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Tour Rundown: Horschel claims 6th title, 21st for Inbee, Dahmen wins his 1st
Now THAT’S more like it! Five events across the globe this week, and golf feels like it is finally back in its rhythm. From Kenya to California, with Texas, Puerto Rico, and Georgia somewhere in between, professional golf was played on the LPGA, PGA, European and Korn Ferry tours, alongside one of those unaffiliated World Golf Championships. There were new winners and veteran ones, alongside ones with an ax to grind and much to prove. We all know that we aren’t all the way back to where we were, but just maybe, the light at the end of the long, cloudy tunnel shined just a bit brighter this week. Let’s run down all the winners together, in this week’s Tour Rundown.
World Golf Championship: Horschel claims 6th title at Dell Match Play
Billy Horschel donned the USA colors in 2007 at Merion, for a lopsided Walker Cup win over Great Britain and Ireland. 14 years later, he may finally get the chance to get fitted for team togs a second time. Horschel capped a less-than-optimal week (his words, more or less) with a gritty win over the last Texan standing, Scottie Scheffler. Horschel had done the prime-time thing before, winning a pair of playoff events in 2016, while NOT qualifying for the USA Ryder Cup side. This week, #FloridaMan gritted his teeth, set his accelerator to #amped, and survived a second-match loss to J.T. Poston (who?) to eventually reach the quarters against Tommy Fleetwood. Didn’t matter that #FairwayJesus had made an ace one round earlier; Horschel dispatched him on the 19th hole, with a par against Fleet’s bogey. In the semis, Horschel got past Victor Pérez of France, who had dispatched the week’s other ace-maker, Sergio García, in the round of eight. That 3 & 2 victory set him up for a match with Scheffler, the golfer making the most noise over the past 18 months, albeit without a victory. Yes, even more noise than Tony Finau.
Scheffler, a winning Walker Cup alumnus like Horschel (1o years later!) turned in the clutch performance of the week, dispatching everyone’s favorite tipper, Matt Kuchar, in the semis. Come to think of it, no, his quarter-final win over Jon Rahm might have been even more impressive. Wait, what about Ian Poulter in the round of 16? Holy smokes, Steve Stricker. Did you pay attention this week to Scheffler and Horschel? Please forget Finau and Simpson, at least until you put current #11 Horschel and #14 Scheffler (and Cantlay and Berger) on your short list of captain’s picks. Neither finalist played stellar golf (who could, after more rounds than any other golfer this week?) but they fought until the 17th hole, when Scheffler’s string ran of luck out.
LPGA Tour: Inbee Park grabs 21st tour title at Kia
Death, taxes, Inbee Park. All three are relentless. Each is unavoidable. Only one of them is welcomed by anyone but the competition. This week, Park and her compatriots returned to the tee after a one-month hiatus, at the Aviara golf club in Carlsbad, California. The Korean champion claimed a five-shot win over US Open runner-up Amy Olson and Lexi Thompson, with Jin Young Ko another shot back in fourth spot.
On Thursday, five golfers broke 70, and Park’s 66 was the prize round of the day. The champion followed her medal round with a pair of 69s, to take a five-shot lead into day four. Until her 72nd hole bogey, Park had remained in the 60s all week, the only player in the field to do so. Olson rebounded from a forgettable 75 on Thursday to play the final 54 holes better than anyone else. Thompson had even-par 72s over the first two days, before lighting up Aviara with a 66 of her own on Saturday.
It’s odd to look at a hall of fame member, one with seven major titles, and wonder if she will win one again. Park won her septet during the first seven years of her professional career, but has gone five years without a big title (the 2016 Olympic gold medal that year) Her play this week suggests that another one is not far away. Each of her pursuers waited for her to make a mistake, and Park offered a ray of hope with bogies at 12 and 13 on Sunday. Two holes later, on the reachable par-four 16th, Park drove the green and drained a 20-feet eagle putt, and the gate was locked.
PGA Tour: Dahmen claims inaugural win at Corales
Until Viktor Hovland won in Mexico last fall, no winner of the Puerto Rico Open had won for a second time on the big tour. Between you and me, any PGA Tour victory would suit me just fine, although I can understand how one win wets the appetite for a second. This week, Joel Dahmen became the latest, first-time winner in Puerto Rico, holding off local hero Rafael Campos and Sam Ryder by one meager shot.
