Bryson DeChambeau will begin to get ready for the Masters without playing

Instead of playing a tune-up on the PGA Tour, DeChambeau will retreat to his Texas home and start beefing up for the November Masters.

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LAS VEGAS – On Tuesday of last week, Bryson DeChambeau’s one-week stay in America’s Playground got off to an unusual start when he was summoned to move back 40 yards on the TPC Summerlin range because his tee shots were clearing the fence protecting the surrounding neighborhood 350 yards away.

On Wednesday, he shot 59 on his own ball in the pro-am.

On Thursday, he took the lead in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at helpless TPC Summerlin with a 9-under-par 62.

On Friday, he defended himself against claims made by colleague Matt Fitzpatrick that his powerful ways were making a “mockery” of the game and that hitting the golf ball immense distances wasn’t a skill.

On Saturday, he tumbled down the leaderboard when he made two double-bogeys and two bogeys in the span of five holes.

On Sunday, he closed with a 66 that included a last-hole bogey that left a bitter taste in his mouth despite finishing in a tie for eighth at 18 under.

“Disappointed with the way I finished, but I know the potential and playing with my B game, maybe B game, if that, was still able to somewhat contend,” said DeChambeau, who made 22 birdies and 3 eagles during the week.

Bryson DeChambeau during the final round of the 2020 Shriners Hospitals For Children Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

But after the eventful week, the game’s most talked about player these days will go silent and vanish from the PGA Tour. DeChambeau won’t play the next four weeks as the golf world anxiously awaits the second week in November when players turn onto Magnolia Lane for the November Masters.

Especially after he overpowered the beast that is Winged Foot in New York in winning the U.S. Open, where the thick, high rough, thin fairways and firm greens proved no match for him as he won by six shots. Now many in golf’s circles fear what DeChambeau could do to the sacred grounds of Augusta National.

Instead of playing a tune-up on the PGA Tour, DeChambeau will retreat to his Texas home and start beefing up for the Masters.

“Just trying to figure more stuff out as always,” he said after the final round of the Shriners. “I’m going to be working out like crazy. The first week back home, I’m not really going to touch a club too much and going to be training pretty hard and getting myself up to hopefully around 245, something like that, in weight. Be the first time I’ve ever done that, so I’m going to be consuming a lot and see and working out a lot and see what we can do from there.”

Loads of equipment will arrive at his home and he’ll do plenty of testing as he bulks up and tries to dial up swing and ball speed. Among the new clubs will be various drivers featuring a 48-inch shaft – about 2.5 inches longer than standard length. The extra length could produce even more eye-popping numbers than the ones he’s produced since golf returned from the COVID-19 break. In the Shriners, for instance, he hit 43 tee shots past the 300-yard mark – some with 3-woods and hybrids – with 18 exceeding 350 yards.

“From a speed training perspective I could probably (hit) upwards of over a thousand drives the next four weeks trying to get my speed up,” he said. “It takes around 100, 130 to have a good speed training session.

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“The advantages I usually have could be much improved upon with the equipment. We don’t have it yet, but we’re diligently working on it behind the scenes. We’ll prototype and test it and see if it works, if it doesn’t we’ll go back and tool it and hopefully have it ready for Augusta.”

DeChambeau said he will make a reconnaissance trip to Augusta during his time away from the PGA Tour. He said he doesn’t need to play tournament golf to keep his game sharp. The 13-week break due to COVID-19 proved that. He rarely played a round of golf, instead spending his time bulking up and dialing up his speed at his home and the home of Chris Como, his swing coach, who turned his living room into a laboratory of sorts.

“I felt like I came back really well not playing any golf,” said DeChambeau, who reeled off four consecutive top-10s when golf returned in June, including a victory in the Rocket Mortgage Classic. “I feel like my game is good enough right now to do that. I don’t feel like there is going to be a problem coming back.”

And he has no problem dealing with all the noise that has come his way since he added nearly 50 pounds of mass and started dropping jaws with his length.

“All I’m trying to do in this game is play my best golf, and as a consequence of that, I’ve figured out how to hit it a little bit further and hitting it a little straighter with how far I’m hitting it, for the most part,” DeChambeau said. “With my one-length irons, I was always trying to do something that would be a benefit to the game. And hitting it far, I think everybody can do it if they really want to.

“I just want to hopefully inspire people to do better things in life. Not even just golf. Just something in their business life if they want to figure out a distinct advantage that makes they can better. Go for it.”

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Third time’s the charm as Martin Laird finally wins Shriners in 3-man playoff

Coming off a knee surgery, Martin Laid snapped his seven-year winless streak on the PGA Tour at the Shriners Hospitals for Childrens Open.

