Weekly Tournament Roundup
PGA TOUR
Jordan Spieth returned to the winners circle this week with a win in the Travelers Championship. Spieth struggled with a shaky putter during the final round and had to get up and down from a greenside bunker on 18 to make the playoff with Daniel Berger. Spieth then managed to hole out from that same bunker to win the first playoff hole. Spieth now has 10 PGA Tour wins before the age of 24. New Zealands Danny Lee continued his great form this year scored 68, 67, 68, 67 to tie for 3rd place with Charlie Hoffman.
Tim Wilkinson finished T43 on 3 under par and Steve Alker missed the 36 hole cut.
LPGA TOUR
So Yeon Ryu won the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship with an 18 under par total. Lydia Ko finished in a tie for 25th place at 8 under par for the week.
ALPS TOUR
Cantabrian Shaun Jones is making the most of his decision to play the Alps Tour this season. The Alps Tour is a feeder tour for the European Challenge Tour which is a step below the full European Tour. Shaun finished 15 under par this week for outright 3rd place 7 strokes behind winner Maxime Radereau who finished with a round of 62. Shaun followed up 6th and 7h placings in recent events and is now 16th on the OOM.
EUROPEAN TOUR
Ryan Fox scored 68, 75, 68, 70 seven under to finish tied for 26th in the BMW International in Germany. The Winner Andres Romero was playing on a tournament sponsors invitation after losing his PGA Tour card and turned his life around by winning the German event. This was his first win for 10 years on the European Tour and the winnings have vaulted him into 45th place in the end of year Race to Dubai
CHINA TOUR
Fraser Wilkin was the leading Kiwi at the Fragrant Hills International Golf Club last week. Fraser was contending for the title but dropped costly strokes on the final nine and finished T11 with nine under par. Daniel Pearce finished on -6 for a share of 20th place and Mathew Perry -5 for a T26. Josh Geary and Jae An both missed the cut.
WEST FLORIDA GOLF TOUR
Waikato’s Nick Coxon has recently turned professional and is playing on the west Florida golf tour. Nick missed the cut with 76, 71.
OUR PLAYERS THIS WEEK
LPGA TOUR
Lydia Ko tees it up this week in the KPMG Women’s PGA at the Olympia Fields course
Watch Lydia’s interview here http://www.lpga.com/videos/lydia-ko-meets-the-press-before-the-2017-kpmg-womens-pga-championship
USPGATOUR
Danny Lee and Tim Wilkinson are playing in the Quicken Loans National. Danny is now sitting in 51st place on the Fedex Cup and Tim Wilkinson at 149th.
CHINA TOUR – www.cgatour.com.cn
This week Fraser Wilkin, Dan Pearce, Josh Geary and Mathew Perry are playing in the Changbai Shan Wanda Open
EUROPEAN TOUR
Ryan Fox will be looking for another good performance this week in the HNA Open de France to be played at Le Golf Nationale Paris
WEST FLORIDA GOLF TOUR
Nick Coxon missed the cut at the Tara Golf and Country Club Bradenton Florida and will go to a Monday Qualifying in New York for the web.com tour event.