Listed below are the golf occasions to observe within the week of August 5-11.
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PGA Tour – Wyndham ChampionshipFrom August 8-11 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the PGA Tour champions might be busy for the ultimate appointment of the common season: the Wyndam Championship.
That is the final probability to qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The match might be performed on the Sedgefield Nation Membership, a course inbuilt 1926 based mostly on a design by Donald Ross, which has hosted a number of editions of the Wyndham Championship.
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The primary version of the Better Greensboro Open (now Wyndham) was performed in 1938, gained by Sam Snead. Over time, the match has moved to numerous places, till 2008, when it returned to Sedgefield and stayed there.
In 2007, the course underwent a $3 million restoration undertaking to revive the format to Ross’s unique format, and immediately it retains all of its options, with difficult greens and steep slopes. A number of of the champions we noticed on the Paris Olympics final week might be on the course to attempt to break into the highest 70 within the FedEx Cup factors standings and earn a spot within the upcoming FedEx St.
Jude Championship at TPC Southwind. Among the many latter might be Shane Lowry of Eire, Nick Taylor of Canada, Min Woo Lee of Australia and Nicolai Højgaard of Denmark. The professionals on the course will compete for a spot within the Playoffs, but in addition for an excellent prize pool of $1.4 million that can go to the winner of the match.
A full 40 of the highest 70 FedEx Cup gamers will play at Sedgefield Nation Membership, together with top-40 gamers Brian Harman, Robert MacIntyre, Sungjae Im, Keegan Bradley, Cameron Younger, Akshay Bhatia, Billy Horschel and Justin Rose.
The defending champion is Lucas Glover, presently ranked 76th within the FedEx rankings. In 2023, the American champion gained by two pictures, transferring from 112th to forty ninth to enter the Playoffs and will definitely hope to repeat that feat.
Problem Tour – Farmfoods Scottish Problem supported by the R&AThe Problem Tour strikes to Scotland this week for the Farmfoods Scottish Problem supported by the R&A, which might be held at Newmachar Golf Membership from 8 to 11 August.
The Scottish Problem has been a fixture on the Problem Tour for one of the best a part of 20 years, beginning in 2006 at Murcar Hyperlinks earlier than transferring to Macdonald Cardrona for the subsequent two years and Macdonald Spey Valley from 2009 to 2018.
After a four-year hiatus, it returned in 2022 at a brand new venue: Newmachar Golf Membership in Aberdeen. The listing of previous winners has been dominated by British gamers, with 11 native winners, together with DP World Tour winners David Regulation, who gained in 2018, and Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston, who recorded his first win within the match in 2014.
Though there have solely been 4 non-British winners, the listing does embody five-time Main winner Brooks Koepka, whose 2013 victory was his third of the season and assured him computerized promotion to the DP World Tour.
Koepka additionally triumphed on the Montecchia Golf Open that season. The Hawkshill course at Newmachar Golf Membership was designed by famend architect Dave Thomas and “the voice of golf” Peter Alliss and opened in 1990 after over a decade of planning and development.
The heathland course is over 6,150 metres and calls for precision in each shot, with slender fairways lined with timber that require management off the tee. Gamers may even should take care of the numerous bunkers across the greens on their approaches.
A robust discipline of gamers gathers in Aberdeen this week, with the Highway to Mallorca rankings’ two and three – England’s John Parry and Spaniard Joel Moscatel – on the lookout for a 3rd win of the season to safe computerized promotion to the DP World Tour.
Becoming a member of them are a variety of DP World Tour winners, together with Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard, England’s David Horsey and Scotsman Marc Warren, who’s looking for a second particular person title on dwelling soil this week after triumphing at Gleneagles within the 2007 Johnnie Walker Championship.
Additionally in attendance at Newmachar are Tapio Pulkkanen, contemporary from representing his native Finland on the Olympics, and 16-year-old Junior Ryder Cup winner Kris Kim, who will make his Problem Tour debut this week. There might be 4 Italians within the discipline with Gregorio De Leo, Enrico di Nitto and Aron Zemmer, respectively thirty eighth, forty second and forty seventh final week on the Ok Membership, joined by Pietro Bovari and Flavio Michetti.
