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Rory McIlroy is Back in the Winners Circle!
2023 Genesis Scottish Open purse: Payout info, winner’s share
Rory McIlroy has found his clutch gene again, and just in the nick of time.
After four bogies on his outward nine in the final round of the Genesis Scottish Open, McIlroy came home with a clean backside and four birdies, including the final two holes for a 68 to clip Robert MacIntyre by one for the win.
McIlroy’s win is the 24th of his PGA Tour career and also counts as the 16th in his DP World Tour career at the co-sanctioned event.
It’s also the first win of 2023 for McIlroy who struggled at times in the spring, including a missed cut at the Masters, before heating up and finishing in the top 10 in his last six starts since the PGA Championship. He now passes Jon Rahm to become the No. 2 player in the world.
“It’s been a sort of long six months I feel since I won in Dubai,” McIlroy said as he heads to the Open Championship next week as the clear favorite. “I’ve given myself tons of chances, and hopefully this win sort of breaks the seal for me, especially going into next week as well.”
The last time the Open was at Royal Liverpool, McIlroy won his only Open title in 2014.
With the win, McIlroy takes home $1.575 million from the $9 million purse.
You can check out the complete payout breakdown below.
2023 Genesis Scottish Open payout info, winner’s share
1. $1.575 million
2. $985,500
3. $590,850
4. $441,000
5. $373,500
6. $322,200
7. $287,550
8. $253,800
9. $233,100
10. $213,300
11. $197,100
12. $182,250
13. $168,300
14. $155,700
15. $148,500
16. $141,300
17. $134,100
18. $126,900
19. $120,150
20. $113,850
21. $107,550
22. $102,600
23. $97,650
24. $92,700
25. $87,750
26. $82,800
27. $80,100
28. $77,400
29. $74,700
30. $72,000
31. $69,300
32. $66,600
33. $63,900
34. $61,425
35. $58,950
36. $56,475
37. $54,450
38. $52,650
39. $50,850
40. $49,050
41. $47,250
42. $45,450
43. $43,650
44. $41,850
45. $40,050
46. $38,250
47. $36,450
48. $34,830
49. $33,300
50. $32,040
51. $30,870
52. $29,700
53. $28,620
54. $27,540
55. $27,000
56. $26,460
57. $25,920
58. $25,380
59. $24,840
60. $24,300
61. $23,760
62. $23,220
63. $22,680
64. $22,140
65. $21,600
66. $19,800
67. $19,620
68. $19,440
69. $19,260
70. $19,080
71. $18,900
72. $18,720
73. $18,540
74. $18,360
75. $18,180
76. $18,000
77. $17,820
SOURCE: [GOLF.COM]
Allisen Corpuz is your U.S. Women's Champion!
Allisen Corpuz pulls away to win U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach
Sunday morning, Allisen Corpuz was trailing the U.S. Women’s Open and was still winless on the LPGA Tour.
After the first hole, she wasn’t trailing anymore. By the end of the round, she wasn’t winless anymore.
Corpuz shot a final-round 69, including back-to-back birdies on 14 and 15, to pull away from a surging Charley Hull and Jiyai Shin and win the 78th U.S. Women’s Open by three strokes. Corpuz becomes the first female major champion in the long history of the iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links.
“This week has just felt like a dream come true. It’s been really awesome to be out at Pebble this week,” she said. “Every few holes I just kind of looked out and said, I’m out here at Pebble Beach. There’s not many places that are better than this. Really just tried to stay grounded and keep playing my game.”
The first women’s major at the seaside links also served as the potential final professional start for the most famous golfer from Hawaii, Michelle Wie West. So it makes sense an alumnae of the same high school like Corpuz would also author her breakthrough win the same week. She’s also the first American to win the U.S. Women’s Open since 2016.
Corpuz was the only player to shoot under par for each round of the tournament.
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Rickie Fowler is a Champion Once Again!
2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic leaderboard, grades: Rickie Fowler earns long-awaited win No. 6 in playoff
Fowler bested Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin in a playoff for his first win since the 2019 Phoenix Open
Rickie Fowler was back at some point earlier this season. Possibly after the Zozo Championship in October, where he finished T2. Maybe it was after the Phoenix Open in February, when he finished T10 following a mediocre final day. Or perhaps it was when he led the U.S. Open after 54 holes just two weeks ago at Los Angeles Country Club.
"Rickie's back" became official on Sunday, however, when he won the Rocket Mortgage Classic in a playoff over Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin with a birdie on the first hole of bonus play.
Getting there was a grind, both metaphorically through the last four years of not winning PGA Tour events, and literally; Fowler looked to be kicking away this tournament late in the day after he was the heavy favorite going into the final round.
Following a great start to his day, Fowler stalled over the last few hours of his round, making par on 10 straight holes going to the 72nd. On a day when Morikawa shot 64 and Hadwin had jumped past him, Fowler had to birdie the last hole just to get into the playoff. He got it with one of the more clutch shots you'll ever see a professional hit.
