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NBC Sports
10 hours ago
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- NBC Sports
New putter gives Morikawa confidence on greens
Collin Morikawa bounced back from a terrible putting performance by moving to a mallet putter and improving his score in the second round of the Rocket Classic.
Yahoo
13 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Knapp breaks record, Aussie Endycott in the PGA mix
Jake Knapp has pulled off a feat no one else has in PGA Tour history. Knapp shot an 11-under 61 on Friday to break a Rocket Classic record that stood for less than a day and became the first on the tour to break 60 and shoot a 61 or lower in the same season. But that still wasn't enough to put him in the top six, entering the weekend at Detroit Golf Club. No course-record is safe @RocketClassic 🔥 — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 27, 2025 Chris Kirk (65), Philip Knowles (64) and Andrew Putnam (66) share the second-round lead at 14 under. Jackson Suber (65) was another shot back. Aldrich Potgieter, who had a 70 after sharing the 18-hole lead with Kevin Roy after a record-setting 62, was two strokes back with Michael Thorbjornsen (67) and Mark Hubbard (69). Knapp was in a large pack of players, including Australian Harrison Endycott (66), Collin Morikawa (64), Hideki Matsuyama (66) and Roy (71), three shots off the lead going into the third round. Endycott followed his opening 67 with a bogey-free six-under 66. The 29-year-old Sydneysider made three birdies on each nine, including going back-to-back on 13 and 14. The 31-year-old Knapp, who won the Mexico Open last year as a rookie, started the second round 130th in the 156-player field after opening with a 72. He surged into contention with nine birdies and an eagle in a bogey-free round. "I was just probably upset all night and this morning, so I think that maybe helped a little bit," he said. Knapp, ranked No.99 in the world, is the only player on the tour to shoot 61 or better in two rounds this season. He shot a 59 - one off the tour scoring record of 58 set by Jim Furyk in 2016 - at the Cognizant Classic four months ago, when he broke the tournament scoring record before cooling off and tying for sixth. Knapp broke the 18-hole record at Detroit Golf Club that was set Thursday in the first round when Potgieter and Roy both shot a 62. "I feel like when I start making birdies, I want to make more," Knapp said. "I was even kind of thinking about 59 when I stuck it close on my third to last hole." The 28-year-old Knowles, shooting for his first PGA Tour win, made the cut for just the third time in 11 events after failing to make it to the weekend at five straight tournaments. "It's not been my best year thus far by any stretch of the imagination, but golf is funny," he said. "When you're playing bad, you never feel like you're going to play good again. And when you have days like today, you just don't understand how you could ever shoot a bad round of golf." Min Woo Lee, the first to break the course record with a 63 on Thursday, made 73 on Friday to tumble down the field to tied 36th. He made the six-under cut by two, but Aaron Baddeley (71,73), Cam Davis (74, 70) and Karl Vilips (71,74) will all miss the weekend action.
Yahoo
14 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Rocket Classic scoring record broken again in second round at Detroit Golf Club
DETROIT — Jake Knapp has pulled off a feat no one else has in PGA Tour history. Knapp shot an 11-under 61 on Friday to break a Rocket Classic record that stood for less than a day and became the first on the tour to break 60 and shoot a 61 or lower in the same season. Advertisement That still wasn't enough to put him in the top six, entering the weekend at Detroit Golf Club. Chris Kirk (65), Philip Knowles (64) and Andrew Putnam (66) share the second-round lead at 14 under. Jackson Suber (65) was another shot back. Aldrich Potgieter, who had a 70 after sharing the 18-hole lead with Kevin Roy after both shot a record-setting 62, and Mark Hubbard were another stroke behind the leader. Knapp was in a large pack of players, including with Collin Morikawa (64), Hideki Matsuyama (66) and Roy (71), three shots off the lead going into the third round. The 31-year-old Knapp, who won the Mexico Open last year as a rookie, started the second round 130th in the 156-player field after opening with a 72. He surged into contention with nine birdies and an eagle in a bogey-free round. Advertisement 'I was just probably upset all night and this morning, so I think that maybe helped a little bit,' he said. Knapp, ranked No. 99 in the world, is the only player on the Tour to shoot 61 or better in two rounds this season. He shot a 59 — one off the tour scoring record of 58 set by Jim Furyk in 2016 — at the Cognizant Classic four months ago, when he broke the tournament scoring record before cooling off and tying for sixth. Knapp broke the 18-hole record at Detroit Golf Club that was set Thursday in the first round when Potgieter and Roy both shot a 62. 'I feel like when I start making birdies, I want to make more,' Knapp said. 'I was even kind of thinking about 59 when I stuck it close on my third to last hole.' Advertisement The 28-year-old Knowles, shooting for his first PGA Tour win, made the cut for just the third time in 11 events after failing to make it to the weekend at five straight tournaments. 'It's not been my best year thus far by any stretch of the imagination, but golf is funny,' he said. 'When you're playing bad, you never feel like you're going to play good again. And when you have days like today, you just don't understand how you could ever shoot a bad round of golf.'
National Post
a day ago
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- National Post
On Tour: Will Keegan Bradley be a player captain at the Ryder Cup?
Article content WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of On Tour with Jon McCarthy, Postmedia's Rob Wong chats with Toronto SUN National Golf Writer Jon McCarthy about the potential of Keegan Bradley being a player captain for Team USA at the upcoming Ryder Cup and why Collin Morikawa continues to take issue with the media.
Fox News
a day ago
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- Fox News
Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa has contentious conversation with reporter: 'Don't put me down'
Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa had a contentious conversation with a reporter during a press conference prior to the Rocket Classic on Wednesday. Morikawa, 28, took issue with a quote that Golfweek reporter Adam Schupak put in his story about Morikawa's recent caddie change. Schupak wrote a story covering Morikawa's caddie change, and said it was unclear who Morikawa would have as his caddie permanently going forward. Schupak included this quote from Morikawa in the story. "Ask me anything you want in my press conference later. I'm with my pro-am partners now," was the quote Schupak used from Morikawa in his story. When Schupak asked Morikawa at the press conference about who will caddie for him at the British Open, the golfer used the question to take issue with Schupak's use of his quote in the story. "I don't. And I read your article that you wrote. Look, I'm not here to tell people how to do their jobs, but I don't get why you would make me sound bad because you put out my quote that I was playing with pro-am partners out front," Morikawa said. "Those guys are paying a lot of money, they're very important to the community, they're very important to the Rocket Classic, and for you to put out a quote like that to put me down and saying, 'Hey, wait two and a half hours.' I mean, you called me up on the first tee, you know?" "I'm not going to tell you how to do your job; you can write whatever you want. This is America. But don't put me down like that because it's two and a half hours, Adam." Schupak said he thought he was giving Morikawa credit because he noted that Morikawa was focused on his pro-am partners. However, Morikawa told Schupak that that's not how he read it. "OK, we can all read it very differently. That's not how I read it," Morikawa said. "But I'm just telling you, I think there's a perspective where people can read it like that. So, I'm just going to leave it at that. We knew I was going to have media in two and a half hours. I'm on the first tee meeting my pro-am partners as they're teeing off." After Morikawa commented at the press conference, Schupak deleted Morikawa's original quote and updated the story with a new quote. It is not the first time Morikawa has ruffled feathers with the media this season, as his comments at The Masters made waves. Morikawa is currently tied for 35th at the Rocket Classic at the Detroit Golf Club as three-under par for the day. At the time of this writing, Min Woo Lee was leading the tournament after he shot nine-under par in the first round. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
