It’s his second win. Grillo erased a four-stroke deficit entering the final round.
“It made everything worth it. The playing, all the hours practicing, the effort from my family. It makes you think when you started playing all the emotions come through your head,” Grillo said. “It’s been tough, but it’s worth every second.”
Here are some of the best photos from the week in Fort Worth for the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Other PGA Tour players have enjoyed the ride as much as fans.
FORT WORTH, Texas — A few days removed from one of the most compelling storylines of the golf season, Michael Block was still the talk of the town in Rochester, where he made history with a top-15 finish at the PGA Championship.
But the buzz has followed Block to the Dallas Metroplex, where he’s making a surprise appearance at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Block was a late addition to the field after University of Texas star Parker Coody, the grandson of 1971 Masters champ Charles Coody, withdrew from the event.
As he did at Oak Hill, Block endeared himself to the media with stories of his journey, which has included rubbing elbows with sports royalty.
And other PGA Tour players have enjoyed the ride as much as fans. Despite an impressive field at Colonial Country Club that included the likes of Max Homa, Collin Morikawa and Billy Horschel as well as Texas staples Jordan Spieth and Scottie Scheffler, many of the questions — and lengthy answers — have focused on Block and the optimism he brings to the game.
After battling for 72 holes with a bum wrist, Jordan Spieth would like to “ice my brain a bit.”
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – After battling for 72 holes with a bum wrist at Oak Hill, Jordan Spieth would like to “ice my brain a bit,” he said.
Spieth, who tried and failed for the seventh time to complete the career Grand Slam, made five birdies Sunday en route to closing in 1-under 69 and a 72-hole total of 5-over 285. After withdrawing from last week’s tournament with a left wrist injury, Spieth finished T-29 at the 105th PGA Championship.
“Two weeks ago I would have signed up for this easily,” Spieth said. “And that’s really weird for me to say in a major.”
Before the injury, Spieth was riding a hot streak having finished T-3 at the Masters and losing in a playoff at the RBC Heritage. He looked to be one of the favorites ahead of the PGA.
“Off of Hilton Head I would have said I was excited as ever to have this opportunity, for sure, but from there I went downhill for a bit,” he said.
Spieth competed in the Wells Fargo Championship two weeks ago and tweaked his back Monday morning. He took it easy the next few days and played poorly. Late on Friday, he hurt his wrist.
“It’s life, it’s what happens,” he said. “My expectations changed. I didn’t think I would be here.”
Spieth said he prayed for his wrist to get better. He credited his team with helping him heal enough to be able to grip the club and swing at full speed.
Jordan Spieth’s taped arm on the ninth green during the final round of the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club. (Photo: Adam Cairns-USA TODAY Sports)
“This is something that hockey guys wouldn’t even have told anybody about and would’ve gone back out and played,” Spieth said.
For the week, he struck the ball well, ranking second in the field in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee. It was actually his short game that refused to behave – he ranked 63rd in SG: Putting and 73rd in SG: Around the Green, and he was 11 for 24 in scrambling.
Spieth said his wrist injury is trending the right way and he is planning to play the next two weeks at the Charles Schwab Challenge, where he’s a past champion, and at the Memorial. All he said he needed was a good ice plunge to put the week in the past.
“It’s what I love to do and I wouldn’t trade my job for anything but after a taxing week like this sometimes your brain is a little fried and you get a lot of people screaming at you every time you walk in between (holes) and you just kind of hear some ringing in your ears, so, for me, I go back and take a cold plunge, take a day off and I’m ready to go.”
Spieth’s first tee shot of the day took the idea of making a run way too literally and landed straight in the porta-potty area.
The Jordan Spieth Experience was on full display early on moving day at the PGA Championship.
Entering the day at 5-over-par — and just barely squeaking under the cutline — Spieth needed to make quite a run to get back in contention with the leaders at five-under.
Unfortunately, his first tee shot of the day took the idea of making a run way too literally and landed straight in the porta-potty area.
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Seriously, you either have to try really hard to mess up a drive like this or suffer some horrible luck. We have to assume it’s the latter because the next shot didn’t go much better for him.
After being granted temporary immovable obstruction relief, Spieth’s second shot clipped a tree and dove straight back down to Earth, eliciting a little profanity from the golfer.
The Jordan Spieth Experience was on full display early on moving day at the PGA Championship.
Entering the day at 5-over-par — and just barely squeaking under the cutline — Spieth needed to make quite a run to get back in contention with the leaders at five-under.
Unfortunately, his first tee shot of the day took the idea of making a run way too literally and landed straight in the porta-potty area.
Seriously, you either have to try really hard to mess up a drive like this or suffer some horrible luck. We have to assume it’s the latter because the next shot didn’t go much better for him.
After being granted temporary immovable obstruction relief, Spieth’s second shot clipped a tree and dove straight back down to Earth, eliciting a little profanity from the golfer.
When a reporter asked to speak to him about his injury, he declined and said, “But thanks for your concern.”
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – “How are you feeling, Jordan?” a spectator shouted with genuine concern to Jordan Spieth from behind the rope lining the right side of the 13th fairway at Oak Hill on Tuesday as Jordan Spieth sauntered to his ball.
“I feel good,” Spieth said imitating the deep baritone of James Brown.
But does Spieth, who withdrew from last week’s AT&T Byron Nelson, his hometown event, citing a left wrist injury, really feel so good, as the soul singer Brown would say? That we don’t know because when a reporter asked to speak to him about his injury, he declined and said, “But thanks for your concern.”
