There are two new names atop the leaderboard after the third round of the 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton. American Andrew Novak and Puerto Rican Rafael Campos shot a pair of 9-under 62s to earn themselves a share of the 54-hole lead and a final-group tee time.
Justin Lower, who posted back-to-back rounds of 65 to earn the 36-hole lead, stumbled on his way to the clubhouse on Saturday, playing the back nine in 1-over 36. Still, he’ll enter the final round one back of the lead at 15 under, alone in third.
Wesley Bryan made the biggest move of the day, tying the course record at Port Royal, a 10-under 61. He had a chance to break the existing record on No. 9 — his 18th hole of the day — but couldn’t convert the putt.
If you missed any of the action on Saturday, no worries, we have you covered.
Here are a few notes from the third round in Bermuda.
Andrew Novak of the United States walks from the 11th hole during the third round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship 2024 at Port Royal Golf Course on November 16, 2024, in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
Sure, they weren’t as good as Bryan’s 61 — we’ll get to that in a minute — but Andrew Novak and Rafael Campos crawled their way to the top of the leaderboard with matching 9-under 62s.
Novak did most of his damage early in the round, making seven birdies on the front nine to make the turn with a 7-under 29. On the second half, he added two more on Nos. 12 and 15 to finish his day.
“I missed a lot of putts the first two rounds and hit a good shot into 1,” he said, “made probably a 12-footer or so, that just kind of got it going, seeing ’em go in, kind of kept it rolling and just got hot.”
Campos, on the other hand, did most of his work around the turn and at the end of his round. He birdied five straight from Nos. 6-10 and three straight from Nos. 15-17.
“I really am happy about the last couple days, especially today,” he said. “Yesterday was no wind but today was a real test on some of the holes into the wind.
“I was really fortunate the short game was really on point today. It’s been quite some time I haven’t felt as comfortable chipping, but I had a couple chip-ins today and the putter rolled really well.”
Wesley Bryan storms up the leaderboard
Wesley Bryan of the United States checks his yardage book on the tenth green during the third round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship 2024 at Port Royal Golf Course on November 16, 2024, in Southhampton, Bermuda. (Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images)
The vibes have been high all week for Wesley Bryan. He played the first two rounds of the tournament alongside his brother, George, and although he missed the cut, the younger Bryan is now in position to win on Tour for the second time (2017 RBC Heritage).
Bryan opened with a 67 on Thursday but made too many late-round mistakes Friday, shooting a 1-over 72. Saturday, however, was a different story.
Starting on the back nine, Bryan birdied 10, 11, 14 and 16 before making a big bird at the par-5 17th to make the turn with a 6-under 29. On the way home, the 34-year-old added two more birdies to his card on Nos. 2 and 6, plus another eagle at the par-5 seventh.
Needing a birdie-birdie finish to card a 59, Bryan settled for two pars to finish his 10-under effort that tied the Port Royal course record.
“I’ve been hitting the ball really nice and been hitting it solid and been putting pretty well,” he said. “I felt like these type of conditions really for my entire golfing career, I’ve really enjoyed wind. It just brings out a little bit more creativity, so I do enjoy the wind.
“Then today, I mean, nobody knows a 61 or what, when a 61’s going to come. That’s just kind of a career day. Hopefully, we can shoot — I mean, get in the mix tomorrow on the back nine. That would be the ultimate goal.”
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“It was one of those spectacle events that I just felt I needed to watch.”
The boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson took over social media last night, with millions tuning in to watch the YouTube-star-turned-boxer take on one of the sport’s GOATs. That included Wesley Bryan.
On Saturday, Bryan shot a course-record-tying 10-under 61 during the third round of the 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course. The 34-year-old was up well into Saturday morning to watch the Netflix-run exhibition.
“I’ll be honest, woke up this morning on very, very little sleep,” he said after signing his card. “Stayed up for the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson match and that didn’t finish until about, shoot, 2:00 in the morning. It was one of those spectacle events that I just felt I needed to watch.”
Limited sleep had no impact on Bryan’s game, as he made six birdies and two eagles on his way to a bogey-free 61.
He’ll have a chance to earn his first PGA Tour win since the 2017 RBC Heritage on Sunday.
“My mind wants to go back to the past and enjoy the memories and the good stuff that happened last year.”
