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Tour Rundown: KoFecta & Keegan

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2 years ago

Aug 26, 2024

The final full week of August 2024 brought some keen memories to preserve. The final major championship of the season was celebrated by the ladies in Scotland. The second of three playoff events took place on the PGA Tour, while the first of four was celebrated on the Korn Ferry Tour. The DP World Tour and the PGA Tour Champions moved toward the conclusions of their respective seasons. Captain America made an appearance in Colorado, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Put on your lap belt and charge up for another Tour Rundown.

Women’s Open @ St. Andrews

It is often written about potential talents, that the first victory opens the floodgates, and many others follow. For Lydia Ko, chapter two of her career centered around winning the last tournament needed to earn LPGA Hall of Fame qualification. When she completed the KoFecta at Paris in the Olympics, many surmised that the floodgates had opened for a second time. They were proven right today.

Lydia Ko did not find the 60s at The Old Course at St. Andrews until Sunday. That’s right. Her latest major championship came at none other than the birthplace of golf as we know it. As leaders tumbled deeper into the 70s, Ko moved up the leader board. She was closing with birdie at the time that Nelly Korda was making bogey at the 17th.

Ko won by two shots over four golfers. Jiyai Shin, the 54-hole leader, struggled on day four. Defending champion Lilia Vu made a valiant effort at defense, but came up just shy. Korda made double at Long and bogey at Road, and fell down from the top rung. Finally, Ruoning Yin made a run of her own, but could not find enough birdies down the stretch to challenge Ko.

The Open represents a fourth checked box in the major championship column. After wins at Evian, Chevron, Olympics, and now, Open, only the US Open and the Women’s PGA remain. Bet on Ko to take down both of those championships, and become the seventh to win the career grand slam, and the latest since Annika Sorenstam, in 2003.

BMW Championship @ Castle Pines

The golf world was electrified when Keegan Bradley was named captain of the USA side for the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. As of July 22nd, Bradley was the 26th-ranked player on the USA list, and some intimated that he might make a run at the team on valor. After this week at Castle Pines, those intimations became much more realistic.

Keegan Bradley found a way to edge past Sam Burns, Ludvig Aberg, and Adam Scott, to earn his seventh PGA Tour victory. Burns closed furiously with 65, posting eight birdies along the way. Only a bogey at the par-five 14th hole disrupted his march to victory. Scott did his best Bradley impression for much of the tournament, hoping to be the old-guy-breaks-through story at the BMW, but four bogies on the inward half derailed his express train. Finally, young Ludvig Aberg sought a second PGA Tour win, for validation. Like Adam Scott, Aberg had his trials on the inward half, posting a trio of bogeys to fall short of the victory robe.

As for Bradley, his birdie at 17 gave him a two-shot cushion. He used up half of it, surrendering a stroke to par at the last. His 72 was enough to slide into victory’s DMs, and give everyone pause on the topic of Ryder Cup 2025.

Boise Open @ Hillcrest

Matt McCarty played his college golf at Santa Clara. This year, McCarty has played like a Bronco on the Korn Ferry Tour. In July, he won his first tour title in Missouri. In early August, he won again, this time in Nebraska. On Sunday, McCarty claimed a third victory in a third unique state. The longest-tenured event on tour, dating to the inaugural season in 1990, takes place in Idaho, and McCarty used it as the site of his battlefield promotion to the PGA Tour.

Round one saw a 62 from Kevin Roy take the lead, but McCarty was just one stroke in arrears. He would post 64 on day two, to seize the lead from Roy, a lead that he would not relinquish. Roy ultimately earned solo second on the week, and moved to tenth spot on the year-long points list. As for McCarty, he close with 67-69, good for a two-shot margin of victory. Despite bogeys at 14 and 15, the champion closed with birdie-par-par to seal his third title of 2024.

Danish Championship @ Lübker

2024 may go down as the year of French golf, if you assess it properly. Last week, David Ravetto trimuped on the DP World Tour, and this week, he nearly repeated. Ravetto finished on nine under par, one shot out of a tie for 2nd with Lucas Bjerregaard and Romain Langasque (also a Frenchman.) Atop the leader board was, you guessed it, France’s Frederic LaCroix, four shots clear of the chasers.

Bjerregaard had the upper hand through 54 holes, but three bogeys and a double through the turn lost him three shots to old man Par. LaCroix made up six shots with a tidy 33, and came home in identical fashion, for a round of 66. LaCroix began the week with an eagle three at the first, and that rare bird served as a harbinger for Sunday. Langasque matched two birdies with two bogies on Sunday, and was unable to catch his country mate. After his stumble on the outward nine, Bjerregaard recovered with a one-under 35 coming home, and salvaged the runner-up tie with Langasque.

