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Matthew Wolff brings his unique game to the PGA TOUR with pro debut at Travelers Championship

Instagram followers and clubhead speed are meaningless metrics if not accompanied by victories. Combining all three, though, can be the recipe for an alluring prospect. This week’s Travelers Championship is Matthew Wolff’s first tournament as a professional. It may be the most anticipated pro debut in a decade. The consensus collegiate player of the year combines charisma with a swing that is identifiable from a few fairways over. “He wins. He’s unique. His swing is different, so it catches everybody’s eye,� said Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee. “And then there’s the incredible speed. “When you see somebody with speed … it gets your attention.� Wolff has drawn comparisons to another player who starred in Stillwater, Oklahoma, for two years before making the leap to the pro ranks: Rickie Fowler. Both players built unique, unfettered swings on modest Southern California courses. Their games were showcased well before they turned pro, thanks to social media and the increased coverage of amateur golf on television. Wolff has one thing Fowler lacked, though: eye-popping length. His 340-yard tee shots attract casual fans, while his on-course success impresses the more discerning aficionados. Wolff won this year’s Jack Nicklaus and Fred Haskins awards, the two trophies honoring the top player in the college game. He won six times and his 68.7 scoring average was the lowest in the history of college golf. His five-shot win at the NCAA Championship was the largest victory margin in that event since 2004. He was introduced to wider audience at last year’s NCAA Championship, when he holed a 15-foot birdie putt to clinch the national title on Oklahoma State’s home course, Karsten Creek. The match-play championship has become popular viewing among hardcore fans because of the inherent drama that match play produces. The star-studded Cowboys team was under pressure to end a 12-year title drought. Having home-course advantage only added to the expectations. Wolff lifted the burden by making that putt in front of hundreds of orange-clad fans encircling Karsten Creek’s 15th green. It was a clutch finish to a season when he won the Phil Mickelson Award as the nation’s top freshman. He started his sophomore campaign by winning his first four starts. His amateur career reached a crescendo at the recent NCAA Championship, when he won by five shots despite shooting 40 on his first nine holes. He was 14 under on the next 63 holes. Only four other players finished under par. The average score that week exceeded 76 strokes. “Obviously, he had a lot of pressure, but when you’re good and you’re playing good golf, there’s really not much to deal with,� said Oklahoma State teammate Viktor Hovland, who’s also making his pro debut this week. “You bomb it 330 down the middle. You don’t have to think much, you just kind of see it, react and do it.� There’s a new highly-hyped prospect every year. Many never meet the expectations. This debut feels different. It’s about more than his on-course performance. Wolff is a potential star for an age obsessed with authenticity. He’s faced criticism about his unique action, but now he’s reaping the rewards after resisting calls to conform to the norms of golf instruction. “He has that same sort of carefree attitude that great athletes have,� Chamblee said. “That freedom, the uncluttered mind.� He’s also the poster child for a groundswell in golf instruction, bringing to the mainstream a movement that’s mostly played out on social media among a hardcore niche of swing enthusiasts. “I would call us disruptors,� said Wolff’s swing instructor, George Gankas. “It’s not by intention. It’s what works.� Golf is undergoing a transformation similar to the one seen in baseball. The importance of distance has been further reinforced by advanced statistics, and technology has revealed new ways to achieve it. The orthodoxy of instruction is undergoing rapid change as aesthetics become less important than launch-monitor readings. “We can measure things better and there are more smart people in golf instruction now than ever,� said Charles Howell III. Like Wolff, he turned pro to much fanfare after winning an NCAA title at Oklahoma State. Howell, who’s visited a variety of instructors during a pro career that’s lasted nearly two decades, is qualified to offer an informed perspective on instruction. “The cool thing is I think they’re asking better questions, which is what matters. ’What did the greats do?’ as opposed to a theoretical model that I don’t necessarily think has been correct.