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Reuters
a day ago
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Adam Scott has unfinished business at Wyndham Championship
July 30 - Adam Scott has unfinished business at the Wyndham Championship this week as he continues a season filled with incomplete performances. Scott, who lost in a record-tying six-man playoff at this event in 2021, returns to Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., still looking for his first top-10 finish on the PGA Tour this season. "Yeah, I've really not had any momentum at all, and it seems like I can put three rounds together but not four every week," he said Wednesday. "You know, I'll put the last two together and then the next two the next week. I haven't matched it up very well." That was the case at last week's 3M Open, where he began with three rounds in the 60s before slipping to T53 with a Sunday 72. "You know, I would say as my ball-striking improved this year, my putting cooled off," Scott said. "It's just been one of those (where) I can't put it all together. It's not terrible, but it's obviously not (great)." The 45-year-old Australian's highest finish this season was his tie for 12th at the U.S. Open at Oakmont. He missed the cuts at the Masters -- where he won his lone major in 2013 -- and the Open Championship and finished T19 at the PGA Championship. Scott's 14th and most recent win on the PGA Tour came at the 2020 Genesis Invitational, although he came close in Greensboro the following year. Kevin Kisner won the 2021 Wyndham Championship with a birdie on the second extra hole and Scott settled for a tie for second with Branden Grace, Si Woo Kim, Kevin Na and Roger Sloan. Scott missed a 4-foot putt for birdie on the first extra hole that could have won the tournament. "It really, it does sting," Scott said. "I was doing a little function last night and I talked about it, and if you asked me quickly there are two putts that I really feel strongly about in my career and that's one of them. The other one was at the British Open one year to make a playoff with Ernie (Els). Yeah, the two putts I wish I could have back really. "Thinking back to it at the time, it hurt then but it kind of almost hurts more now because I haven't won since then either. It's not easy to win out here. You really do have to take advantage of those opportunities on Tour because you just don't know when the next one's going to come." Setting aside his past disappointments, Scott needs a huge performance to move into the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings ahead of next week's playoff kickoff at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He currently sits 85th, leaving him in jeopardy of missing the playoffs for the first time since their inception in 2007. "I'm looking for a big result this week to keep my season going but just generally looking for a good result," he said. "I feel like I've been playing well since May and really not gotten much out of this at all. It would be fun to be in the mix this weekend, and also I still have some open wounds from a few years ago in that playoff so it would be fun to change that." --Field Level Media
The Citizen
5 days ago
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- The Citizen
Oosthuizen on playing LIV Golf in SA: 'An unforgettable experience'
The tournament will be held in March 2026 at Steyn City in Johannesburg. South African golfers Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Dean Burmester of the LIV Golf Stinger team will be in action in Joburg next year in March. Picture:For the first time in many years South African golf fans will get a chance to watch some of the sport's greatest players closeup on home soil when a LIV Golf tournament is staged in Johannesburg for the first time next year. Steyn City will host the first ever LIV Golf event in Africa between 20 and 22 March next year and besides local golfing heroes Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace and Dean Burmester, who play for the Stinger team and will be in action, golf fans will get a chance to see a number of Major winners in action as well. Among the players who'll feature in the tournament are Major champions Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Cameron Smith, Phil Mickelson, Henrik Stenson, Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed, and Martin Kaymer, and others including Tyrrell Hatton, Lee Westwood and Joaquin Niemann. Not since the hey days of the 'Million Dollar' at Sun City and the 2003 Presidents Cup, played in George, have South African golf fans seen worldwide stars up close and personal as they will at the LIV event. Among the players who featured in the Presidents Cup at Fancourt were Tiger Woods, Davis Love III, Jim Furyk, Kenny Perry, Justin Leonard and Mickelson for the US team, while Ernie Els was supported by the likes of Vijay Singh and Adam Scott on the Presidents Cup team. 'Always special playing at home' Oosthuizen, who won the Open Championship at St Andrews in 2010 for his only Major and is still regarded one of South Africa's best players, and favourites, too, said he was thrilled to be a part of history being made. 'It's always special to compete at home, and I'm incredibly proud to bring LIV Golf to South Africa for the first time,' said Oosthuizen, who is captain of the Stinger team, at the announcement in London on Saturday. 'For Branden, Charl, Dean and I to play in front of our fans, friends, and families will be an unforgettable experience. 'South African sports fans love their golf, and I am sure they will turn out in large numbers to support Stinger. South Africa has given so much to us, and now we get to give something back.' The tournament at Steyn City will be played over three days (54 holes). Steven Louw, CEO of Steyn City Properties, said they'd probably have to toughen up the course a bit by growing the rough and narrowing the fairways, but he also said, 'Everyone still wants to see guys having a go and making birdies'. Tickets and fan packages for the tournament next March are already available through the LIV Golf site.
