Scoring

April 19th, 2024

This ‘78-22 percent’ difference is a key scoring trick for pros – what we can learn

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February 9th, 2023

I asked 2 of the PGA Tour’s best scorers for their secrets. Here’s what I learned

Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay reveal their strategies to tackling par 4s and par 5s.

September 4th, 2019

Shoot even par in every round on the PGA Tour and here’s how you would have done during the 2018-’19 season

Yes, every stroke counts, but the strokes and ½-strokes that take you from the good to the very good range on the PGA Tour “count” incrementally even more.

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Valspar Championship - 2025

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Viktor Hovland	-11	F	4
2	Justin Thomas	-10	F	4
3	Jacob Bridgeman	-9	F	4
T4	Bud Cauley	-8	F	4
T4	Billy Horschel	-8	F	4
T4	Ryo Hisatsune	-8	F	4
7	Davis Riley	-7	F	4
T8	Seamus Power	-6	F	4
T8	Lucas Glover	-6	F	4
T8	Corey Conners	-6	F	4
T8	Shane Lowry	-6	F	4
T12	Xander Schauffele	-5	F	4
T12	Eric Cole	-5	F	4
T12	Kevin Yu	-5	F	4
T12	Ricky Castillo	-5	F	4
T16	Sam Ryder	-4	F	4
T16	Tommy Fleetwood	-4	F	4
T16	Matt McCarty	-4	F	4
T16	Henrik Norlander	-4	F	4
T16	Byeong Hun An	-4	F	4
T16	Nico Echavarria	-4	F	4
T22	Thomas Detry	-3	F	4
T22	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	-3	F	4
T22	Victor Perez	-3	F	4
T22	Emiliano Grillo	-3	F	4
T22	Joe Highsmith	-3	F	4
T22	Jeremy Paul	-3	F	4
T28	Sepp Straka	-2	F	4
T28	Mac Meissner	-2	F	4
T28	Michael Kim	-2	F	4
T28	Steven Fisk	-2	F	4
T28	Matti Schmid	-2	F	4
T28	J.T. Poston	-2	F	4
T28	Patrick Fishburn	-2	F	4
T28	Jordan Spieth	-2	F	4
T36	Tom Kim	-1	F	4
T36	Thorbjørn Olesen	-1	F	4
T36	Mackenzie Hughes	-1	F	4
T36	Sami Valimaki	-1	F	4
T36	Sahith Theegala	-1	F	4
T36	Stephan Jaeger	-1	F	4
T42	Luke Clanton	E	F	4
T42	Chandler Phillips	E	F	4
T42	Noah Goodwin	E	F	4
T42	Kaito Onishi	E	F	4
T42	Andrew Novak	E	F	4
T47	Ryan Fox	+1	F	4
T47	Neal Shipley	+1	F	4
T47	Danny Willett	+1	F	4
T47	Will Zalatoris	+1	F	4
T47	Mark Hubbard	+1	F	4
T47	Matthieu Pavon	+1	F	4
T47	Gary Woodland	+1	F	4
T54	Keith Mitchell	+2	F	4
T54	Harry Hall	+2	F	4
T54	Max McGreevy	+2	F	4
T57	C.T. Pan	+3	F	4
T57	David Lipsky	+3	F	4
T57	Adam Scott	+3	F	4
T57	Doug Ghim	+3	F	4
T57	Brandt Snedeker	+3	F	4
T57	Ryan Gerard	+3	F	4
T57	Kevin Velo	+3	F	4
T64	Nate Lashley	+4	F	4
T64	Jesper Svensson	+4	F	4
