US Open champ Woodland just off record at storm-hit Medinah

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Stewart Cink aced the 166-yard 16th hole in the second round of the Masters on Friday. He used an 8-iron. Standing on the tee at 8 over par and well outside the projected cut line, Cink aimed well right and watched his ball land and trickle down the embankment, toward the front-left pin placement, and into the cup. The crowd roared as Reagan Cink, his son and caddie, dropped the bag and went in for a hug with his dad. Harry Higgs also went in for an embrace, and Brian Harman offered a congratulatory knuckle-bump. It was the 24th ace on 16 in tournament history, and the first since Tommy Fleetwood last year. Padraig Harrington and Kirk Triplett each made a hole-in-one there in consecutive groups in 2004. A two-time PGA TOUR winner last season, Cink, 48, had just bogeyed the par-5 15th hole, where he tried to reach the green in two but found the water. He more than made up for that mistake with one magical stroke on 16. It was his sixth ace since the TOUR began tracking such data in 1983, tied for eighth most on TOUR.

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2022 WM Phoenix Open, Round 2 Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Xander Schauffele (T2, -10, 19.1%) 2. Sahith Theegala (1, -12, 16.0%) 3. Patrick Cantlay (4, -9, 14.9%) 4. Brooks Koepka (T2, -10, 12.4%) 5. Talor Gooch (T5, -8, 4.3%) 6. Jon Rahm (T23, -5, 4.3%) 7. Max Homa (T5, -8, 3.9%) 8. Abraham Ancer (T8, -7, 2.3%) 9. Tom Hoge (T8, -7, 2.2%) 10. Justin Thomas (T23, -5, 2.0%) Top Strokes-Gained Performers from Round 2: Putting: Patrick Cantlay +3.1 Around the Green: Talor Gooch +2.9 Approach the Green: Bubba Watson +3.5 Off-the-tee: J.T. Poston +2.2 Total: Sahith Theegala +6.1 NOTE: These reports are based off of the live predictive model run by @DataGolf. The model provides live “Make Cut”, “Top 20”, “Top 5”, and “Win” probabilities every 5 minutes from the opening tee shot to the final putt of every PGA TOUR event. Briefly, the model takes account of the current form of each golfer as well as the difficulty of their remaining holes, and probabilities are calculated from 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of the WM Phoenix Open, or to see how each golfer’s probabilities have evolved from the start of the event to the current time, click here for the model’s home page.

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