A year ago, Camilo Villegas was mired in a slump, ranked No. 223 in the FedEx Cup standings and in danger of losing his job on the PGA Tour. Before flying to Mexico last November to compete in the World Wide Technology Championship, he prepped to go to second stage of PGA Tour Q-School, playing two practice rounds at the host course for his qualifier and spent time working on his yardage book ahead of trying to win back full status on the PGA Tour.
“But I wasn’t worried. I had my back against the wall and I don’t know why, I just wasn’t worried,” Villegas said recently.
He would go on to finish tied for second in Mexico and then fly to the western edge of Great Britain’s territory in the Atlantic Ocean where he’d notch his fifth Tour title at Port Royal Golf Course in Southhampton, Bermuda, and earn a much-appreciated two-year Tour exemption.
“Boom, it clicked. I played great (in Mexico), I fricking threw away my Tesoro yardage book for second stage of Q-School. I thought I was going to go to finals after that and then I go and win and no Q-School, so here we are,” Villegas said.
What was it that clicked for Villegas, 42, in that two-week fever dream when he rediscovered the old magic?
“I wish I knew, to be honest,” he said. “You know, I think that was very interesting because I gambled big time and I started working with Jose Campra from Argentina and he told me, ‘This is going to take a lot of time, this is going to be tough, I need you to be patient because there’s going to be times where you’re going to want to quit on me just because it is some drastic changes and you’ve been swinging the way you swing for a long time.’
“He’s a good friend. We played junior golf together, South American tournaments, great caddie, great teacher. And I believed in him, I trusted him and I was very patient throughout the year. We were doing a lot of things that didn’t make too much sense to me and then eventually they started clicking.”
Last September, during that test of his patience, he was competing at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Simmons Bank Open in Knoxville, Tennessee, and in the middle of breakfast Campra looked at him and said, “You know we’re going to play Augusta again?”
Villegas’s brain started working overtime running through the various scenarios of what needed to happen to get him back to the Masters. He processed his options and replied, “Bro, I guess the only way for me to play Augusta is to win.”
Campra’s response was perfect: “Well, I guess you know what you need to do?”
Villegas smiles a conspiratorial smile as he recalls that line and added, “I remember it like yesterday.”
He shot a 6-under 65 in the final round in Bermuda, finishing at 24-under 260 and clipping Alex Noren by two shots for his first victory in more than nine years, booking a trip back to the Masters thanks to his first win since the death of his 22-month-old daughter, Mia, from brain cancer in 2020. He dedicated the win to Mia and said, “I’ve got my little one up there watching.”
Camilo Villegas helps his son Mateo putt on No. 1 during the Par 3 Contest at Augusta National Golf Club. (Photo: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Network)
“Different wins are special for different reasons. It’s so hard. I mean, winning on the PGA Tour is almost a fluke, to be honest,” he said. “But after going through all those tears, the ups and downs, and then the family tragedy of losing my daughter, you kind of get shaken up, man. You freaking go and say like what are the real things in life? What are the more important things in life? And then I saw the support of everybody. (He had over 900+ text messages alone to respond to.) To be honest, the messages and the energy from everybody. I mean, when you see your peers pulling for you, that kind of got me emotional, and it was pretty touching.”
Villegas hasn’t been able to carry that good mojo into this season. His best result in 24 starts is a T-35 at the Masters and he has missed 13 of his last 15 cuts. To Villegas, it’s another test of his patience. He’s learned to weather the highs and lows during a career spanning two decades and knows that the status of his game can change as fast as the weather in Bermuda this week.
“At 22 when you win a golf tournament, you kind of keep pushing, pushing, pushing,” he said. “At 42, I feel like winning last year bought me time to keep working on my game. It’s kind of bit me in the (rear) a bit where I need to be a little bit stronger and keep going.”
But Villegas said he would slow down and take a moment at Port Royal, the shortest course on the PGA Tour at 6,828 yards, to soak in the memories of an inspirational win that made grown men cry.
“Usually, I’m trying to be in the present, trying to freaking focus on the job at hand. But I’m gonna say, ‘Screw it, man.’ My mind wants to go back to the past and enjoy the memories and the good stuff that happened last year there. Just gonna let it flow. When it’s time to play, I want to have a good week.”
