Tour News

Web.com Tour Champ’ship: For 25, a dream came true

Published

12 years ago

Oct 28, 2012

Golf fans got to see reality television at its best on Sunday at the Web.com Tour Championship at the TPC at Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. When the week started, all 60 players in the field had an opportunity to finish within the top 25 on the money list and earn their card for the 2013 PGA Tour season.

No player took more advantage of his opportunity than Justin Bolli. Bolli started the week at No. 44 on the money list and needed a victory to insure himself a spot on the PGA TOUR next year. Bolli started the final round two back but ran the table on Sunday shooting 65 for a two-stroke victory.

The victory moved Bolli from No. 44 to No. 9 on the final money list.

“I can’t say I expected it but it was just one of those days where everything was going my way,” Bolli said. “I was in the zone and stayed out of my own way which was really nice.”

Adam Hadwin missed out on making the PGA Tour in gut wrenching fashion, as a meaningless birdie for James Hahn in the final group on the last hole moved Hadwin out of the top 25.

Hahn started the day in a tie for the lead with Justin Hicks but could only muster a 2-under 69 to finish in second. Hicks shot a round of even-par 70 but earned his card for next year finishing the season in 11^th place.

Much of the early final round coverage centered on Camilo Benedetti, who hovered around 25th for much of the day. Benedetti looked to be well on his way to earning his card before hooking his driver into the water down the left hand side of the drivable 14^th hole.

At the final hole, the cameras caught Benedetti’s hands shaking as he put down his ball and picked up his ball marker while lining up a three footer for birdie. He made the putt but it wasn’t to be as Benedetti finished the year in 26^th place, a paltry $940 away from his Tour card..

Morgan Hoffman had the round of the day, shooting 64 to move up the round leader board and finish the Tour Championship in 3^rd place. Hoffman, along with Bolli and Doug Labelle II, were the only three players starting outside the top 25 beginning the week to earn their cards.

Hudson Swafford, Joseph Bramlett, and Benedetti had the dubious distinction of being the only players to drop out of the final 25, leaving where they will play in 2013 in doubt. All three will have full exempt status on the Web.Com Tour but will likely look to Q-School for a second chance at earning their card.

The PGA Tour announced this week that the Valley Course at TPC at Sawgrass will host the fourth and final event of the 2013 Web.com Tour Finals.

Next year’s Tour Championship will finalize the 50 players earning eligibility on the PGA Tour for the 2013-2014 season. The top 25 leading money winners on the Web.Com Tour and top 25 money winners from the four events in the Tour Finals will earn their cards. The leading money winner during the regular season and the player who earns the most during the Tour Finals will be fully exempt and guaranteed a spot in PGA TOUR events.

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Equipment

Spotted: Putter roundup from the 2024 3M Open

Published

22 hours ago

Jul 25, 2024

Brian Knudson

Every week we spot some really cool and custom putters out on the putting green and in tour players’ bags. This week is no slouch with some really interesting and beautiful putters being tested. Let’s take a look at some of the standouts we found.

Tyler Duncan: Scotty Cameron Phantom T-11.5

The Phantom 11 is a pretty wild putter by Scotty’s standards with a multi-material design that boosts MOI for more forgiveness. Duncan’s T-11.5. takes the stock model and moves the shaft to the center of the putter head. We don’t mean a center shafted version, but the shaft is installed in the center, behind the face as well. We don’t have any official details on this T-11.5 but it looks like that setup should create a putter where the face points towards the hole or target, similar to a L.A.B. putter.

Zac Blair: Scotty Cameron 009.M Cameron & Co. “Longneck”

Blair might be in possession of the largest Scotty collection on tour! It seems like every week he has something new, and flat-out gorgeous, that he is trying out. I have seen a lot of 009.M putters over the years, but never one with a long plumbers neck on it. This 009 is a Masterful that utilizes additional CNC machine work to reduce the amount of hand polishing needed to complete the putter. The long, or tall, neck on the putter usually is used to reduce the amount of toe hang and make the putter more face balanced. The face contains a very shallow milling while the sole features a tour truck, tour only, diamonds, and the rare Circle L stamp. The Circle L was made for Scotty’s close friends who lost matches or games and was meant to poke a little fun at their misfortune.

Paul Barjon: PXG Prototype

There are a lot of putters out there that become so widely used and popular that other manufacturers will borrow some of the design cues. The Spider is one of those putters and it looks like PXG has made a prototype putter for Barjon that has some similar features. This proto has a tapered mallet shape with twin wings that come out from either side of the rear. Twin movable weights sit in each wing on the sole and the sole features a plate that is bolted in place at the corners. The top contains a single siteline and the face uses PXG’s advanced pyramid face structure.

Odyssey Ai-One Cruiser Broomstick #7

More and more long, counterbalanced, and alternative putters seem to be showing up recently. The long, or broomstick, putter is making a comeback and more than a few players have joined Adam Scott in using that style. Odyssey has thrown its hat in the broomstick arena with a new Ai-One Cruiser model. The head shape is the very familiar #7 model, but with the shaft going into the center of the club head. An Ai-One face is there to help keep ball speed consistent on off-center hits and three white lines are on top for framing ball and aligning the putter.

TaylorMade Spider Tour S Broomstick

Another option in the long putter is TaylorMade’s Spider Tour S broomstick that we saw around the putting green. The head looks to be a little larger than the standard Tour S and that makes sense with the broomstick-style putters demanding heads near or over 400g. A TPU Pure Roll insert is installed in the face and the shaft is a more traditional double-bend design, just much longer! There isn’t the True Path alignment on top, just a full darker grey finish with a single siteline. Two moveable weights are out in the wings of the putter to dial in the specific weight a player might want.

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Photos from the 2024 3M Open

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3 days ago

Jul 23, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

GolfWRX is on site this week at TPC Twin Cities for the 2024 3M Open for the penultimate event of the PGA Tour’s regular season.

The photos are flying in from Blaine, Minnesota. We’ve already assembled general galleries and a fresh Tony Finau WITB.

Check back throughout the week for more photos!

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Chris Gotterup’s TM P-7CB irons – 2024 3M Open

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Equipment

Collin Morikawa’s pre-Open equipment adjustments

Published

1 week ago

Jul 18, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.

Three years later, Morikawa has once again changed his irons to deal with the unique Scottish turf.

Morikawa has been using TaylorMade P730 blade short irons (7-PW), P7MC mid irons (5-6) and a TaylorMade “Proto” 4-iron with a cavity-back construction this year.

However, he switched into a new set of TaylorMade P7CB irons (5-PW) before finishing T4 at last week’s Genesis Scottish Open, to go along with his familiar “Proto” 4-iron. TaylorMade’s P7CB irons are the finalized versions of the “Proto” 4-iron that Morikawa has been using, except they remain unreleased to retail.

According to TaylorMade, Morikawa switched into a full set of the new P7CB irons to aid with turf interaction, just like he did prior to his 2021 Open victory.

Morikawa is honing in on his winning formula overseas.

Morikawa also has switched from his usual TaylorMade Qi10 5-wood to a lower-launching TaylorMade P790 3-iron equipped with a Project X HZRDUS 105 Hybrid shaft. The loft of the club has been bent down to 19 degrees.

TaylorMade says that Morikawa switched into the new driving iron In order to “have an option to hit something lower that will roll out in the fairways.”

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