Weather delays round 2, Hadwin, Silverman out at Wyndham Championship...live leaderboard

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Stormy weather blew through Greensboro NC Saturday afternoon at this Wyndham Championship forcing suspension of the 2nd round in this last event of the regular PGA Tour season. 

With the top 70 in the Fed Ex standings on the line for some, the 7.30am start this morning will be an important one with the cut line at -3.

Not so the case for Adam Hadwin or Ben Silverman who both shot 70 68 -2, not that bad, however on this dry Sedgefield CC the scoring was very low again, the clubhouse lead at -12 by American Mac Meissner 65 63, and Korean veteran Sungjae Im 64 64 is indicative.

They will now have a month off, before returning to the Fall series in September to try and salvage their 2026 cards for the top 100. Hadwin #134, Silverman #163. 

Adam Svensson #162,  is still in with a chance, he will return this morning T93 -1 but just E thru 13 holes, so will need a couple of birdies or the like to make the weekend. 

WEATHER : Players will be paired in three's off split tees on completion of round 2 this morning with rain in the forecast early afternoon.

Cloudy with afternoon showers possible 60%. 23*c, wind 19-29kph NE. 

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Henderson, Huang out, Japanese dominate AIG Women's Open.. Saturday leaderboard

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The luck of the draw often plays a large part in deciding golf tournaments, such has been the case so far in this AIG Women's Open.

At the top, a Japanese star in her own right Miyu Yamashita 68 65 -11 played late on Thursday when the wind was more of a breeze to the locals, then early on Friday when conditions were benign, leaving Royal Porthcawl without her usual bite.

She has been a prolific winner on her Japan LPGA and has a huge 7 shot lead over the chasing pack at -4. Only her Japanese compatriot Rio Takeda 67 69 -8 is close, they will continue to play together in the final pairing on Saturday.

At the bottom end, Canada's Brooke Henderson played in calmer weather on Thursday posting -1 71 that saw her T16. Then late on Friday when the wind was gusting 25-30kph and scoring was at a premium.

Battling to a 2 birdie, 2 bogey front nine 36 she started back with a double bogey 6 at 10, another bogey at 11 and suddenly she was flirting with the cut line which fell at +2.

She made pars 12-16 still at +2 however she missed a 4 footer for par at 17, couldn't make birdie at 18, her final 76 saw her bow out of the championship on +3.

16 year old Anna Huang can put her week down to experience 76 76 +8.

WEATHER : Saturday the BBC weather forecast, " Sunny intervals with a moderate breeze 12-16kph W."

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Canadians well back, Dahmen leads, Wyndham Championship....live Friday scoreboard

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The top 70 players from this week in the Fed Ex standings will proceed to the St Jude Classic, the first event of the playoffs.

On a day of low scoring on the dry Sedgefield CC, veteran Joel Dahmen is ranked #105, took a step towards improving that with a brilliant -9 61 to lead after 18 holes.

Alex Noren 2nd, 62,   Aaron Rai, Mark Hubbard, Cameron Young all T3, 63.

There are 3 Canadians, all outside the playoff picture hoping for a big week, all are off to a slow start.

The cut is projected at -2

Adam Svensson T88 -1 69

Ben Silverman T110 E 70

Adam Hadwin T110 E 70.

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Japanese leaders at AIG Women's Open, Henderson T16.. LIVE rd2 scoring...

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At one point in round 1 of the AIG Women's Open there were 5 Japanese golfers in the top 10. At day's end a pair are the leaders.

Eri Okayama and Rio Takeda both shot -5 67's on a mainly dry day breezy day on the links at Royal Porthcawl.

 

Canada's Brooke Henderson opened with -1 71, while young Anna Huang +4 76.

The cut is projected to fall at E with Friday's round 2 early wave in play as I post this at 7am edt.

England's Lottie Wood won 2 events (Irish & Scottish Open's) and narrowly missed out on her 1st major (3rd at the Evian) in July, began as the tournament favourite, was playing in her 2nd event since turning professional. She opened with even par 72, 5 shots off the lead " It was a bit mixed, one of those rounds that could have gotten away from me, so Im glad I hung in there."

In general scoring was good despite the breeze, two Welsh fan favourites started well, Darcy Harry -2 70, Lydia Hall E 72.

Defending champion Lydia Ko +1 73, Nelly Korda world #1 -2 70, Charley Hull had a late collapse with 4 straight bogey's +1 73.

WEATHER: Friday 19*c, sunny intervals with a moderate breeze 16kph NW.

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Henderson T16 -1 early at breezy AIG Women's Open.. live scoreboard

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"Gentle rain and a moderate breeze" was the way the BBC Weather described the day at Royal Porthcawl, where the wind has been known to blow your socks off.  (When you look up  interesting facts about visiting Porthcawl the first one is "Bring your umbrella!")

Friday forecast : Strong winds are likely to continue on Friday with gusts 25-30mph although the weather should remain dry and bright particularly in the afternoon.

Canadians

Brooke Henderson has a bright start to her week out in the early wave, beginning her round with 5 straight pars, adding birdies at 6th and 9th, a lone bogey at the 7th,out in -1 35. 

