Tony Finau’s third-round 62 put the big-hitting Utah native into contention at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. But even though he didn’t go on to win, Finau accomplished a PGA Tour first at TPC Summerlin that is worth acknowledging.
The four-month gap between May and September is going to have an influence on the kind of golf and the sorts of shots the perennially sizeable galleries will be treated to this week.
It’s not an official PGA Tour event. Still, the money earned at the Hero World Challenge spends nicely … and comes relatively easy in the 18-player, no-cut field.
The odds of the two balls hitting are pretty slim, so to see this sight added an interesting twist to the dramatic charge that Schauffele was putting together.