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2023 Wyndham Championship prize money payouts for each PGA Tour player

It’s the final payday for some golfers during the 2022-23 PGA Tour season.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Wyndham Championship winner Lucas Glover surpassed $30 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour on Sunday.

It might be small consolation after making bogey on his final three holes to lose the lead and finish T-2, but Russell Henley, along with Harris English, who finished T-35, became the 26th and 27th players to cross the $5 million mark in earnings this season during the FedEx Cup regular-season finale.

Glover banked $1.368 million from the total purse of $7.6 million.

Scotte Scheffler, who took the week off, still leads the money list with a single-season record of $19,138,342, the highest single-season mark of all time. The top five on the money list behind him — Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Wyndham Clark and Viktor Hovland — have all earned more than $10 million to date.

Here’s a closer look at how much each player earned this week for four days of work at Sedgefield Country Club.

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Position Player Score Money
1 Lucas Glover -20 $1,368,000
T2 Byeong Hun An -18 $676,400
T2 Russell Henley -18 $676,400
4 Billy Horschel -16 $372,400
T5 Webb Simpson -13 $293,550
T5 Michael Kim -13 $293,550
T7 J.T. Poston -12 $223,060
T7 Cam Davis -12 $223,060
T7 Brendon Todd -12 $223,060
T7 Adam Scott -12 $223,060
T7 Adam Svensson -12 $223,060
T12 Charley Hoffman -11 $169,100
T12 Justin Thomas -11 $169,100
T14 Eric Cole -10 $123,500
T14 Nicolai Hojgaard -10 $123,500
T14 Sungjae Im -10 $123,500
T14 Ludvig Aberg -10 $123,500
T14 Robert Streb -10 $123,500
T14 Stephan Jaeger -10 $123,500
T14 Sam Burns -10 $123,500
21 Thomas Detry -9 $93,100
T22 Taylor Moore -8 $73,340
T22 Ryan Brehm -8 $73,340
T22 Matti Schmid -8 $73,340
T22 Davis Thompson -8 $73,340
T22 Luke Donald -8 $73,340
T27 Nick Hardy -7 $53,200
T27 Austin Smotherman -7 $53,200
T27 Gary Woodland -7 $53,200
T27 Andrew Putnam -7 $53,200
T27 Nicholas Lindheim -7 $53,200
T27 Chez Reavie -7 $53,200
T33 Andrew Novak -6 $41,420
T33 Harris English -6 $41,420
T33 Chesson Hadley -6 $41,420
T33 Kelly Kraft -6 $41,420
T33 Si Woo Kim -6 $41,420
T38 J.J. Spaun -5 $31,540
T38 Greyson Sigg -5 $31,540
T38 Matt Kuchar -5 $31,540
T38 Alex Noren -5 $31,540
T38 Sam Bennett -5 $31,540
T38 Sam Ryder -5 $31,540
T38 Tyler Duncan -5 $31,540
T45 Scott Piercy -4 $22,116
T45 Matt Wallace -4 $22,116
T45 Kyle Westmoreland -4 $22,116
T45 Brandt Snedeker -4 $22,116
T45 Peter Kuest -4 $22,116
T45 David Lipsky -4 $22,116
T51 Max McGreevy -3 $18,164
T51 Doug Ghim -3 $18,164
T51 Nate Lashley -3 $18,164
T51 Dylan Wu -3 $18,164
T51 Shane Lowry -3 $18,164
T51 Zecheng Dou -3 $18,164
T51 Christiaan Bezuidenhout -3 $18,164
T58 Martin Laird -2 $17,176
T58 Troy Merritt -2 $17,176
T58 Brandon Wu -2 $17,176
T58 Vincent Norrman -2 $17,176
T62 Scott Stallings -1 $16,720
T62 Matt NeSmith -1 $16,720
T64 Adam Schenk E $16,340
T64 C.T. Pan E $16,340
T64 Joel Dahmen E $16,340
T67 Carson Young +1 $15,884
T67 Michael Gligic +1 $15,884
T67 Trey Mullinax +1 $15,884
70 Wesley Bryan +3 $15,580
T71 Jim Herman +5 $15,352
T71 Richy Werenski +5 $15,352
73 Carl Yuan +6 $15,124

 

Justin Thomas’s pursuit of 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs was a rollercoaster ride

He was out, he was in, he was out again and then he nearly holed a walk-off birdie.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Justin Thomas’s pursuit of a spot in the 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs came down to the wire at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday. He was out, he was in, he was out again and then he nearly holed a walk-off birdie pitch but it wasn’t to be. Ben Griffin, who missed the cut this week hung on to the final spot and Thomas was the odd man out at No. 71, just nine points behind.