LAS VEGAS – The third time proved to be the charm for Martin Laird.

After failing to end matters on the 72nd hole and then again on the first playoff hole, Laird knocked in a 23-foot putt for birdie on the second extra hole to win the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Sunday’s fading light at TPC Summerlin.

Laird, who shared the overnight lead and led by three at the turn, made an astounding par on the 17th hole in regulation to protect his one-shot lead but missed his par attempt on the 72nd home from 28 feet and headed to a playoff against Austin Cook and Matthew Wolff.

On the first extra hole at the par-4 18th, Laird had a chance to end the tournament but his attempt from 31 feet just grazed the hole. But after Cook and Wolff both missed their birdie attempts on the 195-yard par-3 17th, Laird rolled in his winner.

It was his first win in seven years and his second Shriners title; in 2009, he won in a playoff here on the 18th hole. He has four PGA Tour titles. Laird, playing on a sponsor’s exemption, will certainly move up from his ranking of 358 in the world.

“It’s been a while, so I’ve been working hard. Seven years since my last one,” Laird said. “Probably feel like now my game is really as good as it has been. Been playing well the last few weeks; just haven’t had the results.

“But I love it here. I’m going to really enjoy this one. I can’t wait to go back and see my kids and my wife and celebrate with them.”

Martin Laird after winning the 2020 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin. (Kelvin Kuo-USA TODAY Sports)

Laird (68), Cook (66) and Wolff (66) ended regulation at 23-under 261.

“Overall this is the best finish in three years since the win,” Cook said of his 2017 victory in the RMC Classic. “Game is on the right track. It’s kind of an emotional day. It’s been such a grind to get back here. Just being back in the moment, I loved it, and I can’t wait to do it again.”

Wolff, 21, was trying to become the youngest multiple winner on the PGA Tour since Sergio Garcia in 2001. Wolff had three eagles in a five-hole stretch en route to a 61 in the third round and eagle the 16th Sunday to give himself a chance.

Abraham Ancer closed with a 67 to finish fourth, three shots back. Peter Malnati (66), Will Zalatoris (69) and James Hahn (68) tied for fifth, four shots back. It was Hahn’s third consecutive top-10 to start the season.

In a group in a tie for eighth five shots back were reigning U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau (66) and Patrick Cantlay (73). Cantlay, who won here in 2017 and finished runner-up the past two years, was trying to join Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Gary Player as the only players in the last 60 years to finish first or second in the same tournament in four consecutive years.

Laird owes much of his Shriners this year to the par-5, 558-yard ninth. In the last round, from a plugged lie in a bunker from 22 feet, he took a mighty swing and somehow knocked it in for eagle. He had also eagled the ninth in the third and second rounds and made birdie in the first round. That’s 7 under on one hole.

Laird also wouldn’t have made it to the winner’s circle without his magician-type work on the 17th hole. After he disappointingly three-putted the par-5 16th for par, his tee shot on 17 hit a car path and ended 100 feet to the right of the hole.

From a patchy lie, with trees in his way and water just past the putting surface, he pitched to 18 feet and then rolled in the putt for par.

“That was one of my better ever up-and-downs,” Laird said.

Three holes later, the same hole paid off again.

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The victory ended a weird stretch for Laird. He was playing a ton of golf, practicing all out and counting down the days until the PGA Tour returned after a break due to COVID. The week before the Tour restarted, however, his left knee went out. Instead of joining his colleagues when the Tour returned in June after being dark for 13 weeks, Laird was having knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus and then spending time recuperating on his coach in his home in Colorado.

“It was pretty hard for a couple weeks, not going to lie,” Laird said.

While he still can’t squat and has to take a knee with his right leg to read putts, he stood tall with the championship hardware in his hands.

“Feel like a bit of an old man out here doing that,” he said.

He’s feeling a lot younger now.

“I made a conscious effort to be patient,” Laird said about his return after knee surgery. “Sometimes you come back and just want to be playing great right away. I knew it would be a process. Every week I’ve been trending, every week I’ve played I felt like I played a little better, got a little sharper.

“Putting has been getting a little better. I knew it was trending the right direction and I was coming to a course I love. I’m unbelievably excited to have pulled that off today. It’s been a while since my last one, and you have some doubts at times whether you’re going to get another one.

“To see that putt go in on that hole, I mean, it was pretty special.”

How much money each golfer won at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open

Here’s how much money each golfer won at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin.

Martin Laird is a PGA Tour winner once again after a seven-year drought.

Laird survived a two-hole playoff with Austin Cook and Matthew Wolff Sunday at TPC Summerlin to win the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Laird finished 72 holes at 23 under after carding a final-round 5-under 66 in his first win on Tour since 2013.

Abraham Ancer finished fourth at 20 under and Peter Malnati, James Hahn and rising Tour star Will Zalatoris finished T-5 at 19 under. Bryson DeChambeau finished in a five-way tie for eighth at 18 under.

Take a look through the amount of money each golfer earned this week at TPC Summerlin.

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Martin Laird -23 $1,260,000
T2 Austin Cook -23 $623,000
T2 Matthew Wolff -23 $623,000
4 Abraham Ancer -20 $343,000
T5 Peter Malnati -19 $259,000
T5 James Hahn -19 $259,000
T5 Will Zalatoris -19 $259,000
T8 Bryson DeChambeau -18 $190,750
T8 Justin Suh -18 $190,750
T8 Matthew NeSmith -18 $190,750
T8 Si Woo Kim -18 $190,750
T8 Patrick Cantlay -18 $190,750
T13 Joaquin Niemann -17 $125,416
T13 Webb Simpson -17 $125,416
T13 Sungjae Im -17 $125,416
T13 Harold Varner III -17 $125,416
T13 Brian Harman -17 $125,416
T13 Wyndham Clark -17 $125,416
T19 Louis Oosthuizen -16 $86,030
T19 Zach Johnson -16 $86,030
T19 Scott Piercy -16 $86,030
T19 John Huh -16 $86,030
T19 Cameron Tringale -16 $86,030
T24 Tom Hoge -15 $61,950
T24 Patton Kizzire -15 $61,950
T24 Cameron Smith -15 $61,950
T27 Sebastian Munoz -14 $47,950
T27 Adam Schenk -14 $47,950
T27 Russell Henley -14 $47,950
T27 Rob Oppenheim -14 $47,950
T27 Andrew Landry -14 $47,950
T27 J.T. Poston -14 $47,950
T27 Michael Gligic -14 $47,950
T34 Beau Hossler -13 $33,483
T34 Emiliano Grillo -13 $33,483
T34 Matt Kuchar -13 $33,483
T34 Ryan Palmer -13 $33,483
T34 Robby Shelton -13 $33,483
T34 Dylan Frittelli -13 $33,483
T34 Sam Burns -13 $33,483
T34 Charles Howell III -13 $33,483
T34 Adam Hadwin -13 $33,483
T43 Troy Merritt -12 $21,665
T43 Sepp Straka -12 $21,665
T43 Sung Kang -12 $21,665
T43 Sergio Garcia -12 $21,665
T43 Tom Lewis -12 $21,665
T43 Joseph Bramlett -12 $21,665
T43 Brandt Snedeker -12 $21,665
T43 Kevin Na -12 $21,665
51 Brice Garnett -11 $17,570
T52 Cameron Davis -10 $16,674
T52 C.T. Pan -10 $16,674
T52 Matt Jones -10 $16,674
T52 Nate Lashley -10 $16,674
T52 Rory Sabbatini -10 $16,674
57 Denny McCarthy -9 $16,170
T58 Henrik Norlander -8 $15,750
T58 Bronson Burgoon -8 $15,750
T58 Hunter Mahan -8 $15,750
T58 Joel Dahmen -8 $15,750
T58 Andrew Putnam -8 $15,750
63 Chez Reavie -6 $15,330
T64 George Markham -3 $15,120
T64 Stewart Cink -3 $15,120
66 Luke Donald -2 $14,910

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Shriners Hospitals for Children Open: Sunday tee times, TV/streaming info

Check out final round tee times and streaming information for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Some of golf’s best are returning this week for their first fall start since the U.S. Open last month at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. That includes big-hitting U.S. Open champ Bryson DeChambeau, who came in first at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas in 2018 and then followed it up with a fourth-place finish last year.

After the third round, Martin Laird and Patrick Cantlay hold a two-shot lead at 20 under. Matthew Wolff, Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman and Austin Cook are T-3 at 18 under.

After a third-round 64, reigning champion Kevin Na sits T-7 at 17 under alongside Will Zalatoris.

Check out final-round pairings and tee times below, and scroll down for TV and streaming information.

All times are listed in Eastern.

Tee times

1st tee

Tee time Players
10:25 a.m. Luke Donald, George Markham
10:35 a.m. Beau Hossler, Henrik Norlander
10:45 a.m. Emiliano Grillo, Matt Kuchar
10:55 a.m. Louis Oosthuizen, Bronson Burgoon
11:05 a.m. Hunter Mahan, Troy Merritt
11:15 a.m. Joel Dahmen, Cameron Davis
11:25 a.m. Ryan Palmer, Chez Reavie
11:35 a.m. Sebastián Muñoz, C.T. Pan
11:45 a.m. Robby Shelton, Denny McCarthy
11:55 a.m. Sepp Straka, Andrew Putnam
12:05 p.m. Sung Kang, Dylan Frittelli
12:15 p.m. Sam Burns, Zach Johnson
12:30 p.m. Matt Jones, Adam Schenk
12:40 p.m. Bryson DeChambeau, Joaquin Niemann
12:50 p.m. Charles Howell III, Stewart Cink
1 p.m. Tom Hoge, Scott Piercy
1:10 p.m. Webb Simpson, Russell Henley
1:20 p.m. Rob Oppenheim, Patton Kizzire
1:30 p.m. Nate Lashley, Peter Malnati
1:40 p.m. Sungjae Im, Sergio Garcia
1:50 p.m. Andrew Landry, Brice Garnett
2:00 p.m. Justin Suh, J.T. Poston
2:15 p.m. Rory Sabbatini, Cameron Smith
2:25 p.m. John Huh, Tom Lewis
2:35 p.m. Michael Gligic, Cameron Tringale
2:45 p.m. Matthew NeSmith, Joseph Bramlett
2:55 p.m. James Hahn, Brandt Snedeker
3:05 p.m. Abraham Ancer, Harold Varner III
3:15 p.m. Adam Hadwin, Si Woo Kim
3:25 p.m. Will Zalatoris, Kevin Na
3:35 p.m. Brian Harman, Austin Cook
3:45 p.m. Matthew Wolff, Wyndham Clark
3:55 p.m. Martin Laird, Patrick Cantlay

TV, streaming information

All times are listed in Eastern.

Sunday, Oct. 11

TV

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 9:40 a.m.-8 p.m. (featured groups, featured holes)

Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 5-8 p.m.

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

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Shootout expected at TPC Summerlin in final-round of Shriners

Eighteen players are within five shots of the lead and another 11 are six shots back heading into Sunday’s final round at TPC Summerlin.

LAS VEGAS – Handicapping the final round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open is one tough assignment.

Eighteen players are within five shots of the lead and another 11 are six shots back heading into Sunday’s final round at TPC Summerlin, where par isn’t your friend and red numbers are aplenty.

Players have been tearing up TPC Summerlin from Thursday’s start and the cut was 7-under 135 – the lowest 36-hole cut in a 72-hole event in Tour history. With little wind expected for the final round, scoring binges should more than likely continue across this desert layout.

Which necessitates one mental approach, many players said after Saturday’s third round: You have to put the pedal to the metal on this track to emerge from the stampede at the finish line.

“By the time I tee off tomorrow I’m sure (the lead) will be more than 20 under, so it’s going to be the same mentality tomorrow. I’ll be aggressive when I hit the ball in the fairway and get a wedge in my hand, and other than that I’ll stay patient and try and shot a good round like I did the first three two days,” Patrick Cantlay said.

Patrick Cantlay during round three of the 2020 Shriners Hospitals For Children Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Cantlay, who won here in 2017 and finished runner-up in 2018 and 2019, and Martin Laird sit atop the crowded leaderboard at 20 under, with both shooting 6-under-par 65.

Four players sit two back at 18 under – Matthew Wolff (61), Wyndham Clark (65), Harman (67) and Austin Cook (67). Wolff, teeing off four hours before the leaders, made three eagles in a five-hole stretch and his 61 is the lowest round of the week.

“I put myself in a really good spot for the final day,” he said. “I’m pretty pleased with my ball striking and how everything has come together.”

At 17 under are Will Zalatoris (64) and Kevin Na (64), who is in a good spot to join Jim Furyk (1998-99) as the only players to win back-to-back Shriners.

“I figure 7 under, I got a chance to win,” Na said. “I need to make more putts. I made some good putts today, but I definitely left a few out there.”

Five players are at 16 under, including Adam Hadwin, who shot 62 on Saturday, and five more player are at 15 under.

And can you really dismiss reigning U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau and all his firepower? DeChambeau made two double-bogeys and two bogeys in his first six holes but salvaged a 71 with six birdies in his last 11 holes. He’ll start the final round seven shots behind but he shot 62 in Thursday’s first round.

“It was really weird. I don’t know. It’s golf, right?” DeChambeau said. “You’re never going to play your best all the time, right? So I just felt like a couple things got off a little bit. Didn’t really hit bad shots, just didn’t go where I wanted to.

“Went into some really bad places. But I think I did a decent job of holding my head high and plugging forward. Just one of those days.

“Tomorrow’s a new day. You just keep plugging along.”

