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Shriners Children’s Open Sunday tee times, TV info

Here’s everything you need to know for the final round of the Shriners Children’s Open.

It’s been a good week for Adam Schenk, who came into the Shriners Children’s Open ranked 207th in the world and looking for his first title on the PGA Tour.

He finished with three birdies on the final four holes to shoot 5-under-par 66 to grab a one-shot lead at TPC Summerlin. Meanwhile, Matthew Wolff, who lost in a playoff here last year, shot 65 to move to 17 under. Sam Burns is 16 under, joined by Andrew Putnam (66) and Chad Ramey (69).

There are eight players within four shots of the lead.

While those men contend for the title in Las Vegas, a handful of other notables were sent packing, and that included young Ryder Cup hero Scottie Scheffler.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s what you need to know for the final round of the Shriners Children’s Open.

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Sunday tee times

Tee time Players
9:50 a.m. Bill Haas
9:55 a.m. Hudson Swafford, Trey Mullinax
10:05 a.m. Francesco Molinari, Graeme McDowell
10:15 a.m. Taylor Pendrith, Nick Watney
10:25 a.m. Brian Gay, Henrik Norlander
10:35 a.m. Hideki Matsuyama, Emiliano Grillo
10:45 a.m. Nick Taylor, Viktor Hovland
10:55 a.m. Carlos Ortiz, Brooks Koepka
11:05 a.m. Anirban Lahiri, Lucas Glover
11:15 a.m. Nate Lashley, Joaquin Niemann
11:30 a.m. Cam Davis, Joel Dahmen
11:40 a.m. Michael Thompson, Brandon Hagy
11:50 a.m. Doug Ghim, Corey Connors
12:00 p.m. Jonas Blixt, Greyson Sigg
12:10 p.m. Chesson Hadley, Cameron Tringale
12:20 p.m. Kevin Streelman, Wyndham Clark
12:30 p.m. Mito Pereira, Alex Smalley
12:40 p.m. Kevin Yu, Jimmy Walker
12:50 p.m. Richy Werenski, J.J. Spaun
1:00 p.m. Mark Hubbard, Taylor Moore
1:15 p.m. Adam Scott, Davis Riley
1:25 p.m. Matt Kuchar, Hayden Buckley
1:35 p.m. Harry Higgs, K.H. Lee
1:45 p.m. Sung Kang, Seamus Power
1:55 p.m. Tom Hoge, Matt Wallace
2:05 p.m. Matt Jones, Russell Henley
2:15 p.m. Robert Streb, Talor Gooch
2:25 p.m. Lee Hodges, Charley Hoffman
2:35 p.m. Martin Laird, Marc Leishman
2:45 p.m. Camil Villegas, Danny Willett
3:00 p.m. Rory Sabbatini, Aaron Wise
3:10 p.m. Charles Howell III, Louis Oosthuizen
3:20 p.m. Lanto Griffin, Matthew NeSmith
3:30 p.m. Harry Hall, Adam Hadwin
3:40 p.m. Chad Ramey, Sungjae Im
3:50 p.m. Andrew Putnam, Sam Burns
4:00 p.m. Adam Schenk, Matthew Wolff

TV, streaming, radio information

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. All times ET.

Sunday, Oct. 10

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Sizzling Sam Burns can stand alongside Tiger Woods with a win on Sunday in the Shriners Children’s Open

Sam Burns is in position to join some elite company.

LAS VEGAS – Sam Burns is in position to join some elite company.

After winning the Sanderson Farms Championship last week in his first start of the season, Burns is cooking again in the Nevada desert as he sits just two shots behind in the Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin through 54 holes.

If he were to polish off his third career win on Sunday, Burns would put his name alongside that of Tiger Woods, who is the last player to win his first two starts of the season on the PGA Tour.

Woods began his 2008 campaign by winning the Buick Invitational and the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. In fact, Woods was victorious in his first three starts on the PGA Tour that year, adding the Arnold Palmer Invitational in his third start. Further, with his win in the Dubai Desert Classic on the European Tour, he won his first four starts of the year. As a reminder, he also won his last start of 2008 when he captured the U.S. Open on a broken leg and trashed knee before surgery ended his season.

