Four Canadians, Rory defends at AT%T Pebble Beach.. TEE TIMES

 PGA Tour : AT&T Pebble Beach Tee Times Leaderboard

After his career 2025 Grand Slam year including his 7th Race to Dubai title, Rory and family return to the US and to defend his title at this week's $20,000,000 signature event at Pebble Beach Links and Spyglass Hill.

While it would be a tall task for anyone, including current world #1 Scott Scheffler to duplicate last years spring where he not only won here, but at the Players and the Masters as well to become just the 6th player to complete the Grand Slam, he will be the man to beat until otherwise. 

However Justin Rose at world #3 returns after his Masterclass at Torrey Pines, Tommy Fleetwood #4 won the Fed Ex Cup, and Scheffler at #1 are among 18/20 world ranked players who surely may have their say.

He is now free to concentrate on the majors, defend his titles, and continue to be golf's ambassador spreading the game throughout the world as he did in India and Australia last year

As Shane Lowry says, "it doesn't matter now, he's done it all"

There are 4 Canadians who qualify for this limited 80 man field, pro-am signature event.

12.11 PB Corey Conners, 12.24 SH Nick Taylor, 12.50 SH Mac Hughes  1.42 SH Taylor Pendrith

WEATHER

I can report it is cold rainy with stiff winds 35kph SW that may well mean very little play today, Wednesday.

It will be calmer, cool 13*c sunny for Thursday, Friday, Saturday (cloudy)

However the current weather for Sunday is not good at all, 35kph wind SE, with rain increasing as the day goes on 70% in the afternoon for the leaders

So expect to see the touques, gloves and rain gear at some time this week on what is always one of America's most sceneic venues.

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Patrick Reed leads recent DP World members rise in OWGR..

 On the back of his second DP World Tour title in three weeks, Patrick Reed has risen inside the world’s top 20 for the first time in five years.

Patrick Reed was made an Honorary Life Member of the DP World Tour in 2019

The American won the Qatar Masters on Sunday to go alongside his victory at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic last month and now finds himself 17th in the Official World Golf Ranking – his highest position since the Tour Championship on the PGA TOUR in August 2021. 

It is more remarkable considering he spent the last 3 years on LIV where they were denied OWGR points.

His red-hot form, which includes a runner-up finish at the Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship in between his two titles, means he is also the new leader on the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World.

An Honorary Life Member of the DP World Tour since 2019, Reed set his sights on becoming just the second American – after Collin Morikawa – to win the Race to Dubai after his two-shot triumph in Doha.

"It’s always been a dream of mine to be an American who comes over here and have an opportunity to win the Race to Dubai," he said.

His compatriot Chris Gotterup, a fellow DP World Tour member this season, also celebrated success over the weekend as he prevailed in a play-off at the WM Phoenix Open on the PGA TOUR.

The 26-year-old has made huge leaps in the past 12 months, particularly since his victory at the co-sanctioned Genesis Scottish Open last summer, which he followed up with a third-place finish at The Open.

Already a winner this year at the Sony Open in Hawaii, he is now a four-time winner on the PGA TOUR and up to a career-best 5th in the owgr

In other notable moves, Nicolai Højgaard, a 2023 Ryder Cup winner with Europe, is up to 50th after finishing in a tie for third at TPC Scottsdale.

A strong four-event Middle East stretch on the DP World Tour’s International Swing has also reaped rewards for Daniel Hillier, with the New Zealander climbing to a career-high 100th ahead of the first off-week of the year in the Race to Dubai schedule.

Calum Hill has finished runner-up in back-to-back events on the DP World Tour, moving the Scot to 124th.

Top ten in the Official World Golf Ranking

The success of the victorious Ryder Cup team at Bethpage is reflected in the top 10 owgr.

 2.Rory McIlroy, 3. Justin Rose  4. Tommy Fleetwood  8. Robert MacIntyre (was 6th) 

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Matsuyama blows lead, Gotterup gets lucky wins WM Phoenix Open... Final RESULTS

     PGA Tour : WM Phoenix Open    Results

"Well, I guess I got lucky there for sure "

Chris Gotterup hits his tee shot at the 17th hole during the first round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament at the TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Sometimes you have to be lucky to be good is the old adage, and Chris Gotterup who won his 4th title in his short stay on the PGA Tour certainly was all of that, openly admitting that he began Sunday just trying to improve his position, not thinking he was going to win.

He is the 2026 winner of the Phoenix Open 63 71 67 64 -16.

