Everything you need to know for the third round of the Hero World Challenge.
The Hero World Challenge continues on Friday at Albany Golf Club in Nassau, Bahamas, with a field packed full of professional golf’s top competitors.
With new irons in the bag, Patrick Reed holds a three-shot lead over Gary Woodland. Competing for the first time since earning his 82nd PGA Tour win in October, tournament host Tiger Woods shot up the leaderboard on Thursday and enters the third round T-5, six shots back.
The event will not just go toward satisfying a PGA Tour craving as the seasons takes a break in December, but it will also go toward helping those affected by Hurricane Dorian which devastated the Bahamas in August. For every birdie made during the Hero, $500 will be donated to the ONE Bahamas Fund. Eagles will raise $1,000 and an ace will bring a donation of $2,500.
Below are the tee times for the third round, along with the current leaderboard and TV information.
Every week on the PGA Tour, about 70 percent of the players in the field use True Temper steel shafts in their irons. The company’s Dynamic Gold models that dominate the counts are used by Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and a host of …
Every week on the PGA Tour, about 70 percent of the players in the field use True Temper steel shafts in their irons. The company’s Dynamic Gold models that dominate the counts are used by Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and a host of others.
In July, True Sports, the parent company of True Temper and Project X, acquired graphite shaft maker Accra. Now it has broken out its check book and purchased another shaft maker: It was announced Thursday that True Sports has purchased Aerotech Golf.
While not played by as many golfers on the PGA Tour and not typically a stock offering at retail, Aerotech Golf has developed a cult following for its SteelFiber iron shafts. Matt Kuchar and Brandt Snedeker have for years played these shafts that feature a unique graphite design that includes steel filaments.
“We are thrilled to add Aerotech to our stable of products,” Don Brown, True Sports’ senior director of marketing and innovation, said in a press release. “Their innovative SteelFiber line of shafts is extremely popular in the aftermarket and has won more professional golf events than any other graphite iron shaft.”
Aerotech, based in Bellingham, Washington, was founded in 1991 as a maker of a wide range of products and composite sporting goods, including the first NHL-approved graphite hockey stick. It began producing golf shafts in 1994 as a supplier for original equipment manufacturers – the club makers – and launched its own branded line of shafts in 2002. In 2005, Aerotech’s golf division split from the parent company as Aerotech Golf.
Tiger Woods caught fire again on the back nine Thursday, rocketing up the leaderboard into contention at his event in the Bahamas.
Despite a blistering back nine stretch on Wednesday, Tiger Woods walked off the course at even par after the first round of the Hero World Challenge thanks to a disappointing final two holes.
On Thursday, the event’s five-time winner got his revenge. Woods made eight pars and one birdie on the front nine, then proceeded to get hot once again on the back nine.
Woods made eagle on No. 11 after a terrific drive and even better approach shot, followed by a birdie on the par 3 12th hole, par on No. 13 and yet another birdie on the driveable par 4 14th. That 4 under through four hole stretch propelled Woods to T-3, just two shots behind the leaders at that time.
Another par on No. 15 and a beauty of a birdie on the 16th kept Woods within three shots of leader Patrick Reed. He saved par with a testy five footer on 17 and made par on 18 to card a bogey-free 6-under 66. He walked off the course with the best round of the day, T-3 and four shots out of the lead.
PGA Tour players may have the lived the dream of playing in the Masters or a British Open, but they have sporting events on their list, too.
Everyone has that “bucket-list” sporting event they’re dying to attend. Pro golfers may have the lived their dream of playing in the Masters or a British Open at St. Andrews, but they’ve got sporting events they’d like to check off their list, too.
We asked 31 PGA Tour pros to name the sporting event that tops their to-do list.
Wimbledon was a popular pick as was seeing one’s alma mater in the college football National Championship or one’s favorite team play for a a title (World Series and Stanley Cup, for instance). Soccer – whether a Premier League, Champions League or World Cup – garnered a number of votes. Even golf drew a few votes – can someone help get Adam Scott some Ryder Cup 2020 tickets?
