2011 PGA Championship Round Three Leader Board

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Categories: Champions Tour • PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods
Tags: PGA Championship

POS	Player	R1	R2	R3	TOT	TO PAR
1	Brendan Steele	69	68	66	203	-7
1	Jason Dufner	70	65	68	203	-7
3	Keegan Bradley	71	64	69	204	-6
4	Scott Verplank	67	69	69	205	-5
5	Steve Stricker	63	74	69	206	-4
6	Anders Hansen	68	69	70	207	-3
6	D.A. Points	69	67	71	207	-3
8	David Toms	72	71	65	208	-2
8	Charl Schwartzel	71	71	66	208	-2
8	Robert Karlsson	70	71	67	208	-2
8	Adam Scott	69	69	70	208	-2
8	John Senden	68	68	72	208	-2
13	Ben Crane	71	72	66	209	-1
13	Nick Watney	70	71	68	209	-1
13	Luke Donald	70	71	68	209	-1
13	Spencer Levin	71	70	68	209	-1
13	Brendon de Jonge	68	72	69	209	-1
13	Lee Westwood	71	68	70	209	-1
13	Jim Furyk	71	65	73	209	-1
20	Hunter Mahan	72	72	66	210	0
20	Francesco Molinari	72	71	67	210	0
20	Alexander Noren	70	72	68	210	0
20	Matt Kuchar	71	71	68	210	0
20	Bill Haas	68	73	69	210	0
20	Phil Mickelson	71	70	69	210	0
20	Ryan Palmer	71	70	69	210	0
20	Sergio Garcia	72	69	69	210	0
20	Scott Piercy	71	68	71	210	0
20	Brandt Jobe	68	69	73	210	0
30	Bill Lunde	71	71	69	211	1
30	Brian Davis	69	73	69	211	1
30	Kevin Na	72	69	70	211	1
30	Gary Woodland	70	70	71	211	1
30	Simon Dyson	68	72	71	211	1
30	Trevor Immelman	69	71	71	211	1
30	Mark Wilson	69	71	71	211	1
37	K.J. Choi	70	73	69	212	2
37	Ian Poulter	74	68	70	212	2
37	Bubba Watson	74	68	70	212	2
37	Johnson Wagner	71	69	72	212	2
37	Jerry Kelly	65	73	74	212	2
37	Jhonattan Vegas	70	68	74	212	2
43	Chris Kirk	72	72	69	213	3
43	Bryce Molder	74	69	70	213	3
43	Matteo Manassero	68	74	71	213	3
43	Robert Allenby	72	70	71	213	3
43	Harrison Frazar	72	69	72	213	3
43	Charles Howell III	72	68	73	213	3
43	Yuta Ikeda	73	68	72	213	3
50	John Rollins	72	72	70	214	4
50	Kyung-Tae Kim	73	71	70	214	4
50	Mike Small	73	71	70	214	4
50	Miguel Angel Jimenez	69	73	72	214	4
50	Johan Edfors	71	70	73	214	4
50	Robert Garrigus	70	70	74	214	4
56	Kevin Streelman	73	71	71	215	5
56	Ricky Barnes	69	75	71	215	5
56	Rory Sabbatini	73	69	73	215	5
56	Davis Love III	68	71	76	215	5
60	Zach Johnson	71	72	73	216	6
60	Andres Romero	72	70	74	216	6
60	Seung-yul Noh	71	70	75	216	6
60	Ross Fisher	71	69	76	216	6
64	Rory McIlroy	70	73	74	217	7
64	Padraig Harrington	73	69	75	217	7
66	Michael Bradley	70	74	74	218	8
66	Y.E. Yang	71	73	74	218	8
66	Rickie Fowler	74	69	75	218	8
66	Peter Hanson	71	71	76	218	8
70	Pablo Larrazabal	70	73	76	219	9
71	Edoardo Molinari	75	69	76	220	10
71	Ryan Moore	75	69	76	220	10
73	Sean O’Hair	71	73	77	221	11
73	Shaun Micheel	66	78	77	221	11
75	Paul Casey	72	72	78	222	12

2011 PGA Championship Final Round TV Schedule

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Categories: European Tour • PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods

10:54am ET: Final round coverage of the PGA Championship starts in a few minutes on TNT. Then coverage switches over to CBS at 2pm ET.