Alex Noren has 11 international wins, he has played in the Ryder Cup and he has represented Sweden at the Olympics. But come Sunday, he’ll have a chance to do something he has never done before — win on the PGA Tour.
After rounds of 61-66 over the first two days, Noren shot a 4-under 67 around Port Royal Golf Course on Saturday and holds a one-shot lead at the 2023 Butterfield Bermuda Championship with 18 holes to play.
The Swede, who tied for third at the Shriners Children’s Open a month ago in Las Vegas, kept the bogeys off the card during his third round. Despite only hitting eight fairways (T-43 in the field), Noren was crisp with his irons, missing just four greens (T-12).
In 27 previous starts this season, Noren has six top-25 finishes and three top-10s. His last worldwide win came at the 2018 HNA Open de France.
If you missed any of the action on Saturday, no worries, we have you covered. Here are some takeaways from the third round of the 2023 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal.
Bhatia tied for 10th in Mexico and tied for 17th at last year’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
After a week south of the border, the PGA Tour is in Southampton, Bermuda, for the 2023 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course.
Defending champion Seamus Power is not in the field due to a lingering hip injury that forced him to withdraw from the Irish Open in September. His last Tour start came at the BMW Championship during the FedEx Cup Playoffs where he finished solo 48th.
Other players in the field include Lucas Glover, Luke List and Akshay Bhatia.
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Port Royal Golf Course | Par 71 | 6,828 yards
Seamus Power hits his first shot on the 17th hole during the final round of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course on October 30, 2022 in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
After a week in Mexico, the PGA Tour heads to Southampton for the 2023 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course.
It’s the second-to-last PGA Tour stop on the FedEx Cup Fall series with many golfers scrambling to make the top 125 for the 2024 season.
There are a few interesting names in the field for next week, including YouTube star and brother of Wesley Bryan, George Bryan, and 15-year-old Bermudian Oliver Betschart. Betschart will become the youngest player to play on Tour in nearly a decade when he tees it up in the first round.
Other names in the field (with their projected FEC finish as of Friday afternoon) include Lucas Glover (18), Akshay Bhatia (97), Adam Scott (83) and Stewart Cink (174).
Defending champion Seamus Power (41) is back in Southampton hoping to go back-to-back.
Here’s the full field for the 2023 Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
The Butterfield Bermuda Championship (November 9-12) is the penultimate event of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR season.
Adam Scott is scheduled to make his tournament debut and second start of the FedExCup Fall.
Seamus Power was 34 before he broke through for his first PGA Tour win. Now, 15 months later, he’s got another one.
He had 28 birdies over four days at Port Royal Golf Course, breaking the old mark by one. Three of those came on the 16th hole on each of the first three days; his bogey Sunday on the par-3 ended that streak.
The highest-ranked player in the field, he was No. 48 before the action got started. On Monday, Power found himself in the No. 32 spot.
Here’s everything Power said after his win Sunday in Bermuda.
SP: “It was an interesting day. I felt great all day, played very nicely for the first, honestly, for the first 14 holes, played very, very nice golf, but it’s so tough coming in. I was able to hang on somewhere close to Ben there. He made quite a few birdies there through 11, but I was able to just do enough coming in. But it was tough going. It was a kind of day full of all sorts of emotions because, again, same as yesterday, you knew once you get to 12 tee that the next hour and a half was going to be really tough going. So I was able to make a couple birdies on the front and then kind of hang on there coming back in. I’m absolutely over the moon. The first one was amazing but to be able to win again, it’s fantastic. I get whatever, it’s pretty much a three-year exemption and all the kind of cool things that come with it. It’s just you’re kind of so proud and it’s amazing to be able to do it again.”
Q: Three-year exemption, plus you’re now No. 5 in the FedEx Cup and No. 32 in the Official World Golf Ranking. All those things combined, what does this do for you going forward?
SP: “The thing when you don’t have the exemption is like every year is year to year and it’s tough going, so an extra couple years is fantastic. To be able to focus on just practicing and improving and just playing my own game and not really worrying about all that stuff. I noticed that last season having the winner’s exemption for ’21-’22, I was really able to play much more freely like when you’re up near the lead and I think that’s a nice thing to be able to do. That’s also a goal to be doing anyway, but sometimes it’s a little harder than normal. So it’s going to be great. It gets a lot of bonuses. I mean, one of my favorite memories in golf was in Maui last year and being able to go back there year again, and having a three-year exemption is just fantastic. It opens doors as you get higher in the world rankings, all those kind of things are just all positives. So yeah, once it sinks in, I think some of the other stuff will kind of hit me like in probably the next few days, but for now just over the moon, just delighted to get the win.”
