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Jason Kokrak starts the final round one shot behind but holds steady with an even-par 70 for a two-shot victory over Jordan Spieth (73). Meanwhile, Charley Hoffman (65) makes a big move to finish in a four-way tie for third in his bid to move up in the Official World Golf Ranking and avoid U.S. Open sectional qualifying. Here are five stories you might have missed from the Charles Schwab Challenge. 1. Jason Kokrak is a late bloomer Jason Kokrak, 36, had never won a tournament on the PGA TOUR, but now he’s won two, joining Bryson DeChambeau and Stewart Cink as the third to win at least twice this season. In a way, Kokrak said, the second victory was harder than the first. That was due in no small part to the fact that he was playing against Jordan Spieth, who is always the people’s choice in Texas. “But I’ve got a high school buddy and my cousin’s friend was out here supporting me,” Kokrak said. “So I had a couple people rooting me on. It’s just one of those things. You stay in the moment and it’s a golf course. You’re playing the golf course. You’re playing yourself. You’re not really playing Jordan. “But for where we got to in comparison to some of the other players,” he continued, “I knew it was going to be a boxing match and see who was going to come out on top.” For more on Kokrak, click here. 2. Jordan Spieth briefly lost his swing Runner-up Spieth, whose 15-under 195 equaled his lowest 54-hole score on TOUR, began the tournament by playing 40 straight holes without a bogey. But he struggled Sunday, when he bogeyed three of his first four holes and never felt confident over the ball. He went into the 18th hole just a shot back but hit his second shot into the water left of the green, all but ending it. He faulted his tee-to-green game after hitting just 27 of 56 fairways, which was 63rd in driving accuracy. He fell to 10-for-20 at closing it out with a 54-hole lead/co-lead. “I didn’t play well at all, quite simply,” he said after moving into second in the FedExCup with his eighth top-10 this season. “I could have shot even par today and won the golf tournament but from the very get-go, just a really bad start, and then tried to fight my way through it. “But I was just really off with my golf swing,” he continued. “I really lost it this weekend. You just have to be in control around Colonial.” It was Spieth’s seventh top-10 finish at the Charles Schwab. For more on Spieth, click here. 3. Charley Hoffman’s 65 was big San Diego’s Charley Hoffman began the week at 69 in the world, and with aspirations to play his way into the top 50 so as to avoid having to qualify for the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. He went a long way toward doing exactly that with a final-round 65 and T3 finish. That moves him up to 60th in the Official World Golf Ranking, and the top 60 as of June 7 get in. “There’s only one goal,” Hoffman said. “I’m playing Muirfield next week, but hopefully this week was enough to get me inside the U.S. Open. Sitting just outside the (top 60 in the) World Ranking, near my hometown where I group playing Torrey Pines, I’m obviously trying to win golf events but getting in that U.S. Open is a key.” 4. Patton Kizzire is heating up Patton Kizzire went into the Schwab at 150th in the world and 60th in the FedExCup, but things are looking up. His final-round 67 left him in a four-way tie for third, which was his second straight T3 finish (AT&T Byron Nelson) in his last two starts. With his T9 at the Valero Texas Open, he has three top-10s in his last six starts. He’s up to 106th in the world and 46th in the FedExCup. “I had some good stuff happening out there,” he said. “Kept my head down and hit some really good shots and made a few putts, and I’m proud of the way I battled. “My confidence has been building a lot lately,” he added. He isn’t yet in the field for the U.S. Open in three weeks. He will play in this week’s Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide and next week’s Palmetto Championship at Congaree. 5. Mark Russell, Slugger White will be missed The Charles Schwab marked the last time Slugger White and Mark Russell will work together. The two longtime PGA TOUR rules officials are retiring after four decades of service. White played the TOUR himself into the late 70s before turning to the rules. Russell started in 1980. They became two of the most recognizable faces on TOUR, even if sometimes people had trouble telling them apart. “Slugger was still playing when I started,” Russell said, “and then he came along a year or so after me, but I’ve known Slugger since mid ’70s, we’ve been friends a long time.” For more on Russell and White, click here. COMCAST BUSINESS TOUR TOP 10 The Comcast Business TOUR TOP 10 highlights and rewards the extraordinary level of play required to earn a spot in the TOP 10 at the conclusion of the FedExCup regular season. The competition will conclude prior to the FedExCup PLAYOFFS where the top 10 FedExCup points leaders will be recognized and awarded as the most elite in golf. Week after week, shot after shot, each event matters more than ever before. Who will finish in the Comcast Business TOUR TOP 10? Click here to follow the weekly action.