Dahmen and Campos entered the final round in a tie for the top spot, and each played as if he had nothing to lose on the outward half. Dahmen turned in minus-four and snatched a two-shot lead over the pride of Boricua. On the inward half, each played as if they had everything to lose. Gone were the birdies, and Dahmen limped home in plus-two on the home nine. He was saved from a playoff when Campos made a bogey of his own, at the par-three seventeenth. At the final hole, Campos was halfway through his tying fist pump when his birdie attempt did a hard lip-out and stayed up and out.
Korn Ferry: Svennson outlasts McGreevy in Savannah
If it seems like just last fall that we were in Savannah for some KF Tour action, it’s because we were. Georgia’s river city is a wondrous host, and who better to win than someone who truly appreciates a chance to golf in warm weather? Canada’s Adam Svensson went into a playoff with Oklahoma’s Max McGreevy, after the later drained a clutch birdie putt at the 72nd hole. Oh, what he wouldn’t have given for a repeat performance on the first bonus hole!
Each made par at the long closer during the first go-round, missing similarly-makeable birdie efforts. On their second extra hole, Svensson’s birdie from eight feet dipped below the earth’s surface, and a second Korn Ferry win was headed home to British Columbia. McGreevey had entered the final round with a one-shot advantage over Stuart Macdonald. The latter struggled to a 76 on day four, doing McGreevy no favors in the motivation department. Svensson had a nice start, standing at -2 on the day after nine holes. When he finished the 18th, he had piled four more birdies onto his card, and looked to be a winner in regulation, until McGreevy came through in the clutch.
To be honest, no one can really decipher what the Korn Ferry Tour money list or The 25 list mean thus far. Is it a combined last year/this year thing? Who knows. Stay tuned to this space and when we know, you’ll know.
European Tour: South Africa’s Van Tonder holds off Janewattananond in Kenya
A week after the Magical Kenya Open drew our attention to Africa, the Kenya Savannah Classic cemented the wondrous country as a force to be reckoned with in tournament golf. Last week’s winner, Justin Harding, was in the thick of things until all four wheels came off on this week’s day four. After opening with 64-66-66, Harding’s run of great play reached its expiration date, and his 73 dropped him into a tie for 14th.
At the top of the leaderboard, Daniel Van Tonder and Jazz Janewattananond were making birdies by the bushel. Each had eight of them through 13 holes. One might think that their matching 64’s would have sent them far ahead of the chasers. One would have been wrong. Reaching 20-under par, also with 64s on Sunday, were Sam Horsfield and Calum Hill. If you didn’t go low on day four, you didn’t stand a chance.
Back to Van Tonder and Janewattananond: The former fell off the rails for a time, with bogeys at 14 and 15. Just when all seemed lost, he made birdie at the last to reach 21-deep. Janewattananond made a bogey of his own, at the 16th, but reached the same closing figure as Van Tonder. The pair took deep breaths, then headed back to the closing hole to settle matters. Twice they sawed off with pars, but then Van Tonder stuffed one close and drained the roller for a clinching birdie.
I’m going to gush in this intro paragraph, to get the emo stuff done early. I’ve not pulled harder for a professional to win, than Cameron Young. I coach golf in New York state, and each spring, my best golfers head to a state championship in Poughkeepsie. I first saw Cameron there as a 9th grade student. I saw him three more times after that. I reconnecected with Coach Haas from Wake Forest, an old interview subject from my days on the Old Gold and Black, the Wake newspaper. He was there to watch Cameron. After four years at Wake Forest, Young won on the Korn Ferry Tour, made it to the big tour, almost won two majors, almost won five other events, and finally got the chalice about 25 minutes from the Wake campus. Congratulations, Cameron. You truly are a glass of the finest. #MotherSoDear
OK, let’s move on to the Tour Rundown. The major championship season closed this week in Wales, with the Women’s Open championship. The PGA Tour bounced through Greensboror, N.C., while the PGA Tour Americas hit TO (aka, Toronto) for a long-winded event. The Korn Ferry lads made a stop in Utah, one of just two events for that tour in August. The many-events, golf season is winding down, as we ease from summer toward fall in the northern hemisphere. Let’s bask in the glory of an August sunrise, and run down a quartet of events from the first weekend of the eighth month.
