R&A
Hear from Team USA Walker Cup captain Nathan Smith about his squad’s winning effort at Cypress Point and key players including Stewart Hagestad and Preston Stout before Golf Central examines how GB&I can get on track.
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Shane Lowry has yet another chance to win at PGA National.
Here is all the information you need to watch the action from PGA National this weekend.
Opening-round leader Austin Smotherman — who stayed red-hot, with a 55-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th as part of his Friday round — was among those playing in the afternoon, as were Taylor Moore and Nico Echevarria.
Pavan, 36, is a two-time winner on the European tour. His most recent victory was a playoff win over Matt Fitzpatrick in the 2019 BMW International Open.
Smotherman became the seventh player to shoot 62 or better at PGA National in this event.
Thitikul won last week’s tournament in her native Thailand and is among nine out of the top 10 players entered in the Singapore LPGA stop on the Sentosa Golf Club’s Tanjong course.
Not since Adam Scott in 2005 has a player competed at Riviera for the first time and left with the trophy. Bridgeman, a 26-year-old from Clemson, played well enough last year to reach the Tour Championship and has been steadily on the rise.
Now, Bridgeman will go after his first PGA Tour title, and considering the gorgeous weather on tap, he will have a chance to break the longest-standing 72-hole record on the PGA Tour.
Two-time major champion Jon Rahm has turned down a deal from the European tour that would have allowed him to compete on LIV Golf events without penalty provided he pay his previous fines, play in stipulated European tour events and drop his appeal.
Riviera’s fourth hole now has a scorecard yardage of 273 yards that makes it the longest par 3 among regular PGA Tour stops.