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Changes paying off for Brandt Snedeker in Las Vegas

PGA Tour player Brandt Snedeker is succeeding at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after adding an instructor and changing caddies.

LAS VEGAS – There are long odds in the world of gaming, like backing an 80-1 shot to win at the track. Drawing to an inside straight. Taking the 19-point underdog to win outright.

And betting Brandt Snedeker to win the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at the outset of Saturday’s third round at TPC Summerlin.

The odds were stacked against Snedeker, who made the cut on the number with a birdie on his last hole in the second round. He was first off at 7:30 a.m. local time. And at the birdie festival that is the Shriners, he was seven shots behind the lead.

“Pedal to metal,” Snedeker said about his mindset at the start of the round. “I hit it close on one and missed it and felt like I was behind the eight ball already playing one hole not making a birdie. You feel like if I’m not make birdies here I’m losing ground. To be even par through six holes today, I was like, I got to do something.

“This is not going to work.”

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Then Snedeker got to work. He kick started his round with a chip-in eagle from 85 feet on the ninth, then ripped off five consecutive birdies starting on the 12th to grab the lead. In all, he had eight birdies and an eagle to offset two bogeys and signed for an 8-under-par 63 to move to 15 under.

Still, Snedeker knows the odds won’t be in his favor come Sunday’s final round. In fact, shortly after he finished speaking with the media, Snedeker’s lead was gone as Adam Hadwin took over the top spot on the leaderboard with a 62.

“The course is there for the taking, just like it has been the last two days. I’ll probably be three or four back going into tomorrow, but at least I gave myself a shot after where I started,” Snedeker said. “I’ll go watch some football, get some rest, and be ready to go tomorrow.”

And Snedeker knows he can leave Las Vegas feeling like a winner without having to take hold of the championship hardware.

He’s been in a funk since tying for third in the Farmers Insurance Open in January. In 14 starts since then, he missed eight cuts and finished tied for 41st or worse in four other starts.

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The stretch necessitated some changes and Snedeker brought on instructor Bradley Hughes and switched to longtime caddie Mike Hicks, who was on the bag when Payne Stewart won the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2.

The changes are paying off. He was in contention in last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship before a poor final round dropped him into a tie for 17th.

“Really excited about the team I got around me,” he said. “Hicks on the bag, who has been out here forever, is kind of a calming influence for me a little bit. And Bradley has really given me a lot of confidence in my swing and how I swing it and knowing what I need to do to miss it in certain spots and to let it go.

“I’m driving it way better, more consistent week to week, and feel like I can build off this. I’ve got a lot confidence. I had a lot of confidence last week. Even after I got done playing I knew that what I was doing was putting me on the right path and I felt like I was striking the ball way better and more consistently. Again this week driven it great and given myself lots of opportunities, so excited about tomorrow and seeing if I can improve on what I did last week.

“(Hughes) has given me confidence to let me release the club again. I’m obviously a very handsy player, a very feel player, but he’s given me a couple key things to let me know that if it I do one of these things well I can release it as far as I want to. And that’s comforting, especially under pressure and when you have tough shots, to know you release it and you can kind of get a one-way miss going.”

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Shriners Hospitals for Children Open: Saturday tee times, TV/streaming info

Check out Round 3 tee times and tv/streaming information for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Some of golf’s best are returning this week for their first fall start since the U.S. Open last month. That includes big-hitting U.S. Open champ Bryson DeChambeau, who came in first at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas in 2018 and then followed it up with a fourth-place finish last year.

After the second round, Patrick Cantlay, Austin Cook, Brian Harman, Martin Laird and Peter Malnati share the lead at 14 under. Bryson DeChambeau sits one shot back in sixth and Sergio Garcia sits in a six-way tie for seventh at 12 under.

Collin Morikawa, Francesco Molinari and Rickie Fowler were notable players to miss the cut at 7 under.

Check out third-round pairings and tee times below, and scroll down for TV and streaming information.

All times are listed in Eastern.

