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Arizona State surges up leaderboard, will be top seed for match play at NCAAs

Arizona State surges up leaderboard, will be top seed for match play at NCAAs

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona State men’s golf team just needed to make match play, that means finishing in the top eight after 72 holes of the NCAA championship. But the Sun Devils weren’t content to just do that.

Coach Matt Thurmond’s squad surged past Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to finish atop the leaderboard after the stroke-play portion Monday at Grayhawk Golf Club. Now it is on to the match-play quarterfinals on Tuesday with ASU to face No. 8 North Carolina, beginning at 10:20 a.m. ET.

Other matches will feature No. 4 Oklahoma vs. No. 5 Illinois, No. 2 Oklahoma State vs. No. 7 Vanderbilt and No. 3 Pepperdine vs. No. 6 Florida State.

Thurmond knows his team now has to focus on the next task.

“It feels great to be heading into match play.” Thurmond said. “People that say just getting to match play is everything probably didn’t finish first. It’s nice. It’s pretty cool to have beaten everybody for four days. It was hard but we had to earn every bit of it. It’s a good feeling but again, in about an hour it doesn’t matter because we’re going to play somebody who’s excited about taking down the No. 1 seed. And we don’t get a head start tomorrow.”

The Sun Devils started the day in third place, 14 strokes behind Oklahoma State and one behind Oklahoma. But ASU managed a team total of 5-under 275, the second-best score of the day behind the sizzling 9-under 271 from Pepperdine which leaped up six places into third.

Oklahoma State imploded to a 12-over 292 for a four-round total of 1,120 while Oklahoma, the top-ranked team in the country coming in, was 9-over 289 for a 1,130.

ASU boasted balance throughout its lineup with senior Chun An Yu posting a team-best 3-under 67 that came despite a bogey on No. 18 where he went from a bunker to the water. Yu was the fourth different Sun Devil to chalk up the low score of the day this week.

“Today I felt really good. This course plays tough so I was just trying to play smart, not trying to do anything too special. Just one shot at a time. I thought I did a good job today just hitting fairways and greens,” he said.

Three ASU players finished in the top 15, led by sophomore Ryggs Johnston who was third at 5-under 275, just two strokes behind medalist Turk Pettit of Clemson and one behind runner-up Bo Jin of Oklahoma State. Johnston, who had a 7-under 63 in the second round on Saturday, went into 18 one stroke off the lead but his tee shot bounced off the cart path and into a cart. He ended up with a bogey but still managed a 1-under 69 for the day.

“I’m pretty proud of the way I handled myself today and the whole tournament,” Johnston said. “There were a lot of nerves out there throughout the whole thing. I thought I did really well taking care of that and played some really good golf this week.”

Cameron Sisk was also 1-under for the day, putting up a 72-hole total of 279 which tied him for eighth. He was the model of consistency with 17 pars and one birdie. Mason Andersen rounded out the scoring with an even par 70.

The Sun Devils were so good that the score not counting was a still respectable 2-over 72 from David Puig.

“A lot of teams would have loved to have had that score,” Thurmond said.

There were two holes-in-one in the fourth round, the first coming from Oklahoma’s Logan McAllister on the par 3, 205-yard No. 5 hole and the second coming from Tyson Reeder of Arkansas on the par 3, 188-yard No. 8 hole. That made three for the week with San Francisco’s Soren Lind acing the No. 5 hole in the first round.

Top eight finishers at NCAAs

1. Arizona State -3
2. Oklahoma State E
3. Pepperdine +5
4. Oklahoma +10
5. Illinois +14
6. Florida State +16
7. Vanderbilt +24
8. North Carolina +25

Match play matchups

1. Arizona State vs. 8. North Carolina
7:10 a.m., 1st tee
2. Oklahoma State vs. 7. Vanderbilt
6:20 a.m., 1st tee
3. Pepperdine vs. 6. Florida State
6:20 a.m., 10th tee
4. Oklahoma vs. 5. Illinois
7:10 a.m., 10th tee

Top individuals

1. Turk Pettit, Clemson -7
2. Bo Jin, Oklahoma State -6
3. Ryggs Johnston, Arizona State -5
4. Michael Feagles, Illinois -4
5. John Pak, Florida State -3

How ASU did

3. Ryggs Johnston, -5
T-8. Cameron Sisk, -1
T-13. Chun An Yu, +2
T-23. Mason Andersen, +4
T-54. David Puig, +12

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NCAA Championship: Match play field, pairings set for 2021 men's quarterfinals

NCAA Championship: Match play field, pairings set for 2021 men's quarterfinals

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The men’s individual national champion has been crowned, which means one thing: it’s time for match play.

Clemson senior Turk Pettit won the individual national title at the 2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship on Monday evening, signing for an even-par 70 to seal the deal at 7 under, one shot clear of 54-hole leader and Oklahoma State freshman Bo Jin.

Oklahoma State entered Monday’s final round of stroke play atop the leaderboard but fell back to second at even par for the week. Hosts Arizona State climbed from third to first to take the No. 1 seed at 3 under, followed by the Cowboys, Pepperdine (+5), Oklahoma (+10), Illinois (+14), Florida State (+16), Vanderbilt (+24) and North Carolina (+25).

Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings: Men’s team | Men’s individual

With the quarterfinals set to begin on Tuesday morning and the semifinals to follow, here’s a breakdown of the teams and matches competing for the team national championship (All Times Eastern).

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'She's got it': Cheyenne Woods raves about former prodigy, U.S. Women's Open rookie Amari Avery

'She's got it': Cheyenne Woods raves about former prodigy, U.S. Women's Open rookie Amari Avery

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SAN FRANISCO ­– Cheyenne Woods had heard the scouting report on Amari Avery from friends on the Symetra Tour. She met her for the first time this spring at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. On Monday, Avery and Woods played nine holes together at The Olympic Club.

“She’s only 17 years old and she’s got it,” said Woods. “She’s killing it.”

Avery first started trying to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open age 11. She’s one of 40 first-timers in the field and one of 30 amateurs at the 76th U.S. Women’s Open. Avery first burst onto the national scene in 2013 when she starred in the 2013 Netflix documentary, “The Short Game.” Even now, she’s often recognized from the film. While she hates to watch herself on TV, she does appreciate what the documentary has meant to her young career.

