Before the start of Friday’s second round – action was delayed four hours due to high wind, with the first tee time slated for 1:55 p.m. ET – Joel Dahmen withdrew from the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.
Dahmen shot a 1-over 72 on Thursday but incurred a four-shot penalty after he discovered there were 15 clubs in his bag on the fourth hole.
“Bizarr-o. Never happened to me before,” he said after his first round. “I travel with 15, 16 clubs. I think most people out here do depending on conditions and courses. You know, been traveling out here for a long time and never happened before. I’d like to blame (his caddie) Geno. That would be the easy thing to do. It’s not his fault either. I played Tuesday and Wednesday out here. We didn’t see it in there. It was an extra 4-iron, so I had two 4-irons in the bag.
“Why, I don’t know. I don’t know how it got there. It sucks. It sucks at the spot I’m in as well. Yeah, we got to four tee and I grabbed a water and I walked over to my bag and I saw a 4-iron that was in the wrong spot and our stuff is always in the right spot. It wasn’t in the right spot.
“You know, you just want to get so mad and you want to get mad at everything. At the same time, just got to keep playing golf, and I didn’t do a great job of that afterward.”
Dahmen admitted it was tough to refocus after the discovery.
No reason for the WD was given.
Dahmen was 124th in the FedEx Cup standings when the week started but he’s now 128th in the projection.
Joel Dahmen WD before round two at Shriners Children’s Open
From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the second round of the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open. All times listed are PT.
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During the first round of the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, fan-favorite Joel Dahmen was assessed a four-stroke penalty for having 15 clubs in his bag.
Dahmen made par on his opening two holes, but those scores were changed to double-bogey 6s after the blunder.
The 36-year-old has played in all three FedEx Cup Fall events so far this year, with the Shriners being the fourth, and has finished T-50 (Procore Championship), MC (Sanderson Farms Championship) and T-40 (Black Desert Championship).
In seven previous starts at TPC Summerlin, Dahmen has made it to the weekend six times and finished inside the top 10 twice.
Taylor Pendrith made 10 birdies on Thursday but was denied a final-hole eagle to shoot 59. Was he thinking of shooting the 15th sub-60 round on the PGA Tour at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas in the first round of the Shriners Children’s Open?
“Yeah, obviously,” he said in a post-round interview. “I tried to hit a great shot and just came off it a little bit. It was close to being really good, I think.”
Pendrith had blasted a 356-yard drive leaving just a 7-iron from 203 yards. But with the flag position in the front of the green, he caught it heavy and found the front greenside bunker. It was the only place he couldn’t miss.
“Me and my caddie didn’t really talk about it, but I think we both knew I was going to try and hole the bunker shot,” he said. “Of course, I was going to try to hole bunker shot. It was a tricky one, but, yeah, I gave it my best.”
The Canadian blasted 12 feet past the hole, missed the birdie putt and settled for 10-under 61, tying his career low on Tour, but still good enough for a three-stroke lead over 12 players.
Pendrith, who represented the International Team at the Presidents Cup last month and won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in May, had it going like the gambler rolling his number at the craps tables. After a par on his first hole, No. 10, Pendrith’s heater began with birdies on five of the next six holes on his first nine as he kept sticking approach shots inside 10 feet. At the 453-yard par-4, No. 4, he wedged inside a foot for the tap-in birdie. Pendrith was long and accurate and his putter cooperated too – a beautiful combination. He ranked first in driving distance (329 yards), fourth in Strokes Gained: Approach and first in SG: Putting.
Expectations this week for Pendrith were tempered after playing just three times since the Presidents Cup and unable to play in South Florida as Hurricane Milton kept him off the course.
“I thought I would be a little bit more rusty than that,” Pendrith said. “You know, obviously thrilled and yeah, just got to keep getting back into the rhythm of things and the next few days. Yeah, feel good.”
The PGA Tour is back in Sin City for the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin, where fan-favorite Tom Kim returns looking to win the event for the third straight year. Kim hasn’t played since the FedEx St. Jude Championship — he did represent the International Team at the Presidents Cup in Canada — but sits as the heavy betting favorite at 12/1 (+1200).
