Sergio Garcia is among the notables with work to do in this week’s regular-season finale at the Wyndham Championship in order to make the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
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18-Hole Match for Charity will be Televised Live on GOLF Channel Tuesday, Sept. 22; Encore on NBC, Dec. 26-27; Also Streaming on Select NBC Sports apps and GolfPass Benefiting the Payne Stewart Family Foundation, Pros Will Pair Up for a Team Competition With First Peek at Payne's Valley Golf Course ORLANDO, Fla. - NBC Sports and Excel Sports Management announced today the Payne's Valley Cup, a special 18-hole charity team exhibition match headlined by four of the world's top golfers to commemorate the grand opening of Payne's Valley Golf Course at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Mo. Payne's Valley represents the first public golf course design for 82-time PGA TOUR winner Tiger Woods, who will team up with World No. 3 Justin Thomas (Team United States) to take on major champions Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose (Team Europe) in the Payne's Valley Cup. Airing live on GOLF Channel on Tuesday, Sept. 22 (3-7 p.m. ET), the Payne's Valley Cup will feature an entertaining mix of some of the best competition formats seen during Ryder Cups and Presidents Cups: Fourball, Foursomes and Singles matches. NBC will televise a special encore as two separate telecasts on Dec. 26 and 27 from 4-6 pm ET. The four players competing in the Payne's Valley Cup have an eclectic resume: all four have been World No. 1; are major champions, all have won the FedExCup and have been part of victorious Ryder Cup teams. The made-for-television exhibition match will be produced by NBC Sports, featuring all four players mic'd up during competition while showcasing Woods' new golf course that pays tribute to Ozarks-native and World Golf Hall-of-Famer, Payne Stewart. "Payne's Valley is the first public golf course that I have designed. I couldn't be prouder of how it turned out," said Woods. "It was an honor for me and my TGR Design team to work with Johnny Morris and Big Cedar Lodge on this spectacular golf course. I am thrilled that it will be featured during the Payne's Valley Cup." "The breathtaking beauty and pure majesty of my native Ozarks is something you have to see to believe. To be able to harness this unique landscape and make it come alive through our golf courses has been an honor that has been driven by passion," said Johnny Morris, noted conservationist and founder of Bass Pro Shops and Big Cedar Lodge. "Tiger and I have a twenty-year friendship that started through fishing and has evolved into a great partnership. We look forward to showcasing this destination to the world through the Payne's Valley Cup and truly believe we are creating ‘America's Next Great Golf Destination." Through a partnership between Morris and Woods, the 18-hole layout of Payne's Valley, named in honor of golf legend, Ozarks native and dear Morris friend Payne Stewart, was created with the intent to foster a deeper connection to nature through the game of golf. Being celebrated as one of the most remarkable golf holes in the world, the course features an unforgettable par-3, 19th bonus hole designed by Morris to celebrate the nature and beauty of the Ozarks. After the final hole, golfers traverse a breathtaking, cliff hanger nature trail and journey through a beautiful nature cave system to return to the clubhouse. FUNDRAISING – PAYNE STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION: To honor the namesake of the golf course and one of Missouri's all-time great sports legends, the Payne's Valley Cup will raise funds for the Payne Stewart Family Foundation - a foundation that supports beneficiaries that were vitally important to the late Stewart, including Kids Across America, the AJGA and The First Tee. ON-SITE EVENT AND SAFETY INFORMATION: The match will be closed to the public, with a select group hosted by Big Cedar Lodge granted access on-site to preview the amenities at Payne's Valley Golf Course and walk the course for the exhibition match. The Payne's Valley Cup will implement a comprehensive health and safety play that will follow all recommended protocols put in place by the PGA TOUR and local government, utilizing testing measures to help protect the health and safety of the players, officials, the production team and others on-site. DIGITAL/STREAMING COVERAGE: In addition to live coverage on GOLF Channel, the Payne's Valley Cup will stream live via GOLF Channel and NBC Sports mobile apps, GolfChannel.com and on GolfPass.
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Cameron Tringale has played 331 times on the PGA TOUR without winning. His career-best round of 9-under 61 on Thursday might help him change. Tringale ran off six straight birdies to start the back nine at The Renaissance Club on Thursday and had a three-shot lead in the Genesis Scottish Open, the first event co-sanctioned by the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour. Former U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland saw work with putting coach Phil Kenyon pay off in his round of 64, the only one close to Tringale. “I haven’t had a professional win on my own, and obviously Scotland is where golf started, so this place is special,” Tringale said. And it was relatively benign, at least for Tringale. That wasn’t the case Thursday afternoon, when the average score was more than three shots higher. Flags were crackling in 30 mph gusts that felt even stronger along the shores of the North Sea, conditions best described by the clubs that were used. Some players barely reached the fairway on the par-5 16th, if they did. Patrick Cantlay had 231 yards for his second shot on the 483-yard closing hole. He hit 3-wood, and even that wasn’t enough. Cantlay did well to close with three straight pars, which were at a premium. He had a hard-earned 70. U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick opened with 71, while PGA champion Justin Thomas held on as long as he could. Thomas bogeyed three of his last five holes for a 73. The low score from the afternoon was Kurt Kitayama at 66, and only five other players who faced the afternoon wind managed to break par. Tringale had the lowest score of his PGA TOUR career and matched the course record set three years ago by Bernd Wiesberger when The Renaissance played to a par 71. Jordan Spieth set an early pace by running off five straight birdies, only to drop three shots over his last 10 holes for a 68. He called it a tale of two nines based on course knowledge. “The nine I had never seen before went really well, and the nine I played yesterday went poorly,” Spieth said, who is playing a week before The Open Championship for the first time since 2015, the last time the Open was at St. Andrews. It made sense this year with the PGA TOUR co-sanctioning the tournament for the first time, which led to 14 of the top 15 in the world at The Renaissance, a course that looks like one and is plenty fast without having true links soil. Tringale, who has reached the TOUR Championship only once in his 12 previous years on the PGA TOUR, is having one of his better years. He missed a playoff at Torrey Pines by one shot and was a distant runner-up to Hideki Matsuyama in THE ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP last fall. The conditions along the North Sea could not have been more ideal for him, with only a mild breeze and a full blue sky in the morning. Tringale took advantage with one key club in his bag. “Golf is more fun when the putts are going in, and they were for me today,” he said. He made a pair of birdie putts from the 40-foot range, and only four of his nine birdies were inside 6 feet. Equally important were a few midrange par putts he made at the start. It was a struggle for Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, who made double bogey from the 18th fairway by going from rough to rough, and lost more ground on the front nine for a 73. The Scottish charge was led by Ewen Ferguson (67) and Russell Knox (68), who heeded some strong advice from his wife, a former tennis pro. Knox has been struggling with his putter when he was persuaded to try a long putter. “My wife said, ‘You’ve been playing professional golf for 15 years and you’re horrible at putting. Try something different,’” Knox said. “The best putt of my life was a 3-footer for par on the first hole because if that didn’t go in, we were in for a long day.”
Tiger Woods makes his first competitive start of the 2017-18 season in the PGA Tour event at Torrey Pines.
