Simpson is the top golfer in the field with a rank of 12th by the Official World Golf Ranking. He finished solo third here last season and finished T-7 at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in his most recent event. He leads the stat model with top-five ranks in four of the five key stats.
Kevin Kisner +2200
Kisner won at Sea Island in 2015. After missing the cut the following year, he was T-4 in 2017 and T-7 last season. Ranked No. 34 in the world, he’s third in the field in par-4 efficiency from the key distance. He has gained more strokes per round at this venue than anyone other than Simpson (minimum 20 rounds played) since 2010, according to Data Golf.
RSM Classic – Tier 2
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J.T. Poston +5000
Poston missed the cut here each of the last three years, but he’s coming off of a T-24 at the HSBC Champions and T-27 at the Zozo Championship in far stronger fields.
Stuard ranks third by my stat model this week with a top rank of 11th in the field in SG: Around-the-Green. He finished T-23 last week at the Mayakoba Golf Classic and tied for fourth at the Shriners earlier this year.
RSM Classic – Longshots
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Luke List +10000
List finished in a tie for fourth last season and tied for 13th in the fall of 2016.
Mackenzie Hughes +15000
The 2016 champion missed the cut each of the last two years, but he’s priced near the bottom of the board with a $10 bet returning a profit of $1500. He missed the cut at the OHL Classic the week before his 2016 victory so his current poor form isn’t a huge concern.
2019-20 winners: Joaquin Niemann – A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier (+2800)
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The selection of the practice squad creates the first real picture of who might represent the U.S. when the matches go to Wales next summer.
The USGA’s International Team Selection Committee has chosen a 12-woman group for an initial Curtis Cup practice session next month, creating the first real picture of who might represent the U.S. when the matches are played in Wales next summer.
The Americans are coming off a lopsided victory over Great Britain and Ireland in 2018, but only one player on that team could potentially return. UCLA senior Mariel Galdiano, now 21, could potentially take her third turn on the U.S. team after compiling a 4-3 record over the last two matches.
Among the seven other women who played alongside Galdiano at Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, New York, a year and a half ago, six have turned professional. Andrea Lee, who earned her LPGA card at Q-Series earlier this month, remains in limbo on her status, but turned down an invitation to the practice session citing plans to turn professional before the matches.
The following 12 players have accepted invitations to the session, which will take place Dec. 15-17 at Loblolly in Hobe Sound, Florida:
Allisen Corpuz, 21, of Honolulu, Hawaii (USC)
Mariel Galdiano, 21, of Pearl City, Hawaii (UCLA)
Lauren Greenlief, 29, of Ashburn, Virginia
Lauren Hartlage, 21, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Louisville)
Auston Kim, 19, of St. Augustine, Florida (Vanderbilt)
Gina Kim, 19, of Durham, North Carolina (Duke)
Emilia Migliaccio, 20, of Cary, North Carolina (Wake Forest)
Alexa Pano, 15, of Lake Worth, Florida
Kaitlyn Papp, 21, of Austin, Texas (Texas)
Aneka Seumanutafa, 19, of Emmitsburg, Maryland (Ohio State)
Natalie Srinivasan, 21, of Spartanburg, South Carolina (Furman)
Rose Zhang, 16, of Irvine, California
Five teenagers in the group
Among the 12 women are five teenagers, the youngest of them being Alexa Pano. The 15-year-old played the Augusta National Women’s Amateur last spring as a 14-year-old, and spent the majority of the year bouncing from junior to amateur to pro starts and back.
Nine of the 12 players are current collegians. Only Pano and Zhang – who has committed to play for Stanford beginning in 2021 – fall on the low side of that mark. Lauren Greenlief fits into the graduate category. Greenlief won the 2015 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, and took a leave of absence from her job for much of the past year to focus on playing competitively. She climbed to No. 136 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking in that time.
Greenlief, who played her way to the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, would be the first mid-amateur to make a U.S. Curtis Cup team since Meghan Stasi in 2008, should she be selected.
Veteran Curtis Cupper will be captain
The Americans will be captained by Sarah Ingram, a three-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion who also appeared as a player in three Curtis Cups.