Some of the other names in the field include Rickie Fowler, Maverick McNealy, Taylor Pendrith and Beau Hossler.
TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas is a par-71 track that measures 7,255 yards. This week’s winner will take home $1.26 million of the $7 million purse and 500 FedEx Cup points.
The Pro V1 was introduced in October 2000 at the PGA Tour’s Invensys Classic in Las Vegas, but Titleist had been developing the ball for about five years, trying to blend the short-game spin and control of wound balata-covered balls with the distance of two-piece, solid-core balls.
The Pro V1’s large rubber core, firm mantle layer and soft urethane cover created more distance off the tee, consistency with irons and spin control with wedges for players in prototype testing. At the Invensys Classic that week in 2000, Titleist hoped the seeding process would convince 20 to 25 players to use the ball, and Mac Fritz, then senior vice president of tour promotion, brought 60 dozen golf balls to the tournament.
That turned out to be an underestimation, as 47 players immediately switched to the Pro V1, including that year’s tournament winner Billy Andrade as well as runner-up Phil Mickelson.
In the weeks that followed, the buzz surrounding the Pro V1 grew and demand swelled, prompting Titleist to move the ball’s retail release forward from March 2001 to December 2000.
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Titlelist says the Pro V1 accounts for more than 4,000 worldwide professional victories on different tours.
On Monday, as pros arrived at the practice area at TPC Summerlin to prepare for this week’s Shriners Children’s Open, they were greeted by white boxes containing the newest versions of Titleist’s flagship golf balls: the 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x.
The purse at the Shriners Children’s Open is $7 million with $1.26 million going to the winner.
The 2024 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas is the next event of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Fall. Back-to-back defending champion Tom Kim is looking for a turkey, and will be joined in the field by Beau Hossler, Stephan Jaeger, Maverick McNealy, Rickie Fowler and Adam Hadwin, among others.
Kim, who represented the International Team at the Presidents Cup in Canada, hasn’t played a Tour event since the FedEx St. Jude Championship but is still the heavy favorite to win at 12/1.
The purse at the Shriners Children’s Open is $7 million with $1.26 million going to the winner. The winner will also receive 500 FedEx Cup points.
From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the first round of the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open. All times listed are MT.
Thursday tee times
Groupings and starting times for the first two rounds of the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open pic.twitter.com/03Sg9xKvor
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The first time Kim won the Shriners, he was too young to order an adult drink.
Tom Kim isn’t sure how he will celebrate another victory in Las Vegas but he’d like to become the first player on the PGA Tour to win the same tournament three straight times since 2011. The first time Kim won the Shriners Children’s Open, he was too young to order an adult drink. Last year, when he repeated as champion, Kim had reached the legal age but instead kicked back with a piece of white chocolate that he had saved from the night before for such a special occasion.
“Definitely tasted very, very sweet,” he said of the celebratory treat during his pre-tournament press conference at TPC Summerlin on Tuesday. “I don’t have a piece of chocolate with me this week, but we’ll find something else.”
With his win at the 2023 Shriners Children’s Open, Kim, 22, became the youngest three-time winner on Tour since Tiger Woods. Maverick McNealy, 28, is making his 128th career Tour start this week and wouldn’t mind celebrating his first victory not far from where he calls home. He can be found bright and early at TPC Summerlin nearly every day when he isn’t traveling to compete on the Tour.
“Every time you tee it up here, you’re kind of thinking about the tournament and looking forward to it,” he said. “It’s definitely one of my favorite weeks of the year.”
Given Kim’s success and McNealy’s knowledge of his home track, they likely would be playing this week no matter the circumstances, but they find themselves playing a few more events in the FedEx Fall after narrowly missing out on the top 50 in the FedEx Cup playoffs, which earned those on the right side of the cutoff starts in all eight of next season’s signature events.
In the final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis in August, Kim finished bogey, double bogey, double bogey at TPC Southwind and after starting the week at No. 43 in the FedEx Cup, he tumbled to No. 51.
“The difference between being 50 and 51st is a big difference,” Kim explained. “Good golf you’re able to take three, four months off and not worry about anything. Bad golf you got to pick your butt up once the playoff starts and try to play well in the fall.”