With no further adieu, here’s the list:
Abe Ancer
“Super Bowl or a Formula One race.”
The Vince Lombardi Trophy, which goes to the winner of the Super Bowl. Photo: Stew Milne/USA TODAY Sports
See the list of Tiger Woods’ major wins, from the 1997 Masters to his incredible win in 2019.
Tiger Woods completed his remarkable comeback to the top of professional golf in 2018, winning the PGA Tour Championship, and followed up his success with another major win the following spring. Woods’ career-long pursuit of Jack Nicklaus’ major record is back on track, and after an early-season win in Japan, Woods will once again be considered a favorite in every event he participates in. Just how close is Woods to the major record? Let’s take a look back at all of his major championship wins.
Tiger Woods has won a total of 15 major championships in his career, and is three majors away from tying the all-time record held by Jack Nicklaus.
Woods broke an 11-year major winless-streak in 2019, winning the Masters for the fifth time in his career.
Here’s the full rundown of Woods’ major championships:
Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els and other players at this week’s Australian Open have to contend with: a smoke from nearby bushfires.
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SYDNEY – Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els and other players at this week’s Australian Open could have another course hazard to contend with: Smoke from nearby bushfires.
A temperature inversion which formed over Sydney on Monday night trapped smoke in the region on Tuesday and caused considerable haze during a practice round. Golf Australia said it plans to increase on-site medical staff if the fire-driven smog disrupts the tournament.
With a wind shift on Wednesday, the situation had improved during the pro-am, but Golf Australia chief executive Stephen Pitt said he was concerned with the potential for smoke affecting the health of players.
“It was pretty bad yesterday, stinging eyes and all that,” Scott said after his pro-am round on Wednesday.
Sergio Garcia, front left, and Paul Casey, front right, walk down the 12th fairway as smoke haze engulfs the course. AP Photo: Rick Rycroft
The tournament goes on, however, and after Thursday’s opening round, two amateur players top the leaderboard. Japan’s Takumi Kanaya, the No. 1-ranked player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, and Taiwan’s Chun-An Yu, a senior at Arizona State, posted rounds of 6-under 65.
Playing the back nine at the Australian Golf Course to open his round, the Japanese player had five birdies. He bogeyed the par-4 third hole before making birdie on the eighth and ninth holes.
The leaders had a two-stroke lead over 2015 champion Matt Jones and fellow Australians Dimi Papadatos and Daniel Nisbet.
A winner last month in his homeland, 21-year-old Kanaya’s round came four years after he signed for an 85 at this course in his Australian Open debut.
“I have a little confidence, but I have three more days, so I will do my best tomorrow,” Kanaya said.
Jones complained of burning eyes from the smoke blowing in from about 25 bush and grass fires burning across New South Wales state, including a large one in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
“It’s awful,” Jones saíd. “The smoke’s not good at all. It’s tough to see your golf ball when you’re out there playing, where it finishes. Your eyes do burn up. I hope my kids are inside in the hotel room.”
Players dealt with the haze in different ways, but it posed a particular problem for New Zealander Ryan Chisnall, who suffers from asthma. According to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald, Chisnall coughed and sputtered through the start of his round on Thursday afternoon before borrowing a face mask from a spectator. Several in the galleries were seen wearing them.
Robert Allenby reportedly ran out of eye-drops mid-round because he was applying them so frequently. Scott remarked that he felt he needed to spray salt water up his nose as a post-round cleanse.
A course worker wears a face mask due to the smokey conditions at the 2019 Australian Golf. Photo: Matt King/Getty Images
While Golf Australia’s Pitt said he was confident the tournament would proceed without any smoke delays, he said officials will closely monitor the weather with children and elderly spectators most susceptible to the threatening air quality.
“Firstly, our issues with smoke at a golf tournament pale into insignificance with the things that home owners and property owners and people right around the country have dealt with,” Pitt said of the fires which have killed six people and destroyed dozens of homes.
