Four Canadians team up at Zurich Classic New Orleans... full leaderboard

 PGA Tour : Zurich Classic at New Orleans...Tee Times

It's time for a break from the grind of 72 holes of singles stroke play as players team up in pairs to contest this version of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

Teams play alternating rounds of fourball and foursomes

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160 players make up 80 teams of 2. 

Thursday fourball, Friday foursomes..Cut made top 33 teams advance to the weekend

Saturday fourball, Sunday foursomes... winner team with the highest score under par (example -26)

Rory and his pal Shane Lowry are lending their support to the event after a drunken lunch after their Ryder Cup victory in Rome, Shane asked Rory "hey wanna play the Zurich ?" answer " sure why not !!"

Canadians

9.18 10th  Conners/Pendrith  vs  Kuchar/Stricker

1.05 10th  Sloan / Teater  vs  Merritt / Streb

1.57 1st    Hadwin/ Taylor vs Horschel / Alexander

3.02 1st   Silverman / Dougherty  vs  Coody / Coody

For live scoring click on my link above...

Bryan Angus

DP World Tour at ISPS Handa Championship in Japan..TEE TIMES

 DP World Tour : ISPS Handa Championship Tee Times

The DP World Tour visits a new course this week in Japan as the ISPS HANDA - CHAMPIONSHIP marks the penultimate regular event of the Asian Swing.

With views of Mount Fuji offering a spectacular backdrop to this year's tournament, Taiheiyo Club Gotemba Course will play host on the DP World Tour for the first time this week, following on from last year's event at PGM Ishioka GC.

The par 70 layout, which plays at 7262 yards and is described by the club as a 'true hillside course', was designed in 1977 by Shunsuke Kato and is the flagship layout of Taineiyo Club's 18 courses. Situated 100km southwest of Tokyo, the course underwent a renovation in 2018 overseen by Rees Jones with consultation from Major Champion Hideki Matsuyama.

No stranger to elite competitions, the course has staged the Taiheiyo Masters on the Japan Golf Tour every year since its opening in 1977. It has also played host to the 2001 World Cup of Golf, won by South African duo Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and will also stage this year's Asia Pacific Amateur Championship in October.

Matthieu Pavon is the top-ranked player in the field this week, having reached a career-high in the Official World Golf Ranking with a tie for 12th on his Masters debut earlier this month.

The French star, who won his first PGA TOUR title earlier this year, is joined in action by fellow ISPS HANDA ambassadors Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who are also fellow winners on the DP World Tour.

A host of players will be hoping to become the latest Japanese stars to make their mark after a record-breaking six months that has seen three champions crowned on the DP World Tour.

Keita Nakajima became the latest name to break through at the Hero Indian Open at the end of March, just 49 days after compatriot Rikuya Hoshino earned his own maiden title at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Last season, Ryo Hisatsune became just the third player in history - following Hideki Matsuyama (2021 Masters) and Isao Aoki (1983 Panasonic European Open) to lift a DP World Tour title at the 2023 Cazoo Open de France.

With the event co-sanctioned with the Japan Golf Tour, Nakajima is joined in the field this week by 45 other players hoping to impress the home fans at a venue that is very well-known to them.

ISPS HANDA was founded by the Japanese philanthropist, Dr Haruhisa Handa, in 2006 in the belief that sport has the power to inspire, transform, and unite people and communities across social, racial and socio-economic barriers.

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Scheffler continues PGA Tour domination, RBC Heritage Monday finish..

 PGA Tour : RBC Heritage Leaderboard

I think we all had the same opening line in mind..."Only Mother Nature can stop Scottie Scheffler from winning."

He and Nelly Korda should have a playoff ! 

Korda just won her 5th straight for goodness sake, at The Chevron and Scheffler has won 4 of his last 5 including the Masters with the other being a 2nd place finish. 

I am giving him credit for this win at the RBC Heritage although for the record, the 3 hour rain delay that postponed play on Sunday leaving him 3 holes to play this morning with a 5 shot lead 69 65 63 and he's -4 through 15 holes on his final round. They begin at 8am.

I'll just say this about this soon to be father and devout Christian from Texas He is relentlessly good from tee to green. Almost boringly good. He made a double bogey 6 at the 2nd on Thursday just to confirm he is human and that's it !! After he chipped in for eagle on Sunday at that same 2nd hole he was off to the races once again.

The sooner he gets on with being a dad the better !

Canadians.

Mac Hughes T39 66 66 75 71 -6  (great start but 75 Saturday was his undoing )

 Adam Hadwin T42  67 70 70 72 -5 (another steady week )

Corey Conners T44  69 71 66 74  ( Sunday finish cost him some money )

Adam Svensson T44  72 66 70 72 -4  (playing in these Signature events amongst the best)

Nick Taylor T49  71 70 69 71 -3 (not his week, but still the Canadian Open champ !)

