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04-07-2025
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Rickie Fowler Opens Up on Life with Wife Allison Stokke and Two Kids
Rickie Fowler Opens Up on Life with Wife Allison Stokke and Two Kids originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Rickie Fowler will tee off Thursday at the John Deere Classic, his 16th event of the 16th year of his career on the PGA Tour. He recently came off the Rocket Classic, missing the cut after carding rounds of 71-71. Advertisement A lot has changed since he turned pro in 2010. He married sports model and former track-and-field athlete Allison Stokke in 2019 and in 2021, they welcomed their daughter, Maya. Their second daughter, Nellie, was born in August 2024. Fowler opened up about his life now at a press conference on Tuesday. 'Yeah, this is my 16th year on tour and I don't feel a whole lot older. Maybe a little more experienced. Married and two kids like you said; different part of my life now,' Fowler shared, preparing to return to the John Deere Classic, a tournament he last played as Rookie of the Year in 2010. "Golf is still a priority and what I love to do, but there is some other things that have moved in front of that. Obviously, there is times where I need to go to work, go practice, go play, but family is family." Fowler added. Advertisement Rickie Fowler plays his shot from the ninth tee during the second round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic.© Aaron Doster-Imagn Images Maya has become the most important aspect of Fowler's life. He claimed in a PGA Tour interview after his daughter was born that the main thing in his life is Maya, while everything else comes secondary. He opened up about the excitement of life with Maya. "I'm excited that we still get to travel together week in and week out up until school really starts. At that point, it'll be here and there and primarily just summers." Fowler continued. "But, yeah, enjoying this part of life right now. Special to be all together. Like this week you're here at the Deere, to have something like the Big Dig." Advertisement "Our three and a half year old, Maya, I am not sure if she fully understands it, but she'll be pretty excited there tonight." Related: Zach Johnson Drops Career Update on Wednesday This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
IOL News
02-07-2025
- Sport
- IOL News
SA's Dean Burmester qualifies for Open Championship after playing 'best round of Links golf'
FILE - South Africa's Dean Burmester fired rounds of 70 and 64 at Royal Cinque Ports to qualify for the 2025 Open Championship. Burmester fired rounds of 70 and 64 over 36 holes to win the qualifier by four shots. Burmester, who plies his trade for Stinger GC on the LIV Golf Tour, won the final qualifying event at Royal Cinque Ports to join Stinger teammate and 2010 Open Championship winner Louis Oosthuizen in the field. After making the long trek from Dallas in the United States to the United Kingdom, Burmester tied the course record with an eight-under par 64 in blustery conditions to qualify for the Open Championship. "That's one of the best rounds of Links golf I've played," Burmester said about his 64. "It was just flawless from the get-go this afternoon. ... Basically from the first hole it looked like every putt was going to go in, and that's pretty much what happened for the next 17 holes. "I'm super chuffed with the way it's turned out. It was a goal of mine to get to Portrush. Now I've got to find some accommodation!" Burmester finished T23 at LIV Golf Virginia and T18 at LIV Golf Dallas leading into the qualifier. For the season, he is currently 11th in the individual standings. The 36-year old will be making his fourth Open Championship start, finishing tied for 11th in 2022 and tied for 19th in 2024. @JohnGoliath82
Washington Post
27-06-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Knapp shoots 11-under 61 for Rocket Classic 18-hole record, marking 4th tournament record in 2 days
DETROIT — Jake Knapp shot an 11-under 61 to break a Rocket Classic record that stood for less than a day, becoming the first PGA Tour player to break 60 and shoot a 61 or lower in the same season. Knapp started the second round 130th in the 156-player field after opening with a 72. He surged into contention Friday with nine birdies and an eagle in a bogey-free round.