“Without the short game, I wouldn’t be, I guess, as relevant,” she said. “My golf game kind of speaks for itself.”

Avery, who has yet to play on the LPGA, is competing in her first major championship this week. She has Brian Thompson, a former teaching pro at Olympic, on the bag. Thompson left the golf industry to take a job in software development and is now a member at the club. He too has watched “The Short Game.”

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Last month Avery competed in her first Symetra Tour event, the Garden City Charity Classic, after winning the Mack Champ Invitational and earning the Symetra Tour MVP Invite.

At the event, Avery was grouped with fellow Black golfers Shasta Averyhardt and Alexis Belton. The trio talked during the round about how few Black players there are in all levels of the game.

Even at 17, Avery wants to be part of the movement that works to change that.

“My little sister had a tournament in Arizona,” she said. “Like I said, me and her are usually the only African-Americans out there. I was shocked to see that there were four (Black) girls in the field.

“It’s definitely tough that there’s not a lot of us out here, but from what I’ve seen, there’s a lot of girls and guys coming out. It is growing, slowly but surely.”

Avery, the 2019 California Women’s Amateur champ, has committed to USC but signed up for LPGA Q-School this year. She’ll likely turn professional if she earns her card. Either way, she plans to get started on her senior year of high school this summer and launch her next chapter (college or the LPGA) in January of 2022.

As for this week, Avery said the main goal is to stay out of the rough, though she’d also like to be low amateur. She has a practice round scheduled with top-ranked amateur Rose Zhang on Tuesday and Lydia Ko on Wednesday. She’s friends with Sophia Popov and Carlota Ciganda from her time on the Cactus Tour, where she won an event last spring.

On Sunday in San Francisco, a local LPGA-USGA Girls Golf chapter requested Avery for a Cisco virtual Q&A. She signed flags that will be shipped over to the juniors.

As seen during a virtual junior clinic featuring Amari Avery via a Cisco board during the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open Cisco virtual junior Clinic at Lake Chabot Golf Course in the Oakland, Calif. on Sunday, May 30, 2021. (Copyright USGA/Jeff Marsh)

Avery seems comfortable in the spotlight and is at ease talking about how she might change the game. Tiger Woods remains her hero.

“Just to see that he has taken the game so far, not only for African-Americans, but for everyone else as well, “said Avery. “That, I really look up to. That’s kind of what I want to do with my career as well.

“Obviously I want to bring more African-Americans into to the game of golf, but I also want to bring little girls in general, just bring more people.”

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PGA Tour University's inaugural class sends 15 college players to Korn Ferry Tour, Forme Tour

PGA Tour University's inaugural class sends 15 college players to Korn Ferry Tour, Forme Tour

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Ladies and gentlemen, meet the inaugural PGA Tour University class.

On Monday evening after the completion of stroke play at the 2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club, 15 men’s collegiate golfers punched their tickets to professional golf.

The top-five players in the PGA Tour University standings – John Pak (Florida State), Davis Thompson (Georgia), Austin Eckroat (Oklahoma State), Chun An Yu (Arizona State) and Garett Reband (Oklahoma) – receive Korn Ferry Tour membership and will be exempt into all open, full-field events beginning with the BMW Charity Pro-Am, June 10-13, through the conclusion of the regular season.

The following players who finished 6-15 in the standings receive Forme Tour membership beginning with the L&J Golf Championship, June 23-26 through the end of the regular season: Quade Cummins (Oklahoma), McClure Meissner (SMU), Michael Feagles (Illinois), Trevor Werbylo (Arizona), Jonathan Brightwell (Oklahoma), Puwit Anupansuebsai (San Diego State), Angus Flanagan (Minnesota), Alex Schaake (Iowa), Benjamin Shipp (NC State), Jovan Rebula (Auburn).

Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings: Men’s team | Men’s individual

The program is designed to streamline the process for college players to advance to the professional level while also rewarding those who honor their college commitments. Players must play on the NCAA Division I level and complete a minimum of four years in college to be eligible for the PGA Tour University Ranking List.

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Clemson senior Turk Pettit wins men's individual national title at 2021 NCAA Championship

Clemson senior Turk Pettit wins men's individual national title at 2021 NCAA Championship

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Turk Pettit is leaving college golf as a national champion.

The senior won his final college event at the 2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship, claiming the individual championship at 7 under after an even-par 70 Monday in the final round of stroke play at Grayhawk Golf Club.

The Auburn, Alabama, native is just the second Tiger to claim a men’s individual national title, following Charles Warren in the 1997 championship at Conway Farms Golf Club outside Chicago.

Head coach Larry Penley, who is retiring this season after 38 years at the helm of his alma mater, originally had a 35-year plan, but decided to extend his career to exit with Pettit and the 2021 class.

Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings: Men’s team | Men’s individual

“I really had a 35-year plan, but then I bring in Colby Patton, who was the son of one of my former players, Turk Pettit and Kyle Cottam. And I knew immediately that those three guys were going to be very special,” Penley told Golfweek earlier this week. “They have meant a whole lot to our golf program. They’ve all made All-American. They’ve all been great champions. I thought it might be kind of cool to go out with those three. Now Colby and Kyle are going to come back, so I’m gonna go out with Turk and William Nottingham.”

Oklahoma State’s Bo Jin held the individual lead after 54 holes, but struggled for the first time this week on the challenging Raptor course on Monday. The freshman from Beijing was tied with Pettit on his final hole, but made bogey on No. 18 to card a 3-over 73, his first round over par at the championship.

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Former Muirfield Village intern is first woman to work in scoring on PGA Tour

Former Muirfield Village intern is first woman to work in scoring on PGA Tour

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Don’t be alarmed, guys, but Leslie Grabeman is taking names and keeping score.

And no woman does it better. Actually, no other woman does it, period.

Grabeman has followed a path from amateur golfer to Muirfield Village Golf Club intern to becoming the first and only PGA Tour female scoring official, with even bigger things to come. If plans hold, she will become the first woman to work as a rules official on Tour.

But first, Grabeman has a score to settle, er, make that scores. Working about 35 Tour events a year, including this week’s Memorial Tournament, she verifies each player’s scorecard at the end of every round. Her duties increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, including sometimes announcing players’ names on the first tee, but mostly she serves as scoring official/sounding board/amateur psychologist.