After the turn, she was still steady with 6 pars in a row, a bogey at the 16th, bounce back birdie 3 at 17th finishing T16 -1 71, a good start. 

16 year old Anna Huang had a tough day, 4 bogey's and a double, 2 birdies she is T87 +4 76.

Latest at 8am edt

* there are 5 Japanese players in the top 10 so far, 3 of them Kuwaki, Saigo, Iwai all in the clubhouse lead at -3 69

* another Eri Okayama leads at -4 thru 9 holes, out in 32.

* watch out for young English player Lottie Woad who just won the Scottish in her 1st start as a pro. She is the darling of the tabloids right now, and has just begun with a birdie at the 1st.

* another favourite of the tabloids Charley Hull made 4 birdies in a row 6-9 on her outward nine after opening +3 thru 3,  and has just made 4 bogey's i a row 14-17 currently T77 +2...

>>>>>more to follow with the late wave just getting underway....

Bryan Angus

AIG Women's Open : Royal Porthcawl GC, Wales...Brooke Henderson...TEE TIMES

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The top women are all gathered this week in Porthcawl, Wales for their last major of the year, the AIG Women's Open. 

There are two Canadians, Brooke Henderson and 16 year old Anna Huang, who has just turned pro, playing on the LET.

Lydia Ko defends, while England's Lottie Woad, who won the Scottish Open last week in her first event since turning pro is a major talking point.

The purse is $9,500,000.

WEATHER : Thursday :BBC weather calls for light rain with a moderate breeze

more to follow..

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Final event: Wyndham Championship: Hadwin hoping to save a lost season...TEE Times

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This weeks Wyndham Championship in Greensboro NC, is the last before the PGA Tour 3 event playoffs, for a lot of  money, and a lot of guys.

While his colleagues on tour for the last few years, Nick Taylor, Mac Hughes, Taylor Pendrith and Corey Conners are all set, home on break before beginning the run to the Tour Championship, Adam Hadwin has who has floundered all year, falling to an uncomfortable #134 in the Fed Ex Cup standings, where he was #37 last year, and in the top 60 for the last 3 years, playing all the Signature events, is hoping to rescue a lost season.

Like so many guys, Adam decided to change things, looking to improve what was his DNA, a steady pro, with his favourite events, doing enough, even without always winning to stay in the pack.

In hindsight, he is not sure if hiring swing coach Mark Blackburn was a good idea, I mean one T10 in Phoenix this season, won't get it done.

I have written here about him playing every week recently with Adam Svensson and Ben Silverman both well out of playoff contention in order to make the playoffs but MC at the Deere, ISCO and Barracuda have left him hoping to find lightning in a bottle this week, or take a month off during playoffs and come back for the Fall Schedule to try and make the top 100 to keep his card for 2026.

"It's more golf than I would normally played but I've been in a position where I have had to play, trying to fight through it."

We'll see, he may just have to give up what he and Blackburn have been working on, and get back to what made him successful, in his month off.

He needs a top 2 this week to get into the top 70 that make the playoffs, an unlikely scenario considering his season, but both Nick Taylor and Roger Sloan have been where he is now and just scraped in.

" I have nothing to lose this week, so that will be my mindset"

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Paddy Harrington, classic late bloomer, worthy Hall of Famer

 Pádraig Harrington won his second Senior Major of the season at the ISPS HANDA Senior Open.

Pádraig Harrington became the fifth player in history to win both The Open Championship and the ISPS HANDA Senior Open as he cruised to a three-shot victory in Europe’s only Senior Major Championship, at Sunningdale.

The Irishman held a two-shot overnight lead, but he quickly extended that as he got off to a dream start with an eagle at the first and maintained his command to sign for a closing -3 67.

On another day of low scoring over the Old Course, he carded an eagle, three birdies and two bogeys to reach a winning total of -16, with fellow former Ryder Cup Captain Thomas Bjørn and American Justin Leonard locked in a T2.

Harrington joins Bob Charles, Gary Player, Tom Watson and Darren Clarke as a winner of the Claret Jug and the Senior Open trophy.

Key facts

• His 11th PGA TOUR Champions victory on his 59th start

• Becomes the fifth player in history to have won both The Open and the Senior Open, joining Bob Charles, Gary Player, Tom Watson and Darren Clarke (won The Open in 2007 and 2008)

• His third Senior Major Championship, adding to his two U.S. Senior Open victories (2022 and 2025)

• The second Irishman to win the Senior Open, joining two-time winner Christy O’Connor Jnr (1999 and 2000)

• His second win of the season, adding to his U.S. Senior Open victory last month

• His 43rd professional victory. Harrington is a 15-time winner on the DP World Tour, with three further PGA TOUR victories

• This is his fourth appearance at the ISPS HANDA Senior Open. He has finished runner-up twice, losing in a play-off in 2023 and T5

• Moves to second on the Charles Schwab Cup Standings

edit >>>  Padraig (Patrick, Paddy) clearly loves golf, his constant enthusiasm for the game, with which he has both struggled and soared is clearly evident, especially now at 53 since he joined the Senior Tour in 2022 , winning the US Senior Open that year. 

