The Masters Tournament will resume on Saturday from the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Scottie Scheffler is still leading headed into Saturday with 8-under and will be teeing off at 2:50 p.m ET this afternoon. Will anybody be able …
The Masters Tournament will resume on Saturday from the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Scottie Scheffler is still leading headed into Saturday with 8-under and will be teeing off at 2:50 p.m ET this afternoon. Will anybody be able to get close to Scheffler on Saturday?
Tune in and find out this afternoon, here is everything you need to know to watch and stream the action this weekend.
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The 2022 Masters Tournament will resume on Saturday from the beautiful Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
The 2022 Masters Tournament will resume on Saturday from the beautiful Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
Scottie Scheffler is leading the pack after a fantastic round yesterday and currently sitting at 8-under, with Shane Lowry in second at 3-under as they begin the Third Round on Saturday.
This is sure to be the best weekend of golf all year, here is everything you need to know to watch and stream the action this weekend.
ESPN+ will have daily coverage with two Featured Groups: A feed of 3-4 golfers in one “group” that shows their round for the day. There will be two windows, one in the morning (2 groups) and one in the afternoon (2 groups).
They will also have Featured Holes 4, 5, 6, 15, & 16: A feed of the 4, 5, 6, 15, & 16 holes on the course.
*Tiger Woods will be in the Thursday Featured Groups*
PGA Tour Odds and Betting Lines
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The Masters Tournament will begin with Round 1 on Thursday from the beautiful Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
The Masters Tournament will begin with Round 1 on Thursday from the beautiful Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
The world’s best players will compete for the famed Green Jacket and we will get to see Tiger Woods begin his comeback as he competes for the first time in two years. Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Bryson DeChambeau, and Brooks Koepka will be competing as well this year.
This is sure to be the best weekend of golf all year, here is everything you need to know to watch and stream the action this weekend.
ESPN+ will have daily coverage with two Featured Groups: A feed of 3-4 golfers in one “group” that shows their round for the day. There will be two windows, one in the morning (2 groups) and one in the afternoon (2 groups).
They will also have Featured Holes 4, 5, 6, 15, & 16: A feed of the 4, 5, 6, 15, & 16 holes on the course.
*Tiger Woods will be in the Thursday Featured Groups*
PGA Tour Odds and Betting Lines
PGA Tour odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds last updated Thursday at 9:30 a.m. ET.
Want some action on the PGA Tour? Place your legal sports bets on this game or others in CO & NJ.
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In his 14th start on the PGA Tour Champions, Weir snapped a winless streak that had stretched to 13 years, six months and two days.
In February, Mike Weir was in position to win for the first time—anywhere—in more 13 years. He led by four shots through eight holes during the final round at the Cologuard Classic in Tucson, Arizona, but Kevin Sutherland tracked him down to snatch away the victory and keep Weir’s winless streak alive.
On Sunday, at the Insperity Invitational at The Woodlands, Texas, Weir didn’t let another one slip away.
In his 14th start on the PGA Tour Champions, Weir snapped a winless streak that had stretched to 13 years, six months and two days.
John Daly briefly held a two-shot lead after he eagled the par-5 13th hole but Weir eagled the same hole a few minutes later, knotting things up at 10 under. Those two dueled from there but after smoking a drive on 18, Daly, playing a hole ahead of Weir, came up short on his approach shot and splashed down in the lake in front of the green. He would close with a double bogey 6 and a final-round 69.
Weir, who stuffed several approach shots on Sunday, did so again when he needed to the most on the final hole. He then two-putted for par to seal the win by two over Daly, Tim Petrovic and David Toms.
Toms was trying to make it an LSU double on Sunday. Just a couple hours earlier, Sam Burns earned his first PGA Tour win at the Valspar Championship. Toms, a mentor and friend to Burns, shot a final-round 71.
The Insperity was reduced from 54 holes to 36 with most of Friday and Saturday impacted by heavy rain. It was the first Champions event to get cut to 36 holes since the 2018 Principial Charity Classic in Des Moines, Iowa. Second-round leader Tom Lehman was declared the champion there after thunderstorms throughout the final day.
Kevin Sutherland tracked down Mike Weir and won the Cologuard Classic on PGA Tour Champions on Sunday in Tucson.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The last time Mike Weir and Kevin Sutherland each won, they did so in the state of Arizona.
Sutherland’s win was just three months ago at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Phoenix. Mike Weir, meanwhile, hasn’t won since 2007. That’s a stretch of 13 years, four months and seven days since he won the Fry’s Electronics Open on the PGA Tour at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale.
On Sunday, when Weir birdied the eighth hole at the Cologuard Classic, the second PGA Tour Champions event in 2021, he took a four-shot lead. It started to look like the drought would finally be over.