“You have to be able to read the room,” she said last week while working the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. “You have to have thick skin and know that if they’re mad about how the course played, it’s not directed at you. It’s their livelihood, so you remember that. You listen a lot.”

The scoring tent, which typically is four solid walls tucked somewhere inside the clubhouse or media center, is the first place players can let off steam away from fans and TV cameras (although sometimes TV follows the top finishers inside the scoring sanctuary). Finally able to let loose after a bad round, players enter the scoring area ready to vent or celebrate.

When she first began her current position 1½ years ago — she has held several other Tour jobs the past six years, including helping run the ShotLink system that tracks every shot of every player — some players unaccustomed to seeing a woman in the scoring room were careful to mutter obscenities under their breath.

Over time, the guys have become more comfortable around Grabeman, treating her like one of the boys. Big of them, eh? The Tour is as male-dominated as it gets. It took 52 years before the Tour hired a woman to verify scores. But give credit where due. The testosterone-heavy Tour is trying to diversify.

Gary Young, vice president of Tour rules, competitions and administration, sees something in Grabeman that transcends gender.

“Her knowledge of the game and experience as a player (at Springboro High School, the University of Minnesota and then Memphis) have provided her with a good feel for the game,” said Young, whose plan is to continue moving Grabeman up the ladder. “It is my hope that Leslie will continue on her path toward becoming the first female rules official on the PGA Tour.”

If that happens, Grabeman can expect to step into even tougher situations than she faces now. Scorers pass the stickiest issues up the line. For example, when 2020 Memorial winner Jon Rahm was penalized two strokes during the final round — his ball moved when he soled his wedge in the rough at No. 16 — the Tour’s tournament director took command of the situation, informing Rahm of the penalty.

“Once the facts have been decided … we’re almost a bystander at that point,” Grabeman said.

Rules officials sometimes get berated on camera — Bryson DeChambeau publicly took one to task at the Memorial last year — and face pressure not to cave to player arguments.

But Grabeman is no pushover.

“I’m not afraid to ask (players) about their cards if there is a potential issue,” she said. “That’s called helping them out.”

And sometimes they need it. One absent-minded mistake can get a player disqualified. In 1968, Roberto De Vicenzo infamously signed an incorrect scorecard that cost him a chance to win the Masters in a playoff.

Grabeman, whose brother, Kevin, played golf at Ohio State, grew up golfing, but burned out on the game and became disillusioned after playing under a series of coaches in college. Not until a family friend put her in touch with a Tour connection and she landed a job with the Tour at its Jacksonville, Florida, headquarters did her love for the game rekindle. But instead of marking her own scorecard, she checked everyone else’s.

“You have to be accurate (when scoring), because so much is riding on the results,” said Larry Dornisch, the head pro at Muirfield Village who brought Grabeman into the pro shop as an intern in 2010-2011. “When she worked over here with us, you knew she had a bright future. She’s efficient, a problem solver and initiated things that could make us better. And she has a great sense of humor.”

Those attributes are not gender specific, of course, which Grabeman proves every time she checks a scorecard. She is smart, kind and willing to listen to golfers at their best and worst. It all adds up to being the right woman for the job.

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Memorial Tournament odds, predictions, PGA Tour picks

Memorial Tournament odds, predictions, PGA Tour picks

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A loaded PGA Tour field is in Dublin, Ohio, this week for the Memorial Tournament.

A renovated Muirfield Village Golf Club is the host venue as many of the world’s top golfers make their final tournament preparations for the 2021 U.S. Open, June 17-20. Below, we look at the 2021 Memorial Tournament odds and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions to win.

Five of the top-seven golfers in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings (as of Monday, May 24) highlight the field, led by No. 1 and defending champion Jon Rahm. He’s this week’s betting favorite at +1000 while looking for his first win of 2021.

Muirfield Village, a 7,543-yard, par-72 course, hosted the Workday Charity Open and the Memorial in back-to-back weeks last summer. Since then putting surfaces have been redone, bunkers were rebuilt, and trees were added throughout the course.

Memorial Tournament picks – Favorite

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Patrick Cantlay (+2200)

Cantlay bounced back from a stretch of three straight missed cuts with a T-23 finish at the PGA Championship. He struggled on and around the greens, but he averaged 2.32 Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green per round for the week. He’s ninth among qualified golfers in SG: Tee-to-Green for the season.

Cantlay also leads this field with 2.81 strokes gained on the field per round over 20 career rounds at Muirfield Village. He tied for seventh at last year’s Workday Charity Open and finished T-32 in the Memorial.

He won this event by two strokes at 19-under par in 2019. He was top-five in SG: Tee-to-Green, SG Approach and SG: Around-the-Green for the tournament.

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Memorial Tournament picks – Contender

Sungjae Im (+5000)

Im is No. 32 in the Golfweek rankings and shares the 19th-best odds to win this week. He tied for 57th at the 2019 Memorial Tournament but missed the cut last year following a 63rd-place finish at the Workday Charity Open. He missed the cut last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge following a T-17 result at the PGA Championship.

Im is 14th on Tour in driving accuracy for the 2020-21 season and should be well-equipped to the tighter fairways. He has also been putting very well this season as players take on the new greens of Muirfield Village for the first time this week.

Memorial Tournament picks – Long shot

Matt Kuchar (+10000)

Kuchar won here in 2013 following a runner-up finish in 2011. His 54 career rounds played at MVGC rank third in this field and his 2.53 strokes gained per round are the second most among those with at least 10 rounds played.

He’s tied for 23rd in driving accuracy and was beginning to show signs of his old form prior to a missed cut at the PGA Championship.

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Bob Sowards ties for fifth at Senior PGA, pledges payday towards daughter's college tuition

Bob Sowards ties for fifth at Senior PGA, pledges payday towards daughter's college tuition

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The best golfer making himself at home within 10 miles of Muirfield Village Golf Club on Monday wasn’t practicing for the Memorial Tournament.

Bob Sowards, director of instruction at Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club in Powell, Ohio, was back home in Dublin after tying for fifth Sunday at the KitchenAide Senior PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

While most of the top golfers in the world were still thousands of miles away, Sowards was celebrating the second-best financial finish of his career. The 52-year-old club pro earned $106,000 after a tie for fifth, which he told the PGA of America would help pay for some of his daughter’s college.