“I made the best out of every situation that I had. And just, I mean, fought as hard as I possibly could,” Thomas said after his round but before he learned he was officially eliminated. “That’s kind of what I’ve done my whole life, my whole career and I didn’t want to stop here.”

Thomas, who entered the week at No. 79 in the season-long points standings, shot a final-round 2-under 68 at Sedgefield Country Club to finish T-12.

Thomas had qualified for the playoffs, which begin next week with the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, in each of his first eight seasons, winning the title in 2017, and finishing in the top 10 in the final standings in five of the last six seasons.

With only the top 70 advancing to the playoffs instead of 125 as in previous seasons, Thomas did everything he could to extend his season, including adding the 3M Open to his schedule last week and making his first appearance in the Wyndham since 2016. While Thomas ended up 71st, he said he gained a lot from the experience.

“I feel like I’m back to me again,” he said. “Personally, I think this was harder today than trying to win a golf tournament.”

Thomas bounced back from an opening-round 70, which dropped him to 81st in the standings, with rounds of 65-66 and entered the final round projected to finish No. 72. On Sunday, he drained a 39-foot birdie putt at No. 6, but then strung together eight straight pars, including missing an 8-foot birdie putt at 14.

Just when his chances were starting to look bleak, he took advantage of the par-5 15th, splitting the fairway with a 332-yard bomb. Walking to his ball, he turned to his caddie Jim “Bones” Mackay and said, “It sure is nice to play the hole for the first time all week from the fairway.”

Thomas made the most of it, drilling a 7-iron from 214 yards to 15 feet and his downhill eagle putt trickled in. Thomas clenched his right fist and pointed to the sky. It lifted him to No. 70 in the standings. But one hole later, he made a bogey that would prove costly. The wind switched directions on him when he hit 9-iron at the par-3 16th and his ball ballooned in the air. He hit a poor chip from short of the green and missed a 30-foot par putt. At first, it didn’t hurt his position; that is until Adam Svensson made a birdie at 15 to vault ahead of Thomas in the tournament and steal some valuable points.

Thomas scrambled for par at 17 but tugged his tee shot at 18 left and into the trees. From a lie in pine straw and with a tree forcing him to hit a low hooking 8-iron, he contorted his body in a whirlybird motion reminiscent of Tiger Woods escaping trouble over the years. It was a remarkable shot, stopping 34 feet short of the flag.

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Justin Thomas plays a shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the 2023 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photo: Logan Whitton/Getty Images)

Thomas weighed his options: using his 56-degree wedge he determined to be the conservative play to make an up-and-down par but he elected to trap a 60-degree to try to make it, knowing that a birdie would lock up a playoff spot. His ball bounced three times and kissed the flagstick, coming to rest a foot from the hole. He put his hands on his head and fell to the ground in disbelief, knowing that he was that close to punching his ticket to Memphis in dramatic fashion.

“It would have been a lot more incredible if it would have gone in,” Thomas said.

Shortly after Thomas tapped in, play was suspended for more than 2 hours and so started Thomas’s waiting game to see if he could get any help. He recalled that in 2015 he was told his spot was secure to earn a berth in the Tour Championship but then players still on the course made birdies and he was bumped to No. 32. He knew he was going to need help, which he didn’t get, but he was proud of the fact that he’d done his part.

“I played the best I could and I fought as hard as I could and shot the lowest I possibly could,” he said.

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Lucas Glover overcomes yips to win 2023 Wyndham Championship

“I got to a point with putting, I needed a whole new brain function, a whole new method.”

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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Lucas Glover was at the end of his rope.

The yips, the involuntary wrist spasms that occur most commonly when golfers are trying to putt, had plagued Glover for the better part of a decade.

“I had no control over my faculties sometimes,” he said. “I could just lose all feelings over a 10-inch putt. It was frustrating. I fought it for a long time.”

But thanks to a long putter and a split-handed putting grip, he has regained his confidence on the greens and he holed enough putts on Sunday to win the Wyndham Championship and earn his fifth career PGA Tour title.