Q: You have a pretty solid fan base here, cheering and a lot of people out following you. Give us some info on that.
Irish fans pose with a flag in support of Seamus Power during the final round of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course on October 30, 2022 in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
SP: “It’s amazing. I had such a good experience in Bermuda. It’s one of my favorite places I’ve ever been and just I’ve been lucky enough to make some really good friends here. It’s just even at Bay Hill, like I have friends here who also have a house at Bay Hill and like Simon [Keelan, Power’s caddie] stayed with them for there, and we had like my birthday’s around that time and a big group of them were there and had a birthday party. Just really like good friends that I just kind of clicked with. Mick works for Butterfield and obviously he’s connected to the tournament. It’s just been kind of a special, kind of unusual, kind of unexpected thing that I’ve kind of stumbled across. But absolutely love coming here. Simon and I talk about this event like months in advance. It’s one of those weeks you look forward to, there’s something about the island that’s nice and obviously I played decently here before and obviously getting the win now, I just can’t wait to come back.”
Q: How would you describe how the last hour and a half of this tournament played out?
SP: “Obviously it’s very up and down, but it it’s kind of what I expected. It’s the same as yesterday, like once you get to, even 12 today was playing tough. I’m hitting, I have 100 yards to the pin and you’re guessing if it’s a pitching wedge I hit 145 yards or if it’s a gap wedge, and it’s just pure guessing. That goes slightly over and you’re standing on the next and it’s dead into the wind and you’re probably talking about, I thought I hit a good shot and it came up short of the green. It’s a good 30 yards short, probably 25 yards short. Fourteen is tough, the wind’s off the right whipping, and then 15 and 16 are just brutal today. So you know that stretch is coming and it’s just there’s only so much you can do. I think the toughest thing for me in that stretch is trying to putt, you’re trying to putt on 15 and 16. I had a putt on 16 and I’ll never understand what just happened to the ball. Just you’re getting wind gusts, the wind’s up and down. I missed the hole from I don’t know what it was, four and a half, five feet, and I felt like I hit a good putt. I just saw Ben before me do the same thing. It’s tough going out there, but I was able to do just enough. You know, birdie on 17 was nice. Made a bit of hard work of 18, but just did enough. But kind of what you’d expect. It seems it’s reasonably easygoing for the first, kind of the first 11 holes barring maybe No. 8. You’ve got a lot of good chances. I got a couple, not as many as I would have liked, but same as yesterday, you’re just trying to hold on for dear life.”
Q: When things kind of started to go a little bit south for Ben [Griffin], are you just kind of focused on what you’re doing? Do you see what’s kind of going on?
SP: “It’s a bit of both. You obviously are trying to focus on your own thing. Ben was in some trouble [on 14] on the left and before I kind of get into my routine, you just have to give a conscious effort to get back into your own thing. I hit a really good shot and made the putt for birdie and that ended up being a big birdie. It’s tough, but he didn’t do a ton wrong. It’s just, as I said, he hit a shot on 16 on the wrong side of the wind and it’s the only ball I’ve seen go left on 16. I didn’t think he hit that bad a shot, but it’s just one of those days, it’s so exposed and it’s just a little small golf ball floating around there. If you get a wrong gust, you’re in trouble. I hit a really good shot I thought into 16. Three-quarters of the way through the flight you get a huge gust, it gets stood up and it’s a good 20 yards short. But you couldn’t convince me to hit one extra club on the tee. It’s difficult. You know it’s coming and you’re just kind of trying to do your best. But that birdie on 17 was nice. It was playing really short, but still to get one there, give myself a (indiscernible) up the last.”
Seamus Power plays a shot during the final round of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Q: Getting that first win, was it harder getting the first one or chasing that second win? Now you have that second win, do you maybe have an answer?
SP: “I thought it was a little easier today. It’s never going to be easy, but I certainly felt very comfortable right from the get-go. My three shots on the first hole were three of my nicer shots this week and I think that showed I was in a very good place mentally. Certainly a little easier even down the stretch even though I didn’t kind of play that way, but I felt more comfortable. So I think it’s probably a little bit easier. Knowing that you’ve done it before just helps.”