“Tuition is expensive,” Sowards said, explaining that he almost skipped the trip to Tulsa to attend the high school graduation ceremony of his daughter, Jordan, who will attend Arizona State in the fall. But his wife, Lynn, had other ideas, telling him a high finish could defray college costs.

“She (Lynn) rules the roost,” Sowards said. “I pretty much do what I’m told.”

Mission accomplished, even if at one point it appeared Sowards might be able to pay for Jordan’s entire college career. He led the championship by two strokes on Friday before struggling down the stretch to end the second round tied for 18th. But a Saturday-Sunday comeback jumped him all the way to fifth, tied with former Masters champion Mike Weir and John Riegger. Tournament winner Alex Cejka collected $585,000.

“I won $120,000 when I finished ninth in Greensboro on the PGA Tour in 2008, but this one is the biggest since I turned 50,” Sowards said. “It changes things knowing I can compete with the best seniors in the world now.”

Sowards began Sunday’s round tied for 10th and completed it tops among the nine club pros at Southern Hills, the best finish by a club pro at the Senior PGA since 2009.

Bob Sowards

Alex Cejka (left), tournament champion poses with Bob Sowards after the Senior PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club on May 30, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images

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U.S. Women's Open tee times: At last! Korda sisters grouped together in opening round

U.S. Women's Open tee times: At last! Korda sisters grouped together in opening round

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SAN FRANCISCO – Golf fans (and Korda parents) rejoice! Sisters Jessica and Nelly Korda will be grouped together for the first time in the opening round of a major at the U.S. Women’s Open. The Kordas will tee off at 11:28 a.m. ET on Thursday at The Olympic Club alongside former U.S. Women’s Open champ So Yeon Ryu.

Paula Creamer and Cristie Kerr, two former champions who are competing this week on special exemptions, will tee off alongside Michelle Wie West at 4:40 p.m. ET in Round 1. Wie West lives 15 minutes from the course, and Creamer grew up in nearby Pleasanton, California.

Last year’s champion, A Lim Kim, will be joined by 2020’s Cinderella champion Sophia Popov, winner of the AIG Women’s British Open, and top-ranked amateur Rose Zhang at 5:02 p.m. ET.

At 11:17 a.m. ET, World No. 1 Jin Young Ko will tee off alongside fellow major champs Danielle Kang and Hannah Green.

Two-time U.S. Women’s Open winner Inbee Park will go off at 4:51 p.m. ET with Lydia Ko and Shanshan Feng, two major champions and former No. 1s still in search in their first USWO title.

Looking for power? Look no further than the 5:13 p.m. ET group of Brooke Henderson, Lexi Thompson and Patty Tavatanakit.

This marks the first women’s championship ever held on the Lake Course, which will play to a par 71 at 6,457 yards.

All times listed below are ET.

HOW TO WATCH: TV, streaming information

1st tee

Tee time Players
10:15 a.m. Christina Kim, Sarah Schmelzel, Jaclyn LaHa (a)
10:26 a.m. Bohyun Park (a), Kim Kaufman, Cheyenne Woods
10:37 a.m. Moriya Jutanugarn, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Caroline Masson
10:48 a.m. Mi Hyang Lee, Amelia Garvey, Da Yeon Lee
10:59 a.m. Gina Kim (a), Jasmine Suwannapura, Angel Yin
11:10 a.m. Yealimi Noh, Kristen Gillman, Jennifer Song
11:21 a.m. In Gee Chun, Yuka Saso, Marina Alex
11:32 a.m. Amy Yang, Sung Hyun Park, Lizette Salas
11:43 a.m. Angela Stanford, Mirim Lee, Georgia Hall
11:54 a.m. Madelene Sagstrom, Gaby Lopez, Ana Pelaez Trivino (a)
12:05 p.m. Haley Moore, Jo Hua Hung (a), Haylee Harford
12:16 p.m. Chloe Kovelesky (a), Megan Osland, Britney Yada
12:27 p.m. Leonie Harm, Muni He, Claire Choi (a)
3:45 p.m. Sarah Burnham, Ruoning Yin, Jensen Castle (a)
3:56 p.m. Tiffany Chan, Megha Ganne (a), Matilda Castren
4:07 p.m. Amari Avery (a), Jenny Coleman, Lee-Anne Pace
4:18 p.m. Pernilla Lindberg, Kelly Tan, Pajaree Anannarukarn
4:29 p.m. Kaitlyn Papp, Carlota Ciganda, Stacy Lewis
4:40 p.m. Paula Creamer, Michelle Wie West, Cristie Kerr
4:51 p.m. Lydia Ko, Inbee Park, Shanshan Feng
5:02 p.m. A Lim Kim, Sophia Popov, Rose Zhang (a)
5:13 p.m. Brooke Henderson, Lexi Thompson, Patty Tavatanakit
5:24 p.m. Anna Nordqvist, Hinako Shibuno, Nasa Hataoka
5:35 p.m. Emma Talley, Monica Vaughn (a), Lucy Li
5:46 p.m. Leigha Devine (a), Maria Parra, Noemie Pare (a)
5:57 p.m. Rebecca Lee-Bentham, Kathleen Scavo, Chihiro Kogure (a)