“It’s been a revelation for me,” Glover said.

He closed with a 2-under 68 at Sedgefield Country Club and finished with a 72-hole total of 20-under 260, one stroke better than Russell Henley and Ben An.

Glover points to a 4-putt on the fifth green at Colonial Country Club  in the first round of the Charles Schwab Challenge a decade ago as the start of the dastardly affliction. The winner of the 2009 U.S. Open among his four previous titles had tried just about everything, including putting with his eyes closed. The stats tell the ugly story of his steep decline: he was 180th in Strokes Gained: Putting this season entering this week. But he’s been downright putrid on the shortest of putts. In the 2020-21 season, Glover missed 24 putts from 3 feet and in (863 for 887), a miss rate of 2.71 percent that ranked 196th on Tour. In 2021-22, he missed 27 shorties (193rd). The 43-year-old was struggling so mightily this season – already 26 misses from short range through July – and his confidence was so dented that he considered a switch to putting left-handed or with a long putter.

“I just tried the long putter first,” he said. “I had two weeks off before Memorial and just ordered [a new putter] and taught myself how to use it and been kind of sticking to that.” He added, “If you ever want a Tour player to practice more, you give them a new club because they’ve got to get used to it, figure it out. That’s kind of how it’s been.”

Last month, at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Glover switched to a broomstick-style putter with a mallet head, the L.A.B. Mezz.1 Max, and ranked fifth in Strokes Gained: Putting that week, registering his first top-10 finish of the season.

“Making all your tap-ins is nice,” said Glover, who ranked 15th in SG: Putting this week. “When my speed’s good, I seem to make a lot of putts.”

Glover ranked 189th in the FedEx Cup when he taught himself his new split-handed grip, where the left hand hovers away from his chest and his right hand is separated and positioned farther down the club in a claw-style grip, in his garage ahead of the Memorial in early June. In July, he reeled off three straight top 10s — a T-4 at Rocket Mortgage Classic, a T-6 at John Deere Classic and a T-5 at the Barbasol Championship — and after a missed cut last week, he climbed back into the trophy hunt at Sedgefield CC, where he made his 19th career start, the most of any player since 2004, after rounds of 66-64-62. Beginning the week at No. 112 in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, he needed to finish no worse than a two-way tie for second to have a chance to qualify and did better than that, vaulting to No. 49 in the season-long points race.

In the final round, Glover, who shared the 54-hole lead with Billy Horschel, got off to an inauspicious start with a three-putt bogey from 27 feet. But he knocked his approach from 141 yards to 4 inches at the fourth and tapped it in. He drained a 7-foot birdie at No. 8 and 15-footer at No. 11 to reach 20 under. He and Henley were tied for the lead when play was suspended due to inclement weather for 2 hours and 3 minutes.

When play resumed, Henley, who has done everything but win this tournament the last four years, grabbed the lead with a 2-putt birdie at 15 but proceeded to bogey his final three holes to shoot 69 and suffered another disappointing result.

“Felt a little jittery out there, just never got into a good sync with my swing, felt kind of rushed from the top of my swing, just didn’t do a good job of handling the restart,” Henley said.

At 18, Glover caught a fortuitous break when he pulled his drive left. It appeared to be headed into tree trouble but bounced off a golf cart and closer to the fairway. Glover opted to lay up and got up and down for a closing par, fittingly sinking an 8-foot putt. When it dropped, Glover held his trusty long putter and smiled with glee.

“It’s what I needed,” he said of his putting technique. “This is a completely different motor skill and just a way to rewire my brain. … When you struggle as long as I have, or had, it just happened to be what happened to be the answer.”

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Charley Hoffman makes an albatross at 2023 Wyndham Championship

It’s a feat more rare than a hole-in-one.

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It’s a feat more rare than a hole-in-one.

Charley Hoffman made an albatross on the par-5 15th hole Sunday during the final round of the 2023 Wyndham Championship.

After a 343-yard drive, Hoffman holed out his second shot from 198 yards over water to a back-right pin at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Hoffman was even par on his round after a bogey, a double bogey and three birdies. The double-circled 2 got him to 3 under and into a tie for 11th. The four-time winner on Tour has a season-best finish of T-14 at the WM Phoenix Open this season.

It’s his first albatross and the fourth on the PGA Tour this season.

