Saturday: John Deere Classic TEE TIMES moved up due to bad weather forecast...

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Edit >>>> The Saturday weather forecast has a hot humid 33*c /90*f day that will provide a strong chance for TStorms late in the afternoon as a cold front sweeps into the area with gusty winds and heavy rainfall.

Sunday will continue with the slow moving front expected to produce more bad weather before clearing out late in the afternoon.

Round 3 will begin 845am - 11am off split tees #1 and #10 in threesomes. 

Play will begin with American Doug Ghim 62 68 -12 holding his first PGA Tour 36 hole lead in his 6 years on tour, aided an abetted by 2 hole outs from the fairway.

Max Homa continues to find his improved play in a group T2, 63 68 -11. Defending champion Davis Thompson is also T2, 68 63 along with Brian Campbell 65 66, Emiliano Grillo 65 66, and David Lipsky 64 67.

TPC Deere Run was playing easily enough without all this soaking weekend rain. Expect weather delays. 

Canadians

Adam Svensson T43 69 68 -5

Adam Hadwin 73 71 +2, Ben Silverman 76 72 +6 missed the cut.

Bryan Angus

 

American rookie Davis Bryant leads BMW International ...full 36 hole results..Saturday TEE TIMES

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Overnight rain delayed the start of round 2 in Munich at the BMW International. Click on my leaderboard link above for live scoring now. 

Check out the complete weather forecast Weather  More to follow...

Davis Bryant fired the lowest round of the tournament to lead by two shots at the halfway stage of the BMW International Open.

The American enjoyed an eventful second round which was kickstarted by a stunning ace at the 12th, his third, when he holed his nine iron at the 166-yard par-three. It was the 12th hole-in-one of the DP World Tour season.

The 25-year-old, world Number 576, is making only his tenth DP World Tour start but he caught the attention of his rivals as he added nine birdies to his early eagle and dropped two shots in his entertaining 63 to sit at -12 at Golfclub München Eichenried.

Norway's Kristoffer Reitan climbed into contention with a flawless 65 to reach -10 with English pair Jordan Smith and Daniel Brown alongside Japan's Yuto Katsuragawa at -9 during a second round which was delayed by one hour and 45 minutes due to lightning in the Munich area.

"I don’t really know what happened today. I think the ace kind of jumpstarted things," said Bryant, who is following up a top-ten finish at last week's Italian Open. 

"I don’t feel like I’ve played my best golf since Q School, to be honest. I had some time off over the holidays, played some HotelPlanner Tour events to start the year, and feel like my game is starting to get back to where I want it to be.

"Just super pleased with last week's finish, the first two rounds here, and then today, catching lightning in a bottle and just rolling with it.

"Not really thinking too far ahead. Everyone in the field can win this event. We’ve still got two rounds to go."

Reitan, who won the Soudal Open in May, continued his rich vein of form with his blemish-free second round in Bavaria. 

Smith, Brown and Katsuragawa are three shots at drift -9, with Scotland's Scott Jamieson, American Ryggs Johnston, Spaniard David Puig and Italy's Francesco Laporta at -8

edit *** Canada's Aaron Cockerill continues his improved play 72 69 68 -7.

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Bryan Angus

Another hits of the 60's week at John Deere Classic... Friday TEE TIMES/ Scoreboard

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Do you remember Gary Player "back in the day" on one of his favourite topics " We will witness a day when young fit men will stand on the tee, drive the ball 400 yards, making the par 4's on many of the fine courses we play today just a drive and a wedge, making birdies on all the par 5's, rendering a par 72 to a par 68 !"

Just Gary exaggerating again we said !!!! 

Graphite then titanium shafts, trampoline faced Volkswagon Beetles for driver heads, balls that were 2 piece, 3 piece, balata, no balata.

Then Tiger came along with his era, dominating pro golf with that ever improving equipment which made Jack's MacGregor balls he won all those titles with, seem like little round rocks...

Earlier in the spring of 2025, Scotty Scheffler was scuffling a bit by his standards, so he booked himself into the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on his home course TPC Craig ranch, with a week devoid of any competition to practice for the upcoming PGA Championship.

He went around, putting on a clinic for his adoring Texas fans and TV ratings, of -31 strokes under par.. Somewhere, Gary now well into his 80's was holding court .. again !!

Back on June 12, the world's best gathered at Oakmont GC for the US Open, journeyman JJ Spaun changed his life forever, underlining a grueling week with a closing 70' putt across the 72nd green, just to be the only player under par, and just by that stroke. 

That won't happen again this year, unless "Mother Nature" is in a foul humour at Royal Portrush for the Open in 3 weeks time.

More of soft touches like TPC River Highlands, the Detroit GC, and this week TPC Deere Run, all providing what Boomer radio stations play, Hits of the 60's..

American journeyman, a respectable member of the PGA Tour "Rank and File" Doug Ghim leads the pack after 18 holes with -9 62 (7 birdies, 1 eagle)

The pack is jammed up behind and I have to go down the leaderboard on this par 71, to T113 to find anyone over par with 72. 

83 of the 156 entrants shot in the 60's, another 20 are under par with 70. 

T61 at -2 69, would be the cut line, but we still have Friday to play when that will move up. way up..

