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Ben Kohles was trying his best to see the silver lining, but he still couldn’t hide the pain.
“Of course it stings, right?” Kohles said. “You feel like you had it right there and let it slip away.”
Kohles had just birdied back-to-back holes Sunday at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson when he stepped on the tee box at TPC Craig Ranch’s par-5 18th hole with a one-shot lead over Taylor Pendrith. Two shots later, Kohles found himself with a tricky lie in the rough, between two bunkers and short of the green.
Kohles caught his first chip heavy, and his ball didn’t come close to reaching the green, instead burying in a worse lie just outside the closest bunker to the hole.
“It was sitting up a little bit, but honestly hadn’t seen any rough like that all week,” Kohles said. “Yeah, just didn’t hit a great shot. Just needed a little bit more umph on it. I kind of maybe de-celled a little bit. … Honestly, after that first chip, I was in a pretty screwed spot.”
From there, Kohles failed to get up and down, missing a 5-footer for par that would’ve forced a playoff with Pendrith, who birdied the hole. Kohles’ closing bogey was the only score worse than par on No. 18 all round (66 players).
“[The par putt] lacked probably a little bit of speed, and I probably needed to start it right center instead of playing it straight,” Kohles said. “… I feel like I hit a good putt, so I’m not going to hold my head on that and just take all the positives and see what we can do next week.”
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It pays to play well on the PGA Tour. Just ask this week’s winners, Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy.
The Ryder Cup teammates won the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana in Avondale on Sunday after a one-hole playoff against Chad Ramey and Martin Trainer. The win is the 25th of McIlroy’s career and third of Lowry’s on the PGA Tour.
McIlroy and Lowry will each bank $1,286,050, while Ramey and Trainer will earn $525,100 as a consolation prize. Ryan Brehm and Mark Hubbard finished a shot back in third and will take home $343,763 a piece.
With $8.9 million up for grabs, check out how much money each PGA Tour player earned this week at the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
See the full payout list with the link below!
You've probably heard of shooting your age. Have you heard of leaderboard positioning your age? Not that impressive if you're 53-year-old Phil Mickelson, but what about when you're 15-year-old Miles Russell playing your first professional event?
Russell didn't quite make it to 15th place on the leaderboard at the 2024 LECOM Suncoast Classic, but a final-round 66 placed him T20 in the field, leading to a qualification for next week's event on the Korn Ferry Tour, the Veritex Bank Championship in Arlington, Texas.
"I drove it great today," he said. "That was probably the big difference between the first three holes yesterday and the first three holes today. ... My iron play on the back side was the best iron play I had all week."
Russell opened 68-66 to make the cut, becoming the youngest player ever to do so in a Korn Ferry Tour event. He's also just oen of two golfers younger than 16 to make a cut in a PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour event, joining Guan Tian Liang.
Making the cut was Russell's goal, he said earlier in the week. The 66 on Sunday was simply icing for the No. 1-ranked junior player in the world, who is breaking every record he looks at these days between being homeschooled.
"I came out thinking, 'Get off to a good start,'" he said Sunday, implying that he was thinking about finishing in that top 25. "... Be patient and let it come to me, and it did."
Not only is he the youngest player in Korn Ferry Tour history to make the cut at an event, he also also took over a record held by perhaps the best to ever do it when, last fall, Russell surpassed Tiger Woods as the youngest AJGA Boys Junior Player of the Year.
Though Russell is not yet old enough to join the Korn Ferry Tour, he could theoretically keep playing his way into tournaments with continuous top 25 finishes as the season rolls on. Players from the prior week's top 25 are eligible to play in the following week's tournament.
Russell, who is the reigning Junior Players Championship and Boy's Junior PGA Championship winner, played this week at Lakewood National Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, on a sponsor exemption.