But on a chilly and windy day, Sutherland, who started the final round two shots back of the lead, made his move on the back nine at the Omni Tucson National Resort.
He birdied the 10th and 12th and then chipped in for birdie on the par-3 16th, the only birdie on that hole on Sunday. When Weir bogeyed the 16th, there was a tie for the lead with two to go.
On the par-5 17th, Sutherland made a short birdie putt to take a one-shot lead. Both striped their drives on the 18th hole and after Sutherland stuffed his approach to about 10 feet, he made a par putt to clinch the win at 15 under.
Weir bogeyed the last to finish 13 under.
A backyard sign showing support for Phil Mickelson at the 2021 Cologuard Classic at the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo: Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
An eventful week
Phil Mickelson posted 14 birdies over the course of three days but had a double bogey in each of his first two rounds and a triple on the ninth hole on Sunday.
In both his first and second rounds, Mickelson also had an adventure on the 15h hole. Two days in a row, his ball nearly went into the lake and both days, he made amazing saves. Friday he hit off the mud to make birdie, Saturday he saved par after taking off his socks and shoes to stand in the lake to hit again from the mud.
When he got to the 15th tee on Sunday, he quickly charted a different path.
This time, he had caddie/brother Tim Mickelson pull a stake out of the ground to lower the rope, motioned a course volunteer out of the way, aimed right off the box and punched his tee shot through a small opening of trees up the 17th fairway.
Phil Mickelson and caddie/brother Tim Mickelson look through an opening of trees on the 15th tee box to the 17th fairway, where Mickelson would play his tee shot on Sunday in the final round of the 2021 Cologuard Classic at the Omni Tucson National Resort. (Photo: Todd Kelly/Golfweek)
After arriving at his ball in the fairway, he said “What’s up?” to the oncoming group of Billy Andrade, Jeff Sluman and Fred Funk.
“Then I only had about 215 to the hole and took a 4-wood over the trees,” Mickelson said. His ball landed between the 15th green’s front-facing bunkers. From there, he chipped on and two putted for par but expressed frustration about it.
“This is the stuff I’ve been doing. I hit a decent chip but I left it above the hole, missed the putt, make a 5. I hit three decent shots and I got a 5, and I gotta fix that somehow.”
It’s not an uncommon strategy at Tucson National. Woody Austin, for one, does it all the time, according to frequent spectators at the event.
Mickelson finished in a seven-way tie for 20th at 4 under, his bid for an unprecedented third win in his first three Champions tour starts falling short.
He wore a red shirt under his black pullover Sunday, part of the show of support across the golf world for Tiger Woods.
“So two things happened today. I wore red in honor of Tiger to let him know that the players support him and appreciate all that he’s done,” he said. “I had to buy a red shirt and of course every red shirt here (in Tucson) has a big A on it (for the University of Arizona, arch rival to Mickelson’s Arizona State). I’m not going to flash it (the A) but it’s under here (his black pullover). I hope he knows that we’re supporting him. Because that was a lot for me to do that.”
Other notables
Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker finished T-3 with Scott Parel. Jeff Maggert finished solo fifth. Tournament ambassador Jerry Kelly finished 9 under and tied for sixth with Tim Petrovic. Defending champion Bernhard Langer parred the 18th hole to shoot an even-par 73 and finish 6 under, tied for 14th. Local favorite Jim Furyk tied for 17th at 5 under.
Mike Weir hasn’t won a golf tournament since 2007 but he’s in position to snap a streak of more than 13 winless years on Sunday.
Mike Weir hasn’t won a golf tournament since 2007 but he’s in position to snap a streak of more than 13 winless years on Sunday.
After his second-round 67, Weir is atop the leaderboard at the Cologuard Classic, the second PGA Tour Champions event in 2021, at the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson, Arizona.
His last victory anywhere came at the short-lived Fry’s Electronics Open on the PGA Tour at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale. A win Sunday would be his first in 233 starts—194 PGA Tour, 19 Korn Ferry Tour, 11 PGA Tour Champions, nine European Tour—worldwide.
This week in Tucson, Weir is 4 under on the front nine and 10 under on the back and has posted rounds of 66 and 67. He is at 13 under and will take a two-shot lead over Kevin Sutherland into Sunday’s final round.
“I can’t recall a time where I’ve hit so many shots close to the hole,” Weir said. “I’ve hit really a lot of shots that have been almost tap-in to just outside of tap-in. I don’t know, probably six, seven, eight shots. So my wedges have been very good, even mid iron game’s been very good, so that’s really been good. And I’m driving it good.”
Sutherland, who won the Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Phoenix in November, eagled the 17th to get to 11 under.
Scott Parel is in third at 10 under, three shots back. Scott Verplank bogeyed the last and is 9 under, four back. Jeff Maggert, who started the day in 28th, posted the low round of the day with a 7-under 66. He had eight birdies in his round and is tied for fifth at 8 under with David Toms and Tim Petrovic, who made a hole-in-one for the second day in a row. On Friday he aced the 16th, on Saturday, the 14th.