Ally Challenge @ Warwick Hills

Three golfers had posted opening round pairs in the 60s. David Branshaw and Bob Estes aren’t household names, but Stewart Cink is. Both Branshaw and Estes faded on Sunday, into the seventies and a top-ten finish. As for Cink, he stayed in the 60s and reached 17-under par. Cink turned in three-under par 33, and finished up with another nine of the same number. That performance meant that the field had to double down on birdies, and no one could get close enough to frighten Cink.

The battle for second spot was won by K. J. Choi. In late July, Choi won his first major title ever, at the Senior Open. In Michigan, Choi was able to navigate Warwick Hills in 68 strokes, just enough to keep him ahead of Mike Weir’s 64 for -11. The Tour Champions moves on to St. Louis after Labor Day, for the Ascension.

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Photos from the 2026 Memorial Tournament

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3 weeks ago

Jun 1, 2026

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GolfWRX is on site this week at the Memorial Tournament, with both Alistair Cameron and Tour Photographer Greg Moore on the ground in Dublin, Ohio, where a strong field is assembled to pay homage to the Golden Bear.

In addition to WITB galleries, we’ve already been treated to an in-hand look at Tommy Fleetwood’s new TaylorMade Spider putters.

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Tour Tech Rundown: Heroic Henley

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4 weeks ago

Jun 1, 2026

Ronald Montesano

Around the world, the golf wheel spun this final week in May of 2026. From New Jersey to Austria, with stops in Korea, Texas, and North Carolina (don’t let me route your next trip) the world’s finest put their golf games on display. There were three playoffs, some known commodities and some new talent. It was the sort of week that we hope to have at this point in the seasons. June and July afford double-digit major events, and perhaps, one of this week’s champions will use this success as a springboard to new heights. Time to run it all down, tech style, in this week’s Tour Tech Rundown.

Thanks to WITBHub, Today’s Golfer, GolfWRX, and Inside Tour Golf for initial research into equipment.

PGA Tour @ Charles Schwab Challenge: Heroic Henley denies Cole

Eric Cole did nearly everything that a fellow can do, to secure a first PGA Tour title. He stayed one shot clear of Ryder Cup player Ben Griffin. He kept US Open champion Gary Woodland and wunderkind Michael Brennan two shots distant. He posted 70 on day four to reach twelve under par. And then, Russell Henley revealed his Dr. Strange cloak. Henley made 47 feet of birdie putts on holes 16, 17, and 18, to jump from minus-nine to twelve-deep, and secured a spot in a playoff with Cole. The duo returned to the final tee, and put on a stripe show.

Both golfers found the fairway off the tee, and Henley improved on his regulation play with an approach to four feet. Cole did himself proud, tucking an iron to a dozen feet, but he was unable to convert the putt for three. Henley is one of the best putters on tour, and he proved it once more by draining a putt for a fourth consecutive birdie, and a sixth PGA Tour title. For Eric Cole, that first victory should come, and soon. He has done everything necessary to earn the chalice lift.

Henley’s Suitcase

Driver: Titleist TSi3 at 10 degrees. Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 70g 6.5 TX
Metal: Titleist TS3 at 16.5 degrees. Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 80 TX
Hybrid: Titleist TSi2 at 21 degrees. Shaft: Mitsubishi MMT hybrid 100 TX
Iron: Titleist T250 4-iron. Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Golf AMT Tour White X100
Irons: Titleist T100 5-6 irons. Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Golf AMT Tour White X100
Irons: Titleist T100 7-9 irons. Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 at 48 and 50 degrees. Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Golf Tour Issue X100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 at 54 and 60 degrees. Shaft: rue Temper Dynamic Golf Tour Issue S400
Putter: Titleist Scotty Cameron T5 Tour Prototype

LPGA @ Shoprite LPGA: Welcome back, Celine!

Soo Bin Joo had her eyes on a maiden LPGA title. She held the lead after two rounds, then hit a red light at the intersection of can-I and how-To. Joo posted plus-two on day three in New Jersey, and dropped to a T4 finish, which was still a career-best for the young Korean golfer. Instead of a new face, a familiar face returned to the top of the podium.

Celine Boutier was the It Girl in 2023. She collected four victories, including a major title at Evian. Boutier reached world number one status, then simply faded into the background. No wins came her way over the next 30 months. On Sunday, she collected LPGA victory number seven, at the same trace as LPGA victory number two.

Day three saw Boutier manage the windswept Seaview Bay course with six birdies and a bogey. She was challenged in the end by Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol, who signed for a 66 of her own. Yubol came up one shot shy of the top ladder rung. Finishing in third place at -7, two back of the winner, was Ireland’s Lauren Walsh.