Q: You didn’t take the lead in the final round until the 14th hole when you made birdie and Ben made bogey. Did you feel like an experienced veteran out there compared to Ben’s experience and playing with him, and what was that dynamic like for you?
SP: “Yeah, I just kept reminding myself I know this course well enough. I wasn’t making many mistakes and I was very confident. He birdied 10 and 11 to get two ahead again and I had a couple chances there that I just missed. But again, I just kept reminding myself if I could just stay in there. I knew that that stretch, there’s very few people not going to drop shots there. I knew if I had a chance standing on 12 tee, I thought a little bit more experience having been there before, having played this tournament a few times before, I thought it would stand to me and it just about did in the end.”
Q: You were coming in this week 48th in the world ranking. With this win you get that likely invitation to the Masters. What’s it kind of feel like to get that, to come here, get that win, take care of that and not worry about the top 50?
Seamus Power hits his first shot on the 17th hole during the final round of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course on October 30, 2022 in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
SP: “Yeah, it’s really nice. It’s kind of a funny thing. I didn’t really pay attention to world rankings until I got into like the top 10 in the world and now it becomes very, very relevant. Even close to the match play and then obviously the cutoff for some of the majors starts approaching. So it’s nice, as you said, to be able to kind of get a bump away from that 50. It’s nice. It opens up so many doors. All of a sudden like you’re looking at changing your schedule and you’re going to add Maui and tournaments like that, and even knowing that you’re going to be in the Playoffs and all this kind of stuff. It makes things a lot simpler, that’s for sure. You’re not looking — not as if you’re doing it all the time, but you’re sometimes looking over your shoulder a little bit, especially because I was up maybe in the 30s and just hadn’t played great since like the middle of the summer. So, as you said, just slipping down, down. And you know the cutoff for the top-50 is coming up soon, there’s not much golf left in the year, so it’s nice to get away from that, for sure. It’ll definitely like clear your thoughts, clear your mind going forward.”
Q: On 14, what did you hit off the tee and what did you hit?
SP: “2-iron.”
Q: And what did you have left in and what did you hit?
SP: “I had 148 or 9 yards, 148 yards. I hit gap wedge, landed about pin high and probably just rolled to the back edge maybe 25 feet past, yeah.”
Q: Simon said you guys were talking about how you wanted more wind when you were here Friday. Was it ever a case of like be careful what you wish for?
SP: “No, I was absolutely fine with the wind the last couple days because I’ve been lucky enough to play here a few times and I’ve seen this course in a lot of different wind directions and I’ve seen how — just a bit of experience. Even on 16, like I hit a very, very good shot aimed at the left hazard line. I’ve done it before here and it ended up online with the pin. It’s having a little bit of extra confidence knowing that my ball was going to come back and do what it’s supposed to do versus other guys, it’s hard to aim in the ocean and hit a shot. When you’re not used to doing it, you haven’t done it before, it’s hard to trust that it’s going to come back, but I’ve played it before. I played here last year and the tee was back and you’re hitting a long iron starting out into the ocean, same thing. You just learn to trust it a little bit more. Same with No. 8 today, you’re very sheltered on that tee box, but I’ve played in that westerly wind before. Once it gets out past the tee it gets hammered and it gets hit hard and it goes left. So I hit a very confident shot starting to a right pin, starting probably 10 steps right of the pin, which normally I wouldn’t be comfortable doing, but I’ve been able to do it before here and just I knew the ball would come back if you just kind of trust it.”
Q: Back in Ireland, you play a lot of junior golf with Simon?
SP: “I would have, yeah. Simon’s from like an hour away from me so we would a played, yeah, a bunch of different like championships and all that stuff. More so against each other, more junior golf and championships and stuff like that, yeah.”
Q: When you turned pro, were you one of those guys that said, ‘Okay, I’ll give myself three years, four years, five years’, or were you in it for no matter what?
SP: “I don’t know, to be honest. I always said like if I thought that I was good enough to win on the PGA Tour, I was probably going to keep playing. If I thought for a second I wasn’t, I would have stopped. Honestly, if I thought it in six months, I would have stopped in six months. That was my mentality going into it. I didn’t have any interest in playing not at the highest level for a long time. I wanted play at the highest level and I thought if I didn’t think I could win, I would have stopped probably early on.”