10th tee

10 a.m. Mina Harigae, Aline Krauter (a), Pornanong Phatlum
10:11 a.m. Sarah Jane Smith, Kim Metraux, Gurleen Kaur (a)
10:22 a.m. Stephanie Meadow, Hee Young Park, Minami Katsu
10:33 a.m. Tsai-Ching Tseng (a), Luna Sobron Galmes, Ayako Uehara
10:44 a.m. Brittany Lang, Na Yeon Choi, Tsubasa Kajitani (a)
10:55 a.m. Ariya Jutanugarn, Amy Olson, Minjee Lee
11:06 a.m. Sei Young Kim, Rachel Heck (a), Mel Reid
11:17 a.m. Danielle Kang, Jin Young Ko, Hannah Green
11:28 a.m. Jessica Korda, Nelly Korda, So Yeon Ryu
11:39 a.m. Austin Ernst, Hyo Joo Kim, Jennifer Kupcho
11:50 a.m. Jeongeun Lee6, Ally Ewing, Charley Hull
12:01 p.m. Celine Herbin, Abbey Daniel (a), Giulia Molinaro
12:12 p.m. Natalie Srinivasan, Momoka Miyake, Karoline Tuttle (a)
3:30 p.m. Ssu Chia Cheng, Elizabeth Szokol, Emily Mahar (a)
3:41 p.m. Ingrid Gutierrez Nunez, Amanda Linner (a), Louise Stahle
3:52 p.m. Minori Nagano (a), Karolin Lampert, Wichanee Meechai
4:03 p.m. Alison Lee, Aneka Seumanutafa (a), Sarah Kemp
4:14 p.m. Wei-Ling Hsu, Lauren Stephenson, Linnea Strom
4:25 p.m. Eun Hee Ji, Maja Star, In-Kyung Kim
4:36 p.m. Celine Boutier, Megan Khang, Mi Jung Hur
4:47 p.m. Brittany Altomare, Ashleigh Buhai, Jodi Ewart Shadoff
4:58 p.m. Jenny Shin, Yu Liu Azahara Munoz
5:09 p.m. Xiyu Lin, Cheyenne Knight, Emily Kristine Pedersen
5:20 p.m. Addie Baggarly (a), Daniela Darquea, Hikari Kawamitsu
5:31 p.m. Nicole Garcia, Alyssa Lamoureux (a), Allie White
5:42 p.m. Isabella McCauley (a), Natsumi Nakanishi, Alexandra Swayne (a)
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NCAA Championship: Led by Cameron Sisk, Arizona State makes top 15, eyes spot in match play

NCAA Championship: Led by Cameron Sisk, Arizona State makes top 15, eyes spot in match play

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The Arizona State men’s golf team didn’t do anything fancy when it took to the Raptor course at Grayhawk Golf Club on Sunday. But then again, it didn’t need to.

The Sun Devils shot an even-par team total of 280 for a three round total of 842 which puts them third behind Oklahoma State (828) and Oklahoma (841). That’s where coach Matt Thurmond’s team started the day.

The field was narrowed from 30 teams to 15 after the round. Those left will play a final 18 holes on Monday, after which eight teams will advance to match play. So it isn’t even about being on top of the leaderboard because the team that has been first after stroke play has never gone on to win the championship. So right now it’s survive and advance.

The Sun Devils have yet to have a day with every player in a groove but the coach isn’t reading much into that.

“I think that’s a mythical dream,” Thurmond said. “In a championship like this to have five guys playing great at the same time is almost impossible. Maybe if we were on an afternoon on Thursday with no one around at Papago with soft greens and easy pins but it’s hard. Everything is hard. At the same time you have to keep believing it is possible. Every team starts the day thinking this could be our day. The reality is we’re going to keep fighting like we are. Some guys will play well, some guys don’t. The cool thing is someone has done it every day and that’s what a great team does. Someone always covers.”

The best score of the day for ASU came courtesy of Cameron Sisk who finished with a 3-under 67, highlighted by a birdie at the par 4, 520-yard No. 18. The junior from San Diego, California is tied for 12th individually with a 54-hole total of even 210.

It was his best round of the tournament, following a first round 70 and a second round 73.

“My mentality going into today was just to hit a bunch of greens and give myself a lot of looks,” Sisk said. “For the most part I did that. I hit 15 or 16 greens and stuck to my game plan. I’m putting really well. This is a very control-oriented course and I did that well today.”

Sophomore Ryggs Johnston, whose 7-under 63 in Saturday’s second round still stands as the best of the tournament, posted a 1-over 71 and sits tied for fifth at 206. His 15-foot putt for par at No. 18 just lipped out He also had a double bogey at the par-3, 230-yard No. 13 that took him from 1-under to 1-over.

“You never expect to come out and have two rounds like that back to back,” Johnston said. “I just wanted to go out and play solid and steady. I actually started out with two birdies in a row, kind of like yesterday. Then today throughout the round I didn’t hit great shots. So I kind of grinded my way to a 1-over. It could have been worse. The course was playing tough. You can really get yourself in trouble. A 71 isn’t going to help but it won’t kill you either.”

Rounding out the scoring for ASU were senior Chun An Yu with an even 70 for a 5-over 215 and senior Masen Anderson, a local product of Hamilton High School, who tallied 2-over 72 for a total 4-over 214.

For the second time in three days the non-counting score came from sophomore David Puig who registered a 4-over 74 and is at 10-over for the tournament. Puig, who has been ASU’s top performer through the regular season, had both a double bogey and quadruple bogey on Saturday. On Sunday it was the 18th hole that proved adventurous as he had a triple bogey to finish the round.

Thurmond singled out the birdie by Sisk at 18 as a key, just because it allowed his team to finish.

“That was a key moment because I thought we were leaking oil a little bit at the end,” Thurmond said. “David (Puig’s) triple on 18 was tough. One thing we had all day was everybody in the mix. So if somebody had a problem, we had somebody else to back him him up so that was a huge. So having five in the game was huge. When he (Puig) made triple there I was like, there’s no more margin for error. So the way we finished, I’m really proud.”

The individual leader is Bo Jin of Oklahoma State whose 1-under 69 gave him a 9-under 201, two strokes better than Clemson junior Turk Pettit (203). Parker Gillam of Wake Forest and Quade Cummings of Oklahoma are tied for third (5-under, 205) with ASU’s Johnston among the three players tied for fifth.

The biggest move of the day came from Florida State which had a team total of 6-under 274 for the day which propelled the Seminoles up six places to fifth at 9-over 849. All four scoring players for the Seminoles were under par with Jon Pak and Brett Roberts both boasting 2-under 68’s.

The best round of the day was by Gillam who had a 6-under 64, moving him up 16 slots in the individual race.

There is no charge for spectators.

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Meet the 15 teams vying for match play at the NCAA Championship

Meet the 15 teams vying for match play at the NCAA Championship

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — After three rounds of play at the challenging Raptor course at Grayhawk Golf Club, it’s time for the first cut.