He was 25 before he turned pro in 1995/96 on the European Tour at a time when Monty was winning all of his Orders of Merit, and Faldo was winning Opens and Masters.

Suffice to say he has won 43 tournaments world wide and finished 2nd or T10 an astonishing amount since. with his biggest years 2007, 2008 when he won back to back Opens, then the PGA Championship 3 weeks later in 2008 becoming the PGA Tour Player of the Year and the European Tour Player of the Year, and world #3.

He has played in 6 Ryder Cups, and was captain in 2020. He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2024. He has spent 300 weeks in the world's top 10. He has been owgr #3 and now at #579

There is much more to Paddy's story, like his Dublin childhood sweetheart and wife since 1997 Caroline, but apart from that explosion in his career 2007/8 he has flown a lot under the radar, always tinkering with his swing, out of the top 100, lost in the pack at owgr 385th in 2014, but playing, always playing, even now between 3 tours DP/PGA/Champions he shows up every week somewhere in the world, still talking up his game, giving widely popular lessons on social media, and now in the bright spotlight as one of the headliners on the Champions. 

A classic late bloomer and a very worthy Hall of Famer. 

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Now the DP World Tour Race to Dubai 2025..

 29 events down, 13 to go and it's still all to play for on the 2025 Race to Dubai.

From David Micheluzzi hitting the first shot at the BMW Australian PGA Championship to Scottie Scheffler lifting the Claret Jug at The Open for his second Major win of 2025, the season so far has brought us plenty of thrills and spills.

Via five continents and Global Swings, four Major Championships, two Rolex Series events and 23 regular DP World Tour outings, we have seen 28 different winners, with 17 lifting a DP World Tour trophy for the first time.

Here, we take a look at some of the highlights from the season so far.

Grand Slam glory for Rory

A lifetime in the making, nearly 11 years in the waiting - at the Masters Tournament Rory McIlroy joined the golfing immortals by completing the career Grand Slam. 

The World Number Two arrived at Augusta National as the favourite having already won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and THE PLAYERS Championship and at the 11th time of asking joined Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods in golf's most exclusive club. A play-off victory over Justin Rose saw him slip on the Green Jacket after sinking to his knees and letting out a roar on the 18th green in scenes that will be forever etched in golfing folklore. 

“It feels incredible,” said McIlroy. “This is my 17th time here and I started to wonder if it would ever be my time. I think the last ten times, coming here with the burden of the Grand Slam on my shoulders and trying to achieve that – I sort of wonder what we're going to talk about going into next year's Masters! I'm absolutely honoured and thrilled and just so proud to be able to call myself the Masters champion."

Swing Kings

There may be two events to go in the Closing Swing but we have already crowned four Swing winners with each of them sealing a place in all events in Phase Two of the season - the Back 9 - and a $US200,000 bonus.

The Opening Swing title went to John Parry as the Englishman enjoys a stunning career renaissance despite being just 38.  He started the 2025 season with a top ten at the BMW Australian PGA Championship and while he followed that with a missed cut, a runner-up finish at the Alfred Dunhill Championship was his best DP World Tour result since his victory in France. The following week he went one better, lifting the trophy at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open to win the Swing and truly cement his place back on Tour.

The International Swing started at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and Laurie Canter's third-place finish set him on course for a domination of the second Global Swing.  That form not only saw him win the Swing but also enter the top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking and earn a debut at the Masters Tournament.

Keita Nakajima had a tie for 11th Hainan Classic on the Asian Tour, but that  proved enough to hand Nakajima Swing glory. His place in the top three also saw him head to the US PGA Championship 

Martin Couvra won the opening event of the European Swing at the Turkish Airlines Open and from thereon in it would be a tight battle between him and Kristoffer Reitan.

The Frenchman who led the way into the BMW International Open by less than 70 points found out a missed cut would prove costly, however, and Reitan's tie for 4th in Munich saw the Norwegian take the Swing crown by fewer than 80 points.

 In 2023, we had a record 19 first-time winners, could that record be broken this year?

The Race is on

Amid all this, there is the main business of the battle to win the Harry Vardon Trophy and with no multiple winners among the DP World Tour membership on the Race to Dubai so far this season, the race is still wide open. 

With his victory at Augusta, top fives in the Rolex Series in Dubai and Scotland and a top ten at The Open, McIlroy is the man on top and with a host of confirmed chances to win points across the Rolex Series and Back 9 to come, he is the favourite to make it four in a row. 

Hatton is next thanks to his win in Dubai and some strong Major showings ahead of Haotong Li, who is enjoying a stunning season with six top tens including a win, a second and a top five at The Open. Penge is fourth after his runner-up finish at the Genesis Scottish Open and is followed by Swing winners Reitan, Canter and Parry, with all of them within 1,500 points of McIlroy.

There are many points still to play for with eight of the Back 9 events offering 5,000 (835.000 to the winner), the BMW PGA Championship offering 8,000 (1,335.000 to the winner), 9,000 available at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship (1,500.000 to the winner) and a whopping 12,000 points at stake at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, wiith the winner claiming 2,000.000.

For a full points breakdown, click here.

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