“The talent level surrounding women’s amateur golf in this country is incredible, and I’m so excited to bring these 12 impressive players together for this practice session,” Ingram said. “My experience participating in three Curtis Cup Matches both fueled my competitive nature and formed lasting relationships. I am eager to help guide and be a part of that journey for a new group of young women.”
Invitation to the Curtis Cup practice session does not guarantee selection to the eight-player U.S. team that will compete in June. Players not invited can also still be considered for inclusion on the team.
Automatic qualifying spots are reserved for the U.S. Women’s Amateur champion – though Gabi Ruffels, as an Australian, is not eligible – and the Mark McCormack Medal winner – though Andrea Lee, of course, declined hers.
The USGA will automatically select the top three American players in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking on April 8, 2020. The remainder of the team will be selected the following week.
Although Rory McIlroy didn’t win a major championship in 2019, he feels the year has been a success.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Rory McIlroy finds himself in uncharted territory on the eve of the $8 million DP World Tour Championship, Dubai. He doesn’t have a chance to win the European Tour’s Race to Dubai despite a stellar season.
The world No. 2 lies sixth in the European Tour pecking order, but can’t become the No. 1 player because he’s too far behind leader Bernd Wiesberger.
McIlroy is a three-time European Tour No. 1. His focus this week is on winning the DP World for the third time. He’s quite happy to take a back seat to players he magnanimously feels deserve to be the 2019 European No. 1.
“I’ve won it three times.” McIlroy said. “It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to do it. I haven’t played enough counting European Tour events to have a chance. You look at someone like a Bernd Wiesberger that’s played 25, 26, 27 times, whatever it is (28). Those are the guys that deserve to be up there with a chance to win.”
McIlroy has found himself short of tournaments needed to catch Wiesberger because he wasn’t a European Tour member at the start of this season. McIlroy only took up membership in May, meaning a second-place finish in the WGC–Mexico Championship, T-9 in the WGC–Dell Technologies Match Play and T-21 in the Masters didn’t count towards his points total.
“This year has been a great learning year for me in terms of knowing what works,” McIlroy added. “I feel like I changed my schedule up a good bit this year, and it helped, not traveling quite as much at the start of the year. Basing myself in Florida, where I now live the majority of the time and not having to travel too far from there. That definitely helps for the first few months of the year feeling settled, not crossing too many time zones.”
McIlroy is a four-time winner this year. Although he didn’t get his hands on a major championship, he feels the year has been a success.
“I’ve had a wonderful season this season and I feel like I’ve figured out a few things that really helped me. It’s been a good formula this year, and I don’t see any reason to change anything going into next year.”
The 30-year-old has made one significant change this week. Regular caddie Harry Diamond isn’t on the bag since his wife just gave birth to their first child, a girl they named Georgia Iris. Rory has handed his clubs to former Irish rugby international Niall O’Connor, and that means being a bit more proactive.
“Obviously I’ll maybe take on a little bit more responsibility than I usually do and jot stuff down,” he said. “It feels a little bit like when Harry first came on the bag a couple years ago. I took on a little more responsibility writing stuff in my yardage book and pacing stuff out. I actually quite enjoy that part
“Niall knows what it feels like in the heat of the battle. Obviously he doesn’t have 18-stone (252-pound) men blasting at him as he has in the past, it’s a little bit different.
“He’s a pretty good golfer himself. He’s played a lot of amateur tournaments in Ireland, so he knows the game well, and he knows what it’s like, how it feels to be in the heat of battle and be under pressure.”
McIlroy has only had one season where he won five times. That was in 2012. A fourth DP World Tour Championship win would help him match that five-win season, a win that, under other circumstances, would probably have helped him become European Tour No. 1 for 2019.
The best PGA Tour pro-am draw party is at the RSM Classic, where Davis Love III pitches a tent in his backyard.
As far as The Man Out Front is concerned, the best Tuesday night meal of the golf year isn’t the Champions Dinner at Augusta National. That may be the most coveted invite, but The Forecaddie can attest that it doesn’t get much better than the RSM Classic’s pro-am draw party hosted in a tent in the backyard of former U.S. Ryder Cup captain and World Golf Hall of Famer Davis Love III.
