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SportAustralian Associated PressCantlay leads on PGA Tour, Day slides back
Jason Day has it all to do to make the 54-hole cut at the PGA Tour event in La Quinta, California, as he slipped well off the half-way pace set by Patrick Cantlay.4 Cantlay fought through gusting wind on his back nine on Friday to take a one-stroke lead into the weekend, while Day dropped five shots in 10 holes to slide down the leaderboard.
SportAustralian Associated PressWorld No.1 Korda leads LPGA's Champions
1 Nelly Korda has vaulted herself into the lead at the LPGA's Tournament of Champions in Florida.She carded a 6-under-par 66 on Friday to move past first-round leader Gaby Lopez.
SportAustralian Associated PressScott battles to contend in Abu Dhabi
Adam Scott is five shots off the lead after two rounds of the Abu Dhabi Championship after recording an impressive level par round of 72 in windswept conditions.Australia's former Masters champion had four birdies and four bogeys in his uneven second round on Friday but it was enough to push him nearer Scottish leader Scott Jamieson, who was seven-under after shooting a second round 74.
SportAustralian Associated PressDay starts well as Cantlay shoots 10 under
Jason Day has made a strong start to his golf year and still finds himself five shots off the pace following the opening round of the PGA Tour event in La Quinta, California.After weeks of work to better align his swing and troublesome back, Day shot a bogey-free five under 67 in The American Express tournament.
SportAustralian Associated PressMexico's Lopez lead LPGA season opener
Gaby Lopez of Mexico began a new year and her seventh LPGA Tour season with a simple, and potentially prophetic, Instagram post: "Surprise me, 2022," she wrote.On Thursday she jumped out to the lead in the Tournament of Champions, piecing together a five-under 67 opening round at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club in Orlando, Florida.
SportAustralian Associated PressJamieson leads elite field in Abu Dhabi
Lowly-ranked Scottish player Scott Jamieson has taken the early lead in the star-studded Abu Dhabi Championship with a spectacular bogey-free nine-under-par opening round of 63.336 Jamieson hadn't played competitively in eight weeks but quickly settled into the 2022 season on Thursday with nine birdies - four of them coming in a five-hole span at the start of his back nine and the final one coming from 12 feet at the par-5 18th.
SportAustralian Associated PressJason Day out to regain confidence in 2022
Jason Day is heading into his 16th year on the US PGA Tour looking to regain confidence in his game and the way his body holds up to the rigours of tournament play.1 is coming off another tough, injury-dogged year which has sent his world ranking tumbling to No.
SportAustralian Associated PressRahm ready for more PGA Tour low scoring
1 Jon Rahm is still shaking his head 10 days after losing a stunning head-to-head duel with Australia's Cameron Smith as he predicts more low scoring this week.Smith and Rahm went shot for shot in the final group for the last two days of the Tournament of Champions in Hawaii before Smith prevailed by one shot with a PGA Tour record 34-under score.
SportAustralian Associated PressMatsuyama storms to PGA Tour playoff win
Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has made up a five-shot deficit on the back nine and won the US PGA Tour's Sony Open in a playoff with one of the best shots he never saw.The Japanese superstar fired a three-wood into the sun to within three feet of the pin for an eagle on the first extra hole to beat American Russell Henley at Honolulu's Waialae Country Club on Sunday (Monday AEDT).
SportAustralian Associated PressOh breaks drought with WPGA title win
Su Oh has claimed her first title in seven years, defying Grace Kim's final-day surge to prevail by four shots after a see-sawing Australian WPGA Championship battle.The new event saw 24 women split between men's Australian PGA Championship groups for all four days at Royal Queensland Golf Club in Brisbane, competing for a $180,000 first prize - the same as for the men.
SportAustralian Associated PressMatsuyama in PGA Tour title hunt in Hawaii
Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has surged into contention in the US PGA Tour's Sony Open in Hawaii after posting a seven-under-par 63 third round.Matsuyama needed only 25 putts on Saturday and will go into the final round in second place, two shots behind American leader Russell Henley.
SportAustralian Associated PressMorgan pips Norman in record Aust PGA win
The comparisons to Greg Norman were impossible to ignore at Royal Queensland as Jed Morgan, a fresh-faced kid with flowing blond hair, destroyed the field to win by a record margin in just his fourth professional event.The 22-year-old Queenslander won the Australian PGA Championship by a record 11 shots on Sunday, beating the previous best eight-stroke margin Norman managed in back-to-back wins in 1984-85.