  • Charley Hoffman, Wyndham Championship
  • Dylan Wu, Rocket Mortgage Classic
  • Kevin Tway, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
  • Xander Schauffele, The American Express

There have been 35 holes-in-ones season.

PHOTOS: Charley Hoffman through the years

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Justin Thomas completes dairy-free diet, orders three gluten-free pizzas

Back in May, Justin Thomas was asked what he missed most while doing a dairy- and gluten-free diet.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Back in May, Justin Thomas was asked what he missed most while doing a dairy- and gluten-free diet.

“I want a pizza like you can’t imagine,” he said during a press conference at the Wells Fargo Championship. “Like, I would do some really messed up things for a pizza just doused in ranch.”

Well, Thomas wrapped up his six months of eating dairy-free and celebrated last week after returning from England and the British Open by eating not one, not two, but three gluten-free pizzas while in Blaine, Minnesot, for the 3M Championship.

“It was my first pizza since January and I could’ve cried,” he said on Saturday at the Wyndham Championship.

Asked if he thinks the diet has helped him improve his energy levels, he said, “I mean this is my fourth week in a row, obviously I missed two of the cuts, but it’s been a lot of travel and I feel pretty good.”

Props to Thomas for sacrificing one of his favorite guilty pleasures to chase greatness. While he hasn’t won this year and has endured the biggest slump of his career, he’s shown he’s willing to leave no stone unturned. He noted he still has a few more months to complete his quest to spend a full year without eating gluten.

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JT on outside looking in and who’s projected in/out for Wyndham Championship’s final round

Pressure does funny things to golfers.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Pressure does funny things to golfers.

Just look at the players battling to earn a spot in the FedEx Cup Playoffs at this week’s regular season finale at the Wyndham Championship. With only the top 70 moving on to Memphis, Nos. 68 Ben Griffin and “Bubble Boy” Austin Eckroat missed the cut on Friday as did Ben Taylor, Garrick Higgo, K.H. Lee, David Lingmerth, the four players who entered the week Nos. 71-74.

Meanwhile, 54-hole co-leaders Lucas Glover and Billy Horschel have zoomed from No. 112 to No. 50 and No. 116 to No. 53, respectively.

But for a true sense of how the pressure is ratcheted up at Sedgefield Country Club, here’s what two-time major champion and former world No. 1 Justin Thomas had to say.

“It’s a lot harder than trying to win a golf tournament in my opinion. I think when you’re trying to win a tournament you’re there and if you don’t win it’s a bummer, but you still had a great week kind of thing,” he said. “If I just don’t get it done for what I need to get done this week, then it sucks and my year’s over.”

Thomas entered the week at No. 79 in the season-long standings, but after shooting 66 on Saturday to improve to T-11, he’s projected to finish 72nd, 19 points out of a playoff berth. He’ll need to go low again on Sunday. Even if the 54-hole co-leaders finish 1-2, Thomas could still get in with a T-7. Data Golf gives him a 30 percent chance of making the playoffs.

But to hear Thomas tell it, that isn’t even the biggest reason he’s feeling a different brand of nerves this week.

“I want to make the Ryder Cup team so bad. I mean, it’s so important to me. I mean, I legitimately would rather make the Ryder Cup than the Playoffs, which is really, really messed up to say, but it’s just the truth,” he said.“But because of that, I think that’s why I played so poorly the last month and a half or two months. Like it’s just I’m putting so much pressure on myself to play well, it’s very similar to what happened to me in 2016.”

Thomas also addressed how he will approach Sunday’s round.

“The only way I feel I would change strategy would be in a situation where I needed to birdie the last two holes or I needed to birdie 18 or something. The hope is to go play really well tomorrow and see how close to the lead we can get, and if I do that, then should be fine,” he said. “It’s very similar to Q-School. I didn’t go into the final stage of Q-School trying to finish 45th, I went there trying to win a golf tournament. If I just came up short, then it was going to be plenty to qualify. It’s a very different but somewhat similar situation here.”

With one round to go on the Tour’s 47-event regular season, here’s what the projected standings look like from Nos. 65-80:

  1. Aaron Rai, MC
  2. Beau Hossler, MC
  3. Cam Davis, T-16
  4. Vincent Normann, T-43
  5. Matt NeSmith, 72
  6. J.J. Spaun, T-51
  7. Ben Griffin, MC
  8. Justin Thomas, T-11
  9. Davis Thompson, T-21
  10. Austin Eckroat, MC
  11. Ben Taylor, MC
  12. Garrick Higgo, MC
  13. K.H. Lee, MC
  14. Shane Lowry, T-51
  15. David Lingmerth, MC
  16. Michael Kim, 6

2023 Wyndham Championship Sunday tee times, TV and streaming info

Everything you need to know for the final round at Sedgefield Country Club.

