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Associated Press
19-06-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Gonzalez and Kjeldsen share the lead at Firestone in senior tour major
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark and Ricardo Gonzalez of Argentina each shot 3-under 67 on Firestone South to share the lead Thursday after the opening round of the Kaulig Companies Championship, the third major of the year on the PGA Tour Champions. Gonzalez opened with eight pars, took bogey on No. 18 and then played the front nine with five birdies to offset one bogey Stewart Cink, who lost in a four-hole playoff to Tiger Woods at Firestone in 2006 at a World Golf Championship, was poised to take the lead until two bogeys on his final three holes. He was at 68 along with Retief Goosen and Steven Alker. Angel Cabrera, who already has captured two majors at the Regions Tradition and the Senior PGA Championship at Congressional, opened with a 71. The winner of the tournaments earns a spot in The Players Championship at the TPC Sawgrass next month. Firestone South previously hosted the World Series of Golf and then a World Golf Championship. It's a strong test for players who next go to the U.S. Senior Open in Colorado. ___ AP golf:
The Guardian
12-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
US Open golf 2025: first round pits players against brutal Oakmont setup
Update: Date: 2025-06-12T11:00:00.000Z Title: Preamble Content: Earlier this week, the DP World Tour socials collared a few pros and asked them what an 18-handicapper would shoot at Oakmont this week. The most generous estimate was 120; Bryson DeChambeau guessed 100, but that's just on the front nine. Several of them were certain they'd have to walk in, having lost all of their balls. As for the pros? Take the last couple of US Opens to be held here. Angel Cabrera won in 2007 with a final total of +5. In 2016, Shane Lowry held a four-stroke lead going into the final round only to shoot 76 and let Dustin Johnson in. This place – the jungle rough, the upturned-saucer greens, the excitable needle on the stimpmeter – makes mincemeat of the best of them. The lowest winning total at a US Open here is -5, and it took Ben Hogan to manage that, for goodness sake. (To be fair, Johnny Miller and Ernie Els won with -5 as well, Miller shooting the first-ever 63 in a major while doing so, but let's not cloud the issue.) So this should be fun. Yes it will. Here are the tee times (USA unless stated, all times BST, (a) denotes amateur). It's on! Starting at hole 1 11.45 Trent Phillips, Kevin Velo, (a) Matt Vogt 11.56 Chandler Blanchet, Alvaro Ortiz (Mex), Doug Ghim 12.07 (a) Evan Beck, Justin B. Hicks, Maxwell Moldovan 12.18 Keegan Bradley, Harris English, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng) 12.29 Jose Luis Ballester (Spa), Bryson DeChambeau, Xander Schauffele 12.40 Wyndham Clark, Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Gary Woodland 12.51 Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Matt McCarty 13.02 Cameron Davis (Aus), Thomas Detry (Bel), Davis Thompson 13.13 Richard Bland (Eng), Lanto Griffin, (a) Trevor Gutschewski 13.24 Ryan Gerard, Edoardo Molinari (Ita), Sam Stevens 13.35 (a) Noah Kent, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Thorbjoern Olesen (Den) 13.46 Jinichiro Kozuma (Jpn), (a) Cameron Tankersley, Chase Johnson 13.57 Philip Barbaree, Brady Calkins, Riley Lewis 17.30 Sam Bairstow (Eng), Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Frederic Lacroix (Fra) 17.41 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Joe Highsmith, Ryan Fox (Nzl) 17.52 Jacob Bridgeman, Victor Perez (Fra), Adam Schenk 18.03 Brooks Koepka, Min-Woo Lee (Aus), Justin Thomas 18.14 Sam Burns, Nicolas Echavarria (Col), Denny McCarthy 18.25 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler 18.36 Corey Conners (Can), Jason Day (Aus), Patrick Reed 18.47 Daniel Berger, Bud Cauley, Joaquin Niemann (Chi) 18.58 Tony Finau, Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Chris Kirk 19.09 Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Stephan Jaeger (Ger), (a) Benjamin James 19.20 Laurie Canter (Eng), (a) Justin Hastings (Cay), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den) 19.31 Roberto Diaz (Mex), Emilio Gonzalez (Mex), (a) Frankie Harris 19.42 Joey Herrera, George Kneiser, Grant Haefner Starting at hole 10 11.45 Zachary Blair, Alistair Docherty, Scott Vincent (Zim) 11.56 Jacques Kruyswijk (Rsa), Jordan Smith (Eng), Eric Cole 12.07 Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Taylor Pendrith (Can), J. J. Spaun 12.18 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Adam Scott (Aus) 12.29 Ben Griffin, Maverick McNealy, Andrew Novak 12.40 Shane Lowry (Irl), Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Justin Rose (Eng) 12.51 Patrick Cantlay, Lucas Glover, Si-Woo Kim (Kor) 13.02 Brian Harman, Phil Mickelson, Cameron Smith (Aus) 13.13 Brian Campbell, Justin Lower, Niklas Noergaard (Den) 13.24 Johnny Keefer, (a) Jackson Koivun, Davis Riley 13.35 James Hahn, Mark Hubbard, (a) Michael La Sasso 13.46 Chris Gotterup, (a) Mason Howell, Joakim Lagergren (Swe) 13.57 Zachary Bauchou, Jackson Buchanan, (a) Lance Simpson 17.30 Will Chandler, Andrea Pavan (Ita), Takumi Kanaya (Jpn) 17.41 (a) Bryan Lee, Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Preston Summerhays 17.52 Max Greyserman, Erik van Rooyen (Rsa), Matt Wallace (Eng) 18.03 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Russell Henley, Nick Taylor (Can) 18.14 Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm (Spa), Jordan Spieth 18.25 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Sepp Straka (Aut) 18.36 Tom Hoge, J. T. Poston, Cameron Young 18.47 Michael Kim, Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven) 18.58 Nick Dunlap, Marc Leishman (Aus), Aaron Rai (Eng) 19.09 Matthew Jordan (Eng), Carlos Ortiz (Mex), Yuta Sugiura (Jpn) 19.20 Trevor Cone, Ryan McCormick, (a) Zachery Pollo 19.31 James Nicholas, (a) Tyler Weaver (Eng), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn) 19.42 George Duangmanee, Harrison Ott, Austen Truslow
