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6 pros penalized following bizarre incident on Korn Ferry Tour

Promising Korn Ferry Tour player Wilson Furr was one of six players that were penalised for an innocent mistake during the Lecom Suncoast Classic last week, an error that the 24-year-old said, “cost me my job.”
First revealed by Monday-Q Info’s Ryan French, Furr, along with Alejandro Tosti and Mason Andersen, the KFT penalized the trio after taking an unauthorized shuttle ride from the 18th green to the first tee during their second rounds.
The three were each assessed two-stroke penalties for violating Model Local Rule G-6, which states, “A player or caddie must not ride on any transportation. A player operating under a stroke and distance penalty is always authorized.”
French explained that, “when the three players exited the tunnel [from the 18th], a cart marked “shuttle” was waiting for them. A volunteer was driving it, and he asked the players if they would like a ride. The three players and their caddies climbed on and were driven to the next tee. ”
Whilst that seems strange, the supplemental rules sheet for this week’s event specified that “automotive transportation is permitted during play from No. 7 green to No. 8 tee only.” However, the shuttles were also transporting players from the driving range to both starting tees (#1 and #10) and that’s where the confusion starts.
Tosti recounted the incident to Golf Channel, saying he noticed the cart as he emerged from the tunnel from 18th green.
“I asked the guy, ‘Are you giving rides to the first tee?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, jump in,'” the former Gator recalled. “I know that I cannot jump in a cart that is not official, but this was almost like organized. It almost seemed like someone sent this guy to give us a ride. It was ready, waiting for us to walk off the green and give us a ride to the first tee, and that guy apparently was not supposed to be there.”
Although both Furr and Tosti admitted they did not read the specifics of the local rule, Furr says that the walk from 18 to the first is a longer route than the official one taken by the carts. Therefore, “It wasn’t crazy for me to think there was supposed to be a shuttle there.”
Having played 12 holes and walking off their 13th (#4) a rules official asked the trio how they had arrived at the first hole.
“We let them hear it,” Furr said. “But after hearing the exact same response seven different ways, I just left. We weren’t getting anywhere. The guy’s word was final.”
Whilst the penalty made little difference to the immediate future of Anderson, who finished his round 13 shots off the cut-line, the penalty affected his playing partners in differing ways..
Tosti finished his second round with a penalty-laden 66, and followed that up with another five-under to lie just outside the top-10 with one round to go, but Furr’s tale is much sadder.
On his eighth and final guaranteed start, the former Future Masters and Mississippi State Amateur champion missed the cut by two shots, meaning his route into events after this week is via exemptions, invites or Monday qualifying.
He’s doubtful that his three cuts from eight events are enough to get him into the next four events, but it could have been so different.
“I don’t think it would be close if I made the cut, which I did. I don’t know, it’s just a tough pill to swallow,” he told Golf Channel.
However, in true Monday-Q style he confirmed he will be trying through whatever means possible to make more events.
“I guess I don’t have any other option [than to find alternative pathways to qualify] at this point,” Furr admitted, “but I’m going to fight.”
Furr wasn’t the only player unfortunate to take a real hit from the penalty.
The grouping of Boo Weekley, Jarad Wolfe and Ashton Van Horne admitted taking a similar path to the Furr grouping, this time from the ninth to 10th holes, but it was the three-time PGA Tour winner that suffered most.
Unlike Furr, 49-year-old Weekley didn’t take the cart but his caddie did, dropping him to 4-under and being another to miss the cut by just those penalty strokes.
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‘Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight’ – LPGA pro offers candid take following rough AIG Women’s Open finish

An opening round of 77 left LPGA pro Jenny Shin with a mountain to climb at last week’s AIG Women’s Open.
However, fighting back with rounds of 69 and 67, Shin found herself six shots off the lead and just outside the top 10 heading into Sunday as she went in search of her first major victory.
Shin, who won the US Girls’ Junior at just 13, couldn’t back those rounds up on Sunday, though, and after playing her opening nine holes of the final round in level par, she then bogeyed three holes coming home to slip down the leaderboard and eventually finish T23.
Taking to X following the final round, Shin offered a frustrated and honest take on how she was feeling, posting: “Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish.”
Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish
— Jenny Shin (@JennyShin_LPGA) August 3, 2025
Shin has made 11 cuts in 13 starts on the LPGA Tour this season, but has been plagued by frustrating Sunday finishes throughout the year. Shin ranks 102nd on tour this year out of 155 for Round 4 scoring in 2025.
Miyu Yamashita won the 2025 AIG Women’s Open with a composed final round of 70 to win her first major of her career by two strokes.
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How a late golf ball change helped Cameron Young win for first time on PGA Tour

Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour.
Young dominated all weekend at TPC Sedgefield, running away from the pack to win by six strokes and put himself in contention for a Ryder Cup pick in September.
Ahead of the event, the 28-year-old switched to a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.
Interestingly, Young played a practice round accompanied by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, at TPC Schedule early last week with both his usual Pro V1 Left Dot ball and the new Pro V1x prototype.
Per Titleist, by the second hole Young was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x prototype.
“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course. Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”
According to Titleist, the main validation came on Tuesday on the seventh hole of his practice round. The par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament called for a 5-iron from Young, or so he thought. Believing there was “no way” he could get a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot, Young struck a 5-iron with the Pro V1x prototype and was stunned to see the ball land right by the hole.
“He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn’t believe that he got that club there.”
Following nine holes on Tuesday and a further nine on Wednesday, Young asked the Titleist team to put the ProV1x balls in his locker. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Rickie Fowler makes equipment change to ‘something that’s a little easier on the body’

Rickie Fowler fired an opening round of one-under par on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, as the Californian looks to make a FedEx Cup playoff push.
Fowler is currently 61st in the standings, so will need a strong couple of weeks to extend his season until the BMW Championship, where only the top 50 in the standings will tee it up.
Heading into the final stretch of the season, Fowler has made an equipment switch of note, changing into new iron shafts, as well as making a switch to his driver shaft.
The 36-year-old revealed this week that he has switched from his usual KBS Tour C-Taper 125-gram steel shafts to the graphite Aerotech SteelFiber 125cw shafts in his Cobra King Tour irons, a change he first put into play at last month’s Travelers Championship.
Speaking on the change to reporters this week, Fowler made note that the graphite shafts offer “something that’s a little easier on the body.”
“I mean, went to the week of Travelers, so been in for, I guess that’s a little over a month now. Something that’s a little easier on the body and seemed to get very similar numbers to where I was at. Yeah, it’s gone well so far.”
Fowler has also made a driver shaft change, switching out his Mitsubishi Diamana WB 73 TX for a UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 6 TX driver shaft in his Cobra DS-Adapt X, which he first implemented a couple of weeks ago at the John Deere Classic.
However, according to Fowler himself, the testing and potential changes are not done yet.
“Probably do some more testing in some different weight configurations with them once I get some time. Yeah, I feel like we’re always trying to search, one, to get better but are there ways to make things easier, whether that’s physically, mentally, whatever it may be. So yeah, I thought they were good enough to obviously put into play and looking forward to doing some more testing.”
Fowler gets his second round at TPC Sedgefield underway at 7.23 a.m ET on Friday.