� Social media, the domain of puppy photos and scenic panoramas, also has been a gathering place for golf nerds to discuss the latest discoveries about the golf swing. Instructors use the platforms to promote their work, as well. Few have done that better than Gankas. He dissects his students’ swings and explains drills in brief videos on Instagram. His reputation for helping players increase their swing speed has gained him more than 145,000 followers on that platform (Wolff has nearly 45,000 of his own). Padraig Harrington, Adam Scott, Sung Kang and Danny Lee are among the PGA TOUR players who’ve sought him out. Wolff has been compared to Cameron Champ, but with a more well-rounded game. Champ used prodigious driving distance to succeed at the start of his rookie season. He was sixth in the FedExCup after the fall portion, winning the Sanderson Farms Championship and posting two other top-10s. His pace has slowed this year, though. He injured his back in March and has struggled with his iron play. Oklahoma State head coach Alan Bratton points to two shots from the NCAA Championship to illustrate Wolff’s shotmaking versatility. In the same round, Wolff used an 8-iron to hit approach shots from 150 and 208 yards. “Everyone talks about his driver, but his biggest asset is his iron play and putting,� Bratton said. Length has always been an asset. Mark Broadie’s Strokes Gained statistics helped quantify the advantage, though. Players can ride a hot putter to victory one week, but long hitters have an advantage week-in and week-out. The scoring advantage of having a 120-yard approach versus a 140-yarder may be small, but those incremental advantages add up over the course of weeks, months and years. Wolff played his first PGA TOUR event at this year’s Waste Management Phoenix Open. He impressed with a 67 in his first round before fading to 50th place. He was third in driving distance (325.4 yards), trailing only Bubba Watson and Ollie Schniederjans. Wolff’s clubhead speed of 125.8 mph was second only to Champ. Wolff reached 131 mph in the second round at TPC Scottsdale. “Occasionally someone comes along who is uncorrupted and they’re called freaks. They’re dismissed as freak talents,� Chamblee said. “They have a way of dismissing genius for convenience’s sake because it doesn’t fit their model or aesthetic. “Here comes Matt Wolff, here comes George Gankas, here comes a bunch of golfers who are going to change the game. They’re going to hit it 20-30 yards past what we thought were the longest players and they’re going to have an advantage.� Wolff’s swing has inspired enough copycats, especially among Gankas’ students, that people have assumed it is a model that Gankas tries to squeeze his students into. Wolff developed that move before coming to Gankas during his freshman year of high school. Now, after seeing the results and the power that it produces, students are asking Gankas to teach them to swing like his star student. At the top of the backswing, the former baseball player is reminiscent of another natural talent who took his sport by storm at a young age: Ken Griffey Jr. The front heel is lifted off the ground, the trail elbow is separated far from the body and their chosen implement points past their head. Wolff is unaware that his swing is a deviation from the norm, though. “It’s pretty natural,� he said. “I didn’t try and swing that way. If no one ever filmed my swing, and I never saw my swing, I would think I took it straight back and straight through.� Plenty of people have seen his swing on film. Wolff was one of the students who convinced Gankas to open an Instagram account. The instructor has become a Pied Piper among junior golfers around Westlake Village, a suburb located about 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles, because he combines a Southern California skater’s ethos with instruction based in biomechanics. That his home base is a modest 5,000-yard course with artificial turf mats and striped range balls only adds to his appeal. “He’s the only one I trust with my swing,� Wolff said. Gankas, who isn’t afraid to give lessons in sandals or an untucked shirt, isn’t concerned with conforming. Many of the unique traits in Wolff’s swing were employed by the game’s greats but fell out of fashion in recent decades, a time period that Chamblee calls the dark ages of instruction. The pursuit of aesthetically-pleasing