This year’s edition of the Rocket Classic has seen a significant increase in prize money compared to last year’s edition. The PGA Tour event comes with a $9.6 million prize purse, an increase of $400,000 over last year’s tournament, which was won by Australian Cam Davis.
The results are in for the 2025 Rocket Classic and it was a drama-filled finish with a three-way playoff extending five holes and over an hour of extra play after regulation that would decide the winner.
Chris Kirk, Philip Knowles and Andrew Putnam share the lead after two rounds of the Rocket Classic, while the course record fell for the second straight day Friday at Detroit Golf Club.
At age 39, Chris Kirk has seen plenty in his PGA Tour career, and he is impressed with the current crop of rising players. Kirk is defending his title at The Sentry in Kapalua, Hawaii, this week as the season gets underway.
Hideki Matsuyama lost his wallet in London and his caddie and coach for the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs, but finished the day in second at the St. Jude Championship.
Chris Kirk aced the 14th, shot 6-under-par 64 and entered the clubhouse with the early lead at the St. Jude FedEx Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis on Thursday.
Last year's triumph at the PGA Tour's Honda Classic was a story about redemption for Chris Kirk. Both the name of the tournament and the trajectory of Kirk's career are totally different this time around.
These are halcyon days for sleeper pick backers and longshot bettors, with a 300/1 outsider winning The American Express to follow the victories of Chris Kirk (60/1) and Grayson Murray (300/1) so far in 2024!
The PGA Tour's five-event "West Coast Swing" begins Thursday at The American Express in La Quinta, Calif. Contested across three courses, the AmEx has long been a staple of the tour schedule.
The PGA Tour's first full-field event of 2024 begins Thursday with the opening round of the Sony Open at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. With
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Cometh the hour, cometh the slightly unexpected man! You’d have scored sportsbook odds of around 120/1 on a Chris Kirk victory at The Sentry, which confirms just how unlikely he was to strike in a Signature Event surrounded by a stack of players ranked inside the world’s top 20.
It's time to island hop from Maui to Oahu this week for the second leg of the Hawaii double at the Sony Open. Yardbarker's Jack Dougherty is here with the picks.
This past Sunday, the PGA Tour saw its first event of the 2024 conclude in the form of The Sentry. In a playing field of 59 players, Chris Kirk held his nerve till the end to emerge victorious.
The PGA Tour returns to the United States this week for the RSM Classic at Sea Island Golf Club in Georgia, and it'll be great to see some familiar faces back on the golf course.
When you look at the odds you see that this field is pretty wide open. We see nobody under +1000 with five players between +1300 and +1800. The odds are not usually distributed like that.