USA Today
12-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
'The guy to watch is DeChambeau' but Justin Rose is still shaking it with the best of them
'The guy to watch is DeChambeau' but Justin Rose is still shaking it with the best of them AUGUSTA, Ga. — Justin Rose is still shaking it with the best of them, as he likes to say. Rose, ranked 39th in the world, showed staying power in the second round of the 89th Masters Tournament on Friday. He's more than holding his own against the younger generation. The 44-year-old Englishman, who is a dozen years removed from his one major championship (the 2013 U.S. Open), shot 1-under-par 71 at Augusta National Golf Club to remain at the top of the leaderboard, though his rivals are gaining on him. Rose, who opened with 65 for a three-shot lead, heads into Saturday's third round with a one-shot over Bryson DeChambeau, who shot 68. DeChambeau, the current U.S. Open champion, is one of 12 players from the LIV Golf Tour in this year's Masters. Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, who opened with 72, roared back with 66, the low round of the day. He's two shots behind Rose. So is Canadian Corey Conners, who had 70 on Friday. Four golfers are three shots back: defending champion Scottie Scheffler (71), Northern Ireland's Shane Lowry (68), Masters rookie Matt McCarty (68) and LIV golfer Tyrrell Hatton (70). 'The guy to watch is DeChambeau,' said Fred Couples, the 1992 Masters champion. 'DeChambeau, if it's not blowing, I think he's going to make 13 birdies the next two days. So he can offset a few bogeys with the way he plays. "Then Rory. Look at what Rory did today. Everyone was picking on him after a couple doubles (at the end of his first round). He says, you know what, here's what I'm going to do the back nine. Did he shoot 30? 31? (It was 31). So there you go, folks.' The bad news for the field is that DeChambeau 'found his swing' on the back nine on Saturday. He said after his opening 69 that he wasn't 'dialed in.' Rose and DeChambeau will be off in the final group at 2:40 p.m. ET on Saturday. Rose will no doubt will be hitting first from the fairway in that group all day, since DeChambeau is averaging 331 yards off the tee and Rose is at 294. Rose, who is 13 years older than DeChambeau, is accustomed to playing with the world's best golfers, no matter the generation. He will get a front row seat to watch DeChambeau on Saturday. 'Yeah, you know, that's the company that I expect to keep, and that's where I have tried to be my whole career,' said Rose, who won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympics. 'That's where I've been for a lot of my career. So I've been a top-10 player in the world for a decade or more. So yeah, this is nice to, obviously, yeah, be back in that mix, a hundred percent.' Rose wasn't as sharp Friday as the first round, calling it a 'decent day.' He hit only 10 greens in regulation ― compared with 14 on Thursday ― and needed 27 putts, two more than Thursday. 'Sometimes it's hard to follow a low round with another one,' Rose said. 'Just the nature of it sometimes. But I feel like if you're playing good golf, you're playing good golf, you know. And I feel like I wasn't pinned to yesterday's round and I wasn't pinned to the leaderboard and I wasn't pinned to leading this golf tournament. Yeah, I was pretty focused on the job at hand.' He's leading after 54 holes for the second time in his 20 trips to Augusta National. In 2004, he had weekend rounds of 81-71 to tie for 22nd, and in 2021 he shot 72-74 to finish seventh. He's ready to bring it on home, now, better late than never. "I think I'll take it anytime,' said Rose, who also lost a 2019 playoff here to Sergio Garcia. 'Beggars can't be choosers, you know. But I would take it right now for sure. Sometimes if it happens too early in your career, you've got a lot to live up to. I think if it happens now, I would enjoy it, I think, probably a lot more. You know, come a bit more as a gift towards the end of your career. So I think there would be a lot more satisfaction in it for sure.' Bryson's bunker bonus boosts hopes DeChambeau had one bogey and five birdies, including one on No. 4, where he holed out from a greenside bunker, which he called 'an unbelievable bonus.' 'Overall, today was a fantastic day of golf in some testing conditions,' DeChambeau said. This is familiar territory for DeChambeau. He was tied for the 36-hole lead last year. He closed with 75-73 to tie for sixth. 'I'd always say, to win it takes a little bit of luck and a great amount of skill set,' DeChambeau said. 