Yeah, delighted for Kurt. I followed him a few times on the European tour. He was always very nice to everybody. His game back then was a little wild, he'd look awesome on one hole and a complete disaster on the next.
He has so much talent and he now has a huge win. He could kick on from here and get very high in the world rankings.
Fair play to Kitayama
A proper journey man from various tours. To win a big PGA event like this is a massive achievement
Once again a gritty tough scoring tournament is far more entertaining than an absolute birdie fest. Who would've thought that after Rahm opened with a -7 that the winning score would only be -2 better and he'd have been 10 shots off the lead
Meh. Rory messed up, but so did so many other players. They should take turns kicking themselves.
Terrible bogey from Scottie... like, awful
Scheffler so lucky, could have been in the water on the last.
Rory should have made that birdie putt on the last. Great opportunity missed, and probably will cost him a play-off as others have yet to finish.
Feel like Rory missed his chance by not making that birdie
Make that 5 -8
Okay with God knows how many players on 7 under, what happens if it finishes with all -7?
Do they all go out together on a 1 hole playoff? or in groups of 4?
Quiz Questions:- What's the most players tied for a tournament in the PGS's history?
BTQ - I know someone will probably beat the -7 yet.
Edit: and now we have 3 on -8.
Spieth must be spitting feathers. What's it, 3 bogeys in the last 4 holes. Kitayama is back in the lead, despite only making pars in the last 5 holes since his implosion.
Spieth has threw this away I think
Just put back on the Liverpool highlights there, plenty to look at
Rory's grazed par putts on the last 2 holes, but both missed.
Why did I put this back on? I just bring bad luck. McIlroy's in trouble again on the next. Off the tee, into a tree, going out of bounds otherwise, lands in deep rough, goes from there into more deep rough. A better shot on the 3rd shot but he's on the edge of the green and likely to make another bogey here.
Kitayama went OB on 9, Hatton has just started bogeying now, same as Spieth on 15.
Bogey for McIlroy to drop back to a 4 way tie for the lead on -8.
Kitayama must have had a mini disaster, and Spieth dropped a shot or two. I think Hatton must have done the same too. As soon I put it on, McIlroy pulls his tee shot into the bunker on the par 3 14th.
Solo lead now out of nowhere
I was watching this earlier, said to myself, go watch something else as McIlroy is out of it, and he was. He wasn't making any moves, the last shot I watched was Kitayama making a monster putt to go to -11, while McIlroy was back on -5 I think, doing nothing.
But now I check the scoreboard, enough talk, must go watch it.
All for the worse too. Good thought by Pepperall on what he thinks may happen now after the latest PGA move. Rory did say he'd love to see some European heritage events included in these, so maybe that'll happen which would be the only positive of it all
https://twitter.com/PepperellEddie/status/1631934777623298048?t=IIwz-T4DRurbk8n1m6Q1JA&s=19
Agreed, it's amazing the impact that LIV has had on the PGA.
Keep an eye on Ludvig Aberg over the weekend, he's -4.
This kid is I think is the most exciting US college golfer since Patrick Cantlay.
I expect him to explode onto the professional scene as soon as he turns pro. Rumours that he'll do that in May.
I'm the same, I got fed up of those WGC events very quickly. I didn't watch any of them after the first year. It's tough for the players too. If you have a bad Thursday/Friday it's nice to go home and spend time with the family and work on the things that caused you to miss the cut. In these events you have to stay and suffer through it.
I actually enjoyed watching the alternate events instead of those WGCs and getting to see players who you never get to see in regular events. I'll be back doing that again.
Like the alternate event this week has Scott Piercy, Harry Higgs, Geoff Ogilvy, Matty Schmid, Eric Van Rooyen, Rafael Campos, Ryan Armour and Nick Watney who are all golfers I like but rarely get to see. There's others in it that I like too, just mentioned a few there.
Power has gone from a really strong position in this tournament to looking like missing the cut in the space of 7 holes
Don’t like the non cut events personally. Especially if some marquee players are doing poor. Coverage will still follow them.
He did and meaning you can only miss one of them that's his quota used up so he'll be at all of the rest of them in 2023.
Ya he played LIV lite that week 😬
maybe I'm wrong but wasn't Rory missing for the first "elevated" event earlier in the year
On the contrary i think these elevated events are great.
When you have a schedule that has tournaments 40+ times in a year it's just not possible to be excited about them all. This makes it clear which are the big tournaments and which aren't. I knew to by all accounts ignore last weeks Honda Classic because none of the big guys who i want to watch were playing. Now i know for the next two weeks all the big guns are on show and i can focus in some exciting weekends of golf to watch.
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