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Each week during the fall, PGATOUR.COM will highlight one of the rookies playing on the PGA TOUR during the 2019-20 season. This week: Michael Gellerman, who’s in this week’s field at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. Age: 27 Birthplace: Tucson, Arizona Resides: Edmond, Oklahoma College: Oklahoma TOUR card gained by: Finishing 21st in the Korn Ferry Tour regular season standings. TOUR starts/Best finish: Making his PGA TOUR debut this week at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier Pro highlights: Won the 2019 KC Golf Classic on the Korn Ferry Tour for his first victory as a pro; it came in front of family and friends, as Gellerman grew up in Sterling, Kansas, about 3-1/2 hours away. Two months later, he finished T-3 at the TPC Colorado Championship at Heron Lakes en route to earning his TOUR card after spending four seasons on the Korn Ferry Tour and Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada. Amateur highlights: Made 47 starts for the Sooners during his four-year career from 2011-15, winning the 2014 Wyoming Cowboy Classic among his 17 top-10 finishes … Led the Sooners in scoring average in his junior and senior seasons … Was an Academic All-Big 12 First Team golfer for three seasons … As a junior, he was named the 2009 Kansas Junior Player of the Year (he won nine tournaments that year) and was runner-up in 2010. Interesting tidbits: During his freshman year in high school, he broke both of his wrists while playing pickup basketball. That kept him out of the golf regular season, but he returned in time to win the state championship, the first of three in his high school career. … Grew up playing junior golf against fellow rookie Harry Higgs, who is from the Kansas City area. Higgs finished T-2 to Gellerman at the KC Golf Classic. Gellerman says (after winning the KC Golf Classic): “Winning on Mother’s Day was great because I was kind of lacking on the presents, so I really needed to come in clutch down the stretch. Having my fiancée and my mom here on Mother’s Day was awesome. I had my dad here who taught me the game and was really the only one to ever give me a lesson up until last year. It was really cool to have all of the support. Even my dog is here.� For more on Michael Gellerman, click here.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Recaps of the completed matches in Friday’s Four-ball session at the Presidents Cup at Liberty National. MATCH 6: Halved Hideki Matsuyama/Adam Hadwin (International) halve with Jordan Spieth/Patrick Reed (U.S.) Holes won: International 4, U.S. 4 Holes led: International 10, U.S. 2 Recap: A late rally allowed the powerhouse American twosome to salvage a half-point, although they certainly had chances in the last two holes to gain the full point. But for most of the match, it appeared the Internationals would pull off the upset, with Matsuyama partnering Hadwin, making his Presidents Cup debut after sitting out Thursday’s session. Reed gave the U.S. an early lead with an eagle on the second hole, but from there, a couple of Matsuyama birdies turned the momentum. Matsuyama struggled off the tee on the back side, but the Internationals were still 2-up after Hadwin’s birdie at the 13th. That’s when the U.S. clawed back. Reed started the push with a 16-foot birdie putt at the 15th, then Spieth’s tee shot to within 7 feet set up for a birdie win at the 16th to square the match. Spieth couldn’t convert an 8-foot birdie putt at the 17th that would’ve given the U.S. the lead, then saw his birdie attempt from 21 feet on the final hole lip out. MATCH 7: U.S. wins, 3 and 2 Rickie Fowler/Justin Thomas (U.S.) def. Louis Oosthuizen/Branden Grace (International)  Holes won: U.S. 4, International 1 Holes led: U.S. 14, International 0 Recap: The South African duo had not lost in five matches dating back to the 2015 Presidents Cup, but the young American stars found a way to take them down. Fowler won the third hole with a birdie, and then Thomas basically took it from there. His par at the fifth and birdie at the 8th won holes; he cupped his hand to his ear after the latter, enticing the partisan crowd for more noise. Grace won the Internationals’ only hole at the sixth, but Thomas was not to be denied on the back nine. He holed out from a bunker, a shot that eventually halved the hole. Then his birdie at the 15th won the hole afte Oosthuizen missed a shorter putt. MATCH 8: In progress Jason Day/Marc Leishman (International) vs. Phil Mickelson/Kevin Kisner (U.S.) MATCH 9: USA wins, 6 and 5 Kevin Kisner/Charley Hoffman (U.S.) def. Charl Schwartzel/Anirban Lahiri (International) Holes won: U.S. 7, International 1 Holes led: U.S. 13, International 0 Recap: Nervous first-timers? Not for these two Americans, as Presidents Cup rookies Hoffman and Kisner — who each sat out Thursday’s Foursomes — throttled the International duo. Hoffman won the first hole with a par, and the Americans never trailed the rest of the way. Both players contributed — Hoffman winning the second hole with an eagle and Chappell making birdies at holes 4 and 8. The U.S. was 5 up at the turn, as the Internationals didn’t win their first hole until the 10th. Hoffman closed out the match with a great approach to set up his winning birdie at the 13th. MATCH 10: In progress Jhonattan Vegas/Adam Scott (International) vs. Dustin Johnson/Brooks Koepka (U.S.)

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