For those of you who are asking me. Byron Nelson won 11 straight during the war in 1945. Vijay Singh won 9 all together in 2004. Tiger won 32 times between 1999 and 2003, then another 31 times from 2005-2009.

Bryan Angus

Henderson T3, Korda wins 5th straight, Chevron Championship final results..

 LPGA : The Chevron Championship PAIRINGS

The Nelly Korda, Scottie Scheffler era continues to dominate pro golf. Scheffler in his last 5 outings has won 4 and finished 2nd once.

Nelly Korda kisses the trophy after winning the Chevron Championship LPGA golf tournament Sunday, April 21, 2024, at The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas. (AP Photo Eric )

Korda has played 6 times in 2024 and won the last 5 including the LPGAs first major The Chevron with a very steady 68 69 69 69 -13 worth $1,200,000.

Swede, Maja Stark 70 69 69 69 -11 2nd $666,834 then Brooke Henderson 71 71 64 72 -10 along with Lauren Coughlin 66 73 71 68 -10.

Brooke had her round of the year on Saturday when everything went in, just 23 putts, 7 birdies and an eagle for -8 64, but as is golf, Sunday was a different story. She opened par, bogey, birdie, double, birdie, birdie for an unlikely E36 front nine. She  finished with E72 and $428,976 in her jeans pocket.

Rookie Savannah Grewal missed the cut. The Canadian rookie made a big splash T4 in her 2nd event, the Blue Bay in China, but reality has set in missing 3 cuts in 5 outings so far.

This week it's the LA Championship at the Wilshire CC.

Bryan Angus

LPGA Major Chevron Championship..Henderson needs big weekend, weekend pairings..

 LPGA: The Chevron Championship PAIRINGS

Remember this is the first of 5 majors for the women, the Chevron Championship at the opulent Woodlands Community outside Houston in Texas.

Another Korean, Jin Hee Im 69 67 -8 and a Thai Atthaya Thitikul 69 67 -8 share the lead.

You really have to be up on your international golf to follow this LPGA Tour so long dominated by South Koreans now joined by many others.

Amongst them all is American super star Nelly Korda the Scottie Scheffler of the LPGA, a shot behind at 68 69 -7.

Brooke M. Henderson (Ashley Landis/AP)

Trying to keep up is Canada's sweetheart Brooke Henderson 71 71 -2 with rookie Savannah Grewal missing the cut 76 73 +5.

Follow all the Saturday pairings and scores by clicking on my link above 

Bryan Angus

Crowded leaderboard at $20m RBC Heritage.. Hughes T5

 PGA Tour : RBC Heritage Leaderboard Tee Times

There is $20,000,000 at stake and the leaderboard is crowded at this version of the RBC Heritage on the Harbourtown Links in Hilton Head SC.

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Ball striking expert Tom Hoge 67 64 -11 is joined by DP World Tour Austrian Sepp Straka 66 65, and in form Collin Morikawa 65 66 along with JP Boston 63 68.

Canadian Mac Hughes T5 66 66 -10 is right there in contention for his biggest ever pay day along with Ludvig Aberg 66 66 and Patrick Rodgers 66 66 and oh yes Scheffler 69 65 once again is at -8 heading into the weekend..

There are only 9 players over par including Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose, such is the scoring on this well known course.

Other Canadians

Adam Hadwin T23 67 70 -5

Adam Svensson T30 72 66 -4

Corey Conners T47 69 70 -2

Nick Taylor T50 71 70 -1

Rory is T12 67 68 -7

For all scores and Saturday TEE Times click on my links above.

Bryan Angus

Henderson 5 off the lead Chevron Championship... full leaderboard / Friday TEE TIMES

 LPGA : Chevron Championship PAIRINGS

American Lauren Coughlin had it all going her way at this LPGA major, with a bogey free 6 birdie 66 on the Club at Carlton Woods down at the Woodlands in Texas to lead by 2 shots. 

The Woodlands is what Americans call a "special-purpose district" basically a wealthy urban area separate from the urban area of Houston, with their own elected officials and a small population of 115,000.

The Scottie Scheffler of the LPGA Tour, Nelly Korda is in a group T2 -4 68.

Canadians

Brooke Henderson had 3 birdies and 2 bogey's including a 6 at the par5 18th T18 -1 71 while rookie Savannah Grewal who has found out how good and deep the LPGA Tour is struggled T105 +4 76.

For all the scores and Friday tee times click on my link above.

Bryan Angus