Jin Young Ko picked up her fourth birdie on the par-5 16th and closed with two pars for a 2-under 69, giving her a four-shot lead Saturday at the Founders Cup as she tries to win for the third time this year.
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Jordan Spieth and the struggling defending British Open champ will play in a group with Si Woo Kim at Royal Birkdale.
Bubba Watson looked like he was firing on all cylinders when he tied a tournament record with a second-round 63 at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills last week. As it turns out, he wasn’t. After congratulating PGA winner Justin Thomas on social media Monday, Watson, who fell back with rounds of 73-75 on the weekend to finish T30, said he was playing on a torn meniscus and would have to pull out of this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge. Here is the post: If Watson is out for four to six weeks, it could also mean missing the U.S. Open and Travelers Championship, where he’s a three-time champion. At 43, the 12-time PGA TOUR winner said last week, he’s had to make a few concessions to age, including using a lighter driver shaft. “I’ve had a lot of issues over the last couple years,” Watson, who is 146th in the FedExCup and 69th in the Official World Golf Ranking, said at Southern Hills. “Had a lot of PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma therapy) done on my wrist, PRP done on my knees. I’ve had a lot of issues.”
DUBLIN, Ohio – Jordan Spieth’s revival continued on Thursday at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, where the former FedExCup champion opened with a 6-under 66. Related: Leaderboard | Tiger shoots 2-under 70 But the 11-time PGA TOUR winner was measured with his thoughts after a round that had him just one shot off the early lead. Spieth was able to climb the leaderboard thanks to some brilliant scrambling and pure putting. He chipped in twice and dropped in a 35-foot eagle putt over the course of his round. “It was okay. Some more work to do on it. I missed three greens with wedges and plugged one in a bunker with a punch 8-iron. So I had four opportunities, ended up off the green on all of them,â€� Spieth said post-round. “Some of those short clubs can certainly get a little tighter. Two chip-ins certainly helped. I felt like I stole a couple early in the round to be under par, and then just kind of played the shots that needed to be played. “I hit a lot of fairways, which was nice, which gave me plenty of looks at birdie, and seemed to capitalize on quite a few of them.â€� Spieth is winless since the 2017 Open Championship, but ended a 10-month drought without a top-10 over the last two weeks, as the Texan finished T3 at the PGA Championship and T8 last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Given Spieth’s trend this season has been good early scores but fades on the weekends, he wasn’t getting carried away. The 2015 FedExCup champion says all the work on revamping his swing is showing results and the important mental side of believing he’s on the right track is paramount. He was also particularly cognizant of saving energy, given this is a fourth straight tournament, a run he is using to really ingrain things. “Trying to trust things on the golf course in tournament play is big for me now because, like I said, it’s kind of a significant type of feeling through the swing that if I took a couple of weeks off and came back, it’s a little harder to trust that right away,â€� Spieth explained. “But if you’re used to trusting it, it’s almost like playing through the… I don’t want to say slump… but playing through anything that’s been a little off. And more trusting the golf course the better.â€�
