As usual with these early season events, there are not a ton of big PGA and European Tour names that will be making the trip, and up to this point no player has been able to hoist the trophy a few times. He’s also been showing fine form on the PGA Tour – he was tied 3rd in the Frys.com Open and tied 2nd at the Shriners. Peter Malnati won the Sanderson Farms Championship in MS for his first PGA Tour title, beating William McGirt and David Toms by a stroke in a Monday finish.
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Stefani was runner-up at this event past year to Charley Hoffman.
Matt Kuchar – Mr Consistent, Kuchar hasn’t played in this event since 2008.
Brendan Steele will tee it up in Mexico this week in the $6.2 OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen, near Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula.
Notes: U.S. Presidents Cup player Patrick Reed is in the field along with worldwide team members Adam Scott, Branden Grace, Steven Bowditch, Anirban Lahiri, Danny Lee, Marc Leishman and Hideki Matsuyama. “I’m going to play really good”.
Aiken then followed it with two birdies, to be four-under through three holes. But his round fell apart at the end with a quadruple-bogey 9 on the seventh hole that led to a 74. The par four 14th ranked as the second hardest last year, the par four 16th ranked the toughest and the final hole looks fairly innocuous on TV but that too played tough again last year, with the he first three home all recording a bogey there. She took the top spot from Inbee Park with her fifth LPGA Tour victory of the season and 10th of her career.
“I’ve been hitting it pretty well the last two weeks, in Missisippi and here, so just want to give myself opportunities and obviously I did and capitalized on it”, Varner said.
When the tournament concludes on Sunday, we’ll know if the recent trend of first-time winners continues.
And finally, he’s certainly not the player he once was but 43-year-old Justin Leonard could go well at 200/1 on the Sportsbook.
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I’ll be back on Thursday with the In-Play Blog.