This is the 10th year Love has played host to more than 250 of his newest and closest friends willing to fork over $8,000, or $22,000 for a threesome, for the opportunity to play in the tournament pro-am on Wednesday. There’s nothing else on the PGA Tour quite like a night under the oaks feasting on the best low-country cuisine that can be had at DL3’s digs, A.K.A. Sinclair Plantation. So, how did this become a tradition like none other? As Love tells it, we have John Linen to thank – not the Beatle, but the former vice chairman of American Express.
“He wanted to do special outings at Sea Island. I said, ‘Why not just have them over to my house,’ ” Love tells TMOF. “When he said he was talking about 100 people, I said, ‘We’ll put a tent outside.’ He said, ‘Really?’ I told him, ‘What would be better than telling your clients they’re having a dinner party at our house?’ When we pitched RSM, we told them it would be an intimate affair like the old Callaway Gardens (Southern Open) and the Crosby Clambake (AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am) with southern hospitality. It started out with a normal pro-am of 40 teams and has grown to 80.”
Davis Love III on the seventh hole during the 2016 RSM Classic. Photo: Logan Bowles/USA TODAY Sports
Word spread and Love’s backyard has hosted everything from weddings to the annual Blue Jean Ball for the Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia. It’s become a great way to raise money for charity, he says.
“A guy with Insulate America came to the draw party and decided he wanted to have his company party here,” Love says. “He offered to donate $50,000 to the Davis Love Foundation. How could I say no to that? He’s become one of our partners at the RSM Classic.”
At this point, the tournament could change courses and hear less complaints than if it moved the draw party from the Love’s backyard. There’s only one problem – Love’s house is on the market.
“What are we going to do if it actually sells?” Love says.
He’s already thought of the perfect solution: “I think the tournament should buy it and lease it to me.”
This week’s DP World Tour Championship in Dubai will be Rory McIlroy’s last start of the year, but it will be the first for his new caddie.
This week’s DP World Tour Championship in Dubai will be Rory McIlroy’s 25th and last start of the year, but it will be the first for his new caddie. And the last.
The Forecaddie hears McIlroy’s bag will be toted in the European Tour’s season finale by his pal Niall O’Connor. But the gig is a one-off assignment for O’Connor, who will head back to his regular job in private equity in New York City next week.
McIlroy’s regular bagman, Harry Diamond, is taking time at home in Belfast to enjoy fatherhood. Diamond’s wife, Claire, gave birth to their first child, Georgia Iris, on Nov. 11. Mom, dad and baby are all doing well, The Man Out Front is assured.
O’Connor is no stranger to the sporting limelight. The 32-year-old from Northern Ireland is a former international rugby player. Nor is this his first experience carrying for a McIlroy: he caddied for Rory’s dad, Gerry, at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2018.
Diamond will be back on the bag when McIlroy kicks off his 2020 campaign, with his expected first start at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines.
Russell Henley self-reported a penalty for using a different model golf ball that cost him eight penalty strokes and led to a missed cut.
Russell Henley was at the scoring tent after shooting a 2-under 69 during Saturday’s second round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic when his caddie tossed him two balls to sign for the standard bearer and walking scorer with his group. That’s when Henley first realized the innocent gaffe he had made.
“When I get done with a ball, my caddie will mark through it with a line so I don’t re-use them,” Henley said in a phone interview on Sunday. “He gave me two balls to sign and the Pro V1x part of it was facing up at me and I just looked at it and there’s a little dash beside the Pro V1x. I was like, ‘Hmm, that’s weird, is that what all my balls look like?’ I was caught off guard.”
The PGA Tour uses a one-ball rule as a condition of competition, which means players can only use one specific brand and model of ball during a round. The penalty for using a different model is two strokes per hole that the ball is used.
Henley, who said he uses the 2017 model of the Pro V1x ball, went to his bag and compared it to the other nine balls in there and noticed that one was not like the others. The rest didn’t have the dash. He’d never even hit the offending ball, which he said is a Titleist prototype. When asked how it got in his bag, Henley guessed that he may have picked the ball up by accident while putting to the same hole on the practice putting green as another Titleist ambassador.