Then in the playoff, after a flared drive way out to the right, Fowler once again fired at the pin.
He left himself 12 feet for his first win since February 2019 when he took the Phoenix Open, and he made sure there wouldn't be a 74th hole of the day.
"It's hard to put it all into words," Fowler told CBS Sports' Amanda Renner. "Obviously, a lot of good stuff this year. I've been playing some really good golf. I knew it was just a matter of time with how I've been playing. I've had a couple of tough weekends where I've had a chance ... but at the end of the day getting to hang with Maya and my wife, winning is great but there's a lot more to life than that."
Fowler famously fell outside the top 170 in the world over the last few years and even seemed to flirt with the idea of playing in the LIV Golf league this time 14 months ago. Instead, he doubled down on his swing, returned to old coach, Butch Harmon, and put in the work he needed to become a top-30 golfer in the world once again.
"After a while, Rickie started coming out to Vegas to see me," Harmon told Golf Digest earlier this year, "and we could both see the path back -- even better than before. Golf is a cruel game, and sometimes those bad times, if you can get through them, really help you going forward."
No, the reward for Fowler at the summit of this mountain is not hundreds of millions of dollars, but it is the gratification that comes with once again excelling in your craft. The U.S. Ryder Cup team, which Fowler will almost certainly be a part of now, is not a bad parting gift, either.
What's not being discussed is how much is still at stake this season for the now six-time PGA Tour winner. The Open at Royal Liverpool in three weeks is where Fowler almost won in 2014 over Rory McIlroy, and the FedEx Cup Playoffs loom beyond that. Fowler could still accomplish plenty over the rest of 2023, but make no mistake about what the Rocket Mortgage Classic marked on this Sunday in Detroit. Rickie Fowler is now officially officially back and likely not going anywhere anytime soon. Grade: A+
Below are other grades following the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Challenge:
T2. Collin Morikawa (-24): I said on Saturday that I didn't really care what happened on Sunday, and that remained true even as Morikawa tried to fight his way to the top of the board. This was the type of week everyone has come to expect from Morikawa — amazing from tee to green, and if the putts fall, he's going to win the golf tournament (which he nearly did on Sunday). It's also a bit different than what's been going on with him recently. In three of his previous six starts coming into this week, he had lost strokes either off the tee or (gasp!) with his iron play. This week portends for what could be a strong closing kick to the summer for somebody who has not fallen off quite as much as everyone thinks. Grade: A-
T40. Ludvig Aberg (-11): My biggest takeaway from Aberg's nice week is what European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, who played with Aberg on Thursday and Friday, said about him before the third round.
"He [Donald] told me there have only been a few [players] that he's played with for the very first time that have the 'wow' factor," relayed Nick Dougherty of Golf Channel. "One of them is Rory. That was back in 2008 at the Dunhill Links.
"Now he says Ludvig Aberg is one of those guys as well," Dougherty continued. "He said his driver is a huge weapon, he makes the game look effortless. He added that as long as he continues to show form, he will definitely be considered for the [Ryder Cup] team. ... This guy is going to be a superstar."
Aberg is a total menace with driver in hand— he finished third in the field in strokes-gained off the tee — and is going to be a force. His double-bogey-bogey run late on Saturday took him completely out of the golf tournament, but it was the 65-67 start that has folks buying stock (a lot of it) in what seems like an extremely bright future. Grade: A+
MC. Justin Thomas (+1): It's been a no good, very strange year for the two-time major champion. After a few months of struggle, he seemed to turn the corner last week at the Travelers Championship when he got in the mix on the weekend. However, a 76 in Round 1 at Detroit Golf Club paved the way for his third missed cut in his last four PGA Tour starts.
Clearly, he's struggling. Whether that struggle is simply physical or mental (or both) remains to be seen. And though the near future — the Open Championship, FedEx Cup Playoffs and Ryder Cup — do not bring about optimism that J.T. can apply a quick fix to whatever besets him at the moment, he remains undeterred in his quest to once again become the best player int he world.
"Definitely saw a lot of great signs last week and played some really, really good golf those last three days," he said earlier in the week. "I'm just a couple events away from being right there. And a lot of things can happen. The unknown is the fun and bad part about this game, so we'll see where it takes us."
What is true, however, is the old adage that nearly every player who has played at the level J.T. has played at has uttered at some point in their careers: Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems. Grade: F
MC. Tony Finau (-1): The potential U.S. Ryder Cup team did not have the greatest week in Detroit. Since winning Mexico earlier in the year, Finau has more missed cuts (2) than top 25s (1). This is a curiosity that can probably be attributed to the ebbs and flows of professional golf. Unlike J.T., Finau has not dropped off the planet from a statistical standpoint. In fact, he's having one of the best seasons of his career from a strokes-gained perspective.
It was a fun return for the 2022 champion to Detroit — replete with a bobblehead, menu item and meeting with Chris Webber — but unfortunately it ended much (much) earlier this time around for Finau than it did when he touched off back-to-back wins a little under a year ago at this tournament. Grade: F
SOURCE: [cbssports.com]