Q: A lot of Irish players have been playing really well lately.
SP: “Yeah.”
An Irish flag on the bag of Seamus Power during the final round of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course on October 30, 2022 in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Q: Rory recently and Shane in…
SP: “Wentworth, and Padraig. Yeah, it’s been great. You know, it’s one of those things that you just, you know, whatever there’s some sort of once you see like other guys you know win, it just gives you a little bit of a boost knowing that you can get back there yourself. Yeah, it’s huge. Like Rory and Shane have played amazing golf this year. Rory’s play since this summer has been incredible. And then like Shane as well, he didn’t get the win out of Wentworth but he was up there at a lot of big tournaments. He was high in the Masters, he played well in so many other big tournaments. So it was great that both those guys got the win. Padraig, yeah. I mean, Padraig absolutely smashed his way through Champions Tour there. It’s great for Irish golf. We have Leona Maguire on the LPGA as well. It’s a good time for Irish golf and hopefully, you know, you’re always hoping it’ll kind of inspire some more junior golf in Ireland.”
Q: We talked earlier in the week about the Ryder Cup and Luke Donald. Did you get a chance to chat with him this week at all?
SP: “I did briefly on Wednesday night at that party in the hotel. Yeah, we just chatted briefly. There’s a new event, he was just telling me some of the details about it, GB&I vs. Europe team event and just some of the options I might have. As I said to him, like my, before this week, like how I played in that was going to affect some of my schedule, so obviously this helps a lot, gives me more flexibility going forward. So something I’m going to talk to him about it again now that I have a little bit more freedom to play where I want. So it’s going to be, yeah, I’m going to talk to him and see what he recommends. You might as well see. You know, if it doesn’t match up, it doesn’t match up, but I certainly want to ask his opinion and I don’t want to come next September and finding out if I would have done this, I would have been on it. So it’s something, this certainly helps, but I’m going to talk to Luke and see what happens.”
Q: You had 28 birdies this week, which set a tournament record.
SP: “Nice.”
Seamus Power putts on the 16th hole during the final round of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Q: Can you comment on that?
SP: “As I came here on Tuesday, it’s the best I’ve seen the greens. I was excited because I putted well here in the past and as soon as I’d seen the surface, I knew I was going to be able to make some putts and that’s what I did. I felt my wedge play was good, I had some easy putts, and you kind of do, I did the things that you need to do to make birdies. I putted well, hit some wedges close and I played the par 5s well.”
Everything you need to know for the final round in Bermuda.
After a week back in the United States, the PGA Tour is in Bermuda and it’s time for the weekend.
Port Royal Golf Club in Southampton, Bermuda, plays host to the 2022 Bermuda Butterfield Championship. It’s a par-71 layout at 6,828 yards (the shortest on the PGA Tour in 2022), and Robert Trent Jones was the architect.
From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s what you need to know for the final round of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship. All times Eastern.
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The field of 132 was cut to low 65 and ties. That meant shooting at least 6 under if you wanted to stick around and be paid on Sunday.
Sometimes, good golf isn’t good enough to make the cut on the PGA Tour.
Take this week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship. There were two players who didn’t complete the second round on Friday due to play being suspended for darkness (delaying the inevitable for many), but in the end shooting two rounds totaling 5-under 137 at Port Royal in Southampton, Bermuda, only got pros an attaboy and thanks for coming. In other words, there will be no paycheck for their work.
Indeed, it took a minimum of 6 under to have weekend plans for the 66 pros and one amateur who moved on from a field of 128 pros and four amateurs. As the old tagline goes, these guys are good.
Of those who survived the 36-hole cut, none may be happier than Scott Gutschewski, who is making his final start on a major-medical extension. The 46-year-old journeyman pro shot 1-under 70 to improve to 7-under 135 to keep alive his hopes of retaining his card. He needs to earn 131 FedEx Cup points with a solo fourth or better to move to the top of the major medical category or a two-way tie for 38th or better to continue playing in the Nos. 126-150 category; should he not reach either of these goals, he will lose his membership.
The round of the day to make the cut belonged to 18-year-old amateur Caleb Surratt, who birdied his final three holes to post a second-round 64 and make the cut in his Tour debut.