Tee times

1st tee

Tee time Players
10:30 a.m. Brandt Snedeker, Denny McCarthy
10:40 a.m. Rob Oppenheim, Sebastián Muñoz
10:50 a.m. Patton Kizzire, Webb Simpson
11 a.m. Adam Hadwin, Joel Dahmen
11:10 a.m. Luke Donald, John Huh
11:20 a.m. Cameron Davis, Hunter Mahan
11:30 a.m. Troy Merritt, Russell Henley
11:40 a.m. C.T. Pan, Andrew Putnam
11:50 a.m. Si Woo Kim, Joaquin Niemann
12 p.m. Matthew NeSmith, Matthew Wolff
12:10 p.m. George Markham, Robby Shelton
12:25 p.m. Tom Lewis, Matt Jones
12:35 p.m. Joseph Bramlett, Tom Hoge
12:45 p.m. Beau Hossler, Adam Schenk
12:55 p.m. Rory Sabbatini, Sam Burns
1:05 p.m. Scott Piercy, Zach Johnson
1:15 p.m. Cameron Smith, Sung Kang
1:25 p.m. Justin Suh, Emiliano Grillo
1:35 p.m. Ryan Palmer, Charles Howell III
1:45 p.m. J.T. Poston, Matt Kuchar
1:55 p.m. Will Zalatoris, Louis Oosthuizen
2:05 p.m. Henrik Norlander, Abraham Ancer
2:20 p.m. Michael Gligic, Andrew Landry
2:30 p.m. Bronson Burgoon, Cameron Tringale
2:40 p.m. Kevin Na, Chez Reavie
2:50 p.m. Dylan Frittelli,  Harold Varner III
3 p.m. Sepp Straka, Brice Garnett
3:10 p.m. Wyndham Clark, Sungjae Im
3:20 p.m. Sergio Garcia, Stewart Cink
3:30 p.m. James Hahn, Nate Lashley
3:40 p.m. Peter Malnati, Bryson DeChambeau
3:50 p.m. Brian Harman, Austin Cook
4 p.m. Martin Laird, Patrick Cantlay

TV, streaming information

All times are listed in Eastern.

Saturday, Oct. 10

TV

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 9:40 a.m.-8 p.m. (featured groups, featured holes)

Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

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

Sunday, Oct. 11

TV

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 9:40 a.m.-8 p.m. (featured groups, featured holes)

Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

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

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Bryson DeChambeau refutes claim he’s making a mockery of the game

Matthew Fitzpatrick said Bryson DeChambeau is making a mockery of golf. DeChambeau took the high road in his response during the Shriners.

LAS VEGAS – Bryson DeChambeau was disappointed with a few shots he hit during Friday’s second round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

He appreciated, however, a shot from the other side of the pond fired his way by colleague Matt Fitzpatrick.

After grabbing a share of the lead in the BMW Championship in England, the flagship event of the European Tour, Fitzpatrick had a few choice words for what DeChambeau is doing to the game with his eye-popping power.

Fitzpatrick called on golf’s governing bodies to clamp down on the distance gains DeChambeau has achieved since he transformed his swing and body after adding nearly 50 pounds of mass. Fitzpatrick said DeChambeau is making a “mockery” of the game, that the only thing he can compete with DeChambeau is putting, and “that’s just ridiculous.”

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“It’s not a skill to hit the ball a long way in my opinion,” Fitzpatrick told reporters. “I could put on 40 pounds. I could go and see a bio-mechanist and I could gain 40 yards; that’s actually a fact.

“I could put another two inches on my driver. I could gain that, but the skill in my opinion is to hit the ball straight. That’s the skill, he’s just taking the skill out of it in my opinion. I’m sure lots will disagree. It’s just daft.”

After DeChambeau added a 4-under-par 67 on Friday at TPC Summerlin to his opening-round 62 to stand one shot out of the lead through 36 holes, he took the high road as he addressed Fitzpatrick’s comments.

“It’s a compliment to me honestly,” DeChambeau said after Fitzpatrick’s words were read to him. “A year ago I wasn’t hitting in anywhere near as far as I am today. It took a lot of work, a lot of hours to work through the night to figure out a lot of this stuff.

“I would say it actually takes more skill to do what I’m doing. I still believe I’m hitting it straighter than what I was last year with the distances that I was hitting back then. So I actually appreciate those comments.”

DeChambeau said he thinks Fitzpatrick is looking out for a certain set of players, but DeChambeau isn’t going to change his ways. In fact, he’s working to get longer and could add a 48-inch shafted driver to his bag for the Masters.

“My whole goal is to play the best golf I possibly can, and this game has given me the opportunity to showcase something pretty special,” he said. “I feel like I’ve started to go down a path that’s allowed me to have an advantage over everyone, and I think that is a skillset when you look at it.

“For me out there today, I was still able to hit a lot of fairways at 360 yards. That’s tough to do with drivers. If anything, it’s more difficult to hit more fairways the way I’m doing it with the rules the way it is today. It’s more built for players like Matthew Fitzpatrick and his distances and players like that.

“So from my perspective, I think it takes a little bit more skill to do what I’m doing, and that’s why there are only a few people doing it out here.”

And DeChambeau has other skills to call upon, too – he’s putting very well and he has improved his short-iron play. And DeChambeau is more than ready to lend a helping hand should Fitzpatrick seek it.

