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SAN DIEGO – After holding a share of a lead for the first time in his 425th career round on the PGA Tour, Sam Ryder shot 4-under 68 on Thursday at the South Course at Torrey Pines to claim his first solo lead at the Farmers Insurance Open.
“It’s kind of why we play, so just trying to look around and enjoy the moment,” he said.
Ryder has had a knack for keeping his card – six straight years running – but is winless in 147 starts with a pair of runner-up finishes.
Ryder’s second-round 68 on the tougher South Course lifted him to a 36-hole total of 12-under 132 and three strokes better than fellow playing competitor Brandon Steele. It ties the largest 36-hole lead this season on Tour.
On a typically sun-drenched day, blustery conditions created indecision at every turn for the field of 156.
“We knew today was going to be like a put your helmet on and kind of get ready for a battle,” Ryder said.
Seventy-four golfers shot even-par 144 or better to make the cut.
Everything you need to know for the third round at Torrey Pines.
The PGA Tour’s West Coast swing has moved from the Coachella desert to the shores of San Diego for this week’s 2023 Farmers Insurance Open.
Torrey Pines play host once again to a loaded field of the PGA Tour’s best, including Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama, Max Homa and Tony Finau.
The tournament is a Wednesday-to-Saturday format once again this year, with the NFL’s AFC and NFC conference championship games scheduled for Sunday afternoon and evening.
From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the third round of play at the 2023 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. All times listed are Eastern.
Tee times
1st tee
Tee time
Players
12:18 p.m.
Peter Malnati, Satoshi Kodaira, Jhonattan Vegas
12:29 p.m.
Luke List, Cameron Champ, Michael Kim
12:40 p.m.
Emiliano Grillo, Davis Thompson, Ryan Palmer
12:51 p.m.
Wyndham Clark, Aaron Rai, Justin Thomas
1:02 p.m.
Lanto Griffin, Si Woo Kim, Sungjae Im
1:13 p.m.
Augusto Nunez, Dean Burmester, Garrick Higgo
1:24 p.m.
Taylor Moore, Stephan Jaeger, S.H. Kim
1:35 p.m.
Jimmy Walker, Jon Rahm, Joseph Bramlett
1:46 p.m.
Ben Griffin, Byeong Hun An, Callum Tarren
1:57 p.m.
Jason Day, Collin Morikawa, Andrew Novak
2:08 p.m.
Max Homa, Sam Stevens, Vincent Norrman
2:19 p.m.
Taylor Montgomery, Brent Grant, Sahith Theegala
2:30 p.m.
Sam Ryder, Brendan Steele, Tano Goya
10th tee
Tee time
Players
12:18 p.m.
Justin Rose, Gary Woodland, Kevin Streelman
12:29 p.m.
Keegan Bradley, Thomas Detry, S.Y. Noh
12:40 p.m.
Paul Haley II, Harry Higgs, Maverick McNealy
12:51 p.m.
Xander Schauffele, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Suh
1:02 p.m.
Trevor Werbylo, Kevin Yu, Adam Long
1:13 p.m.
Adam Hadwin, Alex Smalley, Taylor Pendrith
1:24 p.m.
Rickie Fowler, Scott Piercy, Austin Cook
1:35 p.m.
Tony Finau, Erik Barnes, Scott Harrington
1:46 p.m.
Scott Brown, Adam Schenk, Kevin Tway
1:57 p.m.
Dylan Frittelli, Trey Mullinax, Michael Thompson
2:08 p.m.
Nick Hardy, Robby Shelton
2:19 p.m.
Zecheng Dou, Taiga Semikawa
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Here’s everything you need to know for the “weekend” at Torrey Pines.
The “weekend ” is here at Torrey Pines, one day earlier than normal. To avoid a collision with NFL Conference Championship Sunday, the 2023 Farmers Insurance Open is being held Wednesday to Saturday.
Thursday’s second round has come and gone with many big names firmly in contention with two rounds to go.
Jon Rahm was in danger of missing the cut for most of the day before going on a back-nine tear. He played Nos. 5-8 of the North Course at 5 under to get to 4 under for the tournament.
Jason Day was 6 under standing in the 18th fairway of the South Course when his second shot into the par 5 found the water. He was unable to get up and down, but he’s still at 5 under with a chance to win his third Farmers.