Celine’s Suitcase

Driver: PXG 0311 Black Ops Tour-1 at 9 degrees. Shaft: Graphite Design AD IZ-5
Hybrid: PXG 0311 Black Ops at 19 and 22 degrees. Shaft: KBS Hybrid Prototype
Hybrid: PXG 0311 Gen5.
Iron: PXG 0311 P Gen 4 5-9 irons
Wedge: PXG 0311 T Gen 4 PW
Wedges: PXG 0311 Sugar Daddy II at 50, 54, 58 degrees
Putter: Bettinardi Studio Stock 3 DASS

DP World Tour @ Austrian Alpine: KK? KK!

Kota Kaneko has a rhythmic name. It has strong vowels and a run of voiceless stops in its crunchy K sounds. On Sunday in Austria, Kaneko put a stop to a challenge from Portugal’s Ricardo Gouveia and everyone else, and claimed a first-ever title on the DP World Tour. Gouveia did well to reach 16-under par over four days, but Kaneko held firm, two shots in the clear.

Davis Bryant of the USA also forged a strong challenge for the win. He ended in a tie with Gouveia for second place. Kaneko began and finished his final round in a bit of a malaise, but he caught fire midway through. Birdies at 10, 12, and 13 provided the necessary cushion to cruise to the finish line without breaking a serious sweat.

Kaneko’s Suitcase

Driver: Ping Max G440
Metals: TaylorMade Qi4D at 15, 16.5, 21, and 24 degrees
Irons: TaylorMade P760 5 and 6 irons
Irons: TaylorMade P7TW 7-9 irons
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design at 46, 52, 56, and 60 degrees
Putter: Odyssey Ai-One Cruiser Arm Lock #7

Korn Ferry Tour @ UNC Health Championship: Improbably Alvaro

Alvaro Ortiz may have had a bit of scare on the outward nine on Sunday, but he came through in clutch fashion in the end. Ortiz began the day bogey-double, and added another double bogey at the 11th hole. He was mired in a downward trend, spiraling away from the top of the leader’s board. Ortiz found hope at the 14th, where his first birdie of the day tumbled home. Inspired, he closed with birdies and 17 and 18 to catch Ross Steelman at 10-under par, and the duo returned to the 18th deck for overtime.

The extra session concluded in brief time. Ortiz, buoyed by his newly-retrieved confidence, hit the fairway with driver, then approached to six feet and drained the putt. Gobsmacked, Steelman could do little more than smile and applaud, as his run at the top came to a close. The victory was the first for Ortiz on the KFT, and will implant him squarely in the chase for a PGA Tour promotion.

Alvaro’s Suitcase

Driver: Ping G430 MAX driver at 9 degrees loft
Metal: Ping G430 MAX 3W
Iron: Ping iDi Driving Iron
Irons: Ping Blueprint S irons
Wedges
Putter: Scottsdale TR Piper C

A party on the green!

Alvaro’s time comes in Raleigh with his first win @UNCHealthChamp ? pic.twitter.com/2dmtZdbSzk

— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) May 31, 2026

LIV @ Korea: Me llamo Joaquin

Chile’s Joaquin Niemann had been away from the LIV winner’s circle throughout all of 2026. This week in Korea, he reminded us that he is still a force to consider. Niemann chased down Taylor Gooch over the closing holes at Asiad Country Club, then claimed victory with a hole-one birdie in extra time. Bryson DeChambeau claimed solo third, one shot in arrears at minus-eleven. Dustin Johnson finished on fourth, one putt farther back.

Niemann’s Suitcase

Driver: Ping 440 LST
Metal: Ping G440 Max at 15 degrees
Metal: Ping G425 Max at 21 degrees
Hybrid: Ping G430 at 25 degrees
Irons: Ping Blueprint S 5 through PW
Wedges: Ping S159 at 52, 56, and 60 degrees
Putter: Ping PLD Anser

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Russell Henley’s winning WITB: 2026 Charles Schwab Challenge

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4 weeks ago

May 31, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

Driver: Titleist TSi3 (10 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 70 6.5 TX

3-wood: Titleist TS3 (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 80 TX

7-wood: Titleist GTS3 (21 degrees)
Shaft: Project X Denali Black 80 TX

Irons: Titleist T250 (4), Titleist T100 (5-9)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold AMT (4-6), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (7-9)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (48-10F @47, 50-08F @51, 54-10S @55, 60-04T)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48), S400 (47)

Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X5 Tour Prototype

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

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Tour Rundown: KoFecta & Keegan

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