Xander Schauffele will make his fifth straight appearance at the Zozo Championship in Japan this week with every intention of completing a famous ‘double’ where he also won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021.
Against the desert backdrop Tom Kim continued to prove why the high aspirations he carries have not been cast upon him but earned, with a performance that puts to rest any notion last year’s feats were nothing more than a ‘heater’ and begs to ask what lies on the horizon.
Unlike last year when Kim didn’t make a single bogey in his 72 holes, he made seven bogeys and a double this time around but offset it with a tournament-high 27 birdies along with one eagle.
Australia’s Cameron Smith has coughed up his LIV Golf season-long points lead, opening the door for Brooks Koepka to win in Jeddah and fellow American Talor Gooch to claim the $A32 million season title.
The Floridian scored 11 victories on the PGA Tour in the era dominated by Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson and had another three wins on the senior circuit.
When play was suspended for darkness in round one of the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas, sponsor’s invitation Lexi Thompson was ahead of 36 players on the leaderboard. She was also trending on Twitter.
The powerlines near the tee on the ninth hole at the Country Club of Jackson struck again. They got Sam Burns last year, but in the second round at the 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship, they didn’t lay a glove on Australian Harrison Endycott.
Peter Malnati, a member of the PGA Tour Policy Board, went on to say that the tour doesn’t need to “resort to gimmicks” and that he was surprised by the move. Immediately, though, Malnati corrected himself.
The 28-year-old will be the seventh woman to play in a PGA Tour event dating back to Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who made the cut at the 1945 Los Angeles Open. Brittany Lincicome was the last to do it at the 2018 Barbasol Championship.
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