On Sunday evening the field of 30 teams at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship was cut down to 15 teams for Monday’s final round of stroke play. The top nine individuals not on an advancing team will also tee it up with a shot at a national title. The individual national champion will be crowned after Monday’s round, and the top-eight teams will advance to match play on Tuesday.

Georgia Tech defeated TCU in a five-player playoff to secure the final team position, while Oregon State’s Spencer Tibbits defeated NC State’s Benjamin Shipp in a 2-for-1 playoff for the last individual spot in Monday’s final round.

Get to know the 15 teams that will be competing for a spot in match play at the NCAA Championship.

Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings: Men’s team | Men’s individual

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U.S. Women's Open: Olympic member Kay Cockerill on giving player tours, course setup and how she likes her burger dogs

U.S. Women's Open: Olympic member Kay Cockerill on giving player tours, course setup and how she likes her burger dogs

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SAN FRANCISCO – Kay Cockerill stood on the third tee box at the Lake Course at The Olympic Club on a crisp, clear day and pointed out the landmarks: Golden Gate Bridge, Harding Park, Sutro Tower.

Cockerill has been in great demand these past several months. The two-time U.S. Women’s Amateur champion and former LPGA pro has played host on many occasions in the run-up to the 76th U.S. Women’s Open.

Cockerill grew up an hour south of Olympic and has been a member of the club for 20 years. Lydia Ko, Sei Young Kim, In Gee Chun, Austin Ernst, Gaby Lopez, Kaitlyn Papp and top-ranked amateur Rose Zhang are among the players who have taken notes from Cockerill during recent rounds.

“Sei Young just waltzed around the golf course,” said Cockerill. “She probably shot even or 1 under without even thinking about it.”

Cockerill, who will work as an on-course reporter for NBC Sports during the championship, encouraged players not to spend too much time around the greens a month out due to softer conditions. This was more of a macro-tour, getting comfortable with atmosphere of the place, the sight lines and the reverse camber fairways, where a hole might move left to right but the fairway slopes the opposite direction.

“It will throw you off-balance and visually makes you unsure and confused on the tee,” she said. “On the fairway, you never have a level lie.”

Cockerill’s best around the Lake Course is an even-par 71. The pep talk she gives herself on the first tee would serve many well this week: Just take a deep breath and don’t try to do too much today – play for pars.

Most folks only hit a handful of greens when they play the Lake Course, said Cockerill. The 156 players in this week’s field aren’t like most, of course. Still, it’s going to be tough to overpower the place. The opening hole is a par 5. Players won’t see another par 5 again until back-to-back par 5s on the 16th and 17th. In between is a relentless stretch of par 4s; Cockerill says the only real birdie holes are Nos. 1 and 7, the latter of which can be made a reachable par 4.

Kaitlyn Papp, Sei Young Kim and Kay Cockerill (courtesy photo)

Texas’s Papp, who tied for ninth at last year’s USWO in Houston, will have her dad on the bag this week as she makes her professional debut. Tony Papp was out walking the fairways during the practice round with Cockerill and Ko. It was Papp’s first time playing in the Bay Area and she went back to Texas with plans to work on big breaking putts from inside 10 feet.

A bout with COVID-19 knocked Papp out of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur last April. As the college season wound down in May, Papp still struggled with fatigue and wake-up calls before 9 a.m. That’s unusual for a player who typically bounds out of bed around 6:30 a.m.

“One thing I’ve been battling for a few months or this year,” she said, “is trying not to put too much pressure on myself. … just try to play more free.”

Shannon Rouillard, a longtime friend of Cockerill’s, is in charge of the setup for the U.S. Women’s Open. She asked Cockerill to take notes on several holes and report back with clubs players hit to certain greens.

There have been five U.S. Opens held at Olympic (1955, 1966, 1987, 1998, 2012) and five men’s amateur championships, the most recent being the 2015 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball. This is the first women’s championship ever held at the course.

“(Shannon) has been looking back at all the U.S. Opens,” said Cockerill, “and trying to find a distance that’s comparable for the women.”

Cockerill said Ko shot 2 under on a cold day at Olympic. She got within 30 yards of the green on the par-4 seventh and hit driver off the deck into the par-5 17th, getting within 40 yards. Given that it was 50 degrees at that point with a hurting wind, Cockerill thinks it will be reachable for some.

“She hit a couple of 6-irons that were just beautiful,” said Cockerill. “She’s got so much more height on her mid-irons than she did several years ago.

“I think she has a more dynamic game now.”

For those coming out to watch, Cockerill recommends hanging out on the natural amphitheater around the eighth hole that also offers views of seven and nine. There’s another good spot behind the 10th green, where Cockerill typically orders her burger dogs cooked a little extra with no cheese, grilled onions and a touch of mustard.

As for how tough it will play for the best in the world, Cockerill can see players putting up 66, 67, 68.

“But I defy anyone to shoot that number two or three days in a row much less four days in a row,” she said. “If they do, I can come back and eat crow.”

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U.S. Women's Open: Five things to know about The Olympic Club

U.S. Women's Open: Five things to know about The Olympic Club

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The U.S. Women’s Open will be the first major female golf event at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, and the Lake Course is sure to present a formidable challenge. Understanding where and how to miss a fairway may play a pivotal role in determining a champion.

The Lake Course has earned praise since the William Watson and Sam Whiting design fully opened in 1927. It ties for No. 34 on Golfweek’s Best 2021 list of top Classic Courses built before 1960 in the United States, and it is No. 6 on Golfweek’s Best list of private courses in California. Architect Bill Love restored and renovated the course in 2009, creating a new No. 8 below the clubhouse, and the bunkers were restored again in 2016. More recently, architect Gil Hanses has submitted a new master plan for renovating the course, and work could begin this year.

What makes The Lake Course unique? Here are five things to consider.

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How to watch the U.S. Women's Open at Olympic Club

How to watch the U.S. Women's Open at Olympic Club

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This is the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open television and streaming schedule with coverage on NBC, Golf Channel and the Peacock app.

The 76th Women’s Open will be this week at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California, for the first time. The club has hosted the U.S. Open five times. The Women’s Open was last in California in 2016 when Brittany Lang won at CordeValle.

The tournament will be just 24 weeks after the 2020 edition, which was moved to December for the first time ever. A Lim Kim is the defending champion.

