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Chopra Leads Buick Open by 2 After 3

Daniel Chopra stands atop the leaderboard after the third round of the Buick Open at Warwick Hills. Hitting only 3 of 14 fairways, Mr. Chopra still hit 13 of 18 greens today. â€œI have a good imagination and can hit trundlers and cuts and hooks and find ways to get it on the green,â€ he said. â€œAs long as you give me a swing and some kind of a gap, Iâ€™m pretty good at finding it.” I’d call that an understatement given those numbers. â€œThis golf course allows you to do that. It relaxes me a little bit off the tee so that I can go ahead and hit it. If I miss, I can use my skill to recover.â€

Apparently the caddies are searching for a nickname for the 34 year old Swede. Todd Hamilton’s caddie came up with “Rambo” because he’s deadly from the trees. I think I like Wild Thing better, given the spray shots he launches from the tee. I’m sure he’ll settle for Champ at the end of the day tomorrow.

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18 years ago

Jun 28, 2008

Eric Schuster

Daniel Chopra stands atop the leaderboard after the third round of the Buick Open at Warwick Hills. Hitting only 3 of 14 fairways, Mr. Chopra still hit 13 of 18 greens today. “I have a good imagination and can hit trundlers and cuts and hooks and find ways to get it on the green,” he said. “As long as you give me a swing and some kind of a gap, I’m pretty good at finding it." I’d call that an understatement given those numbers. “This golf course allows you to do that. It relaxes me a little bit off the tee so that I can go ahead and hit it. If I miss, I can use my skill to recover.”

Apparently the caddies are searching for a nickname for the 34 year old Swede. Todd Hamilton’s caddie came up with "Rambo" because he’s deadly from the trees. I think I like Wild Thing better, given the spray shots he launches from the tee. I’m sure he’ll settle for Champ at the end of the day tomorrow.

Mr Chopra leads a threesome of Dudley Hart, Woody Austin, and Bubba Watson by those two shots. Second round leader Bo Van Pelt, after a smooth 73 is another shot back with Kenny Perry whose name has popped up atop a lot of leaderboards this season.

Mr. Hart missed the last seven months of 2007 when a softball sized tumor was discovered in his wife’s lung. Surgery removed the tumor and half the lung and fortunately the tumor was benign. Mr Hart returned to the tour this year on a medical exemption and has earned enough cash to retain his playing status. Playing golf must seem somewhat less serious these days.

Mr. Watson had his best finish at the 2007 Houston Open where he tied for second. He finished sixth at the Travelers Classic for his best finish this year. Mr. Watson has shown a tendency to crack when put in position to win (hasn’t happened often, but he folds much like a cheap suit, with a lot of wrinkles) .

Mr. Perry has had a number of chances to win this year but has been plagued by some nasty little gremlins with the ability to deposit his ball in places qualifying as places. Remember the ball off the tree into the water? But now that he’s got his win under his belt, if his putter works tomorrow he could take another trophy and a guaranteed invite to the Ryder Cup.

Speaking of Ryder Cup, should Mr. Chopra maintain his place atop the field at the end of tomorrow, he too will have a chance to make the Ryder Cup team. Two wins in one season on the PGA Tour will do that for a player. So he’s got some extra motivation.

We’ll just have to watch to see who wins. I have difficulty picking a winner on a course where everyone can make birdies by the bunch. Hottest putter gets the trophy.

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Photos from the 2026 OccuNet Classic

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3 hours ago

Jun 9, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

With the PGA Tour across the border in Canada this week, GolfWRX Tour Photographer Greg Moore stayed stateside and headed to the OccuNet Classic presented by Amarillo National Bank in Amarillo, Texas.

It’s always interesting to see what the guys are playing on the KFT, and this week certainly hasn’t disappointed so far, with some incredible wedge stamping on display.

Check out links to all our albums below.

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2026 OccuNet Classic (KFT) – Monday #1

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Luke Potter’s custom Cameron putter – 2026 OccuNet Classic (KFT)

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From the GolfWRX Classifieds: Scotty Cameron GOLO 6 with BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition

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4 hours ago

Jun 9, 2026

Will Schube

At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals who all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @HuskerFlyer is sharing a Scotty Cameron GOLO with a BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition shaft. While the putter is certainly enviable, the Augusta-inspired shaft is equally noteworthy.

From the listing:

Scotty Cameron Golo 6 with BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition Scotty Headcover 34″ $375

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules.

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J.T. Poston delivers career-changing victory after major gear changes

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1 day ago

Jun 8, 2026

Alistair Cameron

J.T. Poston required extra holes Sunday to earn a handshake from Jack Nicklaus himself and walk away with the biggest victory of his career.

Poston outlasted Ryan Gerard on the second playoff hole at the Memorial Tournament, and the victory at Jack’s place was aided by two significant gear switches ahead of the tournament in Ohio.

Firstly, Poston swapped from the Titleist Pro V1x to the new Pro V1x Left Dash in his last start at the Charles Schwab Challenge. It’s the ball that made headlines just a month ago, when Jordan Spieth also transitioned into the low-spinning variant at the Cadillac Championship.

Poston’s ball change was spurred by a discussion with Titleist Tour reps about testing some options that could be a little better for him in the wind, after the now four-time PGA Tour winner had gained slightly more speed of late and was feeling like his irons and full wedge shots were overspinning.

Poston spent time testing both the current-generation Pro V1 and the new Left Dash at home the week after the PGA Championship, and at Colonial Country Club, he spent more time dialing things in on the range with J.J. Van Wezenbeeck before deciding to tee up the Left Dash that week. At the time, Poston was 85th in SG: Approach (+0.024); he gained +1.402 at Colonial.

“So we felt like today was going to be a good test of that and it obviously performed really well,” Poston said after a second-round 65 at Muirfield Village which propelled him into the lead. “We had a couple shots that I felt like didn’t quite hit ’em perfect and it hung in there pretty well. So I feel like just having that confidence in that too is big, where I just — we’re trying to hit the smart shot and hit the right shot and just trying to execute and go from there.”

On his way to victory, Poston delivered a dominant performance from tee-to-green and was +8.081 in approach and tied for fourth in greens in regulation.

Poston’s Memorial victory was also the first on Tour for the new torched line of TaylorMade’s 2026 Spider putters. Poston also added the L-Neck Tour X at the Charles Schwab Challenge the week prior, something prompted because “it seems to be working for a lot of the other guys.”

A usually reliable putter, Poston had dropped to as low as 89th on Tour in strokes gained, and when he saw his good friend Denny McCarthy using the Spider, he thought about the change. With the new flatstick in hand, Poston gained close to seven shots on the field at the Memorial and ranked third in SG: Putting for the week.

Poston was the first to agree, though, that neither switch was more important than the other.

“The ball got me there, the putter helped me get it in the hole,” Poston said.

See Poston’s full winning WITB here.