Two time winner, Hideki Matsuyama was holding off Gotterup, Kim, Thorbjornsen, and for a while Scheffler, with the 54 hole lead and a bogey free Sunday looking for his third title, until he got the "lefts" on the par4 17th driving it nearly in the water for a scrambling par, compounding it by hitting it way left on 18 resulting in a bogey 5 and to fall into a -16 playoff with Gotterup.

On 18, Lady Luck smiled on Gotterup who hit his massive drive so far right it went into the stands, only to find a good lie in the trampled down grass, however the good arrived as his approach rolled to within 4 feet for birdie, when bogey looked more likely.

The playoff  was anti climatic as Matsuyama hit it even further left off the tee, and Gotterup hit a another huge drive down the fairway then sunk a 45 footer for birdie to conclude the week.

Canadians 

AJ Ewart T28  69 68 72 68 -7

Nick Taylor T28  71 68 71 67 -7

Mac Hughes T28  68 69 69 71 -7

Sudarshan Yellamaraju T54  74 64 70 73 -3

As for Scott Scheffler he lost the tournament on Thursday with his 73 finishing -15 T3 with 65, 67, 64 a shot out of his 3rd title here.

This week is a signature $20,000,000 restricted field event the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with Rory defending and all the big boys in attendance.

With the Seahawks smothering SuperBowl win over the Patriots, the NFL is done, Spring Training begins, and the Winter  Olympics continue in the mountains of northern Italy.

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Matsuyama vies for the triple, Hughes leads Canadians in Phoenix..54 hole results

     PGA Tour : WM Phoenix Open  Tee Times 

You won't read about him in the headlines  at this version of the WM Phoenix Open, but Mac Hughes is doing his standing in the Fed Ex standings a world of good so far this week.

At T20 68 69 69 -7 he has moved up 53 places, to give you some idea he was ranked #119 on Thursday morning, if it ended today he would be #66.

Sudarshan Yellamaraju T25 74 64 70 -5

AJ Ewart T37 69 68 72 -4

Nick Taylor T46 71 68 71 -3

At the top of the table is two time winner Hideki Matsuyama, who has a host of Japanese accredited media following his every move. 68 64 68 -13 has him with the slenderest of leads

Four players are at -12 Nicolai Hojgaard, Maverick McNealy, Si Woo Kim and Ryo Hisatsune.

Another four are at -11,  another five are at -9 and none of them are called Scott Scheffler who is with another for at 73 65 67 -8 and he of course is getting all the attention, 5 shots back.

Please note the tee times have been moved up to 7.45am in threesomes off split tees #1 and #2 to clear the decks for the US Superbowl coverage.

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Reed wins Qatar Masters...Final results

      DP World Tour : Qatar Masters Tee Times Leaderboard

You will remember the young South African, Jayden Schaper who in the fortnight before Christmas won the Alfred Dunhill Championship, then chipped in at the final hole to win the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open the following week, he was the talk of the DP World Tour.

This morning he was up and attem' early to post a bogey free 7 birdie 65 to move up 27 places T7 -11. That's the type of round the leader Patrick Reed will need to fend off to win his 2nd DP World title today.

Through 11 holes he is -1 on his round -15 with a 22 shot lead over 4 players at -13 who are snapping at his heels, but are also running out of holes...

FINAL EDIT

Patrick Reed left LIV this year and with his family, Justine and two children Windsor and Barrett back home in the Woodlands, Texas.

He and his team with his wife's brother Kessler on the bag came to Dubai 3 weeks ago and beat Rory and others from the Ryder Cup team to win the Hero Dubai Desert

Then on to Bahrain with the rank and file where he T2 lost in a 3 man playoff to Freddie Schott.

Now, moments ago he outlasted the field with a strong back nine bogey free, 3 birdie 33 to finish with 33 -16 for another victory, this one by shots, and a big lead at #1 in the early days of the 2026 Race to Dubai.

Calum Hill, the other man beaten last week's play-off as Freddy Schott won in Bahrain, finished second on -14 for a second consecutive runner-up finish, one shot ahead of Reed's playing partner Jacob Skov Olesen and Johannes Veerman.

“It wasn’t looking very good there on the front nine," he admitted afterwards. "To lose the lead like that and then to be able to kind of flip the switch there on the back nine obviously felt amazing.

“I just needed a putt to go in. I mean, I had 18 putts on the front nine, yesterday I had 33 putts, so I felt like I was hitting the ball fine.

“I felt like right when we made the turn - you know, we were chasing at that point - I just decided to go for it and trust in the putter and trust in the process, and we were able to kind of get it done.”

win-T2-win in his last 3 outings, and remember he T3 at the Masters in 2025.