Max Homa made four straight birdies on his front nine Thursday to vault to the front page of the leaderboard. He’ll tee off Friday at 6 under, six back of Sam Ryder.
Leaderboard, odds, percent chance to win
Position
Player
Score
Odds to win
Data Golf percent chance to win
1st
Sam Ryder
12 under
(+330)
30 percent
2nd
Brendan Steele
9 under
(+650)
17.9 percent
3rd
Tano Goya
7 under
(+4500)
1.6 percent
T-4
Taylor Montgomery
6 under
(+1000)
6.8 percent
T-4
Brent Grant
6 under
(+12500)
0.5 percent
T-4
Sahith Theegala
6 under
(+1400)
3.3 percent
T-4
Max Homa
6 under
(+750)
7.5 percent
T-4
Sam Stevens
6 under
(+6600)
1.2 percent
T-4
Vincent Norrman
6 under
(+5000)
1 percent
T-10
Jason Day
5 under
(+1400)
3.7 percent
T-10
Collin Morikawa
5 under
(+1100)
5.4 percent
T-10
Andrew Novak
5 under
(+8000)
0.5 percent
T-10
Ben Griffin
5 under
(+4500)
1.3 percent
Players to watch
Max Homa: Three of the world No. 16’s PGA Tour wins have come in the state of California. He’s struck the ball incredibly well during the second round at the South Course ranking third in SG: Tee to Green. If he can minimize mistakes, Homa has a good chance of catching Ryder over the final two rounds.
Taylor Montgomery: The Tour rookie has been in the mix all season long. Montgomery finished solo fifth last week at The American Express and in all has eight top 20s in nine starts (four top 10s). He can roll the rock with the best of them, so if his putter gets hot, watch out.
Sahith Theegala: The fan-favorite sits at 6 under through two rounds, six back of Ryder. Theegala can make birdies in bunches which is exactly what you need to be able to do to close a large gap. He’s still searching for his first win on Tour.
Zalatoris missed a birdie putt at the last that would have awarded him a Friday tee time.
Welcome to your rare Thursday 36-hole cut report.
The wind huffed and puffed and blew half the field at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines on their way out of town. It took even-par 144 to survive and advance and claim a Friday tee time and remain alive with a chance to hoist the trophy and go home with the winner’s surfboard on Saturday.
It will be a big field with 19 players tied for 54th place, including Rickie Fowler and Tony Finau, who both made birdies at the last to give themselves a chance to try and catch 36-hole leader Sam Ryder (-12). But not everyone was so lucky. Here are some of the notable names to miss the cut.
How pleased was Rahm with shooting 67 to extend his cut streak to 22?
SAN DIEGO – Jon Rahm’s PGA Tour-best streak of 21 straight made cuts appeared in danger of coming to an end as he was straddling the cutline at the Farmers Insurance Open on Thursday with five holes remaining.
All he did was play his closing stretch – Nos. 5-9 on the North Course – in 5 under, which included a par at the final hole.
As he waited to do an interview with PGA Tour Radio, Rahm peered a nearby TV showing his highlights and when his second shot to the par-5 fifth hole at the North Course at Torrey Pines flashed on the screen, he smiled and said, “Ooh. That shot was so good.”
Was it ever. Rahm estimated he blasted his tee shot on the 525- yard hole and left himself with just inside 200 yards. It was time, he said, to go into attack mode.
“It’s usually more of a soft 6-iron. And if the conversation is on camera, I asked Adam (Hayes), ‘Are you OK if I take a little bit off of it,’ and he said, ‘No, it’s all of it.’ And that’s where a great caddie comes into play. I hit exactly the shot we thought and gave myself an amazing chance for eagle.”
Rahm poured in the eagle putt – which vaulted him from 80th to 35th place – and tacked on three consecutive birdies to shoot 5-under 67, tied for the low round of the day. That rocketed him from flirting with the cutline to T-14 with a 36-hole total of 4-under 138. Rahm trails Sam Ryder, who fired 4-under 68 in the second round on the tougher South Course, by eight strokes.