SUN	8/14	TNT	11 – 2 PM ET
SUN	8/14	CBS	2 – 7 PM ET

PGA Championship Round Two Thoughts

Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Categories: European Tour • PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods

I’m running a little late on my commentary. I’m sure there are millions of HOG readers losing sleep about that. Round three of the PGA Championship is underway but I’m still pondering all the bizarreness of round two.

Tiger

Tiger Woods ended his PGA Tour season yesterday, despite the TNT and CBS Tiger highlights and commentary. His season ended because he won’t qualify for the playoffs, and his next tournament will be the Australian Open in November.

Tiger’s game is a complete train wreck right now. He isn’t even missing shots consistently. One shot is a hook and the next is a push slice. After shooting a round of +3 yesterday he limped home after missing the cut at +10 total.

What does Tiger need to do? He says he is 100% physically. Does that mean the problems are all 100% mental? I’d look at it like a business. I’d sit down with a piece of paper and write down what is working and what isn’t, then start throwing out what isn’t working and focusing on what is.

Bi-Polar Scores

The leaders from round one are gone. Stricker couldn’t follow up the 63 with much, dropping from 1st to a tie for 7th with a round of 74 (+4).

The other two players at the top of the leader board, Jerry Kelly and Shaun Micheel, dropped with rounds of 73 and 78.

Meanwhile Jason Dufner (great golf name) and Keegan Bradley (winner of of the HP Byron Nelson Championship) shot up into a tie for 1st with rounds of 65 and 64 respectively. Can one of these two hold on?

CUT

I was surprised that many big players like my pick Jason Day, Ryo Ishikawa, Dustin Johnson, Brandt Snedeker, Martin Kaymer, Anthony Kim, Ernie Els and Graeme McDowell missed the cut.

This PGA

Is this PGA entertaining or is it a bit on the psycho side? Is Atlanta Athletic Club producing a true major championship level of play? I’m not so sure.

Many players and media are being very critical of the course. A player who will remain unnamed said (paraphrasing), “18 is a shitty hole.” A media member said, “The press room is rooting for Jim Furyk to save a golf tournament.” A popular golf blogger (not me) said, “PGA is usually exciting! Not this year,” and “this doesn’t feel like a major.” A twitter follower wrote to me, “MAJOR letdown.” Ouch.

PGA Championship Round One Thoughts

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, August 12th, 2011
Categories: European Tour • Golf • PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods
Tags: PGA Championship • Phil Mickelson • Tiger Woods

I don’t pass up an opportunity to golf with my dad, especially at his fantastic club Hidden Valley CC. So yesterday when the email rolled in with an invite I hit record on the DVR to record round one of the PGA Championship and flew out the door. When I left Tiger Woods had played 5-6 holes and was -3. It was looking like he was in control of his game. I was amazed when I got back to find out that he’d apparently completely lost that control and finished with his worst ever opening score in a major championship, 77. Some how TW had lost 10 shots to par after I stopped watching. Wow.

The quote below is very telling. It seems Tiger has no control over his shots at this point. I’m sure this isn’t good news to his swing coach Sean Foley.

“My shots don’t shape like they used to. I don’t shape the ball as much. I went ahead and, as I said, just played by feel and I just hit it, aimed too far right and it didn’t move. And a lot of fades out there did the same thing. I aimed left for a fade and it doesn’t move, it moves about a yard or two and I’m used to having it cut a lot more than that. And my draw used to move a lot than that as well.” ~Tiger Woods following first round of 2011 PGA Championship

Steve Stricker posted a major championship record tying 63 yesterday. I’d sure love to see him win a major. Stricker is certainly one of those who could qualify as “current best player who hasn’t won a major.” I just wonder if he can keep it together all weekend. Typically super low rounds aren’t followed up by another.

Rory McIlroy should have dropped away from that tree root yesterday. Round two is underway as I write this and his wrist is wrapped as he has some tendon damage. Judging from his swings, he’s a bit worried about it but he’s still hitting some great shots.

I’m very surprised by the performance of Jerry Kelly who shot a 65 yesterday (2nd) and Shaun Micheel shooting 66. What is it with Micheel and the PGA? Just plays well in this event?

Phil Mickelson was quite outspoken about his low opinion of the design work on the course by Rees Jones, namely the very long par-3 holes. He was saying that these holes were fine for tour play, but too hard for the average golfer. Strangely though, some of what he said was removed from the transcripts from the event. Hmmm. Phil is still in it, shooting a +1 71.

There are many other interesting story lines from day one, but I can’t possibly cover them all. Comment in your thoughts.