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“I would love to have a conversation with him about it and say, ‘Hey, man, I would love to help out. Why couldn’t you do it, too?’ You see Rory (McIlroy) and DJ (Dustin Johnson) doing the same thing, too. They’re seeing that distinct advantage, and I feel like it’s great for the game of golf.”

As for his own golf at the Shriners, DeChambeau got off to a dull start but was banging the ball again, sending 10 tee shots past the 300-yard mark, including seven of at least 350 yards.

In the first round, he became the first player to drive the green at the par-4 seventh when he hit his tee shot 361 yards to 14 feet and made the putt for eagle. In the second round, he drove the green again, this time hitting his tee shot 373 yards to 26 and making the putt for eagle.

His was impressive on the par-5 16th, too, as he hit a drive 367 yards and then a wedge from 152 yards to 10 feet and then made the putt for eagle.

He’s one shot back of Patrick Cantlay (65), Martin Laird (63), Brian Harman (63), Peter Malnati (62)  and Austin Cook (65).

“I definitely left some shots out there and I made a few great shots,” he said. “So can’t be too displeased with that and look forward to hitting a couple more shots better and making a few putts that I need to that I didn’t middle of the round. Clean that up tomorrow and hopefully I can keep going low.”

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No surprise here: Patrick Cantlay has the lead in the Shriners

In his three starts here, Cantlay won in 2017, finished runner-up to Bryson DeChambeau in 2018 and lost in a playoff to Kevin Na last year.

LAS VEGAS – Time and time again this gambling mecca proves there is no such thing as a lock.

Patrick Cantlay is putting that reality to the test.

Just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Cantlay is a certainty to contend in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. In his only three starts in the tournament, Cantlay won in 2017, finished runner-up to Bryson DeChambeau in 2018 and lost in a playoff to Kevin Na last year.

He’s back in a familiar spot again after Friday’s second round – atop the leaderboard. After opening with a 63, Cantlay shot a 6-under-par 65 to move to 14 under on a day where there was only a whisper of wind and plenty of sunshine.

“Obviously with the success I’ve had it’s easy to be confident around here,” Cantlay said. “I just like the golf course. I think that it sets up for a lot of draw tee shots, and if you play from the fairway you have a lot opportunities.”

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Joining Cantlay at 14 under was Martin Laird, who eagled the final hole to cap an inward 6-under 29 en route to his 63. Two shots back among the early leaders were James Hahn (66), Nate Lashley (67) and Sergio Garcia (64), who won last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship.

Cantlay is in position to join some select company. In the past 60 years, only four players have finished first or second in four consecutive years in a tournament – Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Gary Player.

“That’s a good list,” Cantlay said. “That would be great (to join them). Every time I come here I feel like I have a chance to win. It doesn’t surprise me because I really like the golf course, but obviously I have to execute.

“I have so far, so I’m looking forward to the weekend.”

Cantlay has now played 14 rounds in the tournament at TPC Summerlin and has failed to break par just once. His career scoring average on this desert track is 66.28. And his competitors better beware – Cantlay’s scoring average in the third round is even lower at 65.33.

The No. 13 in the world is seeking his third PGA Tour titles. He is a perfect fit for TPC Summerlin as he hits the ball long and straight, is highly accurate with his irons and is a solid putter.

He also has the ideal mindset for the course.

“Around here you need to make so many birdies, and I’m just used to it out here,” said Cantlay, who made four consecutive red numbers around the turn. “It never feels like I’m stressing because it feels like there are so many birdie holes. It actually allows me to be patient.

“I started the day today I was even par through the first six holes and it feels like you’re way behind because you need to make so many birdies. But I knew there were plenty of opportunities the rest of the way, and I was able to capitalize coming down the last three or four holes.

“I’m in a good spot come the weekend.”

No surprise there.

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Shriners Hospitals for Children Open: Friday tee times, TV/streaming info

Check out second-round tee times and TV and streaming info for the PGA Tour’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Some of golf’s best are returning this week for their first fall start since the U.S. Open last month. That includes big-hitting U.S. Open champ Bryson DeChambeau, who came in first at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas in 2018 and then followed it up with a fourth-place finish last year.

In all, the field includes eight of the top 15 players in the Golfweek/Sagarin Pro Rankings. Other notable players include Patrick Cantlay (who would make a good pick, if you’re still looking for one), Webb Simpson and Hideki Matsuyama. Young stars Matthew Wolff and Scottie Scheffler are teeing it up too.

After the first round, Bryson DeChambeau leads by one shot at 9 under. Austin Cook, Patrick Cantlay, Scott Harrington, Nate Lashley and Harold Varner III are T-2 at 8 under.