'I feel like my skill set is the same, if not a little bit better in certain aspects. So I'm just going to give it my absolute best, and whatever happens, happens. And I'm okay with whatever does happen. Because ultimately, it's not - it's not everything but it would be amazing to win. It's just more, continue to keep putting myself in positions like this. So that's really all I can say.' Rory erases frustration from Thursday McIlroy, in his 11th attempt to complete the Career Grand Slam with a victory in the Masters, appeared out of the picture after playing his final four holes in 4-over for 72 in the opening round. That put him in a tie for 27th place, seven shots off the lead. Now, he's tied for third place and in the second-to-last group off the tee Saturday. 'I think overall just proud of myself with how I responded today after the finish last night,' McIlroy said. 'I just had to remind myself that I played really good golf yesterday, and you know, I wasn't going to let two ... bad holes sort of dictate the narrative for the rest of the week. ... "Just proud of how I got back into it today.' It will be a monumental achievement if McIlroy would go on to win. Only two champions – Nick Faldo in 1990 and Tiger Woods in 2005 – trailed by as many as seven shots after the first round and came back to win. 'Golf tournaments are so long, and there's so much that can happen, even in the next 36 holes,' McIlroy said. 'My mindset was, I shot even par yesterday. I probably need to get to somewhere between 12- and 15-under to win this tournament. You know, there was plenty of time to do that. So yeah, again, just about staying patient. … I don't think I proved anything. "If anything, I just backed up the belief that I have in myself, and I, and the belief that I'm as resilient as anyone else out here.' David Westin is a recipient of the Masters Major Achievement Award and has covered every tournament at Augusta National Golf Club since 1979 for The Augusta Chronicle. He also caddied at the club for a time.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Justin Rose maintains Masters lead after Friday's Round 2, but McIlroy, Bryson are closing in
Justin Rose is still shaking it with the best of them, as he likes to say. Rose, ranked 39th in the world, showed staying power in the second round of the 89th Masters Tournament on Friday. He's more than holding his own against the younger generation. Advertisement The 44-year-old Englishman, who is a dozen years removed from his one major championship (the 2013 U.S. Open), shot 1-under-par 71 at Augusta National Golf Club to remain at the top of the leaderboard, though his rivals are gaining on him. Rose, who opened with 65 for a three-shot lead, heads into Saturday's third round with a one-shot over Bryson DeChambeau, who shot 68. DeChambeau, the current U.S. Open champion, is one of 12 players from the LIV Golf Tour in this year's Masters. Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, who opened with 72, roared back with 66, the low round of the day. He's two shots behind Rose. So is Canadian Corey Conners, who had 70 on Friday. Four golfers are three shots back: Defending champion Scottie Scheffler (71), Northern Ireland's Shane Lowry (68), Masters rookie Matt McCarty (68) and LIV golfer Tyrrell Hatton (70). Advertisement 'The guy to watch is DeChambeau,' said Fred Couples, the 1992 Masters champion. 'DeChambeau, if it's not blowing, I think he's going to make 13 birdies the next two days. So he can offset a few bogeys with the way he plays. "Then Rory. Look at what Rory did today. Everyone was picking on him after a couple doubles (at the end of his first round). He says, you know what, here's what I'm going to do the back nine. Did he shoot 30? 31? (It was 31). So there you go, folks.' The bad news for the field is that DeChambeau 'found his swing' on the back nine on Saturday. He said after his opening 69 that he wasn't 'dialed in.' Rose and DeChambeau will be off in the final group at 2:40 p.m. Saturday. Rose will no doubt will be hitting first from the fairway in that group all day, since DeChambeau is averaging 331 yards off the tee and Rose is at 294 yards per drive. Apr 11, 2025; Augusta, Georgia, USA; Justin Rose lines up his putt on the seventh green during the second round of the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Katie Goodale-Imagn Images Rose, who is 13 years older than DeChambeau, is accustomed to playing with the world's best golfers, no matter the generation. He will get a front row seat to watch DeChambeau on Saturday. Advertisement 'Yeah, you know, that's the company that I expect to keep, and that's where I have tried to be my whole career,' said Rose, who won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympics. 