Spieth, ranked No. 10 in the world, is bidding to complete the career Grand Slam this week by winning the PGA Championship. It marks his seventh attempt since winning the 2017 British Open for his third major title. After overcoming a slump during which he went nearly four years without a win until claiming the Valero Texas Open in 2021, Spieth has made impressive progress to return to a dependable representative for Team U.S.A. in international competition and a threat for more major glory. The 29-year-old Texan has five top-10 finishes this season, including a T-4 at the Masters, and was a lip-out away in a playoff with Matt Fitzpatrick from defending his title at the RBC Heritage in April and recording his 14th career Tour title.
On Tuesday afternoon, he wore white tape around his left wrist and black kinesiology tape on the back of his left arm that stretched to his elbow. He played nine holes alongside caddie Michael Greller, who flew in on Monday, and coach Cameron McCormick. Spieth neither winced, shook his arm as if suffering pain, nor shied away from hitting any shot. When he drove into the left rough, he hit an iron from Oak Hill’s thick stuff.
He hit numerous pitch shots, bunker shots and putts to a tee or makeshift plastic hole placed on various spots on the green where the actual hole locations could be this week. He ripped one drive at 14 and invested most of his time pitching to the elevated green. At the par-3 15, he planted an 8-iron 15 feet from the hole and his birdie putt circled the cup. Spieth played nine holes, but to be sure of his status we will have to wait until he tees off Thursday with Viktor Hovland and Shane Lowry in his attempt to join just five golfers who have completed the career Grand Slam.
Jordan Spieth plays from the rough at the 13th hole at Oak Hill during a practice round on May 16, 2023, ahead of the 105th PGA Championship. (Adam Schupak/Golfweek)
How will Spieth’s injured wrist affect him? ESPN analyst and two-time major champion Andy North said playing in wet, long rough could be a problem for Spieth.
“If you put it in the rough enough times and have to chop it out, it’s going to definitely affect that,” North said during a media conference call ahead of the 105th PGA Championship. “Is it a concern? Obviously. For him to skip (AT&T Byron Nelson), it’s a very important tournament to him. But if it’s a matter of hey, I just need three or four days off, give this thing a little rest, then he’ll be fine. I hope that’s the case and he’s going to be able to come in there and be able to play well.”
ESPN analyst and World Golf Hall of Fame member Curtis Strange added that skipping an event that is so meaningful to Spieth, who is an AT&T ambassador and got his start at the Dallas Tour stop as a 16-year-old amateur, “speaks a lot to that there’s something wrong. He’s doing what he has to do,” Strange said. “I’ve never had a wrist injury. I can’t imagine trying to play golf with a wrist injury.”
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The National Football League had its schedule release day on Thursday and many teams around the league released fantastic social media videos to announce their upcoming opponents.
One of the best ones came from the Tennessee Titans. They showed numerous fans pictures of NFL team logos and asked them to name the team. The result was hilarious.
A day later, the PGA Tour social media team went around TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, at the AT&T Byron Nelson and asked fans to name the golfer after seeing their pictures.
Some of the answers are laugh-out-loud funny.
My favorite? A woman thinking Viktor Hovland was “Jordan Spike.”
Check out some of the best photos from the AT&T Byron Nelson here.
Before the best players in the world head to Rochester, New York, for the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club, they’re in the Lone Star State for the AT&T Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas.
K.H. Lee is the back-to-back defending champion, but world No. 2 Scottie Scheffler is the heavy betting favorite sitting at +360.
Jordan Spieth withdrew from the event Monday because of severe pain in his left wrist. Time will tell if he plays in the PGA next week — he needs the PGA Championship to complete the career grand slam.
Check out some of the best photos from the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson below.
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Defending champion Justin Thomas took down Will Zalatoris in a playoff last season to claim his second Wanamaker trophy at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thomas is among the top-10 betting favorites for the 2023 edition; Zalatoris is out after having back surgery.
Unsurprisingly, Jon Rahm heads the list of favorites.
The Spaniard took home the green jacket at the year’s first major, the Masters, and has won a total of four events on Tour in 2023. Rahm’s best finish at the PGA Championship was a T-4 in 2018.
Here are the top betting favorites for the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill.
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Kim is coming off a T-23 at Quail Hollow and tied for 17th here last season.
The final tune-up for the 2023 PGA Championship is here as the PGA Tour is in McKinney, Texas, for the AT&T Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch.
Jordan Spieth, one of the biggest names in the field and the solo runner-up to K.H. Lee at this event last season, withdrew on Monday citing “severe pain” is his left wrist.
While that Texan won’t be teeing it up on Thursday, world No. 2 Scottie Scheffler is making his first start since the RBC Heritage (T-11). The University of Texas star tied for 15th at TPC Craig Ranch in 2022.
This will be the third Byron Nelson played on the Tom Weiskopf design with Lee winning the first two.
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Golf course
TPC Craig Ranch | Par 72 | 7,414 yards
A aerial view of the 2022 AT&T Byron Nelson from TPC Craig Ranch near Dallas. (Photo: Tim Schmitt/Golfweek)
Course history
TPC Craig Ranch – Course History for the #ATTByronNelson – aka "K.H. Lee Open"
Includes finish position and Strokes Gained per round from the two events here in 2021 and 2022.
*Past Winners/Odds
2022 – K.H. Lee (-26) +10000 2021 – K.H. Lee (-25) +15000
