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Tour Rundown: Postman delivers | Green | Guerrier

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2 years ago

Oct 21, 2024

Fantasy football leagues are at the halfway point, leading to playoffs. Bye weeks are beginning to happen in the NFL and professional golf marches on. We are fortunate to have televised golf this deep into the year. New faces and names gain experience in front of our eyes, and new venues reveal their intricacies over the course of four, camera-ready days.

This weekend, we saw action in Las Vegas, southern Spain, Virginia, and Korea. Lifelong grinders earned inaugural wins, while some near-top-tier talents added additional titles to their Wikipedia pages. In western New York, it’s warm and sunny for a few days, so I’ll just pretend it’s summer with colorful leaves. With that lovely thought on tap, let’s run down this week’s tour action.

PGA Tour @ Shriners Children’s Open: Poston delivers

J. T. Poston, aka The Postman, is one of those sneaky talents that would fit on any international side that the USA might roster. He is accurate through the green, and can light up the candelabra when it comes to putting. This week in Las Vegas, Poston did enough through 70 holes to overcome a 71st-hole bogey and win by a shot. Chasing the letter-carrier wasn’t the neighborhood stray, but Doug Ghim. The Illinois native has yet to win on tour, and this week represents his closest-ever effort toward that goal. Ghim played a flawless final round, closing with birdie for 65 and a one-shot margin with the winner.

Third place belonged to Matti Schmid of Germany and Rico Hoey of the Philipines, while everyone’s favorite Twitter golf guy, Michael Kim, raced around TPC Summerlin in 62 strokes on Sunday, to tie for fifth position.

A putt to win on the 72nd hole ?@JT_ThePostman is back in the winner’s circle @ShrinersOpen! pic.twitter.com/OOTr6GeSIs

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) October 21, 2024

LPGA @ BMW Ladies: Green garners golf

Hannah Green owns six LPGA victories, one of which was a major title. Sunday had to feel like a major victory. Competing in golf-crazy South Korea, with Celine Boutier on the hunt, Green held off the French champion and a handful of home-country favorites, to win by a single shot. After posting a pair of 64s to begin the week, Green lost the magic wand, closing in 70-71. That 141 total, it turns out, was just enough to hold off Boutier.

What appeared to be a much different outcome took on new form, when Boutier closed with five birdies over her final seven holes. She moved from -13 to -18, and nearly stole the show. Thailand’s Chanattee Wannasaen created a firestorm when she posted four birdies and an eagle on the outward half, to turn in 30 and take the lead. The young talent was unable to keep pace, and came home in +2 to finish two shots off the winning tally. The victory was the third of the season for Green, giving her much momentum down the CME stretch run.

The third winning putt of the year for @hannahgreengolf! ? pic.twitter.com/POJ8G98cTh

— LPGA (@LPGA) October 20, 2024

DP World Tour @ Andalucia Masters: Guerrier wins the week

One week after countryman Gregory Havret called it a career back home at the French Open, his countryman stood tall at the tip of the Iberian peninsula. Seventeen years after turning professional, Julien Guerrier won his first DP World Tour title. Guerrier traversed the Sotogrande course in 267 strokes, precisely the same number as the pride of Spain, Jorge Campillo. Bogey at the last by Campillo send the pair off to a playoff, but no one knew that another, half round awaited.

After six pars at the 18th revealed no champion, the duo moved to alternate between 17, a par three, and the challenging finisher. Another ten pars brought them once more to the home hole, where Campillo stumbled with bogey, ensuring that Guerrier would finally lift a tour trophy in triumph. Third place belonged to Daniel Brown of England, two shots out of the playoff.

In 2005, Julien Guerrier made his debut on the DP World Tour…

19 years later, he defeats Jorge Campillo in a nine hole play-off to claim his first title! ?#EDAM2024 pic.twitter.com/FUf9DDR1m8

— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) October 20, 2024

PGA Tour Champions @ Dominion Energy: O’Neal breaks through

Timothy O’Neal has been at this game as long as Julien Guerrier. O’Neal never won on PGA Tour, during irregular stints, but his dream of tour glory came true in commonwealth this week. O’Neal held off an international cast of competitors, from Argentina, Australia, and Denmark, on his way to a two-shot triumph and a first-ever sip from a PGA Tour trophy.

There’s little better than posting birdie at two of the final three holes, to win by a pair. O’Neal did just that on Sunday, edging past Ricardo Gonzalez of Argentina, who closed with a 69 of his own. O’Neal stood 13 deep after three rounds, earning not just a trophy, but a tour exemption for 2025. Nope, it doesn’t get much better.

Tim O’Neal is clutch!!

He birdies No. 18 to extend his lead to two @DECCGolf.

Ricardo Gonzalez can force a playoff with an eagle to finish. pic.twitter.com/FrVnw40W2E

— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) October 20, 2024

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Russell Henley’s winning WITB: 2026 Charles Schwab Challenge

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1 hour ago

May 31, 2026

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Driver: Titleist TSi3 (10 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 70 6.5 TX

3-wood: Titleist TS3 (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 80 TX

7-wood: Titleist GTS3 (21 degrees)
Shaft: Project X Denali Black 80 TX

Irons: Titleist T250 (4), Titleist T100 (5-9)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold AMT (4-6), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (7-9)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (48-10F @47, 50-08F @51, 54-10S @55, 60-04T)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48), S400 (47)

Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X5 Tour Prototype

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

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Charles Schwab Challenge Tour Report: MacIntyre, Åberg and Spaun all switch putters, TaylorMade launches new Spider

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3 days ago

May 29, 2026

Alistair Cameron

There must be something in the water. Or potentially on the greens. A whole host of big-time players decided that the Charles Schwab Challenge was the perfect place to test out new putters.