Canadians

Adam Svensson T61 -2 69

Adam Hadwin T127 +2 73

Ben Silverman T149 +5 76

Bryan Angus.

All tied atop BMW International in Munich..18 hole results

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Marco Penge, Gavin Green, Wenyi Ding, Darius van Driel and Ugo Coussaud edged to the top of a congested International leaderboard to share the first-round lead at the BMW International Open.

Penge endured a roller-coaster front nine when he mixed four birdies, a dropped shot and double bogey before carding four more gains to set the clubhouse target at -5

Malaysia's Green soon sat alongside the Englishman at the summit following six birdies and solitary bogey before China's Ding birdied four of his last five holes to join the leading pair.

However, there was more to come. Dutchman Van Driel signed for six birdies and a dropped shot, while France's Coussaud produced the round of the day in his flawless 67 to make it a five-way tie at the top at Golfclub München Eichenried.

Eighteen players are within two shots of the leading quintet and with overnight  rain and thunderstorms forecast ahead of the second round, softer conditions could give hope for even more contenders to go low.

English trio Nathan Kimsey, Richard Mansell and Jordan Smith were among the chasing pack at -4 alongside Scotland's Scott Jamieson, Japanese Yuto Katsuragawa, Frenchman David Ravetto and Swede Mikael Lindberg.

The Scottish pair of Richie Ramsay and Grant Forrest led the ten strong group at -3 with Austrian Matthias Schwab, France's Clément Sordet, Norwegian Kristoffer Reitan, American Davis Bryant, Portugal's Ricardo Gouveia, South African Wilco Nienaber, Spain's David Puig and Dutchman Joost Luiten.

Canada's Aaron Cockerill made an eagle, missed a 1 foot putt but was mostly pars in his E72 T73.

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Bryan Angus (edit)

Three Canadians at John Deere Classic...TEE TIMES

 PGA Tour : John Deere Classic Tee Times

This John Deere Classic on TPC Deere Run in Illinois, is the last PGA Tour stop in the States before a fortnight in the UK for the Genesis Scottish Championship next week at Renaissance Club, North Berwick, then the 153rd Open at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. 

Currently after Final Qualifying for the Open yesterday, there are 142 places booked out of 156 for Portrush. Five more will be decided after the BMW International this week in Munich, another three at the Genesis will make 150. The R&A keeps the final 6 for special exemptions.  

There are no spots available after play at the John Deere anymore. However there are 1800 Ryder Cup points available. 

Ben Griffin is one who is interested in that. He is as hot as any player here, with top 15 finishes in 7 of his last 9 events. He has won the Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas, and the Zurich Classic two man team event. Throw in T10 US Open, 8th at the PGA Championship and 2nd at the Memorial

In 8th place, looks like a shoo in for the Ryder cup squad whether a top 6 or a captain's pick.

Three Canadians are in the field, all trying to improve their owgr. Adam Hadwin #117,

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Adam Svensson #208, Ben Silverman #223

Bryan Angus

BMW International Open.. TEE TIMES/ Weather, Aaron Cockerill

 DP World: BMW International Open Tee Times

With most of the world's top players a week away from playing in Scotland for the Genesis Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick prior to the Open Championship at Royal Portrush across the Irish Sea in Northern Ireland, the DP World Tour rank and file have gathered in Munich, Germany at the Golfclub Munchen Eichenried.

With 15 German pros led by veterans Martin Kaymer and Marcel Siem in attendance, they are joined by defending champion Ewen Ferguson from Scotland, and Patrick Reed with half a dozen Americans, even veteran Sergio Garcia from LIV, there is a strong International field for a regular season event. 

Canadian Aaron Cockerill off his best finish this season T10 in Italy has moved up to #102 in the Race to Dubai, #331owgr.

Group 7 8.30 1st  Aaron Cockerill, Ryggs Johnson (USA), Dale Whitnell (England)

**** The top 5 not otherwise exempt in the top 20 Race to Dubai will earn a spot in the Open Championship after play on Sunday.

WEATHER

There is a 90%  chance of TStorms come Thursday afternoon and then Friday morning in the Munich area before they clear out Friday afternoon, all day Saturday, before returning Sunday afternoon.

Temperature :  will be between 25-30*c 

Wind :  Thursday,14-22kph W,  Friday 8-12kph NE, Saturday 9-13kph E, Sunday 11-17kph SW

Bryan Angus

20 year old South African, Aldrich Potgieter wins playoff at Rocket Mortgage.. final results.

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It took 77 holes, 5 of them in a playoff for Aldrich Potgieter to become the youngest South African to win a PGA Tour event.

As expected the jam packed leaderboard provided a Sunday shootout, culminating in a three man playoff all at -22.

Chris Kirke was eliminated with a bogey 4 on the 2nd hole, leaving Potgieter and Max Greyserman to play 3 more before the young prodigy rolled in a 20 foot birdie on the par 3 15th for the win worth $1,728,000 and 500 Fed Ex Cup points and a full 2 year exemption including a trip to the 2026 Masters. 

He joins Rory McIlroy, Seve Ballesteros and Tom Kim as International players to win on the PGA Tour before turning 21.

Canadians

Ben Silverman T67 73 64 72 71 -8

Adam Hadwin T78  67 70 71 74 -6

Bryan Angus