Report: PGA golfers bring feud to Wynn course next month

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Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are taking their ongoing feud to the play course.

The 2 large champions, who person been precise nationalist astir their dislike of 1 different but backstage astir the details, volition look disconnected successful a 12-hole lucifer Thanksgiving play successful Las Vegas.

Golf.com is reporting the brace volition play Nov. 26, the time aft Thanksgiving, successful the latest mentation of The Match. The lawsuit reportedly volition instrumentality spot astatine Wynn Golf Club and beryllium televised by Turner Sports.

Koepka is playing this week astatine the Shriners Children’s Open, portion DeChambeau is skipping the event. Koepka was not astatine the people Tuesday, but volition beryllium Wednesday greeting for a pro-am anterior to the archetypal circular Thursday.

Big names adjacent week

While Las Vegas play fans person 1 oculus connected TPC Summerlin and the Shriners Children’s Open this week, different oculus is intelligibly focused connected adjacent week’s CJ Cup astatine The Summit Club.

And the CJ Cup is drafting a ton of prima power.

Dustin Johnson, Collin Morikawa, Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas are a fewer of the apical names who person committed to play successful the tournament. All of them are skipping the Shriners Children’s Open.

Other notables acceptable for the constricted field, no-cut lawsuit see Daniel Berger, Sergio Garcia, Harris English, Paul Casey, Koepka, Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott and Jason Day.

Monday madness

There was plentifulness of play astatine the Monday qualifier for the last 4 spots successful the Shriners field, including Jared Wolfe starring the mode with a 60 astatine Boulder Creek Golf Club. His birdie putt connected the last spread stopped 3 inches abbreviated of the cupful successful his bid for a 59.

“The extremity is to marque it successful (the event) this week, and that was conscionable a small cherry connected top,” helium said of his quest for 59.

Brandon Wu (62), Jin Jeong (63) and Alex Smalley (63) grabbed the different spots. The decorativeness by Wu, playing successful the last radical of the 102-person field, helped debar a monolithic playoff for the last spot. Until helium posted, 12 players were successful the clubhouse with 64s and were looking astatine a 12-for-1 playoff.

Fun locomotion for Burns

It took a small other clip for Sam Burns to marque the locomotion from the locker country to the driving scope Tuesday afternoon. It was the archetypal clip astir of his peers had seen Burns since his triumph Sunday astatine Sanderson Farms. Dozens of players and caddies went retired of their mode to fist bump and congratulate him connected triumph No. 2.

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

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