LET/LPGA @ Women’s Open: Miyu bends, but she doesn’t break
Royal Porthcawl was not a known commodity in the major tournament community. The Welsh links had served as host to men’s senior opens, men’s amateurs, and Curtis and Walker Cups in prior years, but never an Open championship for the women or the men. The last-kept secret in UK golf was revealed once again to the world this week, as the best female golfers took to the sandy stage.
Mao Saigo, Grace Kim, Maja Stark, and Minjee Lee hoped to add a second major title to previous wins this season, but only Lee was able to finish inside the top ten. The 2025 playing of the Women’s Open gave us a new-faces gallery from day one. The Kordas and Thitikulls were nowhere to be found, and it was the Mayashitas, Katsus, and Lim Kims that secured the Cymru spotlight. The first round lead was held at 67 by two golfers. One of them battled to the end, while the other posted 81 on day two, and missed the cut. Sitting one shot behind was Miyu Yamashita.
On day two, Yamashita posted the round of the tournament. Her 65 moved her to the front of the aisle, in just her fourth turn around a women’s Open championship. With the pre-event favorites drifting off pace, followers narrowed into two camps: those on the side of an underdog, and others hoping for a weekend charge from back in the pack. In the end, we had a bit of both.
On Saturday, Yamashita bent with 74 on Saturday, offering rays of hope to her pursuing pack. England’s Charley Hull made a run on Sunday closing within one shot before tailing off to a T2 finish with Minami Katsu. Katsu posted the other 65 of the week, on Saturday, but could not overtake her countrywoman, Yamashita. wunderkind Lottie Woad needed one round in the 60s to find her pace, but could only must close-to’s, ending on 284 and a tie with Minjee for eighth.
On Sunday, Yamashita put away the thoughts of Saturday’s struggles, with three-under 33 on the outward half. She closed in plus-one 37, but still won by two, for a first Major and LPGA title.
PGA Tour @ Wyndham: Young gathers first title near home
Cameron Young grew up along the Hudson river, above metro New York, but he also calls Winston-Salem home. He spent four years as a student and athlete at Wake Forest University, then embarked on tour. This week in Greensboro, after a bit of a break, Young opened with 63-62, and revved the engine of Is this the week once more. Runner-up finishes at the Open, the PGA, and a handful of PGA Tour events had followers wonder when the day would come.
On Saturday, Young continued his torrid pace with 65, giving him a five-shot advantage over his closest pursuer. Sunday saw the Scarborough native open with bogey, then reel off five consecutive birdies to remind folks that his time had, at last, arrived. Pars to the 16th, before two harmless bogeys coming home, made Young the 1000th winner of an official PGA Tour event (dating back to before there was a PGA Tour) throughout history. What’s next? I have a suspicion, but I’m not letting on. Mac Meissner closed with 66 to finish solo 2nd, while Mark Hubbard and Alex Noren tied for third.
Korn Ferry Tour @ Utah Championship: Are you Suri it’s Julian?
Who knows exactly when the flower will bloom? Julian Suri played a solid careet at Duke University, then paid his dues on the world’s minor tours for three years. He won twice on two tours in Europe, in 2017. Since then, the grind has continued for the journeyman from New York city. At age 34, Suri broke through in Beehive state, outlasting another grinder (Spencer Levin) and four others, by two shots.
Taylor Montgomery began the week with 62, then posted 64, then 68, and finally, 70. That final round was his undoing. He finished in that second-place tie, two back of the leader. Trace Crowe, Barend Botha, and Kensei Hirata made up the last of the almost quintet. As for Suri, his Sunday play was sublime. His nines were 32 and 31, with his only radar blip a bogey at ten. He closed in style with one final birdie, to double his winning margin. Hogan bloomed late…might Suri?