Woods also did it in 2000. Ernie Els, David Duval and Ben Hogan are among others who also have won their first two starts of the season on the PGA Tour.

Adam Schenk, ranked 207th in the world and looking for his first title on the PGA Tour, finished with three birdies on the final four holes to shoot 5-under-par 66 to grab a one-shot lead at 18 under. Matthew Wolff, who lost in a playoff here last year, shot 65 to move to 17 under. Burns is 16 under, joined there by Andrew Putnam (66) and Chad Ramey (69).

There are eight players within four shots of the lead.

Burns has shot 66-63-68 and is now 38 under through seven rounds this season. Burns took a two-shot lead Saturday when he birdied the 11th – his fourth red number in five holes – but missed birdie chances from 6 and 8 feet on holes 13 and 15 and dumped his approach into the water on the easy par-5 16th and made bogey. He gave his final 15-footer for birdie a good run on the last, too.

Visibly frustrated after the round, Burns still knows he came from behind in the last round last week to win.

“I feel like the game’s in a good spot, so go out there tomorrow and see what happens,” said Burns, who has jumped 150 spots in the world rankings this year and is currently 18th.

Burns said he won’t think about the back nine overnight. He’ll be thinking about his first tee shot.

“I just think late in the day the greens, they’re not quite rolling as well as they were early in the day, so hopefully those will go in tomorrow,” he said about a few putts on the back nine that rimmed edges.

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Wolff is now 11-for-11 in posting rounds in the 60s at TPC Summerlin. In his Shriners debut in 2020, he shot 67-69-68-65 to tie for 12th. Last year, he shot 68-66-61-66 and lost in a playoff to Martin Laird. This year, he’s posted 64-67-65.

Wolff came storming home in the third round, making his first birdie of the day on the ninth hole. But then he birdied 11, 13 and 15 before knocking in a 7-footer for eagle on the 16th.

“I’m not really sure what it’s going to take tomorrow. But I know that if I keep on doing what I’m doing I’m sure I’m going to like where I end up at the end of the week,” Wolff said. “But there’s a bunch of really good players at the top of the leaderboard. Sam Burns came off a win last week, so he’s playing really solid and can close the deal. But seems like a lot of those players are PGA Tour winners, so I think it’s going to be a really good test tomorrow. I don’t know how the conditions are going to be, but I’m just really looking forward to having a good time.”

Schenk is not a PGA Tour winner, but he’s played like one with rounds of 64-65-66. His two best finishes on the PGA Tour have come this year – he tied for fourth in the John Deere Classic and finished fourth in the Barbasol Championship.

“I haven’t been in this situation a lot. I started to play a lot better towards the end of last year, but just keep doing the same things I’ve been doing. I mean you’re going to have to shoot a low score tomorrow,” Schenk said. “I think the weather’s going to be pretty scorable like it was today. If it gets a little windy and firm and crusty in the afternoon, but someone’s going to shoot low and hopefully it’s going to be me. It’s not like I can go out and shoot even par and win, so that helps with the mindset of what I have to do.”

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Lanto Griffin thought he’d be sipping bourbon on Saturday, instead he’s making a run at the Shriners

Lanto Griffin thought his week was over after turning in a 1-over-par 72 on Thursday.

LAS VEGAS – Lanto Griffin thought his week was over after turning in a 1-over-par 72 in Thursday’s first round of the Shriners Children’s Open.

“I felt like I played great and shooting 1 over out here is like, you’re done, like there’s no way to come back from that,” he said.

A 64 in the second round improved his mood but he still thought he would be heading home after 36 holes, telling his girlfriend he had like a 0.5 percent chance of making the cut because of defenseless, wind-free TPC Summerlin.

“I was actually in a really good mood (Friday). I had a flight booked for today and I had a lay-flat seat to Miami,” he said. “I was going to watch football and have a couple bourbons on the flight home.”

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But the wind changed Friday to give the course some teeth, and instead of flying to Miami, he made the cut and soared up the leaderboard with another 64 in Saturday’s third round. In less than 48 hours, Griffin went from thinking he was done to thinking about winning his second PGA Tour title.

With rounds of 72-64-64, he’s at 13 under, placing him one shot out of the lead held by Sungjae Im and Chad Ramey, who had yet to tee off.

“We were walking off and my caddie was like it could have been 59 today pretty easy,” Griffin said. “Obviously I’m very happy with 64. I haven’t had an easy round in a long time, so it’s kind of nice to shoot a low number and not have to stress too much.

“Just haven’t had any momentum in a while.”

Griffin, 33, who won the 2019 Houston Open, hasn’t had a top 10 since he tied for seventh in the Farmers Insurance Open last January. Since then, he’s missed seven cuts in 20 starts and has been looking at everything to turn things around.

“I’ve been working too much,” he said. “It’s been like new flavor of the week for the last year, different swing every week and sometimes every day. So we’ve been working the last couple weeks on just consistency and working on the same things.

“So today it was one of the things where things are going your way you don’t even have to push the ticket as much because you feel like you don’t need to as much, so you just make better decisions and it just kind of snowballs.”

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Shriners Children’s Open Saturday tee times, TV info

Here’s everything you need to know for the third round of the Shriners Children’s Open.

After rounds of 65 at TPC Summerlin on Friday, Sungjae Im and Chad Ramey lead the field into the weekend at the Shriners Children’s Open. Both stand at 14 under.

The two frontrunners are trailed closely by Sam Burns, who is teeing it up off a win at last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship and might just be the second best player on the planet right now.

While those men contend for the title in Las Vegas, a handful of other notables are packing up and heading home, and that includes young Ryder Cup hero Scottie Scheffler.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s what you need to know for the third round of the Shriners Children’s Open.

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Saturday tee times

1st tee

Tee time Players
9:50 a.m. Greyson Sigg
9:55 a.m. Mito Pereira, Alex Smalley
10:05 a.m. Matt Kuchar, Hayden Buckley
10:15 a.m. Hideki Matsuyama, Adam Scott
10:25 a.m. Davis Riley, Doug Ghim
10:35 a.m. Kevin Streelman, Trey Mullinax
10:45 a.m. Joel Dahmen, Camilo Villegas
10:55 a.m. Bill Haas, Mark Hubbard
11:05 a.m. Russell Henley, Emiliano Grillo
11:15 a.m. Lanto Griffin, Tom Hoge
11:30 a.m. Matthew NeSmith, Corey Conners
11:40 a.m. Brian Gay, Taylor Moore
11:50 a.m. Nate Lashley, Graeme McDowell
12:00 p.m. Danny Willett, Joaquin Niemann
12:10 p.m. Henrik Norlander, Michael Thompson
12:20 p.m. Brandon Hagy, Wyndham Clark
12:30 p.m. Taylor Pendrith, Nick Watney
12:40 p.m. Cam Davis, Hudson Swafford
12:50 p.m. Anirban Lahiri, Matt Wallace
1:00 p.m. Lucas Glover, Charles Howell III
1:15 p.m. Martin Laird, Carlos Ortiz
1:25 p.m. Brooks Koepka, Richy Werenski
1:35 p.m. Chesson Hadley, J.J. Spaun
1:45 p.m. Sung Kang, Marc Leishman
1:55 p.m. Nick Taylor, Seamus Power
2:05 p.m. Cameron Tringale, Viktor Hovland
2:15 p.m. Harry Higgs, Kevin Yu
2:25 p.m. Francesco Molinari, Jimmy Walker
2:35 p.m. Jonas Blixt, Lee Hodges
2:45 p.m. Charley Hoffman, Robert Streb
3:00 p.m. K.H. Lee, Louis Oosthuizen
3:10 p.m. Harry Hall, Talor Gooch
3:20 p.m. Matthew Wolff, Rory Sabbatini
3:30 p.m. Adam Hadwin, Matt Jones
3:40 p.m. Aaron Wise, Andrew Putnam
3:50 p.m. Sam Burns, Adam Schenk
4:00 p.m. Sungjae Im, Chad Ramey

TV, streaming, radio information

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. All times ET.

Saturday, Oct. 9

TV

Golf Channel: 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 3-8 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 10

TV

Golf Channel: 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 3-8 p.m.

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Young stars Scottie Scheffler, Will Zalatoris among notables to miss the cut at Shriners Children’s Open

While Sungjae Im and Chad Ramey lead the field of 73 players into the weekend at 14 under, several players didn’t advance.

LAS VEGAS – While the skies were dismal early on Friday, the scoring continued to sizzle at TPC Summerlin in the Shriners Children’s Open.

That didn’t bode well for those who got off to a poor start in the first round.

Through annoying morning sprinkles and spots of steady rain amid cool temperatures, and with the course nearly defenseless with the lack of wind, par was battered again in the second round. Even when the skies cleared and the wind picked up in the afternoon, players got the better of TPC Summerlin.

And that meant the cutline falling at 5 under in the third tournament of the season.

While Sungjae Im and Chad Ramey lead the field of 73 players into the weekend at 14 under as the top 65 players and ties advanced, here are some notables who won’t have Saturday or Sunday tee times.

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Matthew Wolff is on quite a roll in Las Vegas, moves into contention again at Shriners Children’s Open

Wolff shot his 10th consecutive round in the 60s at TPC Summerlin in the Shriners Children’s Open and moved into contention again.

LAS VEGAS – Matthew Wolff didn’t know.

Now he’s not sure he wanted to know.

“I hope you didn’t jinx me,” Wolff said.

Wolff shot his 10th consecutive round in the 60s at TPC Summerlin in the Shriners Children’s Open in Friday’s second round and moved into contention for the second consecutive year.

Wolff, 22, who won the 2019 3M Open in his third professional start, shot 67-69-68-65 in his debut in 2020 to tie for 18th. Last year, he shot 68-66-61-66 and lost in a playoff to Martin Laird. This year, he’s posted 64-67 to move to 11 under and stands two shots behind Sam Burns through 36 holes.

“I feel like I really like this course. I like the way it sets up. Everything feels really good in my game right now and hopefully I don’t break that streak this year,” Wolff said. “I’m just really happy with where my game’s at.”

He likes where his head’s at, too.

Wolff has openly discussed his mental-health struggles the past six months which have hurt him on and off the golf course and forced him to take some time off. But a small sampling of why he said he’s doing better on the mental side came on his 12th hole in the second round – at the par-4 third hole.

The latest of his 10-for-10 60s roll in Las Vegas included a triple-bogey 7 on the third hole when he found native desert area with his tee shot and compounded the mistake until holing out. Six months ago, the hole might have set Wolff off and led to more over-par holes. Instead, he came home with two birdies and four pars.

“The last six months I’ve been a roller coaster,” he said. “I had a good finish at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, but that was probably the only highlight of the last six months for me. And to be able to make a score like that and not let it affect me, not only, you know, my swing and my game, but also mentally, and I was able to stay in the present and make sure to bounce back and know that there’s plenty of holes left, there’s a lot of golf left, and just got to make sure to keep grinding and keep fighting, I feel like I made a lot of progress in the last six months, but more importantly, the last month.

“I’m really happy to be out here, enjoy being out here, and even if golf doesn’t go well, it’s better than being behind a desk.”

Wolff doesn’t want to get ahead of himself, doesn’t want to think about winning his second PGA Tour title and first at TPC Summerlin. He’s just thinking about his first tee shot in Saturday’s third round.

“I just try to take it shot by shot and do the best I can and whatever score I end up with at the end of the week, I’ll deal with that as long as I know I did my best,” Wolff said. “Just have to make sure to kind of minimize mistakes, and I know if I do that on the weekend, I’ll like where I end up at the end.”

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Sam Burns remains on a heater, grabs clubhouse lead in Shriners Children’s Open

Sam Burns continued his torrid ascension toward the elite ranks in the game in Friday’s second round of the Shriners Children’s Open.

LAS VEGAS – When Sam Burns missed the cut in the American Express, his first start in the 2021 calendar year, he fell to 168th in the Official World Golf Rankings.

Now he might be the second best player on the planet.

World No. 1 Jon Rahm is the undisputed best player in the world, but Burns is certainly in the conversation for second best. He continued his torrid ascension toward the elite ranks in the game as he kept on assaulting par in Friday’s second round of the Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin.

With an 8-under-par 63, Burns moved into the clubhouse lead at 13 under. It was his eighth consecutive round in the 60s, with four of those coming last week en route to his victory in the Sanderson Farms Championship.