It’s now or never for players to make their final push for the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

The third round of the 2023 Wyndham Championship is complete at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Billy Horschel and Lucas Glover are out front at 18 under. Glover shot 8-under 62 on Saturday while Horschel had a 7-under 63.

However, players like Justin Thomas, Adam Scott, Shane Lowry and others have to finish strong to find their way into the field next week at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis. Horschel and Glover need a solo second or better to get into the playoffs.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know ahead of the final round of the 2023 Wyndham Championship. All times Eastern.

Tee times

Tee time Players
7:45 a.m. Jim Herman
7:50 a.m.
Wesley Bryan, Matt NeSmith
8 a.m.
Carson Young, Richy Werenski
8:10 a.m.
Carl Yuan, Taylor Moore
8:20 a.m.
Doug Ghim, Joel Dahmen
8:30 a.m.
Trey Mullinax, Michael Gligic
8:40 a.m.
Harris English, Scott Piercy
8:50 a.m.
Nicholas Lindheim, Adam Schenk
9 a.m.
David Lipsky, Dylan Wu
9:10 a.m.
Nate Lashley, Zecheng Dou
9:20 a.m.
Shane Lowry, Matt Kuchar
9:35 a.m.
J.J. Spaun, Brandt Snedeker
9:45 a.m.
Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Max McGreevy
9:55 a.m.
Martin Laird, Si Woo Kim
10:05 a.m.
Vincent Norrman, Alex Noren
10:15 a.m.
C.T. Pan, Andrew Putnam
10:25 a.m.
Tyler Duncan, Brandon Wu
10:35 a.m.
Matt Wallace, Kelly Kraft
10:45 a.m.
Adam Scott, Greyson Sigg
10:55 a.m.
Ryan Brehm, Scott Stallings
11:05 a.m.
Luke Donald, Sam Ryder
11:15 a.m.
Webb Simpson, Peter Kuest
11:30 a.m.
Gary Woodland, Austin Smotherman
11:40 a.m.
Chez Reavie, Matti Schmid
11:50 a.m.
Ludvig Aberg, Sam Bennett
12 p.m.
Davis Thompson, Troy Merritt
12:10 p.m.
Sam Burns, Nicolai Hojgaard
12:20 p.m.
Robert Streb, Chesson Hadley
12:30 p.m.
Sungjae Im, Cam Davis
12:40 p.m.
Andrew Novak, Charley Hoffman
12:50 p.m.
Nick Hardy, Justin Thomas
1 p.m.
Thomas Detry, Kyle Westmoreland
1:15 p.m.
Brendon Todd, Adam Svensson
1:25 p.m.
Eric Cole, J.T. Poston
1:35 p.m.
Stephan Jaeger, Michael Kim
1:45 p.m.
Russell Henley, Byeong Hun An
1:55 p.m.
Lucas Glover, Billy Horschel

How to watch

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the exclusive home for PGA Tour Live streaming. All times Eastern.

Sunday, August 6

TV

Golf Channel: 1-3 p.m.
CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:45 a.m.-6 p.m.
Peacock: 1-3 p.m.

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Justin Thomas denied relief by PGA Tour rules official: ‘Worth a shot’

Thomas called for a referee to determine whether a scoreboard was in his line of sight.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Justin Thomas sought relief after he fanned his tee shot 30 yards to the right on the ninth hole at Sedgefield Country Club and it landed underneath a tree. But a PGA Tour rules official denied the request for a free drop at the Wyndham Championship on Saturday.

Thomas called for a referee to determine whether a scoreboard was in his line of sight. Out came Tour official Pete Lis, who heard his plea and concluded that from his lie behind a tree a scoreboard wasn’t on his intended line of play.

“I feel like you’re not understanding what I’m saying,” Thomas said. “I’ve had it multiple times where a grandstand is in my way and don’t get relief.”

“It’s not on your line of play right now,” Lis said. “You wouldn’t because you can’t get the ball to finish on the line with hole.”

