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TCU Golf 2021-2022

JogginFrog

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Through 36 holes in Denmark, Julien Brun leads the Challenge Tour event by 2.
Edited to add tweet.


Round 3 Update: Julien shoots 70 and heads into the last round in solo 2nd, one shot off the lead. He'll have a chance for a second 2021 Challenge Tour win on Sunday, playing in the final pairing.

Round 4 Update: Julien has been a pretty good closer, but not this week--a final-round 75 drops him to T15. Mostly hurts him in the wallet, as he has already solidified his promotion to the European Tour.
 
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JogginFrog

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Sanna Nuutinen was within a shot of the clubhouse lead late on Day 1 at the Women's (British) Open before a bogey-bogey finish dropped her to T11. Still a good start, though.

Carnoustie did not do a great job of separating the field. A total of 49 players--more than a third of the field--finished Even or +1. The big group at Even includes Angela Stanford.

Scoring: https://www.lpga.com/tournaments/aigwomensopen/leaderboard
 

JogginFrog

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Sanna Nuutinen with a second-round 71 to sit T16 at the almost-halfway mark of the AIG Women's Open.

Sanna is showing up in articles and social media posts about European Solheim Cup team qualification, because she currently sits 2nd on the LET Solheim Cup points list (top 2 qualify, as do 4 others via the Rolex World Rankings). This is the final event to earn points.

Sanna's standing is tenuous because this week's major carries 4X points, and all of the Euros who regularly play on the LPGA are in the field. If one of them wins, she will earn enough points to jump the LET regulars and bump Sanna out of a spot.

Through 2 rounds, the ones in position to do that are England's Georgia Hall (T1) and Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen (T5), both of whom are within 25 points of Sanna. Leona Maguire (T5) might also earn enough points if she wins.

The actual point distribution info is not easily found on the LET site, so it's hard to figure out hypotheticals, but Sanna is giving them a run for it. If she finishes top 10 and a non-Euro wins, I think she's likely to hold her spot.
 

JogginFrog

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Bogey-free 64 from Tom Hoge today pushes him to T6 at the Northern Trust and his projected position in the FedEx Cup standings to 62nd. That would be good enough to get him through to next week if he can hold or improve on the weekend--but a lot of great golfers close on his heels, including Koepka, Spieth, Cantlay and Hovland.

Only one highlight so far on pgatour.com: https://www.pgatour.com/video/2021/...-birdie-on-no--2-in-round-2-at-the-north.html
 

JogginFrog

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Sanna Nuutinen shoots a bogey-free 68 today at the AIG Women's (British) Open to move up to T4, just 2 shots off the lead going into the last round. She'll be in the next-to-last pairing tomorrow.

As @First Tee Frog pointed out a while back, Sanna has played consistently well over the past two years, with eight top-5 finishes on the Ladies European Tour. She is used to being on a leaderboard. But she hasn't won on the LET yet, and her biggest paycheck has been a shade under US$36,000. Tomorrow, she'll have a legit shot at a major title and an $870,000 payday. A top-6 finish would more than double her career earnings.

Then there's the chance at Solheim Cup qualification. Still lots of possibilities with 32 players, including 8 Euros, within 6 shots of the lead. But Sanna needs to stay within 4 places of co-leader Nanna Koerstz Madsen, and she needs Madsen and Georgia Hall not to win. If one of the Swedes wins, she could still qualify with a top-6 finish. And there's an outside chance that captain Catriona Matthew could use one of 6 captain's picks on her.

So far, I haven't seen any highlights of Sanna's play. You'd think the LET would highlight its members, but so far, she's only been given half a tweet:


Update: Found a couple of shots from Sanna in this clip of 3rd-round highlights. Go to 7:38 for her approach to 18 and then keep watching for the putt at 7:59.
https://www.aigwomensopen.com/video/1ee9abea-a769-4f4a-a309-5f6e43a12bcb
 
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JogginFrog

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Tom Hoge does get some highlights, courtesy of a 67 that has him T6 at the Northern Trust. Just putts and pitches, though.
https://www.pgatour.com/video/2021/...-birdie-on-no--8-in-round-3-at-the-north.html
https://www.pgatour.com/video/2021/...-no--13-in-round-3-at-the-northern-trust.html
https://www.pgatour.com/video/2021/...-no--16-in-round-3-at-the-northern-trust.html

He's 3 off the lead, but he'll have to wait til Monday to make his push to advance in the playoffs, as Sunday play was called off due to tropical storm Henri.
 