Check out second-round pairings and tee times below, and scroll down for TV and streaming information.

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All times are listed in Eastern.

Tee times

1st tee

Tee time Players
9:45 a.m. Hunter Mahan, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Bo Hoag
9:55 a.m. Nick Watney, Adam Schenk, Will Gordon
10:05 a.m. Fabian Gomez, Camilo Villegas, Scott Harrington
10:15 a.m. Max Homa, Russell Knox, Louis Oosthuizen
10:25 a.m. Nate Lashley, Francesco Molinari, William McGirt
10:35 a.m. Kevin Tway, Jason Dufner, Luke Donald
10:45 a.m. Richy Werenski, Satoshi Kodaira, Ted Potter Jr.
10:55 a.m. Ryan Palmer, Martin Trainer, Charles Howell III
11:05 a.m. John Huh, Cameron Tringale, Tom Hoge
11:15 a.m. Adam Hadwin, Scottie Scheffler, Xinjun Zhang
11:25 a.m. Matt Jones, Maverick McNealy, Kristoffer Ventura
11:35 a.m. Michael Gligic, Craig Hocknull, Matt Wilson
2:35 p.m. Kyle Stanley, Charl Schwartzel, Zac Blair
2:45 p.m. Brian Harman, Mark Hubbard, Matthew NeSmith
2:55 p.m. Chesson Hadley, Carlos Ortiz, Wyndham Clark
3:05 p.m. Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Champ, Matthew Wolff
3:15 p.m. Collin Morikawa, Webb Simpson, Joaquin Niemann
3:25 p.m. Hudson Swafford, Paul Casey, Keegan Bradley
3:35 p.m. J.B. Holmes, Andrew Putnam, Aaron Wise
3:45 p.m. Troy Merritt, Brendan Steele, Greg Chalmers
3:55 p.m. Tyler Duncan, Dylan Frittelli, Pat Perez
4:05 p.m. Harris English, Harold Varner III, Henrik Norlander
4:15 p.m. Brian Gay, Denny McCarthy, Sam Burns
4:25 p.m. MJ Daffue, Will Zalatoris, Parker Coody

10th tee

Tee time Players
9:45 a.m. James Hahn, Scott Brown, Sean O’Hair
9:55 a.m. Charley Hoffman, Bo Van Pelt, Patrick Rodgers
10:05 a.m. Kevin Streelman, Martin Laird, Byeong Hun An
10:15 a.m. Kevin Na, Patrick Cantlay, Rickie Fowler
10:25 a.m. Sergio Garcia, Jason Day, Hideki Matsuyama
10:35 a.m. J.T. Poston, Matt Kuchar, Jimmy Walker
10:45 a.m. Chez Reavie, Keith Mitchell, Kevin Stadler
10:55 a.m. Stewart Cink, Nick Taylor, Bronson Burgoon
11:05 a.m. Danny Lee, Doc Redman, Harry Higgs
11:15 a.m. Luke List, Sam Ryder, Tom Lewis
11:25 a.m. Smylie Kaufman, Joel Dahmen, Tyler McCumber
11:35 a.m. Spencer Levin, Justin Suh, George Markham
2:35 p.m. Brian Stuard, Jamie Lovemark, Robby Shelton
2:45 p.m. Emiliano Grillo, Graham DeLaet, Sepp Straka
2:55 p.m. Jason Kokrak, Talor Gooch, Kyoung-Hoon Lee
3:05 p.m. Patton Kizzire, Austin Cook, Si Woo Kim
3:15 p.m. Cameron Smith, Lanto Griffin, D.A. Points
3:25 p.m. C.T. Pan, Brice Garnett, Ryan Armour
3:35 p.m. Andrew Landry, Michael Kim, Kevin Chappell
3:45 p.m. Sungjae Im, Sung Kang, Scott Piercy
3:55 p.m. Sebastian Munoz, Brandt Snedeker, Zach Johnson
4:05 p.m. K.J. Choi, Rory Sabbatini, Abraham Ancer
4:15 p.m. Russell Henley, Peter Malnati, Beau Hossler
4:25 p.m. Vaughn Taylor, Scott Stallings, Cameron Davis

TV, streaming information

All times are listed in Eastern.

Friday, Oct. 9

TV

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 9:40 a.m.-8 p.m. (featured groups, featured holes)

Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 4-8 p.m.

RADIO

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

Saturday, Oct. 10

TV

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 9:40 a.m.-8 p.m. (featured groups, featured holes)

Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

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

Sunday, Oct. 11

TV

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 9:40 a.m.-8 p.m. (featured groups, featured holes)

Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 5-8 p.m.

RADIO

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

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