swings led to restricted actions. Wolff swings without restraint. It starts with his final move before taking the club back. He bounces gently on his feet, rotates his hips and shoulders open, and takes one last glance at his target. It’s a trigger move reminiscent of Sam Snead. The raised left heel and flying right elbow were employed by Jack Nicklaus. Having the clubhead pointed across the line stores up power to be unleased at the moment it matters most: impact. Wolff “flattens� the shaft at the start of the downswing, which allows him to turn through impact without restriction or compensation. “People with really funky golf swings, if they make it to the TOUR, they have to be so mentally tough at a young age to resist the temptation to give in to conformity,� Chamblee said. “They have a golf swing that works and they know it works. And then they have the mental toughness from having to deal with all the scorn and questions and scrutiny. “You put those together and that’s a hell of a combination for longevity. He has a chance to be a big-time major winner.�

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Mitchell Meissner+2200
SH Kim+2200
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Norman Xiong+3000
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Si Woo Kim
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Steve Stricker+700
Steven Alker+750
Miguel Angel Jimenez+1000
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Retief Goosen+2500
Richard Green+2500
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Scottie Scheffler+500
Bryson DeChambeau+1200
Xander Schauffele+1200
Jon Rahm+1400
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Collin Morikawa+1600
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Justin Thomas+2000
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Jon Rahm+1600
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Shane Lowry+2500
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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – Last week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open was a disappointment for Jordan Spieth, who was making his first U.S. fall start. After carding an opening 66, he struggled with a new driver and 3-wood, and finished T55. That was then. Making his first visit to the Riviera Maya for the Mayakoba Golf Classic this week, Spieth, the 2015 FedExCup champion, has gone back to the driver, 3-wood he’d played for the last five years. And it’s gone so well, he said, Vegas is a distant memory. “It’s way more positive than that,� Spieth said after his pro-am round on the El Camaleon Golf Course at Mayakoba on Wednesday. “Last week I just, I was looking at something different, and the performance just wasn’t coming out the same. It’s been totally different the last couple days for me here. I’ve been striking the ball extremely well, hitting a lot of the fairways, and the short game has been just—trying to improve a little bit more. “The ball-striking is as good as it’s been in quite a while,� he added. “It’s just the short game I need to dial in a little bit.� One of the best barometers for Spieth, as with many players, is his putting. After carrying him to 11 victories before the age of 25, it suddenly fell off for much of last year. He said he likes the paspalum grass at Mayakoba, which bodes well in his struggle for form. That said, Spieth rightly pointed out that getting to the greens in the first place is no picnic. The course is tighter off the tees than he expected; beautiful but narrow. “You’ve got to keep it in between the beacons,� he said. In other words, the old driver and 3-wood could be huge. “I feel like he’s going to drive the ball well this week, which is needed around here,� said Rickie Fowler, who played a practice round with Spieth on Tuesday. Spieth is trying to rebound from a winless 2017-18 season, when he finished 31st in the FedExCup and missed the TOUR Championship. Meanwhile, he’ll soon wed longtime girlfriend Annie Verret, who is back in Dallas, doing wedding planning, leaving Spieth single until the arrival of his parents here later this week. Not that Spieth isn’t doing a little planning himself. Speaking at a Monday fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Dallas, he said he’d kicked out his housemates, including TOUR rookie Kramer Hickok, a former teammate at Texas, in preparation for married life. Asked if Mayakoba would mark his last start as a single guy, Spieth laughed. “Yeah, I guess it is,� he said. “Yeah, not much will change. I’m just excited to be here. It’s pretty awesome here, as you know. I mean, I get the afternoon on the beach.�

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Sam Burns holds 54-hole lead at Vivint Houston OpenSam Burns holds 54-hole lead at Vivint Houston Open

HOUSTON — Jason Day, eyeing his first PGA TOUR victory in more than two years, was one shot back of Sam Burns at the Vivint Houston Open on Saturday, shooting a 3-under 67 less than two weeks after withdrawing during the final round at THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK because of neck discomfort. RELATED: Final leaderboard | Johnson looking for unprecedented win The Australian was behind second-round leader Sam Burns, who began the day in the lead and ahead by two strokes. He overcame back-to-back early bogeys to salvage a 68. Burns was at 201, also one stroke ahead of Mexico's Carlos Ortiz. Ortiz, tied for second after each of the first two rounds, also put up a 67. Like Burns, he and several other contenders are chasing their first PGA TOUR title. Dustin Johnson was another two shots back after a bogey-free 66. This was his first start since the U.S. Open following a six-week break brought on by a positive test for the novel coronavirus. Johnson nearly put himself out of the tournament after opening with a 72 on the public Memorial Park course near downtown that's hosting a TOUR event for the first time since 1963. First-round leader Brandt Snedeker's third-round 76 dropped him far out of contention. Day has 12 TOUR titles — the 2015 PGA Championship among them — but none since 2018 after winning eight times over a sparkling two-year stretch in 2015-16. This summer, flummoxed by his long slump caused in part by ongoing back and neck issues, he decided to split with Colin Swatton, his coach and mentor since he was 12. Day put himself in the mix at THE CJ CUP in Las Vegas with a third-round 66 but took a triple bogey on the opening hole of the final round. Then he pulled his approach from the right rough into the water. He called it a day after hitting two shots on the second hole, the first of which he also pulled badly. Having intended to play every fall tournament to prepare for next week's delayed Masters, Day returned last week for the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD and finished in a tie for 60th-place. Austria's Shepp Straka, also chasing a breakthrough TOUR victory, was alone in fourth place at 203, a shot ahead of the fifth-place Johnson after his 66. Straka had held a share of the lead before bogeying the 17th hole. Dawie van der Walt, a South African who lives in the Houston area, briefly got to the lead at 8 under but lost three strokes to par on the back nine, falling into a sixth-place tie with Aaron Wise.

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Horses for Courses: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AmHorses for Courses: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

The annual Clam Bake on the California coast resumes for the 84th edition this week as a field of 156 will tee it up at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Unlike the previous editions there will not be 156 amateurs joining their professional partners due to the pandemic. A purse of $7.8 million is on the table and so are 500 FedExCup points and a check for $1.404 million for first place. RELATED: Power Rankings | Expert Picks | The First Look For those of you who enjoy the antics of Bill Murray or the quick wit of Ray Romano, apologies. The good news is the show is going on but in a different format this year and will not include six hour rounds. Only Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill will be in use as Monterrey Peninsula Country Club takes a break without the amateurs. Each pro will get a round on each before the tournament is cut after 36 holes. Those surviving return to Pebble Beach for the weekend and a chance for the victory. Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill have both hosted rounds in this tournament every year since 1978. Pebble Beach will play Par-72 and stretch to 7,051 yards while Spyglass Hill is the same Par-72 but just 10 yards shorter. The greens at Pebble Beach (and the wind) are the main defense as they are the smallest on TOUR. The fairways are some of the widest so that’s a clue. Spyglass Hill has slightly below average targets and has ranked inside the top 20 most difficult tracks on TOUR the last three seasons. Canadian Nick Taylor returns to defend his title and will look to join Dustin Johnson (not entered) as the only repeat champion this century. Recent Event Winners Stats Recent Winners and Notables 2020: Nick Taylor (-19) Won by four shots for his second victory on TOUR. … Just the fourth international winner in history. … 10th wire-to-wire winner but first since Phil Mickelson (2005). … First 54-hole lead or co-lead on TOUR. … Chipped in twice, once for eagle, once for birdie in the final round. … Joins the last three champs in winning by three or more shots. … Only one of three players to start at No. 1 tee and post a score under-par (70) in the final round. … Posted 11-under aggregate on Pebble Beach/Spyglass; tied with Streelman for low total for the week. … Becomes sixth consecutive winner in the top 10 GIR (T3). … Won in his sixth try… Only one top 10 in his previous seven TOUR events entering the week. Notables: Kevin Streelman (2nd) led the field in Strokes-Gained at Pebble Beach as he picked up his third consecutive top 10 finish. … 5-time and defending champion Phil Mickelson (3rd) played his final 12 holes in 5-over par after beginning the final round one behind. … Jason Day (4th) signed for his fifth T5 or better in his last six visits. … Daniel Berger (T5) picked up his second top 10 payday in as many visits. … Matt Jones (T5) has cashed T11 or better in three of his last six but this was the best of the bunch. … Maverick McNealy (T5) posted a bogey-free 68 to close, the only bogey-free round of the day. … 2017 winner Jordan Spieth (T9) posted the low round of Sunday (67) to hit the top 10 for the fourth time in eight visits. … Patrick Cantlay (T11) opened with 66 at Spyglass but played Pebble Beach 1-over on the weekend. … Day and Chris Baker (T38) posted 64 on Pebble Beach in Round 2. 2019: Phil Mickelson (-19) Won for the fifth time, tying Mark O’Meara for most in tournament history. … 14th win in California ties Tiger Woods for the most in TOUR history. … Trailed Paul Casey by three shots after 54 holes yet won by three. … Oldest winner in event history at 48. … 15th straight winner from USA. … Played his final two rounds at Pebble Beach (-9) after 68 at Spyglass Hill. … Fourth winner in five to be first or second in Par-Breakers. … Fifth consecutive winner to finish in the top 2 Par-4 Scoring. … Nearly won at The American Express (T2) but MC previous week at WMPO. … Played Saudi Arabia (T3) before 2020 solo third. Notables: Paul Casey (2nd) shared the 36 hole lead with Mickelson and led by three after 54 as he picked up his second consecutive top 10. … Scott Stallings (3rd) joined Mickelson on 13-under for the three non-MPCC rounds. … Jason Day (T4) was 7-under aggregate. … Si Woo Kim (T4) opened with 66 at Pebble and posted 13-under, not including MPCC. … Kevin Streelman (T7) matched Mickelson with 65 on Sunday. … Max Homa (T10) closed 68-67 Spyglass/Pebble for his first top 10 at the event. … Michael Thompson (T10) posted a bogey-free 66 Sunday. … Due to inclement weather, Lift, Clean and Replace were used all four rounds. … Consecutive left handed winners. 2018: Ted Potter (-17) Began the final round in the final group with Dustin Johnson (not entered) and beat him by three shots. … Played in the final group after 62 at MPCC in Round 3. … Led the field in Par-Breakers and Birdies (24). … Last five winners from 2016-2021 have hit the top five in Putting: Birdie-or-Better Percentage. … Sat T1 after 36 holes here in 2013 before finishing T16. … Entered the week off 75-74-82 finish at Torrey Pines South. … Won in his fourth attempt. … Second win on TOUR. Notables: Jason Day (T2) claimed his best finish to this day. … Phil Mickelson (T2) closed with 67. … Chez Reavie (T2) went on to finish third in the U.S. Open in 2019 and co-led the field in Strokes-Gained: Total at Pebble Beach. … Kevin Streelman (6th) posted the best non MPCC aggregate by two shots on 11-under. … Scott Stallings (7th) stormed home with bogey-free 66 to post 9-under on the three courses in use for 2021. … Paul Casey (T8) also signed for 9-under, co-second-best aggregate. … Kevin Chappell (T8) co-led Strokes-Gained: Total at Pebble Beach. … 2014 winner Jimmy Walker (T8) has MC the last two editions. … Defending champ Jordan Spieth cashed T20. … First round leader and co-36 hole leader Beau Hossler (T43) opened with 65 at Pebble Beach. … Weather was perfect. Key stat leaders Top golfers in each statistic on the 2019-2020 PGA TOUR are listed only if they are scheduled to compete this week. * – Top 25 finish here since 2016 Horses for Courses

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