SMU PGA golfers

[Charleston Pony]

Higgs and Smotherman playing in Ft. Worth this weekend. Higgs finished first round -1. Smotherman still on the course.

Smotherman finishes at minus 3 only one shot off the lead

[Charleston Pony]

Both Austin and Harry will be playing the weekend at Colonial. Austin at minus 2 is T-29th and 7 shots off the lead. Harry is even par and T-51st

[Charleston Pony]

Austin gets to 2 under and is T-31st and 9 shots off the lead. Harry blew up to a 5 over finish and is T-66th, one shot from the bottom of the leader board, but at least he will earn a check

[Charleston Pony]

Our guys crashed and burned in their final rounds with Austin shooting an 8 over 78 and Harry 10 over 80 that featured 3 double bogeys and a scorecard that looked like one of mine. Austin finishes T-63rd and earns $18,228 while Harry takes the final qualifying spot (69th) at plus 15 and earns $17,388

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Looks like Bryson DeChambeau is going to play in the Memorial at Muirfield this week. Heard he was back playing practice rounds but will be interesting to see whether he's ready for 72 holes or even 36

[Charleston Pony]

Bryson's front nine 42 has him at plus 9 thru 11 holes of his 2nd round, so appears he was overly ambitious thinking he was ready to compete again.

[Charleston Pony]

Always finish on a positive note. Bryson's one under front nine, which was his back nine today hopefully leaves him feeling optimistic that he can be competitive this season as he continues to heal and get his game back.

[EastStang]

Got to get back on the bike sooner or later.

[EastStang]

Rumor today is that Bryson and Patrick Read are jumping to LIV tour.

[Charleston Pony]

Rumor today is that Bryson and Patrick Read are jumping to LIV tour.

More and more guys will take the money and run with guys like Phil, Sergio and DJ having committed. PGA is going to have to deal with the competition. If it's only about the money, it will be difficult to compete. Hopefully the majors will always remain open to the best players in the world

[Charleston Pony]

Harry, Kelly & Austin all playing the Canadian Open this week

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Kelly finishes his 1st round at minus one and T-25th. Austin blows up and plays his last 4 holes 5 over to finish at plus 2 while Harry is at plus 5 so both of those guys are at risk of missing the cut

[Charleston Pony]

Kelly fires another one under in the morning round and sits at minus two for the tourney so he will be playing the weekend. Austin off to a minus 2 start and is at even par, looking good but made double bogey on his 14th hole and probably has to par in to make the cut. Harry at plus 2 today and plus 7 for the event through his 1st 3 holes is well off the cut line.

[Charleston Pony]

Strong finish for Kelly in Canada as he gets to minus 8, T-13th and collects $160k for his efforts this week. Austin finishes at minus 2 and T-44th earning $30k

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In case anyone missed it, Bryson at least made the cut at the U.S. Open this week and finished T-56th at 13 over, good for $38,511 which I suppose is chump change for him now that he will be playing 54 hole events for guaranteed earnings far beyond that kind of money. Will be interesting to see if the guys playing the LIV events still have a strong enough motivation to prepare for and really compete in the major championships