“I called my wife yesterday and I said, ‘You see my card?’ And she goes, ‘Yeah, you made an eagle.’ I said, ‘Yeah, that’s part of it, but it was on a par 3.’ She goes, ‘Oh, my God, hole-in-one,'” said Petrovic. “I think they got this one (on Saturday) on video, though, so my dad will probably, he’s probably still laying on the floor in his living room right now, watching that one go in.”
Phil Mickelson had a double-bogey on the par-5 second hole but he responded with birdies on Nos. 3, 4 and 6. On 15, he had another memorable mud ball save from the edge of a lake and walked off the course with a 1-under 72.
“I thought I might have made another birdie from the mud. I couldn’t hit that wedge shot any better,” he said.
He is nine shots off the lead and will have some work to do on Sunday as he chases a first-ever third straight win in his first three starts on the Champions circuit.
A sign showing support for Arizona Wildcat alum Jim Furyk is seen at the Cologuard Classic at the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo: Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
Defending champion Bernhard Langer is six under and is T-11, seven shots back as he chases his 42nd victory on the Champions tour, which he joined in 2007. He has at least one win in 14 years on the circuit. Local favorite Jim Furyk shot a second-round 69 and is T-15, eight shots off the lead.
Others of note: Steve Stricker (T-8), Fred Couples (T-11), Cologuard ambassador Jerry Kelly (T-11), Ernie Els (T-15), John Smoltz (T-51). John Daly withdrew after 12 holes.
Mike Weir, whose last win came 14 years ago in Arizona, leads after the first round in Tucson.
Phil Mickelson made all the pre-tournament headlines and had one of the highlights of the day on Friday, but it’s another lefty, Mike Weir, who stole the show in the opening round of the PGA Tour Champions Cologuard Classic.
Playing in the last group to tee off on No. 1, Weir fired a bogey-free 66 to take a one-shot lead over Scott Verplank at the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson, Arizona.
It’s Weir’s lowest opening-round in 12 starts on the Champions circuit, giving him his first first-round lead on the tour. His previous best Champions Tour finish was second—to Mickelson—in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic last August.
“Now you have to keep the pedal down, you have to keep playing well,” he said. “But this is a quirky golf course, you have to play smart. There’s certain holes here. … it gets your attention.”
Weir’s last victory anywhere came in Arizona at the 2007 Fry’s Electronics Open at Grayhawk in Scottsdale.
Verplank opened with a 67 after he holed out from a bunker on the ninth hole, his last. Paul Goydos, Jeff Sluman and Kevin Sutherland all shot 68s and sit two back of the lead.
Mickelson shot a 3-under 70 on the par-73 track. He had three birdies on each nine but bogeyed the 11th and doubled the 13th. On the par-5 15th, after his ball just about went into a lake, Mickelson submerged his shoes in the mud to hit his second shot. He went on to make birdie.
“On 15 I laid up with a 5-iron to stay short of the water. I wanted to try to be in the right rough because it shortens the second shot by 30 yards,” he said. “It’s 237 to the water, into the wind, hit 5-iron and went in the water. I couldn’t believe it. It was a little upsetting to say the least. … it was in the mud, I could hit it. So I got in there with a 9-iron and was able to lay up, and hit another 9-iron close and make birdie, which was crazy. It kind of calmed me down for the last few holes.”
Defending champion Bernhard Langer is T-14 after shooting a 71. Former Arizona Wildcat and local favorite Jim Furyk is T-28 after posting a 1-under 72.
Other scores of note: Steve Stricker (-4), Fred Couples (-2), Ernie Els (E), John Daly (+4) and John Smoltz (+4).
In 2003, Weir emerged victorious at Augusta National, becoming the first (and so far, only) Canadian to win a Masters title.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Seventeen years ago, Mike Weir made history. This weekend, he’s trying to do it again.
In 2003, Weir emerged victorious at Augusta National, becoming the first (and so far, only) Canadian to win a Masters title. It wasn’t easy for the Sarnia, Ontario native that year, as he finished 72 holes tied with American Len Mattiace at 7-under 281. Weir subsequently defeated Mattiace in a playoff.
Weir owns a total of eight PGA Tour wins in a career on the big circuit that dates back to 1998. Three of those wins, including his Masters triumph, came in a playoff. The 50-year old has represented Canada on five Presidents Cup squads. He has played nine times on the PGA Tour Champions in 2020 and had two top-5 finishes.
If Weir is going to capture his second Masters title, he’ll have to overcome an ultra-deep field that includes World No. 1 Dustin Johnson, icons Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and a battery of other stars including Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm and Collin Morikawa.