Rahm won last week at the American Express and his previous start at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. He’s bidding to become the first player to win three consecutive starts since Dustin Johnson during the 2016-17 season. He was attempting to do so at his favorite hunting ground, site of his debut victory at the 2017 Farmers Insurance Open and his signature win to date, the 2021 U.S. Open.
And yet after an opening-round 73 at the South Course and two birdies and two bogeys through his first 13 holes Thursday, his obituary at this year’s tournament was already half written. Was Rahm worried about his cut streak coming to an end?
“The goal is to win,” he said. “It would have come into mind maybe in the last few holes had I been even par. I knew going into 5 through 9 to take care of the par 5s, take care of the short par-4 7th, everything would be all right. I was playing with the mindset of catching up to the leaders as much as possible, that’s it.”
Rahm proved to be up to the challenge on a sunny day when the Santa Ana winds puffed enough to bring indecision into a golfer’s mind at every turn.
“It’s going to be brutal out there,” CBS lead analyst Trevor Immelman observed early in the day. “The only saving grace are the greens are still soft and will be receptive, but it’s going to be a beast.”
How pleased was Rahm with shooting 67 to extend his cut streak to 22?
“Anything in the 60s would have been amazing,” he said. “What I shot today, man, I’m going to be skipping out of the golf course today because it’s a great round of golf.
“I think the most impressive part was I missed three fairways and in those three, one, I was a foot from the fairway and the other two maybe six feet combined, that was the most impressive part. That’s what allowed me to play such a good round of golf. It was really good ball-striking.”
The merchandise tent at the Farmers Insurance Open is loaded with gear featuring the tournament’s iconic venue, Torrey Pines.
San Diego — Not only are the views around Torrey Pines at this week’s Farmers Insurance Open tough to beat, but so is the merchandise.
The pro shop for the two municipal courses —North and South — is loaded with gems, including nods to the iconic host venue —one of the better logos in golf — and several head covers that would make a great addition to any bag.
There’s also a merchandise tent on the golf course in the Fan Zone with even more fan favorites. Plenty of hats, shirts, quarter vests, hoodies and sweaters, which would have come in handy on a breezy day. From Puma to Johnnie-O and Travis Mathew and Ahead, the Torrey Pines pro shop has it covered.
“It was hard to watch him go from a perennial top-10 player in the world all the way to outside the top 150.”
SAN DIEGO – When Rickie Fowler reached out to Butch Harmon and asked him to take a look at his swing, the famed golf swing instructor, who had coached the 34-year-old Fowler during the most successful years of his career, admitted that he shared a thought with many of Fowler’s ardent fans: What took so long?
“I didn’t say it,” Harmon said at the PGA Demo Day on Tuesday ahead of the 70th PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, “but I was thinking it.”
Harmon chuckled and then his face straightened, and he continued.
“It was sad,” he said. “It was hard to watch him go from a perennial top-10 player in the world all the way to outside the top 150.” (Fowler dropped to 160th but has improved to 106th entering this week.)
Fowler finished 134th and 125th in the FedEx Cup rankings the past two seasons and hasn’t won since the WM Phoenix Open in February 2019, but Harmon predicts that will change.
“I think he’ll win this year,” he said, adding, “The game needs it.”
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After Fowler opened with an even-par 72 in the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open the South Course at Torrey Pines on Thursday, he was asked about Harmon proclaiming that victory was on the horizon.
“That’s going to happen,” Fowler said. “I thought he was going to say this week. I’m not off to the start I need but it’s not out of the question.”
Since parting ways with instructor John Tillery in September and announcing that he and Harmon had resumed working together, Fowler has shown steady progress in returning to the player who has five PGA Tour titles, including the 2015 Players Championship, to his credit. He recorded finishes in the top 10 twice in his first three starts this season, highlighted by a runner-up finish at the Zozo Championship.
Rickie Fowler hits his tee shot on the first hole during the first round of the 2023 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego. (Photo: Ray Acevedo-USA TODAY Sports)
“He was way too flat and getting stuck, his left arm position is more up and he’s got more rotation in his hips during the backswing.”
Fowler concedes the swing changes are a work in progress and still look better on the range than they do on the course. He struggled with his driver and overall ball striking last week at the American Express, where he missed the cut, noting he got away from a feeling he’s striving for on the takeaway.