Irish Times
12-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
US Open 2025: Three of the key holes to watch
8th Hole: par 3, 289 yards This hole actually played to a length of 300 yards in the 2007 championship won by Angel Cabrera, and some players will be hitting driver to reach the putting surface which slopes from back to front. In 2016, the hole played to an average of 3.30 and ranked as the most difficult green to find, with an average of 36 per cent of players managing to keep their tee shots on the surface. The large bunker to the left of the green is likely to be a popular landing spot. General view of the eighth hole at Oakmont Country Club. Photograph: Rick Stewart/Getty 9th hole: par 4, 472 yards The tee-shot is blind to a fairway that slopes left to right and pinches in at 300 yards. It played as the second most difficult hole in 2016 – averaging 4.43 – when it gave up just 34 birdies to the field along with 167 bogeys and 28 double bogeys. A ditch is in play down the left-hand side of the fairway, while the right side is lined with a series of bunkers. Uniquely, more than half of the putting surface is taken up by the practice green in front of the clubhouse. READ MORE A general view of the ninth hole at Oakmont. Photograph: Warren Little/Getty 15th hole; par 4, 507 yards Another blind tee shot to a sloping fairway, it is important for players to find the fairway and avoid the large bunker that lines the left side, while a smaller but strategically located bunker is in play at 300 yards down the right. The approach is to an undulating green that is 58 yards deep, protected by a large bunker on the right and three smaller bunkers to the left of the green. In 2016, the hole averaged 4.38, when it played as the third most difficult in the tournament.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Angel Cabrera, in contention for a 4th PGA Tour Champions win this year, makes albatross
Aces are an anomaly, but most players know there's one result in golf that's even more rare than a hole-in-one: an albatross. It's highly unlikely (the odds are generally accepted as one-in-a-million), but it does happen from time to time when the best players in the world are in action. Advertisement Angel Cabrera was the latest to make a big bird, with a beautiful shot on the par-5 7th hole at TPC Wisconsin on Friday during the opening round American Family Insurance Open on the PGA Tour Champions. Cabrera won back-to-back majors in 2025 Cabrera, 55, is on an absolute tear in 2025, having amassed three PGA Tour Champions wins in the span of just six weeks earlier this year. He won the James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational in April before taking first in back-to-back events in May at the Regions Tradition and the Senior PGA Championship, respectively. Cabrera could be in line for yet another victory as he and his team-event partner, Ricardo Gonzalez, are firmly in contention at the American Family Insurance Open. Advertisement The two-time major champion has had a long climb back to the spotlight in the golf world since being released from prison in Argentina in 2023. He spent two years behind bars after he was convicted in separate cases of domestic violence and threats against former partners. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: PGA Tour Champions: Angel Cabrera makes albatross
USA Today
07-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Angel Cabrera, in contention for a 4th PGA Tour Champions win this year, makes albatross
Angel Cabrera, in contention for a 4th PGA Tour Champions win this year, makes albatross Aces are an anomaly, but most players know there's one result in golf that's even more rare than a hole-in-one: an albatross. It's highly unlikely (the odds are generally accepted as one-in-a-million), but it does happen from time to time when the best players in the world are in action. Angel Cabrera was the latest to make a big bird, with a beautiful shot on the par-5 7th hole at TPC Wisconsin on Friday during the opening round American Family Insurance Open on the PGA Tour Champions. Cabrera won back-to-back majors in 2025 Cabrera, 55, is on an absolute tear in 2025, having amassed three PGA Tour Champions wins in the span of just six weeks earlier this year. He won the James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational in April before taking first in back-to-back events in May at the Regions Tradition and the Senior PGA Championship, respectively. Cabrera could be in line for yet another victory as he and his team-event partner, Ricardo Gonzalez, are firmly in contention at the American Family Insurance Open. The two-time major champion has had a long climb back to the spotlight in the golf world since being released from prison in Argentina in 2023. He spent two years behind bars after he was convicted in separate cases of domestic violence and threats against former partners.