He’s moved to No. 18 in the world and is in good shape to win his third PGA Tour title, his first coming in May at the Valspar Championship.

Burns is two shots clear of six players.

“I feel comfortable,” Burns said. “At the end of the day it’s golf. It’s not anything crazy. So I just try to keep it as simple as I can. I think for me, just coming out here and enjoying myself, having fun, that’s what we’re supposed to do out here, right?

“So I’m just trying to do that.”

Despite moving up 150 spots in the world rankings in just over 10 months and winning two PGA Tour titles and finishing runner-up twice, Burns hasn’t heightened his expectations. He’s still the same guy who woke up 168th in the world, the same guy intent to improve week by week.

“I don’t really view it as what do I expect out of myself on the golf course. It’s what I expect of myself in preparation, making sure that I’m doing the hard work and making sure that I’m not leaving any leaves unturned,” Burns said. “Just trying to make sure that we’re preparing the best we can.

“I think there’s a lot of great people on our team. They have done a really good job of just trying to help us improve, help us get better in certain areas, and so that’s what we’ve been looking at, just trying to improve in those certain areas and just continue to try to get better.”

After opening with a 66, Burns nearly holed out from the fairway on his first hole in the second round – the par-4 10th – and settled for a tap-in birdie. He added seven more and has 15 birdies against a lone double bogey on the week.

Burns didn’t burn himself out celebrating last week’s win. He had a nice celebration with friends and family in the clubhouse Sunday night, drove home and saw his parents.

And then he started getting ready for this week.

“Last week’s last week,” Burns said. “This week is Shriners and preparing for this week, trying to make sure Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, that we are giving ourselves the best opportunity to play well this week. That’s been the biggest thing, is just trying to move on from last week. Obviously incredibly honored that I won last week and such a fun time, but just trying to kind of leave that there, come here, and just preparing the best that I can.”

It’s worked so far.

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Shriners Children’s Open Friday tee times, TV info

Here’s everything you need to know for the second round of the Shriners Children’s Open.

After a week in Mississippi the PGA Tour’s best are westward bound for a two-week stint in Sin City.

TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, ranked No. 4 on Golfweek’s Best list of private courses in Nevada, plays host to the 2021 Shriners Children’s Open this week, and will play to 7,243 yards with a par of 72.

Sung Kang got out to a quick start, making just one bogey on his way to a 10-under, 61. He recently studied videos of his swing, which he was reluctant to do, and obviously reaped the benefits. He leads by two.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s what you need to know for the second round of the Shriners Children’s Open.

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Friday tee times

Tee time Players
9:40 a.m. Jonas Blixt, Nick Watney, Brandon Hagy
9:51 a.m. Emiliano Grillo, Luke List, J.J. Spaun
10:02 a.m. Andrew Putnam, Adam Hadwin, Mark Hubbard
10:13 a.m. Matt Jones, Michael Thompson, Lee Hodges
10:24 a.m. Joel Dahmen, Robert Streb, Richy Werenski
10:35 a.m. K.H. Lee, Adam Long, Danny Willett
10:46 a.m. Carlos Ortiz, Nate Lashley, Graeme McDowell
10:57 a.m. Brian Gay, Chez Reavie, Keith Mitchell
11:08 a.m. Anirban Lahiri, Doc Redman, Harry Higgs
11:19 a.m. Scott Piercy, Russell Knox, Sam Ryder
11:30 a.m. Trey Mullinax, Seth Reeves, Harry Hall
11:41 a.m. Davis Riley, Taylor Moore, Kyle Westmoreland
2:40 p.m. Denny McCarthy, Adam Schenk, Dough Ghim
2:51 p.m. James Hahn, Matt Wallace, Matthew NeSmith
3:02 p.m. Pat Perez, Brian Harman, Charl Schwartzel
3:13 p.m. Hideki Matsuyama, Viktor Hovlan, Adam Scott
3:24 p.m. Harris English, Patrick Reed, Ryan Palmer
3:35 p.m. Martin Trainer, Brandt Snedeker, Zach Johnson
3:46 p.m. Stewart Cink, Corey Conners, Paul Casey
3:57 p.m. Seamus Power, Sung Kang, Matt Kuchar
4:08 p.m. Garrick Higgo, Lanto Griffin, J.T. Poston
4:19 p.m. Ryan Moore, Chesson Hadley, Tom Hoge
4:30 p.m. Joseph Bramlett, Adam Svensson, Hayden Buckley
4:41 p.m. Mito Pereira, Alex Smalley, Jin Jeong

