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Morning 9: USO qualifying galore | WGHOF inductees
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By Ben Alberstadt ([email protected])
June 4, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans.
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1. U.S. Open qualifiers
First, just the facts of who made it (ma’am), pulling from an excellent piece by Joel Beall at Golf Digest…
Walton Heath Golf Club (England)
Qualifiers: 1: Dean Burmester, Sam Horsfield, Marcus Fraser, Clement Sordet, Matthieu Pavon, Lee Slattery, Marcus Kinhult, Rhys Enoch, Adri Arnaus, Justin Walters, Daniel Hillier (a), Thomas Pieters, Merrick Bremner, Renato Paratore
Century Country Club & Old Oaks Country Club, Purchase, N.Y.
Qualifiers: Cameron Young (a), Matt Parziale (a), Andy Pope, Rob Oppenheim.
Streamsong Resort, Streamsong, Fla.
Qualifiers: Callum Tarren, Luis Gagne (a), Guillermo Pereira
Hawks Ridge Golf Club, Ball Ground, Ga.
Qualifiers: Ollie Schniederjans, Noah Norton, Chandler Eaton, Roberto Castro
Woodmont Country Club, Rockville, Md.
Qualifiers: Billy Hurley III, Joseph Bramlett, Ryan Sullivan
Brookside Golf & Country Club and Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio
Qualifiers: Luke Guthrie, Anirban Lahiri, Sam Saunders, Jhonattan Vegas, Rory Sabbatini, Jason Dufner, Chesson Hadley, Erik Van Rooyen, Luke Donald, Aaron Baddeley, Brandon Wu (a), Ryan Fox, Collin Morikawa, Kyoung-Hoon Lee
Big Canyon Country Club/Newport Beach Country Club, Newport Beach, Calif.
Qualifiers: Chun An Yu (a), Haydn Shieh, Richard Lee, Stewart Hagestad (a), Andreas Halvorsen
Springfield Country Club, Springfield, Ohio.
Qualifiers: Zac Blair, Chip McDaniel, Brian Stuard, Nick Hardy, Brett Drewitt
Wine Valley Golf Club, Walla Walla, Wash.
Qualifiers: Eric Dietrich, Matthew Naumec, Spencer Tibbits (a)
2. Dufner leads qualifiers…
The AP report on those punching their tickets to Pebble Beach begins with the Duf…
3. Shackelford’s report from Newport Beach
Shack conveyed plenty in his bit for Golfweek, here’s a morsel on medalist Chun An (Kevin) Yu…
4. Give Graeme a golden ticket
Speaking of qualifying…
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5. Ratings recap
Geoff Shackelford conveys the details from Sports Business Journal report…
6. Lexi to remain in claw’s grip
Thompson took 31 putts in the final round, after recording 32 each of the previous three days. She decided earlier this week, on the advice of her brother Curtis, to experiment with a claw grip on her putting stroke.
7. 2019 WGHOF class
…to be enshrined next week…
Our Gianni Magliocco…“Retief Goosen, Billy Payne, Jan Stephenson, Dennis Walters and the late Peggy Kirk Bell will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on June 10 to kick off the U.S Open championship week.”
8. Top 200 modern courses
Golfweek’s Bill Speros…
“Welcome to Golfweek’s annual Best. Each spring, we publish the three lists that are the foundation of our course-ratings program: Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses, Golfweek’s Best Modern Courses (below) and Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play.”
“The members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course.”
Here’s a little morsel of No. 2-5
2. Bandon Dunes (2) (Pacific Dunes)/td>Bandon, Ore.Tom Doak20018.84
3. Friar’s Head (3)Baiting Hollow, N.YBill Coore, Ben Crenshaw20038.60
4. Ballyneal (4)Holyoke, ColoTom Doak20068.47
5. Bandon Dunes (Old Macdonald) (5)Bandon, Ore.Tom Doak and Jim Urbina2010
For No. 1 (and 6-200), check out the full piece.
9. PSA: One of my favorite features…
…is Gianni Magliocco’s quick daily roundup of the best photos hashtagged #GolfWRX on Instagram. If you’re not a ‘grammer, it’s a nice little snack of some of the coolest equipment and course shots out there.
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Photos from the 2024 PGA Championship
GolfWRX is on site this week at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, for the PGA Championship.
While we see fewer equipment changes and new gear seeding at major championships, we get a look at custom gear and looks into the bags of players we rarely see, which is just as exciting. In the case of the PGA Championship, this means a look at the gear some of the PGA Professionals who qualified for the tournament will be gaming, and LIV players, such as Jon Rahm and Patrick Reed.
Check out links to all our albums from Valhalla below and check back throughout the week as we continue to update.
General Albums
WITB Albums
- Michael Block – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Patrick Reed – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Cam Smith – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Brooks Koepka – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Josh Speight – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Takumi Kanaya – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Kyle Mendoza – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Adrian Meronk – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jordan Smith – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jeremy Wells – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jared Jones – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- John Somers – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Larkin Gross – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Tracy Phillips – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jon Rahm – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Keita Nakajima – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Kazuma Kobori – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- David Puig – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Ryan Van Velzen – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Brad Marek – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Chris Gotterup – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Rich Beem WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Phil Mickelson – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Matt Dobyns – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Lucas Herbert – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jason Dufner – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- John Daly – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Taylor Gooch – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Dean Burmester – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Joaquin Niemann – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Dustin Johnson – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
Pullout Albums
- Ping putter covers – 2024 PGA Championship
- Bettinardi covers – 2024 PGA Championship
- Cameron putter covers – 2024 PGA Championship
- Max Homa – Titleist 2 wood – 2024 PGA Championship
- Scotty Cameron experimental putter shaft by UST – 2024 PGA Championship
- Joaquin Niemann – new Ping putter – 2024 PGA Championship
- Brooks Koepka’s new Cameron putter – 2024 PGA Championship
- Rickie Fowler’s Cobra bag and Aerojet driver – 2024 PGA Championship
- Super Stroke grip – 2024 PGA Championship
- Tiger Woods – 2024 PGA Championship
- Michael Block’s new TaylorMade “Proto” 7-iron, from address – 2024 PGA Championship
- Odyssey putter covers – 2024 PGA Championship
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