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The Monday qualifiers for this week’s PGA TOUR event include an Air Force veteran and an alumnus of nearby UNLV. Tom Whitney, a 2010 graduate of the Air Force Academy, shot 63 on Monday at Boulder Creek Golf Club to earn medalist honors. He finished one shot ahead of Ryan Hogue. Andres Gonzales and Jim Knous fired 65 to grab the final two spots in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, which begins Thursday at TPC Summerlin. Whitney, 28, served as an Air Force officer from 2010-14 and is now pursuing a professional golf career. He finished 89th on this year’s Web.com Tour money list, posting one top-10 in 15 starts. He is making his PGA TOUR debut. This week’s qualifiers undoubtedly will be inspired by the performance of Scott Strohmeyer at last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship. Strohmeyer, who was making his PGA TOUR debut, finished T4 after advancing through both the Thursday and Monday qualifiers. Strohmeyer’s top-10 finish earned him a start this week at TPC Summerlin. He also earned 68 non-member FedExCup points; last season it took 365 points to finish 125th in the FedExCup standings and 82 points to qualify for the Web.com Tour Finals. Last season, none of the 95 players who Monday qualified for an event finished in the top 10. Strohmeyer’s finish is believed to be the best by a qualifier since Jason Allred finished T3 at the 2014 Genesis Open. Allred was the odd man out in Monday’s qualifier, losing a 3-for-2 playoff with Knous and Gonzales, who played at UNLV. Gonzales, 34, finished 158th in last season’s FedExCup, posting just two top-25s in 24 starts. One of those top-25s came after he Monday qualified for the Shell Houston Open (T23); it was one of just four top-25 finishes by a Monday qualifier last season. Gonzales, a two-time winner on the Web.com Tour, failed to regain his card at the recent Web.com Tour Finals, missing the cut in three of four events. He graduated from UNLV in 2006 with a degree in journalism. Knous, 27, will be making his second PGA TOUR start. He also Monday qualified for last season’s Waste Management Phoenix Open, where he missed the cut by two shots (70-73). Knous, who graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 2012 with a degree in civil engineering, finished 94th on the 2017 Web.com Tour money list. Hogue made his only other PGA TOUR appearance at the 2003 Waste Management Phoenix Open (MC). He also played two Web.com Tour events in 1999, missing the cut in both. Sanderson Farms Championship qualifiers T4. Scott Strohmeyer, 72-67-68-71 T53. David Skinns, 70-73-74-71 T68. Grady Brame Jr., 72-67-75-77 MC. Nyasha Mauchaza, 72-73 2017-18 Monday qualifiers Qualifiers: 8 Made cut: 3 Top-10s: 1 Top-25s: 1 Average qualifying score: 66.6 Average tournament score*: 72.2  

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GUYANCOURT, France – After walking off the 17th green Friday following their Four-ball match loss at the Ryder Cup, Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed were met by U.S. Captain Jim Furyk. It was a discussion of decent length – and it could’ve lasted even longer, considering that Furyk opted to bench the two players instead of rushing them back out for afternoon Foursomes. The Woods-Reed tandem, the anchor of the U.S. team for the first session at Le Golf National, was the only U.S. partnership not to come back with a morning victory. Their 3 and 1 loss to Europe’s Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari prevented the Americans from matching the opening session sweep they produced two years ago at Hazeltine. The loss dropped Woods’ all-time Ryder Cup record to 13-18-3 and his Four-balls record to 5-9-0. Reed’s Ryder Cup record fell to 6-2-2 overall and 3-2-0 in Four-balls. “It’s disappointing and frustrating for Pat and I to not contribute to the team,â€� said Woods, who has sat out a session just one other time his Ryder Cup career. “When you lose a point, you feel like you’ve contributed but you’re contributing to the wrong team. They got the points instead of us. “That part’s frustrating. Wish we could have done a better job.â€� It may have been a bit shocking to send Woods and Reed to the sidelines on the first day, but Furyk wanted to get all of his players some game action on Day 1, and his team’s depth – and success in the earlier matches — gave him plenty of options. He opted to put Four-balls winners Dustin Johnson/Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth/Justin Thomas in the afternoon session with Bubba Watson/Webb Simpson and Phil Mickelson/Bryson DeChambeau, the four players who sat out the morning. Plus, even Woods and Reed admitted they were a bit out of sync on Friday. “We didn’t ham-and-egg it very well,â€� Reed said. “I felt like one guy was in the hole and one guy was out of the hole. The way you’re successful in best-ball is you have both guys in the hole, both guys having a chance to look for birdies and just seemed like we didn’t. “And when we did, they weren’t close. They were lengthy putts. Putts that percentage-wise are not very good. It was just one of those days that was just a little bit of a struggle.â€� It wasn’t a struggle early. In fact, Woods/Reed were 2 up through 10 holes, with each player contributing two birdies at that point. When Reed chipped in for birdie from just off the 10th green, the Americans appeared in control. But then Molinari answered by winning the next two holes with birdies, with his 25-footer at the 11th switching the momentum. “We had that little tough stretch in the middle of the round, I lost three holes out of four, I think, it’s easy for it to go flat,â€� Fleetwood said, “but the crowds, the home crowds, as soon as Fran holed that putt on 11, things changed straightaway. And the crowd carried us through it all the way.â€� Fleetwood then took the baton and gave his side the lead with birdies at the 15th and 16th. Meanwhile, Reed (at the 15th) and Woods (at the 16th) each found the water to drop out of the hole. “We were in control of the match being 2-up, but we just didn’t make any birdies coming in,â€� Woods said. “You have to make birdies in Four-ball. You have to do it. We did it early. I think I made about four birdies there on that front nine. Pat had a couple. We were putting it on them, and then on the back nine, it flipped. “They put it on us, and we couldn’t answer.â€� It was at the 15th that Reed and Woods had a lengthy strategy discussion. With Woods staring at a bad lie, he told Reed that his best play was to lay up and play for par instead of aim for the green and bring water into play. “I told him, Hey, the worst score I’m going to make over here with my wedge game right now is probably par,â€� Woods explained. “I’ll hit up there inside 10 feet. I’ll make par and that should free you up to be a little more aggressive and make birdie. “He hit a bad shot in the water. I hit it up there to about 8 feet for par, and then Tommy buried it from off the green.â€� Whether he was conserving energy or simply modulating his pace, Woods appeared to be operating slowly and deliberating between shots. But a week after his first TOUR win since returning from his multiple back surgeries, Woods did not reveal any physical concerns. “My game is fine. My cut really wasn’t cutting off the tee today. I was hammering it. The ball was going far. It was going straight, but it was not cutting. I can accept that,â€� Woods said. “That’s really no big deal. My putting feels solid. I’ll be ready come tomorrow whenever Captain puts me out. If nothing else, he had Friday afternoon to rest and prepare for a potential 36 holes in Saturday’s two sessions – if Furyk goes that route.

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Brice Garnett and Scott Stallings birdied eight of their last 11 holes, Viktor Hovland and Kris] Ventura birdied nine of their final 12, and both teams shot 10-under 62 in Zurich Classic to share the first-round lead Thursday.

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