Olesen and Veerman shared third place, with Lindell and Bradbury joined by Angel Ayora and Sebastian Söderberg on -12 for a share of fifth.

The top ten was completed by Schaper, Gregorio De Leo, David Micheluzzi, Antoine Rozner and Kazuma Kobori in a T9 on -11 

Ireland's three-time Major Champion Padraig Harrington, in his 500th DP World Tour event, was under par for the fourth day in a row with a 71 to finish -5 

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Four Canadians make the weekend, Japanese flag fly's WM Phoenix Open...36 hole results

    PGA Tour : WM Phoenix Open  Tee Times 

Four Canadians will play the weekend at WM Phoenix Open where the Japanese flag is at full mast heading into moving day.

Ryo Hisatsune was the 2023 Sir Henry Cotton rookie of the year on the DP World Tour where his brilliant play won him dual membership on the PGA Tour.

He was in the final group with Justin Rose last weekend and finished a distant 2nd to Rosie's masterclass at Torrey Pines, today the little Japanese shot a brilliant -9 63 aided by a chip in birdie after finding water on the 17th and he has the lead at -11.

One of his idols, Hideki Matsuyama has won here twice, and is well placed to make it three with with 68 64 -10 for 2nd place.

Canadians

Mac Hughes T19  68 69  -5

AJ Ewart T19  68 69  -5

Sudarshan Yellamaraju T28 74 64 -4 ( Moved up 77 places with his 64)

Nick Taylor T37 71 68 -3

Corey Conners MC  72 72 +2

After all the hullabaloo surrounding Brooks Koepka's return he has now missed 2 cuts, 75 69 +2 with the cut falling at -1.

Scheffler 74 65 is T28 -4 in that large group 7 shots off the lead.

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Reed on a role atop leaderboard, Saturday in Qatar..54 hole results

     DP World Tour : Qatar Masters Tee Times Leaderboard

It's well into moving day in Qatar this morning, I can tell you the breeze is up gusting at 22kph, its cool by desert standards at 19*c, lots of 72+ scores from the early wave.

The greens have firmed up, rolling at 12 on the stimp meter.

Patrick Reed continues his recent form (1st, 2nd) at -13 tied with Joakim Lagergren -13 through  holes, two shots clear of the field..

FINAL EDIT>>>>>

Patrick Reed secured a two-shot lead to take into Sunday's final round of the 2026 Qatar Masters.

The in-form American shot 70 on Moving Day at Doha Golf Club to reach -14 and boost his chances of a second victory in three weeks.

Playing partner Joakim Lagergren responded with a one-over par 73, leaving Jacob Skov Olesen as Reed's nearest challenger on -12.  Daniel Hillier and Angel Ayora were -11  with Lagergren in a group of four players a further shot back at -10

Reed's birdies at the second and the par-five tenth were backed up by 16 pars in a rock-solid round and he said: “I felt like I hit the ball better today than I did the last two days – well, really compared to yesterday, and shot two shots worse, so it’s an interesting game.

“The golf game feels good, it feels solid, it feels steady and really just got to go out there and keep the foot on the gas tomorrow, get off to hopefully a faster start than today, and see where it goes. 

“It’s one of those days you’ve got to take advantage of the par-fives, I didn’t really do that very well today. A three-putt on the last obviously stings but to go round this place bogey-free, especially with how the wind was, it’s obviously successful.

Reed, won won the Hero Dubai Desert Classic two weeks ago and was only beaten in a play-off at last week's Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship, he is 18 holes away from a big lead in the Race to Dubai as he continues to enjoy his membership, and he will play a lot of this DP World Tour this year, often while Rory is away in the States.

Further bogeys for Lagergren at the 11th, 14th and 16th left him four off the pace, meaning Olesen will play with Reed in Sunday's final group.

The Danish left-hander was one over for his front nine but five birdies coming home, including three in the last four holes, put him in contention for his maiden DP World Tour win.

Ayora shot 70 and Hillier 71 to stay well in touch, while Oliver Lindell was -10 after his 68 set the early clubhouse lead. The Finn shared fifth place with Lagergren, Gregorio De Leo and David Micheluzzi.

Calum Hill, runner-up alongside Reed in Bahrain last week, and Antoine Rozner each shot 66 and Sebastian Söderberg 65, the best of the day, to all reach -9 Alongside them on that total were Dan Bradbury, Kazuma Kobori and Johannes Veerman.

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