With the 2026 U.S. Open just around the corner, defending champion J.J. Spaun made a surprising switch away from his center-shafted Df3 and into L.A.B. Golf’s OZ.1i HS – the heel-shafted mallet putter.

“Just something I kind of wanted to change the way the putter was looking, just a completely different look than the DF3 that I’ve been using for the last year and a half,” Spaun told GolfWRX about the swap. “So it’s just easier to line up for me with less onset looking design, and it’s just something I felt like switching it up and seeing how it goes.”

You can find more about the putter and the reasoning behind Spaun’s change here.

Robert MacIntyre also decided to change the flatstick at Colonial Country Club. He’s using a custom Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R. The Scotty team created a specially-milled face featuring horizontal grooves and shortened the plumber’s neck to increase toe hang.

Another custom feature of the build is the welded wings added to the rear of the putter, similar to those found on the Phantom 11 head.

It’s potentially part of a major overhaul to his bag. The Scot has recently switched from the Titleist Pro V1 to the Pro V1x golf ball, added the new GTS2 driver, and is currently testing a GTS 3-wood that could replace his ancient TaylorMade AeroBurner 3-wood.

Ludvig Åberg joined the trio of superstars making alterations on the greens. He’s added a Scotty Cameron Phantom 3.2.

It’s not Åberg’s first putter switch of the season. He had been using different versions of his usual Odyssey Versa #1 head to try to get better speed control on the greens.

? Ludvig Åberg is using a new putter! He’s playing a @ScottyCameron Phantom 3 head. First major putter switch, although he has been changing loft and heads in the Odyssey #1 style this season.
Here’s a Phantom 3 built for him earlier in the season https://t.co/oGrNk6p0hz pic.twitter.com/edRbpk22m4

— Alistair Cameron (@ACameronWRX) May 28, 2026

Currently, a Tour-only offering, the Phantom 3 head is a half-moon mallet shape. Like the previous version that GolfWRX captured at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which Åberg never put in play, the current version appears to feature the Studio Carbon Steel face insert and chain-link face milling. Instead of the all-black version one, Åberg’s current flatstick is in the metal finish.

Rico Hoey’s make-shift Jailbird

Some of the best builds on Tour have a certain Frankenstein theme to them.

Odyssey decided to do this when breeding a turtle and a bird together. The result, Rico Hoey’s latest broomstick.

The custom Jailbird S2S Tri-Hot head includes an aluminium-milled insert from the unreleased TRTL head, which the team machined down to fit the face of the Jailbird after removing the usual Ai-Dual insert.

The team also filled the wings of the putter with epoxy to redistribute mass away from the face, with the metal insert weighing more than the original.

Hoey was also spotted with a custom Damascus Milled Jailbird Mini broomstick. Check out the full gallery here.

Brant Snedeker’s full WITB

Arguably, the PGA Tour’s feel-good story of the year so far was 45-year-old Brandt Snedeker returning to the winner’s circle for the first time in nearly 8 years.

His victory didn’t come without some equipment updates, either. The Presidents Cup Captain added the 2016 M2 driver equipped with a Fujikura Speeder Evolution 661. It’s a shaft that’s even older than the driver.

The historic driver setup might have been added because Snedeker was missing some antique vibes. He recently switched out his 2-decade-old Odyssey Rossie White Hot XG for a TaylorMade Spider Tour X.

He first put the Spider in play at the Cognizant Classic. Still, at the Valspar Championship, he tested TaylorMade’s True Path Alignment versus without, and preferred the added aim benefits he was getting. In previous testing, the biggest thing Snedeker noticed was the launch and how quickly the ball got to true roll from the Spider and its Pure Roll insert compared to anything else he had tried.

Check out Snedeker’s full what’s in the bag during this week’s episode of “Inside the Ropes” from Colonial.

Everything’s bigger in Texas

TaylorMade Golf chose the second stop of a Texas two-step in Dallas as the spot to launch the tour’s latest Spider putter.

On-site Monday at Colonial Country Club, GolfWRX’s Tour Photographer Greg Moore captured the new Spider ZT Max putter ahead of the Charles Schwab Challenge.

The Max version of TaylorMade’s zero-torque putter style has a larger footprint than the original ZT, which will likely lead to a higher MOI thanks to wider perimeter weighting.

The original ZT is made of high-density 303 stainless steel at the front, and then a lower-density 6061 aerospace aluminum on the back to create a high-MOI foundation, with a center shaft featuring slight forward shaft lean and 25mm onset behind the leading edge.

The Spider ZT Max also appears to use the ZT cambered sole, which is also seen on the recently Tour-launched Spider Tour, Tour X, F and V models, which were first spotted at the RBC Heritage.

Brian Harman gamed the original Spider ZT for his victory last year at the 2025 Valero Texas Open, and the putter also saw victory on the DP World Tour in the hands of Michael Kim for his FedEx Open de France win.

Check out the full gallery here.

Odds and Ends

Project X officially Tour launched the Titan Yellow shaft, just a few days after Wyndham Clark played it for the first time and won The CJ Cup Byron Nelson. The shaft features a smoother feel in the handle compared to past Project X wood shafts, along with a firm midsection and firm tip. The Synex Technology allows a player to feel more load in transition without losing the feel of the clubhead. Titleist launched the GTS300 back at Quail Hollow, and just a few weeks later, it’s in the bag of Justin Thomas. Could this be a test run for Shinnecock?

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Photos from the ShopRite LPGA

Published

3 days ago

May 28, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

GolfWRX Tour Photographer Greg Moore was on site in Galloway, New Jersey, ahead of the ShopRite LPGA powered by Wakefern to snap some WITB photos and more.

Check out links to all the photos below!