OT: Official 2025 PGA Tour thread

[knightfan7]

His older brother played golf for Stanford. His younger brother is a freshman at Princeton. He was part of their Top 20 ranked recruiting class.

Duke
Stanford
Princeton

Not too shabby to play golf for or get a degree from lol.

 

[WhiteBus]

Who could have thought that PGA National would surrender a 59!! It's beyond belief that there was no wind on the East Coast of Florida in late February. Low scores should be the same today as there is no wind this morning as well.
Chris Gotterup is tied for 94 and is out on the course now.

 

[knightfan7]

Who could have thought that PGA National would surrender a 59!! It's beyond belief that there was no wind on the East Coast of Florida in late February. Low scores should be the same today as there is no wind this morning as well.
Chris Gotterup is tied for 94 and is out on the course now.

He's Birdied his last 4 holes (12-15), going from +1 to -3. The cut is currently -4. It could go to -5 so he's still got a lot of work to do.

 

[WhiteBus]

The Gary Woodland segment they just showed I wasn't aware of at all. Very emotional talking after he was presented The Courage Award from the PGA Tour.

Gary Woodland receives PGA Tour Courage Award after return from brain surgery

Former U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland was honored Wednesday with the PGA Tour Courage Award.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[knightfan7]

Chris lipped out a 27' Birdie putt on 16 and made Par on 17. He missed the green with his 2nd on the Par 5 18 but came thru with a long pitch and sank a 4' Bird, shooting a 5 under 66. At -4 for the 2 Rounds it's sit back and wait for the cut line.

 

[RUBubba]

The Gary Woodland segment they just showed I wasn't aware of at all. Very emotional talking after he was presented The Courage Award from the PGA Tour.

Gary Woodland receives PGA Tour Courage Award after return from brain surgery

Former U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland was honored Wednesday with the PGA Tour Courage Award.

www.nbcsports.com

The current season of Full Swing on Netflix includes an episode on him.

 

[WhiteBus]

Chris lipped out a 27' Birdie putt on 16 and made Par on 17. He missed the green with his 2nd on the Par 5 18 but came thru with a long pitch and sank a 4' Bird, shooting a 5 under 66. At -4 for the 2 Rounds it's sit back and wait for the cut line.

There are 17 players, who finished their round, at-4. That's a big number.

 

[Erial_Lion]

In case you're not aware, this is a great model that's updated in real time that gives the projected cut every week. Also has projections on every player.

Currently has it as a 65% chance of moving to -5, and 35% chance of the -4's being ok.

PGA Tour Live Model | Data Golf

PGA Tour leaderboard accompanied by live Data Golf finish/cutline probabilities and hole-by-hole statistics.

datagolf.com

 

[knightfan7]

There are 17 players, who finished their round, at-4. That's a big number.

Yeah and a number on the course so it may go to -5.

 

[knightfan7]

As I guessed, Cut went to 5 Under so Chris misses another one.

Thank goodness for the Dunes win.

 

[WhiteBus]

All of a sudden the Bear Trap has taken it's claws out!

 

[RU in IM]

Gotterup is -5 through 8 in the Puerto Rico Open this morning

Make that -6 through 9

 

[RU in IM]

-10 through 16

Finished round 1 at -9 in this week’s secondary PGA event.

 

[knightfan7]

Great playing!

Chris has had some success on this course twice. During his year at Oklahoma, he won the 2022 Puerto Rico Classic on this course. That got him a spot into this PGA event where he finished T7. He also missed the cut last year.

 

[knightfan7]

Not going to say anything. Don't want to be a jinx but here's a Golfweek article about Chris and playing this week....

PGA Tour winner joins Puerto Rico Open field at last minute, opens in 63 at Grand Reserve

Chris Gotterup wasn't going to play the Puerto Rico Open. He's sure glad his agent and dad talked him into it.

golfweek.usatoday.com

 

[Section124]

Tiger Woods ruptures left Achilles, undergoes surgery that puts his major season in doubt

Tiger's last PGA Tour start was back in July at the Open Championship. Since then he's had back surgery and now a procedure to repair his left achilles

www.golfdigest.com

Yikes! Tiger’s season over before it even started. Most likely the end of his career. Tough to come back from that one at his age.

 

[WhiteBus]

Tiger Woods ruptures left Achilles, undergoes surgery that puts his major season in doubt

Tiger's last PGA Tour start was back in July at the Open Championship. Since then he's had back surgery and now a procedure to repair his left achilles

www.golfdigest.com

Yikes! Tiger’s season over before it even started. Most likely the end of his career. Tough to come back from that one at his age.

Oh damn!

 

[Section124]

The article makes it out to be minor but any Achilles surgery on a guy almost 50 will take time. Majors are over in July so I can’t see how he plays competitively in any of them.

 

[RU82]

Tiger is never coming back. At no point since the car accident that mangled his leg has he been anything even remotely close to tour ready. He’s just not going to be competitive at that level anymore. If he wants to win he’s going to need to set his sights on the senior tour.

 

[WhiteBus]

Tiger is never coming back. At no point since the car accident that mangled his leg has he been anything even remotely close to tour ready. He’s just not going to be competitive at that level anymore. If he wants to win he’s going to need to set his sights on the senior tour.

Only a year away (actually less) before he is eligible for the Senior Tour. If he can return and be in the hunt at times the popularity of the Senior Tour will explode.

 

[newell138]

Speaking of Tiger Woods, i was on the plane coming back from FL with a guy who is involved in the course Woods and Mike Trout are building in Vineland, NJ and they have realistic expectations to have some PGA events there. Anticipated opening is this summer

 

[knightfan7]

Gotterup just did a live interview on Golf Channel on Live From The Players. Got in a nice complement for RU Golf Coach Rob Shutt.