Li finished his round just after noon on Friday. He was still grinding away on the driving range six hours later.
SAN DIEGO – Justin Rose needed a fresh start. After missing four short putts in his first six holes – and watching his three-shot lead dwindle to a single stroke – Rose drew a line. It was a metaphorical line in the sand, but he drew it in his scorecard. It was time to start over. “I said, ‘All right, we build the round from this moment on,’â€� he said. He did. Rose birdied three of the next four holes, then grinded through Torrey Pines’ difficult back nine to secure a two-shot win in the Farmers Insurance Open. Torrey Pines is Tiger’s territory, but Rose supplanted him in the tournament’s record book. Rose’s 21-under 267 (63-66-69-69) was the lowest score at the Farmers Insurance Open since the South Course was toughened up in the early 2000s. He was two shots lower than Woods’ winning total in 2008. The reigning FedExCup champion is now sixth in the standings after winning his third start of the season. This was Rose’s 10th PGA TOUR win, the most by an Englishman since World War II. Three of Rose’s wins have come since the start of last season. It’s been an incredibly consistent run that culminated with a win in last season’s FedExCup. He’s finished in the top 10 in 13 of his last 21 TOUR starts, including eight top-3 finishes. He’s missed just one cut. And it was another victory at a tough test. Torrey Pines was softened by last week’s rain, but the rough was lush. Rose’s has won at storied venues like Merion, Colonial, Muirfield Village, Aronimink and Congressional. MUST READS: Round 4, Farmers Insurance Open Tiger planning schedule, hopes to peak for PLAYERS Championship Adam Scott’s recent putter switch propels him to best finish since 2016 Gooch continues strong form, gets second straight top-10 finish “I always pride myself on the golf courses I’ve been able to win on and this one is another very great golf course with a lot of history,â€� Rose said. “I love winning on great tests of golf and this one will give some special feelings because of that.â€� Rose also joined Woods as the only player to convert a 54-hole lead at this event over the last decade. Nine of the last 10 leaders entering Sunday had lost the tournament. He was in danger of joining them after his tough start Sunday. The way Rose won – by battling back after his lead was in jeopardy – showed a side of the Englishman that is often overshadowed by his genteel nature. “He has a nasty streak in him, for sure,â€� said Rory McIlroy. “Justin is, he’s a grinder. He’s learned the hard way, with the way he started his career (by missing his first 21 cuts). “I don’t think there’s many mentally stronger people in the world of golf than Justin Rose just because of what he’s been through and coming out the other end of it.â€� Rose started Sunday’s round with consecutive misses from 8 feet, then missed a 7-footer for par at the fifth hole and three-putted the par-5 sixth hole. Jon Rahm was just one stroke behind him. “I never lost the lead so I had to stay patient,â€� Rose said. “Definitely there were times in my career where I’ve had decent sized leads and you start to throw it away a little bit and you panic. I just knew I couldn’t do that today. I stayed calm, I stayed with it.â€� Walking off the sixth green, Rose told himself to play like the man that he is: the unanimous No. 1 player in the world. Not only is he the reigning FedExCup champion, but he sits atop the world ranking. “I just said, “You’re No. 1 in the world for a reason, just start playing like it, please,’â€� Rose said. It started with a 138-yard approach to 5 feet on the seventh hole. He gave an understated fist pump when that putt fell. Then he got up-and-down from a bunker on the par-5 ninth. He hit a 150-yard approach to 8 feet on the 10th hole to take a four-shot lead with eight holes remaining. Then he had to grind. He parred two of the South Course’s hardest holes, Nos. 11 and 12, after hitting long-irons within 30 feet. His caddie, Gareth Lord, called Rose’s 4-iron on 11 his best shot of the day. Lord is filling in for Rose’s longtime caddie, Mark Fulcher, as he recovers from heart surgery. “His iron shots, the way he takes yardage off. That was a holding 4-iron. If he hits it normal, he’s going to go through the back. If he hits 5-iron, we’re 35, 40 feet short,â€� Lord said. “He said, ‘I’ve got that shot.’ And to pull it off the way he did, he’s pretty good under pressure.â€� Then he had to lean on his short game to maintain his advantage. Rose finished second in greens hit this week, but he had to save par after missing three in a row. He deftly executed a touchy chip on the par-5 13th, made a sand save on 14 and holed a 9-footer for par on the next hole. He made a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th, then finished with a birdie after wedging close. This was Rose’s first PGA TOUR win in January, and erased questions about his recent switch to Honma equipment. This was just his second start with the new clubs. “Everything has worked out better than I would have hoped,â€� he said.