'That's where I've been for a lot of my career. So I've been a top-10 player in the world for a decade or more. So yeah, this is nice to, obviously, yeah, be back in that mix, a hundred percent.' Rose wasn't as sharp Friday as the first round, calling it a 'decent day.' He hit only 10 greens in regulation ― compared with 14 on Thursday ― and needed 27 putts, two more than Thursday. 'Sometimes it's hard to follow a low round with another one,' Rose said. 'Just the nature of it sometimes. But I feel like if you're playing good golf, you're playing good golf, you know. And I feel like I wasn't pinned to yesterday's round and I wasn't pinned to the leaderboard and I wasn't pinned to leading this golf tournament. Yeah, I was pretty focused on the job at hand.' He's leading after 54 holes for the second time in his 20 trips to Augusta National. In 2004, he had weekend rounds of 81-71 to tie for 22nd, and in 2021 he shot 72-74 to finish seventh. Advertisement He's ready to bring it on home, now, better late than never. "I think I'll take it anytime,' said Rose, who also lost a 2019 playoff here to Sergio Garcia. 'Beggars can't be choosers, you know. But I would take it right now for sure. Sometimes if it happens too early in your career, you've got a lot to live up to. I think if it happens now, I would enjoy it, I think, probably a lot more. You know, come a bit more as a gift towards the end of your career. So I think there would be a lot more satisfaction in it for sure.' Bryson's bunker bonus boosts hopes DeChambeau had one bogey and five birdies, including one on No. 4, where he holed out from a greenside bunker, which he called 'an unbelievable bonus.' Advertisement 'Overall, today was a fantastic day of golf in some testing conditions,' DeChambeau said. This is familiar territory for DeChambeau. He was tied for the 36-hole lead last year. He closed with 75-73 to tie for sixth. 'I'd always say, to win it takes a little bit of luck and a great amount of skill set,' DeChambeau said. 'I feel like my skill set is the same, if not a little bit better in certain aspects. So I'm just going to give it my absolute best, and whatever happens, happens. And I'm okay with whatever does happen. Because ultimately, it's not - it's not everything but it would be amazing to win. It's just more, continue to keep putting myself in positions like this. So that's really all I can say.' Rory erases frustration from Thursday McIlroy, in his 11th attempt to complete the Career Grand Slam with a victory in the Masters, appeared out of the picture after playing his final four holes in 4-over for 72 in the opening round. That put him in a tie for 27th place, seven shots off the lead. Advertisement Now, he's tied for third place and in the second-to-last group off the tee Saturday. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 11: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland reacts after a putt on the 18th hole during the second round of the 2025 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 11, 2025 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by) 'I think overall just proud of myself with how I responded today after the finish last night,' McIlroy said. 'I just had to remind myself that I played really good golf yesterday, and you know, I wasn't going to let two ... bad holes sort of dictate the narrative for the rest of the week. ... "Just proud of how I got back into it today.' It will be a monumental achievement if McIlroy would go on to win. Only two champions – Nick Faldo in 1990 and Tiger Woods in 2005 – trailed by as many as seven shots after the first round and came back to win. Advertisement 'Golf tournaments are so long, and there's so much that can happen, even in the next 36 holes,' McIlroy said. 'My mindset was, I shot even par yesterday. I probably need to get to somewhere between 12- and 15-under to win this tournament. You know, there was plenty of time to do that. So yeah, again, just about staying patient. … I don't think I proved anything. "If anything, I just backed up the belief that I have in myself, and I, and the belief that I'm as resilient as anyone else out here.' David Westin is a recipient of the Masters Major Achievement Award and has covered every tournament at Augusta National Golf Club since 1979 for The Augusta Chronicle. He also caddied at the club for a time. This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Justin Rose leads 2025 Masters after Friday's Round 2 as stars give chase