T64	John Pak	+4	F	4
T64	Sam Stevens	+4	F	4
T64	Luke List	+4	F	4
69	Will Chandler	+5	F	4
T70	Mason Andersen	+6	F	4
T70	Kevin Kisner	+6	F	4
T70	Beau Hossler	+6	F	4
T70	Camilo Villegas	+6	F	4
T70	Braden Thornberry	+6	F	4
T70	Rafael Campos	+6	F	4
76	Antoine Rozner	+7	F	4
77	Kris Ventura	+8	F	4
78	Aaron Baddeley	+10	F	4
CUT	Zach Johnson	+3	F	2
CUT	Cam Davis	+3	F	2
CUT	Taylor Moore	+3	F	2
CUT	Vince Whaley	+3	F	2
CUT	Ben Griffin	+3	F	2
CUT	Matteo Manassero	+3	F	2
CUT	Rikuya Hoshino	+3	F	2
CUT	Ben Martin	+3	F	2
CUT	Will Gordon	+3	F	2
CUT	Lanto Griffin	+3	F	2
CUT	Webb Simpson	+3	F	2
CUT	Sam Burns	+3	F	2
CUT	Adam Svensson	+3	F	2
CUT	Matt Wallace	+3	F	2
CUT	Brice Garnett	+3	F	2
CUT	Andrew Putnam	+3	F	2
CUT	Greyson Sigg	+3	F	2
CUT	Kieron Van Wyk	+3	F	2
CUT	Nick Hardy	+4	F	2
CUT	Hayden Buckley	+4	F	2
CUT	Paul Peterson	+4	F	2
CUT	Rico Hoey	+4	F	2
CUT	Joseph Bramlett	+4	F	2
CUT	Nicolai Højgaard	+4	F	2
CUT	Peter Malnati	+4	F	2
CUT	Danny Walker	+4	F	2
CUT	Greg Koch	+4	F	2
CUT	Thomas Rosenmueller	+4	F	2
CUT	Adam Hadwin	+5	F	2
CUT	Chris Gotterup	+5	F	2
CUT	Justin Lower	+5	F	2
CUT	Quade Cummins	+5	F	2
CUT	Nick Gabrelcik	+5	F	2
CUT	Taylor Dickson	+5	F	2
CUT	David Skinns	+6	F	2
CUT	K.H. Lee	+6	F	2
CUT	Alex Smalley	+6	F	2
CUT	Kevin Tway	+6	F	2
CUT	Harry Higgs	+6	F	2
CUT	Joel Dahmen	+6	F	2
CUT	Aldrich Potgieter	+6	F	2
CUT	Michael Thorbjornsen	+6	F	2
CUT	William Mouw	+6	F	2
CUT	Tim Widing	+6	F	2
CUT	Ben Silverman	+7	F	2
CUT	Karl Vilips	+7	F	2
CUT	Chan Kim	+7	F	2
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	+7	F	2
CUT	Blades Brown	+7	F	2
CUT	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	+7	F	2
CUT	Jhonattan Vegas	+7	F	2
CUT	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	+7	F	2
CUT	Kurt Kitayama	+7	F	2
CUT	Matt Kuchar	+7	F	2
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	+7	F	2
CUT	Brian Campbell	+8	F	2
CUT	Vincent Norrman	+8	F	2
CUT	Niklas Norgaard	+8	F	2
CUT	Trevor Cone	+8	F	2
CUT	Kevin Roy	+8	F	2
CUT	Jake Knapp	+9	F	2
CUT	Cam Young	+9	F	2
CUT	Luke Donald	+9	F	2
CUT	Jackson Suber	+9	F	2
CUT	Cristobal Del Solar	+9	F	2
CUT	Chad Ramey	+10	F	2
CUT	Ben Kohles	+10	F	2
CUT	Matthew Riedel	+10	F	2
CUT	Thriston Lawrence	+10	F	2
CUT	Frankie Capan III	+10	F	2
CUT	Adam Schenk	+12	F	2
CUT	Rasmus Højgaard	+12	F	2
CUT	Andre Chi	+13	F	2
CUT	Philip Knowles	+14	F	2
WD	Patton Kizzire	-	-
WD	Charley Hoffman	-	-

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