“So we’re very aware of that fact and all our sympathies and thoughts go to them because that’s the real issue.”
Pitt said it was a new type of threat for the tournament.
“It’s something we’ve never had to give consideration to before,” he said. “We’ve had storms and rain and hail and heat and cold and all those sort of things that are your typical golf tournament issues. But this one is new and we have been in constant contact with the Bureau of Meteorology.”
Scott is among the International players for next week’s Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne playing this week in Sydney for team captain Els. Also in Sydney for the first time in his career is Louis Oosthuizen, the only South African player on the International team.
The sun is seen through smoke haze at the 2019 Australian Open in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)
Other International team players at the Australian Golf Club this week are Marc Leishman, Cameron Smith, defending champion Abraham Ancer and Taiwan’s C.T. Pan.
The International team’s only win over the United States team was in 1998 when it was first held at Royal Melbourne. The Presidents Cup venue is roughly 550 miles southwest of Sydney and considerably south of New South Wales, where the fires are burning this week.
“I think we all sort of feel Royal Melbourne is the place we’ve got probably the best shot,” Oosthuizen said. “We’ve got a team that’s really in form. We’ve got a young side coming through. I think having an Aussie crowd behind us, playing Royal Melbourne especially, I think it will be the best home course advantage we can have.”
Follow Tiger Woods’ Thursday round at the Hero World Challenge with shot-by-shot analysis.
Tiger Woods and company are back on the course Thursday in the Bahamas for the annual Hero World Challenge, which benefits Woods’ TGR Foundation and the ONE Bahamas Fund.
Eighteen of the world’s best are at Albany for the fifth consecutive year, with Woods making his first appearance since winning his record-tying 82nd PGA Tour event in October at the inaugural Zozo Championship in Japan.
Woods, a five-time winner of the Hero, shot an up-and-down even par in Wednesday’s first round and tees off today alongside Bubba Watson at 11:23 a.m. ET. Follow along below for shot-by-shot updates of Woods’ round.
While Tiger’s annual event does satisfy our need for golf during the winter months, it also raises a lot of money for those in need. This year, the event is going the extra mile.
Hoping for low scores this week during the #HeroWorldChallenge. The tournament is challenging players to go low and will make a contribution to ONE Bahamas Fun for every birdie, eagle and ace.
Everything you need to know for the second round of the Hero World Challenge.
The Hero World Challenge continues on Thursday at Albany Golf Club in Nassau, Bahamas, with a field packed full of professional golf’s top competitors.
Competing for the first time since earning his 82nd PGA Tour win in October, tournament host Tiger Woods shot an up-and-down even par on Wednesday and enters the second round six shots behind leaders Gary Woodland and Patrick Reed, who has some new irons in the bag. Chez Reavie sits in third at 4 under.
The event will not just go toward satisfying a PGA Tour craving as the seasons takes a break in December, but it will also go toward helping those affected by Hurricane Dorian which devastated the Bahamas in August. For every birdie made during the Hero, $500 will be donated to the ONE Bahamas Fund. Eagles will raise $1,000 and an ace will bring a donation of $2,500.
Below are the tee times for the second round, along with the current leaderboard and TV information.
Tiger Woods caught fire early on the back nine before falling off late in the opening round of the Hero World Challenge.
Tiger Woods’ return to the golf course following his record-tying 82nd PGA Tour victory in October didn’t quite go as planned early on Wednesday in the opening round of the Hero World Challenge.
Battling high winds and struggling to get any approach shots close despite having success off the tee with his driver, Woods made the turn at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas at 2 over, near the back of the pack among the 18-man field.
Then, early on the back nine, he caught fire.
Woods made par on the 10th hole, then shot up the leaderboard on Nos. 11-15, making birdie on three of the four holes, culminating with a chip-in eagle.
Woods finished his last three holes par-bogey-double bogey to walk off the course with a disappointing even par 72. After the first round, Woods sits six shots back of leaders Gary Woodland and Patrick Reed.