“I called PGA Tour rules official Brad Fabel over because something was wrong and I wanted to voice it,” he said. “I told them the scenario that I probably played it, but I don’t know. It looked scuffed up and it had a line through it, but I couldn’t tell you what number ball I used yesterday on No. 4,” Henley said. “I change balls every four or five holes, whenever I hit a wedge and there’s a scuff on it or something. I think I changed around No. 4, 9 or 10 and 14 or 15.”
Fabel brought in Slugger White, the PGA Tour’s vice president of rules and competitions, who phoned the USGA for clarification. It took the better part of an hour before Henley received the verdict.
“They told me that based on what we know and the high probability I used it, we’re going to take the average of the number of holes you typically used it, which is four,” Henley said.
He was assessed eight penalty strokes – two per hole for Nos. 9-12 – turning what had been a 69 into signing for a 6-over 77.
“Well, that sends me home,” Henley said at the time. Indeed, it did. He caught a 6:15 p.m. flight and arrived home after midnight.
“Do I think eight shots is extreme in this situation? Absolutely,” said Henley, who said he was still processing the unusual circumstances. “I think there should be a max of four. I hope eventually we can have some conversations and change the rule. I came from such an innocent place, you could call it a careless place, and given there was no intent I think it’s a pretty harsh rule. It can be debated both ways and I’m aware of that. It’s unfortunate when you’re playing well and in contention, like I was, to you’re missing the cut. It’s tough to swallow.”
But Henley said it won’t crush him because he’s learned not to let his golf score be his identity. His game has been trending in the right direction thanks to a putting tip from Brandt Snedeker after they played together at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
“I felt like I was gaining momentum with my game,” Henley said. “I felt really confident about my chances; I don’t know about winning but I proved to myself that I can go low on Sunday at the John Deere last year. I had two rounds to get it done and I felt good about my game.”
Here are the tee times and viewing information for the third round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic.
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The Mayakoba Golf Classic at El Camaleon Golf Club began Friday, a day late thanks to inclement weather that totally washed out play on Thursday.
With 36 holes remaining, players will go as long as they can Sunday before darkness, and the 72-hole event will conclude Monday. Even with the new policy of top 65 and ties making the cut, 82 players advanced to the final two rounds.
John Catlin took the early lead at European Tour Qualifying School, but there’s a lot of golf left at Lumine Golf Club in Tarragona, Spain.
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New Mexico graduate John Catlin will take a one-shot lead into the second round of the final stage of the European Tour Qualifying School after returning a bogey-free 6-under 65 over the Lakes Course at Lumine Golf Club in Tarragona, Spain.
Catlin needs another five good rounds to take one of the 25 cards on offer for the 2020 European Tour season.
“It’s only one of six rounds and it’s definitely a nice way to start, but there’s still a long way to go,” the Sacramento native said.
The 29-year-old switches to the Hills Course for Round 2. Catlin is in good form after winning last week’s Thailand Open on the Asian Tour.
“Winning my fourth title on the Asian Tour and to win in Thailand where I’ve been living for the past three years was a great feeling. I know if I can take care of what I can take care of then I’ve got every chance of contending, and I’ve given myself the best chance possible.”
Catlin is keen to find a permanent home on the European Tour after honing his skills in Europe. In 21 starts this year, Catlin made 13 cuts with a best finish of 12th in the Made in Denmark tournament. However, he finished the season 155th on the Race to Dubai.
“It’s been absolutely fantastic to compete in Europe,” Catlin said. “It’s made me a better golfer for sure. You can see the difference coming from the Asian Tour to the European Tour which is the next step up and the margin of error is just that much smaller.”
Spain’s Alejandro Canizares is one of a group of six in second place. Canizares, who won the 2003 NCAA individual title while at Arizona State, returned a 5-under 66.
France’s Gregory Havret is tied for eighth at 4 under after a 68. Havret, runner up to Graeme McDowell in the 2010 U.S. Open, is a three-time European Tour winner.
Matteo Manassero’s travails continued with an opening 78. The four-time European Tour winner sits in 155th place, next-to-last out of the 156-man field.
Danny Lee took advantage of wet conditions and preferred lies to shoot 9-under 62 in the opening round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic
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Danny Lee flirted with shooting a magical 59, but settled for a 9-under 62 to grab the first-round Mayakoba Golf Classic lead at El Camaleon Golf Course.