“I know for sure I’m doing the right things. I still have to give a lot of credit to (John) Tillery even though we didn’t have the success over those three years, I learned a lot and he put me in the position when I started back with Butch to have a better understanding,” Fowler said. “It’s been a lot of work but when you know you’re doing the right things and seeing the ball doing what you want it to do and getting some of those good finishes in the fall, it’s definitely nice to be gaining some confidence and momentum.”
Much like when World No. 1 Rory McIlroy reconnected with his longtime coach, Michael Bannon, CBS Sports lead golf analyst Trevor Immelman said he felt relief when Fowler rejoined Harmon.
“Butch just has this way about him. He’s a great coach,” Immelman said. “I think Rickie respects him enough to where he’ll listen and to where, when Butch is tough on him, he’ll react positively. And I just love what they’re working on. I spent a couple of days with them in Las Vegas at the Shriners (Children’s Open) and Butch was taking me through all the changes and I could see the difference on the range. And it’s you know, now I can start to see it’s bleeding in slowly on the golf course, which is the final hurdle.”
Here’s everything you may have missed from Wednesday at Torrey Pines.
SAN DIEGO – Sam Ryder says most of his great rounds usually start with a birdie. On Wednesday, at the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open, he did one better than that.
Starting on the par-5, 10th hole at the North Course at Torrey Pines, Ryder rolled in a long eagle putt.
“Well, that’s it for me. I’m done for the day,” Brendan Steele, one of his competitors in his grouping, recounted what Ryder said. “I was like, ‘Dude, this isn’t a best ball. You’ve got to keep playing.’ So, he just decided to go crazy.”
Ryder tallied six birdies to go along with the eagle to post a bogey-free 8-under 64 and share the lead with Aaron Rai and rookie Brent Grant. Steele did his best to keep up with Ryder, rolling in a birdie at 10, the first of seven on the round to shoot 65.
“He was always in front of me the whole day,” Steele said. “His good play was helpful. It’s nice to see balls go in the hole.”
“You do feed off that,” Ryder added of a comfortable pairing where both players were dialed in. “There’s truth to that, for sure.”
Ryder, 33, entered the tournament in a slump, having missed three straight cuts and four of his last five, but his confidence remained intact.
“I felt like I was shaking holiday rust off,” he explained. “I’ve been working hard since the start of the new year and felt good about my game. It was just, it started off the tee for me, it was drive it in the fairway and I felt like I could attack.”
Ryder tabbed it a stress-free round and it all began with the opening-hole eagle.
“There wasn’t much to the putt,” he said. “It was actually fairly straight and it was one of those when it was halfway there, it looked pretty good and it just kind of fell in perfect.”
“Was so close to throwing a tee at you but you’re too nice.”
Max Homa is the golf Twitter GOAT. If you have a different opinion, you’re wrong.
On Wednesday, he dropped another gem, this time referencing the Rory McIlroy/Patrick Reed tee-throwing incident that lit the social media world ablaze Wednesday morning.
Reed was caught on video throwing a tee at the world No. 1 when McIlroy didn’t speak to him when the LIV Golf member approached on the range.
Homa posted a 4-under 68 in the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open, good enough to sit T-19 after day one. He wasted no time breaking out his phone afterward and getting a tweet out — and his playing partner Collin Morikawa wasn’t too far behind.
Everything you need to know for the second round at Torrey Pines.
The PGA Tour’s West Coast swing moves from the Coachella desert to the shore of San Diego for this week’s 2023 Farmers Insurance Open.
The North Course and South Course at famed Torrey Pines play host once again to a loaded field of the PGA Tour’s best, including Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama, Max Homa, Will Zalatoris and Tony Finau.
The tournament is a Wednesday to Saturday format once again this year, with the NFL’s Conference Championship games scheduled for Sunday afternoon and evening.
From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the second round of play at the 2023 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. All times listed are Eastern.
Tee times
Hole 1 – South Course
Tee Time
Players
12 p.m.
Michael Kim, Peter Malnati, Nick Watney
12:10 p.m.
Satoshi Kodaira, Brice Garnett, Brian Stuard
12:20 p.m.
Jim Herman, Richy Werenski, Gary Woodland
12:30 p.m.