10th tee

Tee time Players
9:40 a.m. Kyle Stanley, Russell Henley, Maverick McNealy
9:51 a.m. Brice Garnett, Bill Haas, Wyndham Clark
10:02 a.m. Henrik Norlander, Sepp Straka, Hank Lebioda
10:13 a.m. Sam Burns, Abraham Ancer, Brooks Koepka
10:24 a.m. Martin Laird, Webb Simpson, Scottie Scheffler
10:35 a.m. Erik van Rooyen, Joaquin Niemann, Rickie Fowler
10:46 a.m. Andrew Landry, Matthew Wolff, Francesco Molinari
10:57 a.m. Lucas Glover, Charles Howell III, Jimmy Walker
11:08 a.m. Troy Merritt, Kelly Kraft, Roger Sloan
11:19 a.m. Camilo Villegas, Kevin Streelman, Rory Sabbatini
11:30 a.m. Sahith Theegala, Jared Wolfe, Rasmus Hojgaard
11:41 a.m. Cameron Young, Curtis Thompson, Kevin Yu
2:40 p.m. Aaron Wise, Cameron Tringale, Tyler McCumber
2:51 p.m. Ian Poulter, Brendan Steele, Bronson Burgoon
3:02 p.m. Scott Stallings, Talor Gooch, Will Zalatoris
3:13 p.m. Cam Davis, Nick Taylor, Kevin Tway
3:24 p.m. Jason Kokrak, Sebastian Munoz, Louis Oosthuizen
3:35 p.m. Kevin Kisner, Sungjae Im, Dylan Frittelli
3:46 p.m. Si Woo Kim, Hudson Swafford, Patton Kizzire
3:57 p.m. Marc Leishman, Kevin Chappell, William McGirt
4:08 p.m. Taylor Pendrith, Jim Herman, Charley Hoffman
4:19 p.m. Brian Stuard, Peter Malnati, Seung-Yul Noh
4:30 p.m. Stephan Jaeger, Brandon Wu, Aaron Rai
4:41 p.m. Greyson Sigg, Chad Ramey, Jesse Mueller

TV, streaming, radio information

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. All times ET.

Friday, Oct. 8

TV

Golf Channel: 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 2-8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 9

TV

Golf Channel: 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 3-8 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 10

TV

Golf Channel: 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 3-8 p.m.

We recommend interesting sports viewing and streaming opportunities. If you sign up to a service by clicking one of the links, we may earn a referral fee.

Struggling Sung Kang reluctantly turns to video, then shoots 61 to grab the lead at Shriners Children’s Open

Sung Kang might start singing a new tune when it comes to video.

LAS VEGAS – Sung Kang might start singing a new tune when it comes to video.

Kang, who has made a steady descent down the world golf rankings and is currently No. 283, has been looking to turn things around for quite some time. In his last 41 starts on the PGA Tour, he has but one top-15 finish.

But throughout his struggles, Kang rarely watched video of his swing. That has changed recently, and the result was a staggering 10-under-par 61 Thursday as he grabbed the first-round lead in the Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin.

“I don’t normally look at my swing with a video too much, I don’t like to do it, but we started looking at it probably a couple weeks ago,” Kang said. “So we had some issues, like probably five, six issues, and we’re trying to take one out of play like every week. So we fixed a couple things last week and then it’s still sometimes not there, so we try to fix something else.

“And it helped out.”

Sure looked like it. Kang fell one shot short of tying the tournament record and one shot short of equally his career low round; he shot 60 in the second round in the 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Shriners: Yardage book | Odds | Tee times

Kang, who hit 16 of 18 greens in regulation, doesn’t have much breathing room at the top of the leaderboard. He leads Sungjae Im, Chad Ramey and Charley Hoffman by two shots. Three players were three back and four others four back on a day the players tore up defenseless TPC Summerlin; the field average with players still finishing their rounds was more than three strokes below par.