The U.S. Golf Association recognizes the Olympic Club as one of the first 100 golf clubs established in the United States.

Note: All times listed are ET.

Thursday, June 3

Streaming

Peacock: 5 to 7 p.m.

TV

Golf Channel: (Watch for free on fuboTV): 7 to 11 p.m.

Friday, June 4

Streaming

Peacock: 5 to 7 p.m.

TV

Golf Channel: (Watch for free on fuboTV): 7 to 11 p.m.

Saturday, June 5

TV

NBC: 2 to 5 p.m.

Golf Channel: (Watch for free on fuboTV): 5 to 10 p.m.

Sunday, June 6

Streaming

Peacock: 1 to 3 p.m.

TV

NBC: 3 to 7 p.m.

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Hear that buzz surrounding this week's Memorial? It's bugs, not birdies.

Hear that buzz surrounding this week's Memorial? It's bugs, not birdies.

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They’re heeeere.

Cicadas are no supernatural poltergeists, but at this week’s Memorial Tournament they are unnatural visitors all the same. I have watched enough wildlife documentaries to know that bugs swallowing up birdies goes against normal animal behavior.

Yet set foot on the grounds of Muirfield Village Golf Club over the next seven days, or listen on TV, and that is exactly what will happen. Once the Brood X bugs get their game on, the buzz of mating call victory will drown out the sound of birdies. And eagles. (On the plus side, the whiny mutterings of players cursing bogeys also will be harder to hear).

How loud will it get when the red-eyed wonder — no, not John Daly, who is not among the 120 competitors scheduled to tee it up on Thursday — begins to shimmy and shake? A male cicada’s pick-up line can reach 96 decibels.

For perspective, a normal conversation is about 60 decibels, a commercial jet landing is about 80 and a lawnmower reaches 90, which explains why cicadas will sometimes follow your Toro like children trailing a motorized Pied Piper. For these pent-up bugs — no sex for 17 years! — a noisy power mower is quite the aural aphrodisiac.

But I digress. Bottom line, these winged creatures do not go quietly into the night. What’s that? They actually do go quiet after sunset? Well, that’s no help to the golfers.

K.J. Choi has a cicada flicked off his shoulder by a caddy during the 2004 Memorial Tournament. (Columbus Dispatch file photo)

Before revisiting the 2004 Memorial, which was the last time this many periodical cicadas climbed from their underground hellholes — existing on tree root juice for nearly two decades defines a devil’s lair, no? — we return briefly to 1987, when the grandparents of the 2021 cicadas strutted their stuff.

Ray Stein, sports editor emeritus of The Dispatch, recalled covering the ’87 Memorial, when cicadas entered the collective psyche of the CBS broadcast team.

“I’m in the control truck as an observer and the late, great Frank Chirkinian is going crazy because he can’t hear his announcers over the din of the cicadas,” Stein said. “He was something of a control freak, and famously ranted for effect, but he was straight-up livid that he couldn’t find a way to drown out the buzz. He kept pleading for someone on the crew to muffle the noise, and of course, no one could. Meanwhile, the talent — namely Gary McCord and Ben Wright — just kept needling him about it.”

Fast forward to earlier this month, when defending Memorial champion Jon Rahm asked why tournament host Jack Nicklaus “can’t get rid of” the cicadas?”

I explained to the 26-year-old Spaniard that the Golden Bear might have 18 major championships, but only God can sequester cicadas, and so far has opted not to. (Related: cicadas and locusts are not the same thing, so save the Biblical plague references for the Memorial’s traditional thunder, hail and lightning).

Now, on to the infestation of 2004. It’s not just the noise that will turn the Memorial into an abdomen-banging rock concert this week. It would be one thing if the cicadas stayed in their lane, but noooo, they spread their wings and fly — not very well, either — into and onto places where PGA Tour players prefer they not visit.

Joey Sindelar’s dream foursome would not normally include a cicada, but you take what you can get when the other two players in your group are Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh.

“It was the Memorial right after my last victory, at Wachovia in ’04, and my pairing was Vijay and Tiger, the biggest pairing of my life, of course,” Sindelar said. “On the fourth tee there was a back-up and one of those bugs got stuck in my collar tag under my shirt and both Tiger and Vijay were trying to get it out. The crowd was laughing, a photograph was taken and it still hangs in my house.”

If Sindelar was embarrassed about wing around the collar, at least the former Ohio State player didn’t ingest the bleepin’ bug.

Craig “Woody” Camarolli did. On purpose. Camarolli, the caddie for Dudley Hart, earned a cool $100 from his boss in 2004 for chomping a cicada. (Hart withdrew after the round with food poisoning. Power of suggestion?)

On Tuesday of that week, Paul Azinger offered $50 to another caddie to eat one of the 1½-inch critters.

“He popped it in his mouth like a grape and it crunched like a potato chip,” Azinger said. “No guts. No bug juice. Easiest money he ever made.”

This week, watch for the “Cicada dance,” where unsuspecting Tour players and unassuming spectators jump around after finding a bug clinging to them. Look for backswings to be bothered, putting greens to be peppered and cicadas to be salted.

Tastes like chicken.

Rob Oller is a columnist for the Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA Today Network. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @rollerCD

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TCU forces playoff with Georgia Tech for final stroke-play position; Oregon State's Spencer Tibbits advances as individual via playoff

TCU forces playoff with Georgia Tech for final stroke-play position; Oregon State's Spencer Tibbits advances as individual via playoff

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — As if it weren’t hot enough in the desert, the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship is really heating up before the final round of stroke play.

TCU sophomore Aymeric Laussot made a clutch 18-foot putt for birdie on his last hole Sunday to get his Horned Frogs into a tie for 15th place, forcing a playoff against Georgia Tech for the last spot in the final round of stroke play at the difficult Raptor course at Grayhawk Golf Club. Freshman Filippo Celli and sophomore Jacob Skov Olesen also made birdie on the par-4 ninth, TCU’s final hole of the round.

Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings: Men’s team | Men’s individual

The team playoff begins at 7:30 a.m. local (10:30 a.m. ET) Monday with a five-player shotgun start off holes Nos. 14-18. The No. 1 player in the lineups will play No. 18, No. 2 will play No. 17 and so on. All scores will count, and the team with the lowest cumulative score over the five holes advances.

