Brooks, Bryson set for Match showdown in Vegas

2021 Palmetto Championship at Congaree, Round 1 Scoring Conditions: Overall: +0.75 strokes per round Morning wave: +0.46 Afternoon wave: +1.03 Current cutline (top 65 and ties): 74 players at 0 or better (T54) Top 3 projected cutline probabilities: 1. Even par: 39.9% 2. 1 under par: 26.3% 3. 1 over par: 22.3% Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Dustin Johnson (T2, -6, 25.7%) 2. Harris English (T7, -4, 7.1%) 3. Erik Van Rooyen (T2, -6, 6.4%) 4. Jhonattan Vegas (6, -5, 6.0%) 5. Doc Redman (T2, -6, 5.3%) 6. Wes Roach (1, -7, 4.0%) 7. Chesson Hadley (T2, -6, 3.6%) 8. Nick Taylor (T7, -4, 3.0%) 9. Roger Sloan (T7, -4, 3.0%) 10. Ian Poulter (T19, -3, 2.8%) 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 Palmetto Championship at Congaree, 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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Xander Schauffele won his first PGA TOUR title in style by knocking a pitching wedge to three feet on the par-3 18th and making the ensuing putt to come out on top at The Greenbrier Classic. Along with pulling off the shot of the tournament on the last, Schauffele used his TaylorMade P750 Tour Proto irons to hit 16 of 18 greens in regulation during the final round. He led the field in the statistical category (59 of 72) for the week at 81.9 percent. Schauffele made one change to his setup at the Greenbrier with the addition of a new set of Titleist Vokey Design SM6 wedges. The wedges feature a raw finish and were bent one degree strong of standard loft. Here’s a look at the rest of the equipment in Schauffele’s bag. Driver: TaylorMade M2 2017 (Graphite Design Tour AD-BB 7X shaft), 9.5 degrees 3-wood: TaylorMade M1 2017 (Graphite Design Tour AD-BB 8X shaft), 15 degrees Irons: TaylorMade UDI (2-iron; True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shaft), TaylorMade P750 Tour Proto (4-PW; True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts) Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM6 Raw (53-08F, 57-10S and 61-08M degrees; True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts) Putter: Odyssey Works Versa Big-T #5 Ball: TaylorMade Tour Preferred X

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DETROIT — Nate Lashley shot a bogey-free, 9-under 63 on Saturday to open a six-stroke lead in the Rocket Mortgage Classic at 23-under 193. The 36-year-old Lashley slipped into the field at Detroit Golf Club as an alternate and has put himself in position to win for the first time on the PGA TOUR. He tied for eighth in February in the Puerto Rico Open — played opposite the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship — for his only top-10 finish on the TOUR. Lashley, the first- and second-round leader, started Saturday with a one-shot lead and pulled away with the low round of the day. J.T. Poston (66) was second. Cameron Tringale (65) was another stroke back. Lashley is in his second season on the PGA TOUR, reaching the highest level of golf after a long road that included tragedy and selling real estate. After watching Lashley play in a tournament for the University of Arizona in 2004, his parents and girlfriend died in a plane crash in Wyoming. Rod and Char Lashley along with Leslie Hofmeister, all of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, were missing for three days before their bodies and the wreckage were found near the 13,780-foot Gannett Peak. Lashley, who is from Nebraska, made a living as a real estate agent after graduating from college and his playing career started, stopped and resumed again. He won the Waterloo Open, a professional tournament, in Iowa in 2011 and quit competitive golf the next year. Lashley gave the game another shot, playing on the PGA TOUR Latinoamerica circuit in 2015 and moved up to what is now called the Korn Ferry Tour two years later. He made his PGA TOUR debut last season in his mid-30s, but he had to end his year after 17 events because of a knee injury. Lashley is not long off the tee, ranking among the middle of the pack at Detroit Golf Club. He has been spectacularly accurate on his approach shots into receptive greens, setting him for a lot of relatively short putts that he’s making. When Lashley did take chances, he was able to make shots. His drive on the 559-yard, par-5 seventh landed in an adjacent fairway, leaving him with the choice of hitting a shot low below branches or sending the ball over towering trees and toward the green. He chose to go high and cleared the trees, leaving him 120 feet from the pin. Lashley’s approach landed just 4 feet from the cup and he made the putt for birdie. He had birdies on four of his first seven holes and had five more on the back nine in the third round. He opened the Rocket Mortgage Classic with a 63, setting a career low he matched Saturday. He shot a 67 in the second round.

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