Starting on the 10th, Kang made the turn with a bogey-free, 5-under 31. After trading a birdie and a bogey on the second and third holes, Kang scored from six feet on the fourth, from 20 feet on the sixth, from three feet on the seventh and ended his round with a 17-footer for eagle on the ninth.

Check the yardage book: TPC Summerlin for the Shriners Children’s Open 

“So, the last few weeks I wasn’t driving it very good, but my iron play was pretty sharp, and my putting was pretty good. So I was just thinking if I can get my driver somewhere in play I could actually score better,” Kang said. “And we figured something out on Tuesday and started driving it a lot better and I drove it quite better than last few weeks.

“So everything just worked out great.”

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Europe’s Viktor Hovland focuses on positives from 19-9 drubbing to the U.S. in Ryder Cup

“Obviously it sucked, but I try to learn from kind of everything that happens and try to turn it into something positive.”

LAS VEGAS – Viktor Hovland is not sulking.

He isn’t breaking out in anger thinking about what might have been.

He’s not kicking himself for not doing more.

Yes, being on the losing side in his first Ryder Cup still stings, but the 24-year-old who is wise and mature beyond his years has chosen to soak up the positives instead of immersing himself in the negatives of Europe’s humbling 19-9 defeat to the U.S. two weeks ago in Wisconsin.

“The loss went over pretty quickly because it obviously wasn’t that close,” Hovland said Thursday after finishing his first round in the Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin. “If it came down to one putt that I missed on the last hole or something, that would have been tough to get over, but we got beat just by the better team and that’s how it goes sometimes.

“Obviously it sucked, but I try to learn from kind of everything that happens and try to turn it into something positive.”

Hovland played far better than his 0-3-2 record would indicate as he seemed to run into red, white and blue buzzsaws whenever he got to the first tee. His record won’t stand out in his memory bank; the team room and his play on the Straits Course at Whistling Straits will.

“Just some great memories, just being around my teammates,” he said. “Being on that team I’m surrounded by legends of European golf the last 20, 25 years. So that was just incredible.

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“As far as my golf game, I was able to hit some really nice shots under the biggest pressure I’ve ever had and I take a lot of comfort knowing that I can perform at that level and it should be a walk in the park out here, relatively speaking. Obviously golf is still hard, but just for me to just trust what I’m doing instead of playing with fear, just step up and commit to the shot, if it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out, but I’m not worrying about the result.”

The rising star from Norway, who won the 2018 U.S. Amateur, won low amateur honors the following year in the Masters and U.S. Open, and has two PGA Tour titles on his resume, made his season debut at TPC Summerlin.

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It was one of those rounds that will challenge him to remember the positives instead of the negatives. He began his round on the 10th tee under an overcast sky with three consecutive birdies and added four more at the 16th, 18th, sixth and seventh. But a bad hop on the par-3 14th led to a bogey and a horrible lie in a greenside bunker on the par-3 eighth led to a double bogey.

Then he finished his round by three-putting from 45 feet on the par-5 ninth to finish with a 4-under-par 67, six shots behind pace-setter Sung Kang, whose 61 was one shot short of equaling the course record.

“Obviously a great start,” Hovland said. “Hit the ball awesome and just kind of didn’t make many mistakes. On the 14th hole, I hit a great shot, just one-bounced over the green and that was kind of a momentum killer. But I thought I bounced back pretty well and played really well the rest of the round, but then didn’t really make anything and toward the end I started making some putts and then again just a momentum killer on number 8 with the double bogey there and 3-putt on the last. So I felt like I played way better.”

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Hovland has risen quickly and is ranked No. 14 in the official world rankings. He’s given every indication his ascent up the world ranks will continue.

“I don’t like to set goals. You can play great and not win tournaments, so I think, for me, it’s just I need to keep doing what I am doing, because I’m playing really, really well,” he said. “I need to just get a little sharper on and around the greens, which I feel like I’m already showing promises there.

“Sometimes it goes your way and sometimes it doesn’t. But I feel like if I just keep working on what I’m doing over the course of a year, if we could just get a little bit better there that’s going to be huge.”

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