale, giving up on the chance to win the season-long points title for the second time in three years.
Australian Golf Digest
