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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Pendrith surges into contention Farmers Insurance, Danish golf in spotlight, TEE TIMES

 PGA Tour : Farmers Insurance Leaderboard  Tee Times

Looking back at Taylor Pendrith's 2022-23 season you can see it was fairly mediocre, making  cuts, middle of the pack finishes, until the Fall season. 

T3 at the Shriners with 4 solid rounds, T15 at World Wide Technologies, then T8 at the Butterfield in Bermuda, at 32 years of age he'd found his confidence and with it his game. 

He T10 at the Sony this year, missed the cut at the American Express shoot out before arriving early at Torrey Pines.

He opened with 73 on the south course, but rebounded on Friday with a bogey free, 6 birdie 66 on the North.

However he really caught fire after 2 early bogey's saw him out in 38, back on the south course. Something clicked at the turn with 6 birdies including 4 in a row, back in 31 strokes for -3 69

He enters play today T5 -8 just 3 shots off the lead held by German Stephan Jaeger who slipped to 68 64 73 -11 but still leads by a shot 

Today's tee time   1.59pm 1st Taylor Pendrith, Thomas Detry, Trace Crowe, penultimate pair

Other Canadians

Mac Hughes T60 70 67 78 -1 (a drop of 50 places)

Ben Silverman T65  66 72 75 E


DP World Tour as part of the Strategic Alliance offered their top ten players after the Race to Dubai to gain full PGA Tour status. Many European stalwarts disagreed with this decision, but the players involved sure didn't

Look at the final round leaderboard.

German Stephan Jaeger leads, Matthieu Pavon from France T2 69 65 72 -10 is one of the 10 as is Nicolai Hojgaard 67 66 73 -10 as is Belgian Thomas Detry 4th 66 68 73 -9. all with a top 5 finish will make twice as much as they would back home.

Danish Golf

Thorbjorn Olesen leads the Ras Al Khaimah by 4 shots. Rasmus Hojgaard is 2nd while twin brother Nicolai Hojgaard is 2nd here. They are all from soccer mad Denmark, leading the greatest era of pro golf for that little nation.

While Thomas Bjorn who captained European Ryder Cup may have blazed the way, others like Soren Kjeldsen,  Anders and Soren Hansen, Lucas Bjerregaard and Jeff Winther have had their days in the sun as well. 

Bryan Angus 

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