Wyndham Clark, Aaron Rai, Thomas Detry
12:40 p.m.
Ben Taylor, Tyson Alexander, Paul Haley II
12:50 p.m.
Harry Higgs, Nico Echavarria, Michael Herrera
1 p.m.
William McGirt, Bill Haas, Ben Martin
1:10 p.m.
Brendan Steele, Sam Ryder, Zac Blair
1:20 p.m.
Adam Svensson, Luke List, Jason Day
1:30 p.m.
Max Homa, Will Zalatoris, Collin Morikawa
1:40 p.m.
Xander Schauffele, J.J. Spaun, Hideki Matsuyama
1:50 p.m.
Kyle Stanley, Davis Riley, Justin Suh
2 p.m.
Dylan Wu, Philip Knowles, Trevor Cone
Hole 10 – South Course
Tee Time
Players
12 p.m.
Adam Long, Byeong Hun An, Patrick Rodgers
12:10 p.m.
Jhonattan Vegas, Charley Hoffman, Taylor Pendrith
12:20 p.m.
Garrick Higgo, Robert Streb, Lanto Griffin
12:30 p.m.
Austin Cook, Cody Gribble, S.Y. Noh
12:40 p.m.
Matti Schmid, Brent Grant, Joey Vrzich
12:50 p.m.
MJ Daffue, Erik Barnes
1 p.m.
Ryan Palmer, Aaron Baddeley, Scott Brown
1:10 p.m.
James Hahn, Sean O’Hair, Maverick McNealy
1:20 p.m.
Sebastián Muñoz, J.B. Holmes, Sahith Theegala
1:30 p.m.
Henrik Norlander, Doc Redman, Hayden Buckley
1:40 p.m.
S.H. Kim, Kevin Roy, Keita Nakajima
1:50 p.m.
Anders Albertson, Harrison Endycott, Michael Block
2 p.m.
Will Gordon, Brandon Matthews
Hole 1 – North Course
Tee Time
Players
12 p.m.
Jason Dufner, Adam Hadwin, Ben Crane
12:10 p.m.
Martin Trainer, Camilo Villegas, Callum Tarren
12:20 p.m.
Scott Piercy, Jimmy Walker, Kevin Streelman
12:30 p.m.
Patton Kizzire, Kurt Kitayama, Justin Lower
12:40 p.m.
Joseph Bramlett, Michael Gligic, Patrick Welch
12:50 p.m.
Tano Goya, Carson Young
1 p.m.
Rory Sabbatini, Arjun Atwal, Austin Smotherman
1:10 p.m.
Kevin Tway, Matthew NeSmith, Lee Hodges
1:20 p.m.
Ryan Brehm, Cameron Champ, Harris English
1:30 p.m.
Martin Laird, Tyler Duncan, Scott Stallings
1:40 p.m.
Carl Yuan, Kyle Westmoreland, Augusto Núñez
1:50 p.m.
Andrew Novak, Harry Hall, Trevor Werbylo
2 p.m.
Robby Shelton, Zecheng Dou
Hole 10 – North Course
Tee Time
Players
12 p.m.
David Lingmerth, Cameron Percy, Alex Smalley
12:10 p.m.
Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose, Taylor Montgomery
12:20 p.m.
Si Woo Kim, Keegan Bradley, Sungjae Im
12:30 p.m.
Jon Rahm, Tony Finau, Justin Thomas
12:40 p.m.
Ryan Armour, Emiliano Grillo, Danny Lee
12:50 p.m.
Davis Thompson, Scott Harrington, Cole Hammer
1 p.m.
Adam Schenk, Doug Ghim, Stephan Jaeger
1:10 p.m.
Dylan Frittelli, Beau Hossler, Hank Lebioda
1:20 p.m.
Trey Mullinax, Cam Davis, Michael Thompson
1:30 p.m.
Jonathan Byrd, Kelly Kraft, Taylor Moore
1:40 p.m.
Nick Hardy, Dean Burmester, Sam Stevens
1:50 p.m.
Ben Griffin, Austin Eckroat, Vincent Norrman
2 p.m.
Kevin Yu, Eric Cole, Taiga Semikawa
TV, streaming, radio information
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