The Canadian got off to a decent start, carding three birdies (including back-to-back on Nos. 6 and 7) against just one bogey through the first 16 holes. However, a second bogey on the par-4 17th dropped him to an opening round 71, just one under par.
As we all know, “decent” is not going to cut it at Augusta National, and Weir finds himself T-34.
“I would say it was a good round,” Weir said. “I didn’t really capitalize on a lot of things. I missed a really short putt on 2, had some good looks and didn’t quite get them in. But all in all, it was a nice solid start to the tournament.”
Weir did recognize that his short game needs improvement, especially his putting. He had 31 putts on the day and hopes to get that number down to the mid-20s. He also noticed the conspicuous lack of fans and patrons.
“Yeah, it kind of feels like a round with your friends,” Weir admitted. “It does. You still have the tournament — you know it’s a tournament and you have the tournament energy, but it’s a completely different feel. Hopefully in April they’ll be able to get back. But it’s still nice playing with two great guys, and they battled and hung in there well.”
Weir played alongside Englishman Matt Wallace and Spaniard Rafael Cabrera Bello. Wallace had the most successful Thursday of the trio, as he is T-13 at 3-under 69. Meanwhile, Bello finds himself behind the eight ball at 1-over 73 and T-64.
Weir knows what he needs to do to battle up the leaderboard come Friday.
“I have to continue to hit fairways, and on the long holes I’ve got to try to get to the center of the green and try to find a way to make par.
“And then when I’ve got a wedge in my hand on the par‑5s and 3 and things like that, I have to be very aggressive with those shots and try to make birdie on those holes.”
Phil Mickelson becomes just the third player to win his first two starts on the PGA Tour Champions.
It was a Sunday southpaw skirmish in the final round of the Dominion Energy Charity Classic and the man they call Lefty emerged victorious.
Playing in his second PGA Tour Champions event after winning his debut back in August, Mickelson outdueled fellow Masters champion Mike Weir at Country Club of Virginia’s James River Course in Richmond, winning the 54-hole event at 17 under after an impressive 7-under 65 in the final round. All three rounds were played on the weekend due to excessive rain on Friday.
The 50-year-old senior circuit rookie entered Sunday play three strokes behind Weir and got off to a hot start, making birdie on four of his opening seven holes. He took a one-shot lead on the par-3 13th with a par after Weir made bogey and extended the lead to two with a birdie on No. 15. A tap-in birdie on No. 16 moved him to 16 under for the tournament and Lefty never looked back, ending his week with a birdie on No. 18.
A pair of lefties with green jackets lead at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic in Richmond, Virginia.
To keep his perfect resume on the PGA Tour Champions intact, Phil Mickelson will have to leapfrog another former Masters champ on Sunday and then hold off the rest of the field at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic in Richmond, Virginia.
Mickelson, who won his only other start on the senior circuit, notched seven birdies en route to a 66 during his second round on Saturday, good enough for the second spot on the leaderboard. Earlier in the day, Mickelson carded a 68 as Friday’s wet weather forced players into a Saturday marathon. A handful of players did not finish their second round on Saturday and will go off early Sunday.
While Mickelson played well, he didn’t play as well as 2003 Masters champ Mike Weir, who equaled Mickelson’s early round, but then fired a 63 in the afternoon to take a three-stroke lead into Sunday’s final round. Weir, who plays left-handed like Mickelson, stands at 13 under with 18 holes remaining.
Weir’s second round included nine birdies and no bogeys at the par-72 Country Club of Virginia.
As for Mickelson, he said he’s trying to keep the pressure on, but his failure to hit fairways kept penalizing him.
“I’m trying, man. I’m trying to attack. I’m trying to hit drivers and get after this course, but … it’s hard to do from the rough. I let a few wayward shots get away from me,” Mickelson said. “Then when I hit a great drive like on 9 and all I’ve got to do is hit a solid 3-wood on the green and kind of flail it and didn’t make birdie, so I threw away a shot there. I’ve just got to be sharper.”
Weir wanted to get off to a hot start, knowing how much golf was to be played.
Mike Weir of Canada is all smiles on the eighth green during the second round of the Dominion Energy Charity Classic. (Photo by Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR via Getty Images)
“My mindset going into today knowing we had 36, I wanted to get in a nice rhythm for the day because there’s so many holes. If you get in a nice rhythm, you can kind of ride it and I did that, I got in a nice rhythm,” Weir said.
“I kind of stumbled a bit on my 18th hole the first round, but maybe that gave me a jump start to just, like, not be too bothered and just say, ‘Hey, I’m playing good and let’s just keep the pedal down. Nice to see some putts going in and hit a lot of great iron shots, too.”
As for having the lead heading into the final round, Weir couldn’t recall the last time that was the case.
“It’s been a long time. It would take me a while to come up with when the last time that was,” he said.