PGA Tour Americas @ Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos – CBM Aggregates
Some tournament names run longer than others. This week in Toronto, at the Heathlands course at TPC Toronto, we might have seen the longest tournament title in recorded history. The OVOPBVCCBMA was a splendid affair. It saw three rounds of 62 on Thursday, but of those early risers, only Drew Goodman would stick around until the end. 64 was the low tally on day two, and two of those legionnaires managed to finish inside the top three at week’s end. Saturday brought a 63 from Patrick Newcomb, and he would follow with 64 on Sunday, to finish solo fourth.
Who, then, ended up winning the acronym of the year? It turns out that Carson Bacha had the right stuff in TeeOhhh. Bacha and Jay Card III posted 63 and 64, respectively, on day four, to tie for medalist honors at 23-under 261. Nathan Franks was one shot adrift, despite also closing with 63. If you didn’t go low on Sunday, it was about the check, not the championship.
Bacha and JC3 returned to the 18th hole twice in overtime. Card nearly chipped in from the thick stuff for birdie, while Bacha peeked and shoved a ten-feet attempt at the win. On the second go-round, Card was long with his approach, into the native grasses once more. He was unable to escape, and a routine par from the fairway was enough to earn the former Auburn golfers a first KFT title.
Card III and Bacha both miss their birdie tries on the first playoff hole.
We’ll play 18 again @OspreyOpen. pic.twitter.com/vNpHTdkHDg
— PGA TOUR Americas (@PGATOURAmericas) August 3, 2025
GolfWRX is live this week from the final event of the PGA Tour’s regular season, the Wyndham Championship.
Photos are flowing into the forums from Sedgefield Country Club, where we already have a GolfWRX spirit animal Adam Schenk WITB and plenty of putters for your viewing pleasure.
Check out links to all our photos below, which we’ll continue to update as more arrive.
General Albums
- 2025 Wyndham Championship – Tuesday #1
- 2025 Wyndham Championship – Tuesday #2
- 2025 Wyndham Championship – Tuesday #3
WITB Albums
- Chandler Phillips – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Davis Riley – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Scotty Kennon – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Austin Duncan – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Will Chandler – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Kevin Roy – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Ben Griffin – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Peter Malnati – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Ryan Gerard – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Adam Schenk – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Kurt Kitayama – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Camilo Villegas – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Matti Schmid – WITB – 2025 Wyndham Championship
Pullout Albums
- Denny McCarthy’s custom Cameron putters – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Swag Golf putters – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Karl Vilips TM MG5 wedges – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- New Bettinardi putters – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Matt Fitzpatrick’s custom Bettinardi putters – 2025 Wyndham Championship
- Cameron putters – 2025 Wyndham Championship
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Kurt Kitayama just won his 2nd PGA Tour event at the 3M Open. Kurt is a Bridgestone staffer but with just the ball and bag. Here are the rest of the clubs he used to secure a win at the 2025 3M Open.
Driver: Titleist GT3 (11 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD VF 7 TX
3-wood: Titleist GT1 3Tour (14.5 degrees, A3 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 TX
7-wood: Titleist GT1 (21 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 9 TX
Irons: TaylorMade P7CB (4), TaylorMade P7MB (5-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (52-12F, 56-14F), Vokey Design WedgeWorks (60-K*)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Scotty Cameron Studio Style Newport 2 Tour Prototype
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy 1.0PT
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Bridgestone Tour B XS (with Mindset)
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Peter Malnati WITB 2025 (August)
Peter Malnati what’s in the bag accurate as of the Wyndham Championship. More photos from the event here. Driver: Titleist...
Cameron Young’s winning WITB: 2025 Wyndham Championship
Driver: Titleist GT2 (9 degrees, A1 SureFit setting) Buy here. Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro Orange 70 TX 3-wood: Titleist...
Camilo Villegas WITB 2025 (July)
Camilo Villegas WITB accurate as of the Wyndham Championship. Villegas was undecided on a 3-wood when we shot his bag. ...
WITB Time Machine: Brandt Snedeker’s winning WITB, 2018 Wyndham Championship
Brandt Snedeker fired a final-round 65 at the 2018 Wyndham Championship to outlast Webb Simpson and C.T. Pan. His 5-under...