On Sunday evening immediately after the third round, NC State’s Benjamin Shipp and Oregon State’s Spencer Tibbits dueled in a 2-for-1 playoff for the last individual spot in Monday’s final round. The pair played the par-4 10th hole, with Tibbits making par for the win. He is among nine players not on teams that are advancing still alive for the individual title.

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Ally Ewing holds off Sophia Popov to win Bank of Hope Match Play, her second career LPGA title

Ally Ewing holds off Sophia Popov to win Bank of Hope Match Play, her second career LPGA title

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Match play can set the stage for a marathon, and Ally Ewing lived it this week in Las Vegas. At the end of five days, Ewing had played seven matches and 122 holes, but she walked away from the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play with the second title of her LPGA career.

Ewing had to take on two major champions in the final two rounds to claim her trophy. She advanced past Ariya Jutanugarn, the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open champion, in the semifinals at Shadow Creek Golf Club on Sunday morning and then met Sophia Popov, the reigning AIG Women’s British Open champion, in the final match.

Ewing had the advantage the whole way in the final after going 1 up on the second hole when Popov made bogey. Perhaps the biggest moment of the day came when Ewing made a gagger for birdie from off the green at the 14th to go 2 up. She closed it out on No. 17.

The match could be something of a Solheim Cup preview. Ewing already represented the U.S. in the 2019 matches, where she posted a 1-3-0 record.

With her win, Ewing earned $225,000. She also won the LPGA’s 2020 Drive On Championship at Reynolds Lake Oconee for her first career victory last fall.

After winning her match against Popov, Ewing’s husband Charlie Ewing met her on the green. To make things even sweeter, Sunday happened to be the couple’s first wedding anniversary. Charlie Ewing is the head women’s golf coach at their alma mater Mississippi State and Ally serves as a volunteer assistant coach, traveling with the team when she can.

Coincidentally, Jutanugarn and Shanshan Feng were scheduled to meet in a consolation match on Sunday afternoon opposite Popov and Ewing’s final. Feng conceded that match to Jutanugarn, citing the need to rest for next week’s U.S. Open at The Olympic Club in San Francisco.

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How much money each player won at the Charles Schwab Challenge

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Jason Kokrak managed to hold off Jordan Spieth coming down the stretch at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, to win the Charles Schwab Challenge on Sunday. That makes Kokrak, who started the 2020-21 wraparound season with a win at the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek. He’s now one of three multi-time winners this season.

Kokrak fired a final-round 70 to finish at 14 under, two shots ahead of Spieth, arguably the favorite in his home state of Texas. He also won a tartan jacket as well as a customized 1946 Schwab Power Wagon.

For winning, Kokrak cashed a nice payday. Check out what the rest of the field banked for a week’s work at Colonial, too.

Charles Schwab Challenge: Leaderboard | Photos | Winner’s bag

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Jason Kokrak -14 $1,350,000
2 Jordan Spieth -12 $817,500
T3 Charley Hoffman -10 $366,094
T3 Patton Kizzire -10 $366,094
T3 Sebastian Munoz -10 $366,094
T3 Ian Poulter -10 $366,094
7 Troy Merritt -7 $253,125
T8 Emiliano Grillo -6 $196,875
T8 Lucas Glover -6 $196,875
T8 Adam Hadwin -6 $196,875
T8 Brian Harman -6 $196,875
T8 Kyle Stanley -6 $196,875
T8 Brendon Todd -6 $196,875
T14 Gary Woodland -5 $125,625
T14 Abraham Ancer -5 $125,625
T14 Collin Morikawa -5 $125,625
T14 Doug Ghim -5 $125,625
T14 Kramer Hickok -5 $125,625
T14 Talor Gooch -5 $125,625
T20 Adam Long -4 $68,438
T20 Daniel Berger -4 $68,438
T20 Wyndham Clark -4 $68,438
T20 Vincent Whaley -4 $68,438
T20 John Augenstein (a) -4 $68,438
T20 Corey Conners -4 $68,438
T20 Justin Rose -4 $68,438
T20 Maverick McNealy -4 $68,438
T20 Kevin Streelman -4 $68,438
T20 Tony Finau -4 $68,438
T20 Erik Compton -4 $68,438
T20 Sergio Garcia -4 $68,438
T32 Rafa Cabrera Bello -3 $40,125
T32 Kevin Na -3 $40,125
T32 Nate Lashley -3 $40,125
T32 Ryan Palmer -3 $40,125
T32 Zach Johnson -3 $40,125
T32 Cameron Tringale -3 $40,125
T32 C.T. Pan -3 $40,125
T32 Harold Varner III -3 $40,125
T40 Billy Horschel -2 $29,625
T40 Carlos Ortiz -2 $29,625
T40 Justin Thomas -2 $29,625
T40 Kevin Kisner -2 $29,625
T40 Danny Lee -2 $29,625
T45 Cameron Davis -1 $22,335
T45 Hudson Swafford -1 $22,335
T45 Richy Werenski -1 $22,335
T45 Robert Streb -1 $22,335
T45 Pat Perez -1 $22,335
T50 Brandt Snedeker E $18,325
T50 Tyler McCumber E $18,325
T50 Joaquin Niemann E $18,325
T50 Matt Kuchar E $18,325
T50 Henrik Norlander E $18,325
T50 Byeong Hun An E $18,325
T56 Brice Garnett 1 $17,325
T56 Brian Stuard 1 $17,325
T56 Matt Wallace 1 $17,325
T59 Will Zalatoris 2 $16,875
T59 Doc Redman 2 $16,875
T59 Robby Shelton 2 $16,875
T62 Andrew Landry 3 $16,425
T62 Nick Taylor 3 $16,425
T62 Sung Kang 3 $16,425
T65 Adam Schenk 4 $16,050
T65 Jason Dufner 4 $16,050
T67 Scott Stallings 5 $15,750
T67 Rory Sabbatini 5 $15,750
T69 Camilo Villegas 6 $15,300
T69 Jhonattan Vegas 6 $15,300
T69 Mark Hubbard 6 $15,300
T69 Chris Kirk 6 $15,300
73 Xinjun Zhang 9 $14,925
74 J.J. Henry 11 $14,775
75 D.A. Points 13 $14,625
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