JogginFrog

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Former TCU teammates Annika Clark and Emmy Martin are among 330+ hopefuls who plunked down $2,500 to take part in the LPGA/Symetra Tour Q School Stage 1 tournament this week in Palm Springs. Top 95 and ties advance to Stage 2 in October.

Today was cut day after contestants played one round each at three courses. Martin had a tough first round and missed the cut. Clark made the cut at +2 -- she is currently one shot out of the top 95 with one round to play.

Scoring is here: http://leaderboard.symetratour.com/public/QSLeaderboard.aspx
 

SnoSki

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Proud to share that my BIL won his first European tour event today, out dueling henrik stenson in the final grouping at the Czech Masters. No word yet if he will be receiving a year’s supply of slovacek’s as a reward.

He was 179 in the world before the win. This one should help! Also gets 2 years of exemptions into euro events and moves into the winners exemption category, getting him into the impressive field in Dubai later this year.



 

JogginFrog

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Proud to share that my BIL won his first European tour event today, out dueling henrik stenson in the final grouping at the Czech Masters. No word yet if he will be receiving a year’s supply of slovacek’s as a reward.

He was 179 in the world before the win. This one should help! Also gets 2 years of exemptions into euro events and moves into the winners exemption category, getting him into the impressive field in Dubai later this year.





Congrats to Johannes! That second shot into 12 showed nerve, as did taking on the flag at 16.

Looks like his game has staying power, and now he has the space to plan his schedule without worry for a couple of years.
 

JogginFrog

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Tough final round for Nuutinen at Carnoustie; she shoots 76 and falls to T26. When the course isn't separating players, a few bad holes really hurts. She falls to 5th (I think) on the LET Solheim Cup list and would need a captain's pick to qualify.

On the plus side, she does earn north of $50,000, so still her best payday as a pro.

Edit: As it turns out, Georgia Hall just edged out winner Nordqvist for the second LET Solheim spot by less than 2 points, and less than 5 over Madsen, who doubled the 72nd hole when a bogey would have wrapped up the spot. Shades of Jean Van de Velde.
 
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JogginFrog

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Annika Clark's dream is a little closer today. She shoots a final-round 72 on the Dinah Shore course at Mission Hills and will qualify for Stage 2 of the LPGA/Symetra Q School. A lot of players are still on the course, but she is ahead of enough finishers to ensure advancement.

How close is she to earning an LPGA card? On one hand, she is just $3,000 and 12 great rounds of golf away. On the other hand, she has to get through two levels of increasingly competitive fields. Stage 2 is 72 holes in mid-October in Venice, FL (Plantation Golf & Country Club), against 94+ others who advanced from Stage 1 plus pros outside of the top 35 on the Symetra Tour and outside of the top 150 on the LPGA Tour. If she makes the top 20-30% of that field, she'll get into the Q Series--two 72-hole events in December in Alabama against Symetra 11-35 and LPGA 101-150 for one of 45 LPGA cards.

But if she finishes Stage 2, she will earn status on the Symetra Tour, and improving her status on that tour is probably the goal this year.
 

JogginFrog

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Tom Hoge now solo 5th coming down the stretch at the Northern Trust following a pair of back-nine birdies. He looks unlikely to catch Rahm and others at the top, but he now has a touch of breathing room among those working to get into the next playoff event--he's projected to jump from 108th to 53rd.

Highlights from today:
https://www.pgatour.com/video/2021/...n-no--8-in-round-4-at-the-northern-trust.html
https://www.pgatour.com/video/2021/...-no--12-in-round-4-at-the-northern-trust.html
https://www.pgatour.com/video/2021/...-no--13-in-round-4-at-the-northern-trust.html
 

JogginFrog

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Solheim Cup picks finalized today. GolfChannel.com article describes the key role played by assistant captain Angela Stanford in tracking data & other info used to make the USA's captain's picks. The choices (Noh, Harigae, Altomare) were fairly easy--they were the next three players in the Solheim Cup standings. (Angela finished 13th in the standings, by the way.)

On the European side, Sanna Nuutinen was not selected, but fellow Finn Matilda Castren got a nod. The captain's choices on that side were also unsurprising.
 
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