Adam Svensson is one of the hottest players on the Korn Ferry Tour, and he put that form on full display Friday, taking the 36-hole lead at the MGM Resorts Championship at Paiute.
Greg Robertson
Former golf reporter
Kevin Dougherty also had four birdies and two bogeys on a blustery day on the Sun Mountain course to lead Sam Saunders by a stroke in MGM Resorts Championship.
Wind and small, fast greens are the biggest defenses the Sun Mountain course at Paiute Golf Resort will present to 156 players chasing a Korn Ferry Tour title this week.
Harry Hall hopes the Korn Ferry Tour event in Las Vegas begins his 11-week drive to qualify for the PGA Tour next season.
The Drive, Chip and Putt Championship finals at Augusta (Georgia) National on Sunday had a Southern Nevada feel to them.
Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka are on crutches and won’t be part of the tournament, and the other top players never made the weekend at last week’s WGC Match Play Championship.
The format guarantees everybody gets at least three matches. It also means viewers — and sometimes the players — are often lost about what is happening the first three days.
It was after the first round of The Players Championship last year that golf was shut down for three months because of COVID. Players returned to TPC Sawgrass last week.
Korn Ferry Tour event at the Sun Mountain course at the Paiute Golf Resort will be the first major golf event in Las Vegas to allow spectators since the pandemic.
Danielle Kang doesn’t talk about goals, even though she has reached so many at a young age. Just 28, she has five wins and a major championship victory, to name a few.
The key word for the seven-tournament swing was experience. There were no first-time winners, with veterans taking home every title, including Las Vegan Kevin Na.
The inaugural Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play will be held May 26-30 at Shadow Creek Golf Club. It will feature 64 of the world’s top golfers playing for a $1.5 million purse.
Maverick McNealy’s second-place finish at Pebble Beach is his best result on the PGA Tour, surpassing his tie for fifth last year at — where else — Pebble Beach.
Gigi Stoll, who moved to Las Vegas last spring, had a decorated career as a junior golfer in the Pacific Northwest. She’s hoping to rediscover that success this year.
According to the final numbers released this week by the National Golf Foundation, 2020 was the most successful year in history for golf in terms of growth.