Tom Kim and caddie Joe Skovron on the 13th fairway during the final round of the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas. (Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)
Kim, who played nine weeks in a row in a bid to make Korea’s Olympic team and improve his standing in the FedEx Cup, has played only once – at the Presidents Cup – since his crash-and-burn in Memphis. He’s had a chance to decompress and even go home to Korea for four days after the playoffs.
“I’m seeing life again outside of golf which is really cool,” he said.
He’s preparing for a stretch that includes playing in Korea for the first time since he joined the Tour nearly three years ago.
“That’s going to be really cool,” Kim said.
McNealy is stoked for his home game. He said every room is full in his home with members of his team. He fell a stroke short of making the BMW Championship but left it all out there in the final round, holing a bunker shot at 16 for birdie and posting 64 to finish T-12.
“There’s something about having your back against the wall that lets you do things that you can’t normally do under normal circumstances. It narrows your focus. It heightens your awareness. It does some pretty fun stuff, and it’s a feeling that you really chase as a professional athlete,” McNealy said. “Thought I needed 7-under and ended up shooting 6, and because of that I’ll probably play a couple more tournaments this fall than I would’ve otherwise.
“That being said, my game is good and I love a bunch of the fall tournaments and want to play them. I don’t know what else I would be doing with my time. I love competing.”
There’s still plenty for Kim and McNealy to play for this fall. Nos. 51-60 in the FedEx Cup Fall standings, which concludes at The RSM Classic in November, will earn signature event starts in 2025 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational via the Aon Next 10.
“If you get high on the FedEx Cup list early it gives you a huge leg up on the rest of the year. That kind of starts here with me playing the next five out of six weeks trying to solidify a spot in the top 60,” said McNealy, who skipped taking an off-season break. “I think I’ve maybe taken two days off since Memphis. Yeah, just worked really, really hard and my game feels really good.”
TPC Summerlin ranks No. 3 in Nevada on Golfweek’s Best ranking.
The PGA Tour’s FedEx Fall Series heads to Sin City for the Shriners Children’s Open.
A longstanding event on the PGA Tour schedule, the event is held at TPC Summerlin and is the fourth of eight events in the FedEx Cup Fall. The course is only two hours by car from last week’s event, the Black Desert Championship.
From TV coverage to field information and prize money, here’s everything you need to know about the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open.
Shriners Children’s course information
Black Desert Resort is a par 71 layout measuring 7,255 yards. Bobby Weed and Fuzzy Zoeller were the architects.
Shriners Children’s purse, prize money
The purse at the 2024 Black Desert Championship is $7 million with $1.26 million going to the winner. A year ago, the total purse was $8.4 million with first place good for $1.512 million. It’s one of five fall events with a reduced purse from 2023.
Shriners Children’s TV coverage
Thursday, Oct. 17: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET (ESPN+); 5-8 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
Friday, Oct. 18: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET (ESPN+); 5-8 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
Saturday, Oct. 19: 5-8 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
Sunday, Oct. 20: 5-8 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
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Shriners Children’s field
Tom Kim, who has won the Shriners Children’s Open the past two years, has a chance to become the seventh player in PGA Tour history to win an event three straight times. The field size will be 132. Matt McCarty, who won the inaugural Black Desert Championship on Sunday, has been added to the field.
The last player to win the same tournament three straight years on the PGA Tour is Steve Stricker in 2009-11.
This story has been updated to reflect Monday’s updated field announcement.
Tom Kim has a chance to join rare company in Sin City.
Only six golfers have ever done it, and next week at TPC Summerlin, Kim can become the seventh. That’s winning three straight PGA Tour events.
The PGA Tour remains out west in Las Vegas for the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open, the fourth of eight FedEx Cup Fall events, where Kim has won the past two events. The last player to win the same tournament three straight years on the PGA Tour is Steve Stricker in 2009-11.
In addition to Kim, Rickie Fowler is among the notables in the field.
The field for the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open was announced on Friday.
The fourth of eight tournaments in the 2024 FedExCup Fall continues next week at the Shriners Children's Open (October 17-20).
