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Danielle Kang recovered from a bizarre mishap that left her nursing a broken tooth to be among the leaders on the opening day of the LPGA Singapore tournament on Thursday. The reigning Women’s PGA Championship champion, Kang said she fell asleep while exercising ahead of her opening round, and woke up feeling pain in her mouth. “I broke my tooth. I fell asleep during stretching. I don’t know what’s going on,” the American said. “I was stretching out on the floor and next thing I know, I slept 30 minutes. “I broke a tooth. Call the dentist on range. It’s all good.” Despite the distraction, the 25-year-old from San Francisco was composed when she got out on the course, shooting a bogey-free 4-under
JACKSON, Miss. – ‘Opportunity’ is a word used often at the Sanderson Farms Championship. The second event of the PGA TOUR season provides new players fresh off the Korn Ferry Tour the chance to gain experience, get a head-start in the FedExCup race and even earn that maiden victory and all the trappings that accompany it. The PGA TOUR’s newest members aren’t the only ones who can change the trajectory of their career during this time of year, though. Veteran players, the ones with majors and FedExCups on their resume, also appear on the tee sheets of these early events. Many are trying to recapture that winning feeling or at least gain some confidence before the calendar changes to a new year. Zach Johnson falls into that latter category. He’s competing in the Sanderson Farms Championship after a season that he simply describes as ‘frustrating.’ He hasn’t had a top-10 in this calendar year and missed the FedExCup Playoffs for the first time since they started in 2007. At 43 years old, the former Drake Bulldog still desires to be competitive on the PGA TOUR. And so he is battling the heat in Mississippi in search of the game that he still believes is in him. “I’m trying to treat each week as a phenomenal opportunity to get better,â€� Johnson said. “I’m trying to improve, rather than getting caught up in results or assessing aspects of my game.â€� The results were good Thursday. Johnson, who’s playing this event for the first time since 2005, shot 5-under 67 on Thursday. He is three shots behind leader Tom Hoge. “I just kind of plodded myself around and gave myself good opportunities. I had some I left out there, but certainly capitalized on a few as well,â€� Johnson said. “There was just nothing silly about it. I made one decent putt. For the most part, I kept the golf course in front of me, picked it apart when I could, and hit solid shots.â€� Johnson, who missed the cut in last week’s A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, made just one bogey Thursday. He hit half the fairway, but missed just five greens. The Georgia resident has had success throughout his career on Bermudagrass, and he found the old-school Country Club of Jackson to his liking. He gained nearly 1.5 strokes on the greens Thursday, holing a 30-footer on the fourth hole and making all 17 of his attempts from inside 10 feet. The statistics show that that club hurt him the most in 2019. He ranked 117th in Strokes Gained: Putting (-0.09). It was his first season that Johnson, who perennially ranked in the top 10 of that statistic, lost strokes on the greens. “The frustrating part from the summer on is the fact that I think I’ve been working really hard and I just haven’t seen the progress yet,â€� Johnson said. “But I think it’s coming. I’m confident it’s coming. I know what I’m doing, ball striking, short game, and on the putting green. It’s going to surface. Just a matter of when, not if.â€�
ATLANTA — Justin Thomas was a tap-in away from polishing off a 7-under 63. And then the horn sounded Saturday signaling a stop in play because of storms near the TOUR Championship. He had to wait until Sunday to not only finish, but to figure out where it left him in pursuit of the FedExCup and its $18 million prize. Scottie Scheffler was still in the lead, barely. Xander Schauffele was still on his heels, even tying him ever so briefly. They were on the 13th hole and among 10 players who have to return Sunday morning for what could be a sprint toward the PGA TOUR’s top prize. Scheffler was at 19-under par, even par for the round on a hot, steamy day at East Lake with soft greens and very little wind … always the recipe for low scoring. Schauffele was 1 under for a wild round of back-to-back birdies, back-to-back bogeys and back-to-back birdies during a six-hole stretch on the front nine. The average score for the incomplete round was 67. That’s what Jon Rahm said he needed — another low round, and Scheffler to not have his best stuff. He got only the second part right. Rahm, coming off a 63, had four bogeys to go along with five birdies and wasn’t making up much ground. Those who didn’t finish had to return at 9:45 a.m., and only then would the FedExCup finale have any clarity. Sungjae Im was three shots behind at 16 under. Assuming Thomas makes his putt, he would be at 15 under. Rory McIlroy also was at 15 under with two holes to play, including the par-5 closing hole. Rahm, Patrick Cantlay and Sepp Straka were at 14 under and still had to finish. The third round was scheduled to finish an hour later, and then lightning in the area stopped play for an hour. And when the second batch of lightning arrived in the area, there was no chance to finish. Hideki Matsuyama posted the low round of the day at 63, and he was still six shots behind. Scheffler started Thursday at 10-under par and with a two-shot lead as the No. 1 seed in the FedExCup, with Cantlay two shots behind. Scheffler, already a four-time winner and a lock to be voted PGA TOUR player of the year, opened with rounds of 65-66 and at times has threatened to turn the TOUR Championship into a runaway. He stalled Saturday, and all that did was expand the possibilities. Open Championship winner Cameron Smith is a three-time winner this season and would have needed to win to make it a race for player of the year. He had a 68 and was 11 shots behind.