“Something about this course that just suits my eye very well,” Lee said.
Lee, 29, did most of his damage on the front nine, posting a 7-under 29, which tied his career-low nine-hole score. Lee made a birdie on the first hole, and then after a pair of pars, his putter warmed up.
He played Nos. 4-8 in 6 under, including an eagle at the par-5 fifth hole. That streak is the longest birdie-eagle streak in the tournament’s 13-year history. It was shades of 2014 for Lee, when he strung together seven birdies in a row on the front nine in the fourth round.
“Just one of those days, I felt like I can make anything today,” said Lee, who took 26 putts in all.
This time, Lee kept the momentum going with birdies at Nos. 11 and 12 to get to 10 under and thoughts of 59 began floating in his head, especially as he eyed a 15-foot downhiller to climb to 11 under at No. 14.
“I really wanted to make that birdie putt,” Lee said.
Maybe too much. He gunned it through the break and missed the 3-foot comebacker for his lone bogey of the day. That took some of the wind out of his sail and he finished with four straight pars coming home.
Lee’s round, which was played under preferred lies due to heavy rain the past few days that prevented play on Thursday, threatened the course record of 10-under 61 held by Roland Thatcher. The El Camaleon course has always been a favorite of Lee’s. He was the runner-up here last year and finished T-3 in 2014. According to the PGA Tour, he has shot 29 on the front nine twice in 18 career rounds at El Camaleon and has never broken 30 anywhere else in 666 rounds.
“I can only take positives from today’s round,” he said.
Lee, who has one career Tour title, entered this week on a roll, having finished second at the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges and T-10 at the Zozo Championship in Japan.
Lee’s 62 on Friday was one stroke better than Adam Long and Brendon Todd, winner of the Bermuda Championship two weeks ago, who missed a 5-foot birdie putt at the last to tie Lee.
“It was pretty getable,” said Long, who notched a career-best nine birdies on a day when the average score was 69.5. “The Tour did a great job of moving some of the tees up where the fairways were really saturated, so it was a lot of wedges. You had a lot of shots from 100 to 140 yards, so if you’re hitting those in there tight, making some putts, you can definitely make a lot of birdies.”
“I proved in Bermuda that I can kind of get into that mentality where I can go low again, and I basically started the day and said let’s try and birdie every hole,” Todd said. “I knew it was going to be soft and there’s going to be birdies out there.”
Chris Baker, a rookie who missed the cut in his first four events, stuck an old putter in the bag in Bermuda, where he tied for 31st. He made the biggest charge Friday among the afternoon wave.
Baker didn’t need the help of his putter on two occasions, chipping in for eagle at No. 13 and birdie at No. 14. He caught Lee at 9 under before two late bogeys and signed for 64 (a personal-best in seven career Tour starts) and a share of fourth with, among others, Zach Johnson.
Defending champion Matt Kuchar carded two double bogeys en route to a 2-under 69.
After Thursday’s wash out, the first round was delayed 30 minutes on Friday while the course was being prepared.
Junior golfers signed their National Letters of Intent earlier this week and there were some clear winners across the country.
The pens have been put to paper and college golf’s Class of 2020 is officially starting to take shape.
Junior golfers around the country were finally able to sign and send their National Letters of Intent to the school of their choice on Wednesday, taking the next step in their careers as student-athletes.
After taking some time to break down and analyze both the men’s and women’s signings, there was a clear winner to the day and plenty of other storylines to follow before the players get to campus next fall.
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better class in 2020 than the group Cardinal coach Conrad Ray recruited to The Farm. Stanford signed three of the top 10 players in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings for 2020: No. 2 Karl Vilips, No. 6 Jake Beber-Frankel and No. 9 Michael Thorbjornsen.
“Depth is the name of the game,” Ray said of his team. “The lineup is wide open with those three guys, I think all three can come in and play right away based off what they’ve done, but you never know until they get on campus.”
Jake Beber-Frankel shakes hands with a spectator after the second round of the 2019 Boys Junior PGA Championship. (Photo: Hailey Garrett/PGA of America)
Ray called Vilips an “alpha dog” and said Thorbjornsen has “those days where you’re just like ‘holy mackerel this guy’s a freak.’” Beber-Frankel is “every bit as talented” as the others, but plays with panache and flair that pairs well with his impressive hair.
