Belgium hangs on for 3-stroke win at World Cup of Golf

Brooks Koepka looked in control when he made the turn in the second round of the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. He was 10 under par and in the lead after hitting his first nine greens of the round. He struggled with his putter on the back nine, including a three-putt from 3 feet, and will begin in the weekend four shots behind leader Brendon Todd, though. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Rejuvenated Todd leads WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational “I just putted bad,” Koepka said. “It wasn’t really anything other than that. Felt stress‑free other than just missing some short ones.” Koepka, who had just had one bogey in his first 27 holes, shot 3-over 38 on his final nine Friday. He made a double-bogey on the third hole after that three-putt from close range, then added two more bogeys and one birdie. He missed two putts inside 5 feet Friday, and made just one of the six attempts he faced from 5-10 feet. Koepka lost 4.6 strokes on the greens Friday after gaining more than three strokes with his putter in the first round. Thursday was a promising start to his relationship with putting coach Phil Kenyon, who Koepka began working with on the eve of play at TPC Southwind. Koepka’s iron play remained solid in the second round. He hit 15 greens Friday, one more than he did Thursday. He leads the field in greens hit (29 of 36) and Strokes Gained: Approach (+6.33). Koepka is 155th in the FedExCup standing with just three weeks remaining in the regular season. He is seeking his first win since last year’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. “It’s fine, I’ll be just fine,” he said. “I wouldn’t worry.”

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2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Round 1 Scoring Conditions: SH: +0.23 strokes per round MP: -1.48 PB: -1.23 Current cutline (top 60 and ties): 73 players at -2 or better (T51) Top 3 projected cutline probabilities: 1. 5 under par: 24.7% 2. 4 under par: 23.0% 3. 6 under par: 17.8% Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Seamus Power (2, -8, 22.4%) 2. Patrick Cantlay (T5, -6, 22.1%) 3. Tom Hoge (1, -9, 13.1%) 4. Andrew Putnam (T5, -6, 2.6%) 5. Austin Smotherman (T3, -7, 2.5%) 6. Denny McCarthy (T15, -4, 2.0%) 7. Jason Day (T15, -4, 2.0%) 8. Troy Merritt (T15, -4, 1.9%) 9. Scott Stallings (T7, -5, 1.8%) 10. Jordan Spieth (T33, -3, 1.5%) NOTE: These reports are based off of the live predictive model run by @DataGolf. The model provides live “Make Cut”, “Top 20”, “Top 5”, and “Win” probabilities every 5 minutes from the opening tee shot to the final putt of every PGA TOUR event. Briefly, the model takes account of the current form of each golfer as well as the difficulty of their remaining holes, and probabilities are calculated from 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, or to see how each golfer’s probabilities have evolved from the start of the event to the current time, click here for the model’s home page.

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