Champion McIlroy says Summit too benign for PGA Tour players

Rory McIlroy had conscionable won the CJ Cup connected Sunday, marking the archetypal clip successful his storied vocation helium had won successful his play opener and giving him the 20th triumph of his PGA Tour career.

So, of course, you’d presume helium has large affection for The Summit Club, the Las Vegas people that filled successful arsenic the venue for this year’s lawsuit erstwhile it couldn’t beryllium played successful South Korea.

After playing the people for a week, the champion was asked what helium thought of Summit arsenic a venue for the PGA Tour. A wry grin came implicit his face.

“Yeah, I mean, astatine the extremity of this week, I deliberation PGA Tour members would beryllium beauteous blessed to conscionable springiness the spot backmost to the members,” helium said.

Player aft subordinate commented passim the week astir the quality of the people and the immaculate fairways and greens. But it was simply excessively casual for the champion players successful the world.

The cumulative scoring mean for the week was conscionable implicit 68. Only 1 of the 78 players successful the tract finished implicit par. There were 71 eagles, 1,627 birdies and conscionable 529 bogeys.

While errant shots that recovered the autochthonal country caused immoderate havoc, the fairways are excessively wide and the greens excessively accessible connected days without upwind — which was the lawsuit each 4 days past week.

“It’s a decent test,” McIlroy said. “I deliberation if you support it connected the abbreviated grass, there’s evidently a clump of birdie opportunities. I deliberation with Vegas being a small spot astatine altitude and the people not truly being that agelong to statesman with, you know, it’s astir apt a small benign for a PGA Tour event.”

It’s besides a people not built for spectators. With its meandering layout and elevation changes, precise fewer fans made it retired to the mediate of the people during the week.

Jordan Spieth said without immoderate wind, Summit is fundamentally a putting contention arsenic players deed wedges into a bulk of greens.

“It’s conscionable not a spot they tin fell the pins here,” Spieth said.

No spectators for The Match

Details are inactive being worked retired for adjacent month’s lucifer betwixt Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau astatine Wynn Golf Club, but 1 happening has been decided: Las Vegas play fans won’t beryllium successful attendance.

“As for spectators, unluckily tickets volition not beryllium disposable to the public,” Deanna Pettit-Irestone, enforcement manager of Wynn Las Vegas, said successful an email.

Koepka and DeChambeau volition play a 12-hole lucifer the time aft Thanksgiving, broadcast unrecorded by Turner Sports.

Stoll finishes connected the bubble

Second signifier of LPGA Tour qualifying takes spot this week, and Las Vegas nonmigratory Gigi Stoll won’t request to beryllium there. She moved connected to last qualifying already by the tegument of her teeth.

Stoll finished 35th connected this year’s wealth database for the Symetra Tour, the LPGA’s developmental tour. The apical 10 players person already earned their LPGA playing privileges for adjacent season, but Nos. 11-35 bypass aboriginal qualifying and determination close into the finals.

Final qualifying takes spot implicit 2 weeks successful aboriginal December successful Alabama. The apical 45 players to travel retired of those 2 weeks gain LPGA playing cards.

Lake Las Vegas Classic

Reflection Bay volition big the Lake Las Vegas Classic connected Nov. 5. Foursomes volition play a scramble. The outgo is $1,600 per team. Entry includes tickets to a meal connected Saturday night, a scoring enactment connected Friday nighttime and luncheon during the tournament.

Greg Robertson covers play for the Review-Journal. He tin beryllium reached astatine grobertson@reviewjournal.com.