Thomas accepted the decision and punched out from the pine straw and made one of his two bogeys in a round of 66 that lifted him into a tie for 11th as he battles to make the FedEx Cup Playoffs. It was a classic example of a player trying to use the Rules of Golf to their advantage. Thomas was wise to ask.

“You get rulings sometimes where you almost feel bad that it’s happening, and I truly felt like that was going to be one of those scenarios. It’s just weird. It was between me and the hole, and I just had situations before where stuff like that’s happened. It’s not necessarily in your way, but because it’s between you, you get relief,” he explained. “It was just because the tree was there. It was one of those things like you kind of have your tail tucked between your legs asking for relief because it would only happen in a situation like this. But at the same time, I’m always going to ask because you never know, I could have gotten a drop and would have been able to hit on the green. So worth a shot.”

One day earlier, Thomas was granted a ruling in his favor that allowed both he and Adam Scott, who was playing in the same group, to drop in the fairway rather than the rough after they drove into the water on the eighth hole.

“I think drops get abused a decent bit and we’re not those guys, but we just wanted to –  we needed to make sure that it was done correctly because that’s not – that wasn’t in the nature of it, we just wanted to make sure all was OK,” he said on Friday.

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Billy Horschel explains why his clubs may have been responsible for his slump

“Somehow along the process of switching manufacturers and being on my own and everything maybe my numbers just got a little off.”

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Could Billy Horschel’s set of irons be responsible for his disappointing performance this season?

Horschel, who won the Memorial last season for his seventh PGA Tour title and represented Team USA in the Presidents Cup for the first time, has experienced a big dip this season, recording just two top-10 finishes and entering the week at No. 116 in the FedEx Cup season-long point standings.

Horschel, who hit rock bottom shooting an opening-round 84 at Muirfield Village while defending his title at the Memorial in June, showed how far his game has come since then by posting 8-under 62 on Friday, his career low on the PGA Tour. Asked to explain what he attributed his improvement to, Horschel cited that he discovered on the Tuesday of the U.S. Open in June that the lie angles on his Titleist irons were 2-3 degrees too upright.

“Somehow along the process of switching manufacturers (from PXG) and being on my own and everything maybe my numbers just got a little off,” he said.

Horschel credited working with Michael Neff on the Gears 3-D system (Golf Evaluation and Research System), a full body optical motion tracking system designed to measure and analyze every aspect of sport-specific skills, in full 3-D.

“That made a massive difference,” Horschel said.

Horschel was quick to say that no one was to blame but he was able to dig up a spreadsheet from his days with Ping and confirmed they didn’t match the numbers he was using with his current set.

“So it was causing me not to hit the cut that I would want to hit,” he said. “So from there it gave me a lot of confidence that everything Todd (Anderson, his coach) and I have been doing in our swing was the right thing.

“And then recently we just realized that the more width and shorter I can keep it, the better the club stays out in front of me,” he said. “Getting back to a little bit of what we always did back in ’13, ’14 and ’15. Just got a little sloppy in the sense that the club runs off a little bit too much. So simple thing is keeping more width and keeping it more out in front of me in the backswing, which allows the club to stay more out in front of me on the downswing so I can hit my cut easier.”

The proof is in the pudding: Horschel has reeled off six straight rounds under par, something he said he hasn’t done for a while, and finished T-13 at the 3M Open last week.

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Russell Henley leads at Wyndham, Billy Ho’s back and JT still has life

Russell Henley is turning back the clock – just a bit, to 2021.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Russell Henley is turning back the clock – just a bit, to 2021.

That was the year he raced out of the gate with a 62 and 64 to grab the 36-hole lead, but he sputtered on Sunday and missed out on a six-man playoff. This week, he posted another 62 in the opening round and followed it up on Friday with a 66 at Sedgefield Country Club to grab a one-stroke lead over Billy Horschel at the midway point of the regular-season finale.

Henley’s goal is to avoid as Yogi Berra once said, déjà vu all over again. In other words, don’t fold like the Sunday paper on Sunday.

“I was in control of the tournament. Had a couple three-putts, missed a couple short ones and a couple bad swings on the back and missed out on the playoff by one shot. Definitely stings to kind of lose it right there because I played so well the first however many holes, 60 holes,” Henley said of blowing the lead here in 2021. “But again, you know, it’s why I’ve got to play all 72 holes. It’s just hard to do, hard to finish it off, but I’m excited hopefully for another good weekend.”

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