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Here’s a look at how players qualified for the Barracuda Championship. (Field information as of 7/28/2017) Winners of the Arnold Palmer Inv. & the Memorial (Last 3 Years) Matt Every Tournament Winner in Past Two Seasons Aaron Baddeley Steven Bowditch Alex Cejka Greg Chalmers Padraig Harrington J.J. Henry Smylie Kaufman Chris Kirk Davis Love III Hunter Mahan Peter Malnati Ben Martin Troy Merritt Brian Stuard Vaughn Taylor Career Money Exemption Geoff Ogilvy Carl Pettersson Sponsors Exemptions – Web.com Tour Finals Charlie Danielson Dru Love Sponsors Exemptions – Members not otherwise exempt David Duval John Rollins Sponsors Exemptions – Unrestricted Cody Blick Wyndham Clark Sam Horsfield Hugo Leon Curtis Luck Jay McLuen Maverick McNealy Jake Sarnoff PGA Club Professional Champion – 6 Events Rich Berberian, Jr. PGA Section Champion\Player of the Year Tom Morton Top 125 on Prior Season’s FedExCup Points List Ryan Palmer Harris English David Hearn Kyle Reifers Daniel Summerhays Ricky Barnes Johnson Wagner Chez Reavie Patton Kizzire Bryce Molder K.J. Choi Spencer Levin John Huh Jason Bohn Tyrone Van Aswegen Derek Fathauer Blayne Barber Brett Stegmaier Robert Garrigus Zac Blair Cameron Tringale Andrew Loupe Mark Hubbard Ben Crane Graham DeLaet Luke List Shawn Stefani Seung-Yul Noh Top 125 on Prior Season’s Official Money List thru Wyndham Ken Duke Retief Goosen Chad Collins Major Medical Extension Nick Watney Brian Gay Troy Kelly Top Finishers from Web.com Tour Prior Season (reordered) Kevin Tway Ollie Schniederjans J.J. Spaun Dominic Bozzelli Scott Stallings Trey Mullinax J.T. Poston Brandon Hagy Cameron Percy Seamus Power Sebastián Muñoz Jonathan Randolph Rick Lamb Martin Flores Rory Sabbatini Richy Werenski Julián Etulain Tim Wilkinson Ryan Brehm Andres Gonzales Brian Campbell Joel Dahmen Tag Ridings Gonzalo Fdez-Castano Mark Anderson Nicholas Lindheim Steven Alker Ryan Armour Brett Drewitt Miguel Angel Carballo Brad Fritsch Bobby Wyatt Max Homa Shane Bertsch 126 – 150 Prior Season’s FEC Points List (Reordered) Matt Jones Sam Saunders Chris Stroud Greg Owen Steve Wheatcroft Tom Hoge Willy Wilcox Tyler Aldridge Stuart Appleby Nicholas Thompson S.J. Park Reorder Category – Cat. 34 thru 38 Camilo Villegas Jonathan Byrd Bill Lunde Ã�ngel Cabrera Jason Gore Mark Wilson Chesson Hadley Brendon de Jonge Y.E. Yang Dicky Pride John Merrick Charlie Wi Tommy Gainey Arjun Atwal Troy Matteson Tim Petrovic Tim Herron

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MELBOURNE, Australia – The International Team continues to roll at Royal Melbourne. Foursomes has usually been a session dominated by the United States, but the International Team looks like it will increase the 4-1 lead it took after the first day. Stay here for updates after each match finishes. PRESIDENTS CUP: Scoring | Quiz: Which team should you support? DAY 2 FOURSOMES MATCH 1: INTERNATIONAL WINS, 3 and 2 Louis Oosthuizen/Adam Scott (International) def. Dustin Johnson/Matt Kuchar (U.S.) Holes won: International 6, U.S. 3 Holes led: U.S. 8, International 6 Recap: Kuchar got the U.S. Team on the board by holing a 13-foot birdie putt on the first hole. He made a 20-footer on No. 5 to give his team a 2-up lead. The United States was still 2 up after seven holes, but it didn’t win another hole the rest of the match. The International Team won three of the next four holes, taking the lead with Scott’s 8-foot birdie putt on 11. The International team tacked on wins at 13 and 14. Scott and Oosthuizen are both 2-0 this week. MATCH 2: U.S. WINS, 1 UP Patrick Cantlay/Xander Schauffele (U.S.) def. Adam Hadwin/Joaquin Niemann (International) Holes won: U.S. 6, International 5 Holes led: International 6, U.S. 3 Recap: Cantlay holed a big putt for the United States, sinking a 14-footer for birdie on 18 to give his team its first win of the session. It was Cantlay and Schauffele’s first lead since the 11th hole. The Internationals had the early lead, winning the first hole after Niemann hit his approach to 8 feet. The International Team was still 1 up after eight holes, but the U.S. birdied 9 to square the match at the turn. The International Team took a 1-up lead with a birdie at the par-3 14th, where Niemann hit his tee shot to 5 feet, but they couldn’t keep it. The U.S. birdied the next hole, though, and added another at 18. MATCH 3: INTERNATIONAL WINS, 3 and 2 Abraham Ancer/Marc Leishman (International) def. Patrick Reed/Webb Simpson (U.S.) Holes won: International 7, U.S. 4 Holes led: International 13, U.S. 1 Recap: Simpson stiffed his approach shot at No. 1 for an opening birdie. The Internationals won the next two holes, though, and were still 1 up after seven holes. Ancer holed a 40-footer on 8 to give his team a 2-up lead. The U.S. won the next after Simpson stiffed another approach, but Ancer holed a 10-foot birdie putt to win the 10th. The Internatioanls added wins at Nos. 12 and 14 to take a 4-up lead and guarantee at least a half-point. They closed it out on the 16th hole. Reed is now 1-5 in his last six matches in the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup, and Reed-Simpson is 0-2 as a team this week.

