Victorian Marc Leishman is hoping that a change of date will bring a change of fortune as he attempts to wrestle with one of golf’s sternest tests and improve on a US Open record he admits is underwhelming.
Shooting 30-over for four rounds and finishing dead last in the second of the PGA Tour FedExCup Playoffs events doesn’t jar like it could when you have been through what Marc Leishman has.
Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson traded dramatic fist pumps to end the BMW Championship. The most meaningful celebration, however, belonged to Mackenzie Hughes.
The 25-year-old former Australian Open champion finished T-15 at the Wyndham Championship to secure a position alongside his countrymen at the Northern Trust this week.
Because of the 13 cancelled events, plenty of big-name golfers who thought they had time to play their way into the top 125 are now sitting on the bubble.
His gains in the weights room pale in comparison but Marc Leishman admits to being a fascinated observer of the body transformation that Bryson DeChambeau has undertaken.
Ninety-one days after the cancellation of the second round of The Players Championship, 13 Australians will join the recommencement of tournament golf in the United States starting Thursday.
