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Will Zalatoris is 16th on TOUR in driving distance this season, averaging 312 yards per drive. He’s jumped seven spots – and five yards – in that statistic over last season. The added distance came after switching to a longer shaft in his driver at the start of the year. Now he thinks a new driver could add another half-dozen yards to his tee shots, thanks to the new TSR3 driver. Like the TSi3 he was using at the U.S. Open, the new TSR3 has 8 degrees of loft, is 45.63 inches long and is equipped with a Fujikura Speeder 661 TR X-flex shaft. The TSR3 driver is part of a family of drivers (TSR2, TSR3 and TSR4) and fairway woods (TSR2, TSR2+ and TSR3) that Titleist officially launched to PGA TOUR players at the recent Travelers Championship. Eighteen players switched into a TSR driver at Travelers and 13 switched to a TSR fairway wood. Most notably, Jordan Spieth switched into a 10-degree TSR3 driver and J.T. Poston used a 9-degree TSR3 driver in his win at last week’s 2022 John Deere Classic. Zalatoris switched into an 8-degree TSR3 driver for the Genesis Scottish Open. The tournament features 14 of the top 15 players in the world, and that includes Zalatoris, who sits 13th in the world. He is ninth in the FedExCup and sits atop the DP World TOUR Ranking thanks in large part to his success in the majors this year. After a sixth-place finish at the Masters, he was runner-up at both the PGA Championship and U.S. Open. “The first time I got to see (the TSR3) was actually at THE PLAYERS Championship,” Zalatoris told GolfWRX.com. “Immediately, I was seeing the mishits were way better. My speed is up a little bit, about 1.5 mph ball speed. Same shaft, we really didn’t change much at all, it’s just the new head. Obviously, what they did is they took the technology and expanded it throughout the face. With Titleist, I mean, we push the limits enough to where it’s basically, there’s only so much we can do, but with the mishits being that much better, you might see my driving average pop up six yards just because of the mishits going that much farther and that much straighter, too.” “Acoustics are a little bit different. I always put a lot of hot melt in my woods, because I like that kind of dull sound. We didn’t put as much in this one as the last one. It sounds a … little bit quieter. … You can hear just a slight difference. When you hit one good, it just feels so hot off the face, and especially, like I said, the mishits are the things I’m amazed by, because normally if I hit one off the heel, I might go down to about 180 mph, and I’ve been hitting a couple on the heel and I’m about 182 mph. Like I said, that’s where you’re going to see that extra six yards out of me.” In addition to the new driver, Zalatoris is also using a TSR3 16.5-degree 3-wood, equipped with a Fujikura Ventus 8 X shaft this week.

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The road here was not easy — there was pain and grief often for Gary Woodland — but at this U.S. Open, there was only joy.

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The Barbasol Championship returns to the PGA TOUR schedule for 2021 after it was not played due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jim Herman will return to defend his title from 2019. FIELD NOTES: Two past champions – Grayson Murray and Aaron Baddeley – join Herman in the field… John Daly will play his third PGA TOUR event of the season (he missed the cut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the PGA Championship)… Daly, Jason Dufner, and Charl Schwartzel are the major championship-winning contingent teeing it up in Kentucky… Some of the Korn Ferry Tour’s top point-getters through the 2020-21 season will play the Barbasol including Paul Barjon, Lee Hodges, Taylor Pendrith, Greyson Sigg, Davis Riley, Stephan Jaeger (who is No. 1 on the Points List) and Mito Pereira (who already received a promotion to the PGA TOUR after notching his third win of the season)… Amongst the Sponsor Exemptions include college stars Davis Thompson and Sahith Theegala along with teenager Preston Summerhays. FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 300 FedExCup points. STORYLINES: After Jim Herman won in Kentucky he went on to win the Wyndham Championship the following season and called his win at the Barbasol a career rejuvenator… The winning total just keeps getting progressively lower at Keene Trace so look for birdies to come in bunches this week in Kentucky… This week marks another alternate-field opportunity for some of the top golfers on the Korn Ferry Tour to test their mettles before they earn full PGA TOUR status come fall… There are only three weeks left in the TOUR’s regular season for 2020-21 so now is the time to pick up valuable FedExCup points. Some guys on the bubble teeing it up in Kentucky include Chase Seiffert (No. 124) along with Bo Hoag and Sam Ryder, who are No’s 128 and 129, respectively. COURSE: Keene Trace GC (Champions), par 72, 7,328 yards. This is the third time the 1987 Arthur Hills design will play host to the PGA TOUR. It’s one of the top courses in the state of Kentucky. Scoring is at a premium at Keene Trace and the final hole, the par-4 18th is built for drama as its got a ton of water risk around the edge of a lake. 72-HOLE RECORD: 262, Jim Herman (2019) 18-HOLE RECORD: 61, Kelly Kraft (3rd round, 2019) LAST TIME: In record-setting fashion it was Jim Herman who captured the Barbasol Championship. After he and Kelly Kraft shot sizzling Saturday scores – Herman tied the previous course record with a 62 while Kraft set a new record after a 61 – the dual was a little more muted on Sunday as they shot matching 2-under 70s. However, Kraft bogeyed No’s 16 and 17 on Sunday and as Herman stayed steady he managed to take the win across the finish line in surprising fashion. To that point in the 2018-19 season, Herman had played 19 TOUR events and made the cut only three times. Sepp Straka finished third while Austin Cook and Matt Jones rounded out the top five. HOW TO FOLLOW (All times ET) TELEVISION: Thursday-Friday, 5-7:30 p.m. (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 4-7 p.m. PGA TOUR LIVE: None. RADIO: None.

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