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Doc Redman … The strength of the fields since play has resumed has generated an unusual dynamic; that is, I’ve left a couple of Sleepers on the cutting-room floor to honor the cap of five per tournament. For instance, in the discussion thread beneath this space for the Travelers Championship and later in the same day that it published, I cited Redman as one of three others who deserved consideration for that tournament. Lo and behold, he finished a season-best T11. (Mackenzie Hughes, who finished T3, and Brice Garnett, who missed the cut, were the other two.) Redman led the field at TPC River Highlands in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee and finished second in proximity. That’s his profile, but he’s flashed good putting at times, too, including slotting 17th in Strokes Gained on the greens en route to a T21 at Detroit GC two weeks ago. He’s 4-for-4 in the restart with three straight top 25s running. Lucas Glover … Only he, Bryson DeChambeau and Viktor Hovland recorded a top 25 in each of the first four events of the restart. (Only Hovland competed in the Workday Charity Open, placing third.) Suffice it to say that the hiatus did Glover good given that he connected on only one top 35 prior to it this season (T9, Shriners). Since a T8 in his debut at Muirfield Village way back in 2005, he hasn’t finished inside the top 30, but he hasn’t skipped a trip. The long-hitting sharpshooter arrives having survived his last six cuts on the course. Troy Merritt … As one of three co-leaders at the midpoint of last year’s Memorial before settling for a share of 17th place, he’s back for redemption in what is his fifth career start since his rookie season of 2010. Throughout his career, he’s done just about everything well at times and on average, but like many of his brethren, his weakness is inconsistency in the crosshairs of a projection. However, primarily because he finished inside the top 15 in greens in regulation in his last two starts, the strong putter logged a T8 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic and a T22 at the Workday Charity Open. Matthias Schwab … The 25-year-old from Austria remains on the prowl for his first victory on the European Tour where he’s in his third season. He placed 17th in the Race to Dubai in 2019 with a pair of runner-up finishes and a third among 10 top 10s. He opened 2020 by going 5-for-5 with a pair of top 25s, but he hasn’t played anywhere in over four months. A T4 at the co-sanctioned World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions last fall and a T42 at the WGC-Mexico Championship yielded the aggregate equivalent of 133.317 FedExCup points. That would rank the PGA TOUR non-member 155th among members. While he’s only a little over 63 points shy of slotting inside the top 125, he needs another 155 points to qualify for Special Temporary Membership this season. The only golfer to achieve STM in 2019-20 is his former teammate at Vanderbilt, Will Gordon. Andy Ogletree … The irony of the pandemic that affects all of us is that it impacts each of us uniquely. Positioned within their sliver of sport and society are highly talented amateur golfers for whom competition has been close to impossible to find what with the cancellation of the spring sports at the college level. When Ogletree prevailed at the 2019 U.S. Amateur Championship, little did he know that his only action for a giant block of 2020 would emerge as a result of that title. With that honor, he earned exemptions into the RBC Heritage and this week’s Memorial. A sponsor exemption into the Charles Schwab Challenge also was extended. He’s 11th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and plans to retain his designation so that he can compete in the Masters in November. In the meantime, the Georgia Tech product will settle for making his first cut on the PGA TOUR. NOTE: Sleeper is a relative term, so Rob uses unofficial criteria to determine who qualifies. Each of the following usually is determined to be ineligible for this weekly staple: Winners of the tournament on the current host course; winners in the same season; recent major champions; top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking; recent participants of team competitions.

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