Ray didn’t want to make comparisons to other 2020 recruiting classes, but he did say 2020 is the best class the Cardinal have had in quite some time.
Florida men get better with youth
Head coach JC Deacon has something special cooking down in Gainesville. While starting an underclassmen-heavy lineup, his young Gators have instantly made an impact as the freshman trio of Ricky Castillo, Quentin Debove and John DuBois currently rank Nos. 2-4 on the team in scoring average.
Deacon tapped into the Florida’s rich junior golf market (and England’s), signing Ryan Hart, Jonah Leach, Tyler Wilkes and Joe Pagdin to further bolster his already-young and impressive squad. Expect the Gators to be national title contenders in the coming years.
The creation of this 2020 recruiting class started almost 5 years ago. To see it come together with these 4 absolute studs is a dream come true. @GatorsGolf is in the most capable hands. Lets get to work boys!! 🐊🐊 https://t.co/wDacOD2QAD
It’s no surprise that the Stanford women also had a strong signing day, inking commitments from two players in Golfweek’s top 10 among the class of 2020: No. 6 Rachel Heck and No. 8 Sadie Englemann.
If only they could play this spring.
Senior Albane Valenzuela, ranked No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, opted to leave the program last week in order to live out her LPGA and Olympic dreams after earning status for the 2020 season at the recent Q-Series. Valenzuela tied for sixth, while teammate Andrea Lee, No. 3 in the WAGR, also earned status by finishing T-30. Lee has yet to announce her decision.
Ohio State men lock down a local
There’s something to be said for keeping your best in-state talent in state. A cold climate doesn’t make that an easy sell for Ohio State head coach Jay Moseley, and who could blame a kid for wanting to head south?
But Moseley, in his fourth season leading the Buckeye men, has not only been able to keep Ohio’s best talent, but cultivate it. That continues with recent signee Maxwell Moldovan.
When he arrives next year, Moldovan, of Uniontown, Ohio, will help fill a void left by recent graduates – and Ohio natives – Will Grimmer, a two-time U.S. Open qualifier, and Daniel Wetterich, runner-up at the Western Amateur and now a Korn Ferry Tour card holder. Grimmer arrived in Columbus the same year as Moseley and Wetterich transferred in from Xavier a year later. (This season’s roster, by the way, includes freshman Jackson Chandler, who shared the 2018 Ohio State High School title with Moldovan.)
Not since 1993 has Ohio State signed one of those, but it’s not the kind of talent you can let slip away.
Alabama gets a double reload
No program experienced a professional exodus quite like Alabama did at the end of last fall. The women lost Kristen Gillman and Lauren Stephenson after the LPGA Q-Series in October and Davis Riley decided to turn professional after Thanksgiving.
Neither Alabama team advanced to the NCAA Championship in May, and the men failed to crack the top 50 in the rankings this fall. An infusion is coming with the class of 2020, though.
If it seems like Canon Claycomb was everywhere on Wednesday, it’s probably because he was. Claycomb, who checked in not just at the top of his class but at the top of Golfweek’s Junior Rankings, garnered nearly 700 Twitter “likes” for signing his NLI and later made a cameo on Golf Channel.
Signing day is upon us and I’m so blessed to finally be able to say I’m signed to go to The University of Alabama. Thank you to everyone who has helped me get to this point and thanks to those who have cheered me on. ROLL TIDE. 💯 #270 pic.twitter.com/VWgfw8ty7n
Claycomb, who lives in Orlando, Florida, brings every experience from practicing with PGA Tour players on the Lake Nona range to playing the Junior Ryder Cup to sharing an instructor with Justin Thomas (and sometimes texting JT with questions).
For the women, head coach Mic Potter kept things familiar, securing signatures from four-time Alabama Girls’ Junior winner Michaela Morard as well as Italian Benedetta Moresco, whose older sister Angelica is currently a junior for the Tide.
Both women were chosen to represent their respective sides in the Junior Solheim Cup, and interestingly, walked into the opening ceremonies side-by-side.