SportAustralian Associated PressOh leads as format queried in WPGA finale
Su Oh is bracing for a blind race to the finish in the maiden Australian WPGA Championship after officials resisted calls to separate the women and men on the final day at Royal Queensland.The new event is being held within the Australian PGA Championship, the 24 women split into groups with the men in a format that had proved popular with players and fans in Brisbane.
SportAustralian Associated PressFrom record win to missed cut for Smith
Five days after his record-breaking 34-under-par triumph on Maui, Cameron Smith has missed the cut in the PGA Tour's second Hawaiian tournament, the Sony Open.It was always going to be a tall order to back up after racking up 31 birdies and three eagles and out-duelling world No.
SportAustralian Associated PressJed Morgan eyes historic Aust PGA win
Greenhorn professional Jed Morgan's plan is to simply increase his lead after setting up a staggering nine-shot advantage as he eyes a historic win in the Australian PGA Championship.The 22-year-old's bogey on the 18th was his only blemish in a six-under 65 on Saturday to reach 20-under and put daylight between him and nearest rival Andrew Dodt (11-under) going into the final round.
SportAustralian Associated PressNa leads amid more hot scoring on PGA Tour
The red-hot scoring continues on the PGA Tour's Hawaii swing, but this time it is Sony Open defending champion Kevin Na showing the way and not Australia's Cameron Smith.Na felt such great control in Thursday's opening round that he matched his career low with a nine-under 61 and still found reason to be slightly disappointed when he walked off the Waialae course in Honolulu.
SportAustralian Associated PressSu Oh questions WPGA Championship format
LPGA Tour star Su Oh has questioned the format of the inaugural Australian WPGA Championship that rules out a weekend head to head shoot-out at Brisbane's Royal Queensland GC.Youngster Grace Kim seized the lead on Friday, carding a three-under 68 to move to five-under, one shot ahead of Oh, who followed her opening 66 with a stuttering 72.
SportAustralian Associated PressMentors behind Morgan's Aust PGA blitz
Regular chats with Ricky Ponting and a fishing trip with world No.10 Cameron Smith have steeled Jed Morgan as the youngster eyes the Australian PGA Championship title.
SportAustralian Associated PressBryson out to lose super-controversial tag
Bryson DeChambeau insists he does not want to be a "super-controversial" figure after a difficult season which made him feel like walking away from the game.DeChambeau was never far from the headlines in 2021 due to his ongoing feud with Brooks Koepka, missing the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19 and a public spat with equipment sponsors Cobra during the Open Championship which saw him accused of acting "like an eight-year-old".
SportAustralian Associated PressSu Oh in box seat as Aust WPGA debuts
Su Oh gave the men a lesson on the greens as she built a commanding lead in the maiden Australian WPGA Championship in Brisbane.The new, 24-woman event is being contested alongside the Australian PGA Championship, with men and women playing in the same groups and for equal first-place $180,000 prizemoney at Royal Queensland GC.
SportAustralian Associated PressFitter Smith eyes Hawaii PGA title double
PGA Tour record-breaker Cameron Smith says off-season work on his fitness and diet is paying off as he eyes a rare Hawaiian title double.The Australian goes into the Sony Open on Thursday (Friday AEDT) in unfamiliar territory as the betting favourite.
SportAustralian Associated PressDobbelaar leads Australian PGA field
Louis Dobbelaar will do his best to ignore the prospect of his first big pay day after the greenhorn professional carded a seven-under 64 to lead the Australian PGA Championship.The 20-year-old dominated the amateur scene at home before securing his 2022 PGA Tour Latinoamerica card in November.
SportAustralian Associated PressKyriacou, Kemp out of maiden Aust WPGA
Steph Kyriacou and Sarah Kemp have been ruled out as COVID-19 cases swept through the field on the eve of the Australian WPGA Championship in Brisbane.With Hannah Green already a late scratching, LPGA Tour-bound Kyriacou was set to be the face of the new event at Royal Queensland Golf Club from Thursday.
SportAustralian Associated PressAust PGA shuns Asia Tour for Euro deal
The PGA of Australia has resisted the temptations of the rich, Greg Norman-backed Asian Tour to re-link with Europe's DP World Tour.The delayed Australian PGA Championship will begin at Royal Queensland Golf Club in Brisbane on Thursday, with a purse of $1 million available to a below-strength field missing its US-based stars.
SportAustralian Associated PressOgilvy's home-spun Australian PGA build-up
He may now only be an occasional golfer but US Open winner Geoff Ogilvy reckons he's never had more practice swings before the return of the Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane.Ogilvy -- who has also won three World Golf Championships events in a career that includes 12 professional titles -- has been starved of competitive opportunities since returning home to Australia in 2019 in the prelude to the domestic calendar being decimated by COVID-19.
