St. Louis — Gary Woodland and Tiger Woods, playing partners Sunday, were hunting the same dangling carrot during strong weeks at Bellerive Country Club in the 100th PGA Championship. They both were seeking to slay outside doubts about their ability to achieve firsts. Woodland sought his first major title and came closer than ever, finishing in a tie for sixth. His previous best was a tie for 12th. Woods ...
Touring Web.com pro Chris Thompson, who had multiple near misses over the years in Q school in his quest to make the PGA Tour, finished third in the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae on Sunday by shooting a 64. Thompson’s third consecutive top-four finish vaults him to 19th on the Web.com money list with one tournament left in the regular season. The top 25 on the money list earn PGA Tour cards for next ...
Tom Keegan Twitter: @TomKeeganLJW St. Louis — Gary Woodland, leader after each of the first two rounds of the PGA Championship, slipped into a three-way tie for third two strokes behind Brooks Koepka after shooting a 71. Woodland won’t be in the final group, but will have the biggest gallery following him at Bellerive Country Club. He’s playing with Tiger Woods, who is tied for sixth, one stroke behind ...
St. Louis — As if this week hasn’t been wild enough already for Gary Woodland. He’s been the target of Mizzou hecklers ad nauseam during the 100th PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club, was the sole leader after the first and second rounds, and carded a triple-bogey on the 10th hole Saturday. Well, it’s about to get even wilder Sunday. Woodland, tied for third with Jon Rahm and Rickie Fowler at 9 ...
Gary Woodland was probably a little light in estimating that 75 to 100 spectators came from Kansas to watch him compete Thursday in the first day of the 100th PGA. His high school golf coach and high school basketball coach were in the crowd, as were many friends from his high school and college days. I ran into a grandmother, husband, wife and four young children who made the trip from Overland Park to watch ...
By Tom Keegan Twitter: @TomKeeganLJW St. Louis — The galleries at Bellerive Country Club for the PGA Championship were so thick that Gary Woodland’s parents, Dan and Linda, weren’t always able follow the flight of their son’s golf ball as it tore off they tee boxes Friday morning. No problem, they only needed to see their son to know how the shot went. “He bent down and picked up the tee right ...