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TCU Golf 2021-2022

JogginFrog

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Hayden Springer also with a big run today in Colombia. Through 24 holes of the tournament he was at Even and 3 shots outside the cut line. Twelve holes later, he's at -8 and inside the top 10. Shot a back-nine 28 with a pair of eagles.
 

JogginFrog

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A two-Frog version of the Knost/Stoltz Subpar podcast this week, as Tom Hoge was the featured guest.
Link to the whole interview:

He talks about getting recruited to TCU from Fargo (UNLV was an alternative), how TCU schedules may or may not have been influenced by proximity to casinos, and a hilarious Bill Montigel impersonation (42:30). Also, he talks about getting paired with Tiger as a rookie and how his first pro victory came the week he stayed in a room at a strip club. Also, his response to Billy Horschel calling him the worst-dressed pro on tour.

Plus a couple of video clips from the interview:
 
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JogginFrog

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Springer with a run of 5 birdies to get into the top 3 in Colombia.

Edit: Springer eagles the last for a 63; has him within 2 of the lead but it's a crowded leaderboard--bit of a birdiefest.
 
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JogginFrog

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Good news: Hayden Springer with a final-round 65 to finish T5 (-20) in Colombia.
Less-good news: The winner and runner-up (both -22) leapfrog Hayden in the points standings, so he drops a spot despite the strong finish.
 

JogginFrog

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Tom Hoge misses the cut by 2 at Brookline. The U.S. Open has a nice stats page that shows just where players gain/lose shots. Hoge was better than average off the tee but had uncharacteristically poor iron play (144th in the field). Strange, as he's been in the top 10 on tour in that category for most of the year. An announcer on one of the video highlights said that he spoke with Tom on the range and he said he wasn't pleased with how he was hitting it. He also got the less-favorable side of the draw (late/early).
 

JogginFrog

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Chris Berzina played well this past week in the Texas Amateur at Willow Brook in Tyler, finishing T24. A couple of other current Frogs came close to making the cut--Ethan Dial missed by one and Colton Cavender by two.

Others of interest: Connor Henry made the cut and finished T48; recent TCU grad Trevor Brown MC'd, as did Aaron Hickman, a Willow Brook member who won the Mid-am Match Play there in 2020.
 

JogginFrog

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J.J. Henry shot -1 today. Good play, but missed the cut by a shot. Paul Barjon made the cut on the number.

Barjon took the Rory line on #9 today:

Also of note: Andrew Presley shoots 63 in the APT event in Tulsa this week to get into the top 10 with one round left.
 

JogginFrog

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The collegiate theater of the LIV Golf vs. PGA Tour war has begun playing out. OSU's Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra planned to come back for his senior year and so withdrew his name from this year's PGA Tour University standings. But he reversed course this week, taking the LIV offer. The Tour has promised sanctions against its members who go to LIV, but it can't penalize collegians who have yet to join the Tour. Lopez-Chacarra believes that will allow him to eat the LIV cake without jeopardizing a later Tour career. "The PGA Tour will still be there when I’m ready," he said in announcing the move.

Meanwhile, Haskins award winner Chris Gotterup (OU), who made the cut at the U.S. Open and this week in Connecticut, plans a Tour career and is hoping to use sponsor exemptions to get there. He says LIV hasn't approached him.

The difference is that Chacarra-Lopez has fellow-Spaniard Sergio Garcia pulling strings for him. And it's probably easier for a Euro to envision a career without the Tour.

Gotterup says that "good golf takes care of everything" and that if LIV offered him he probably wouldn't "entertain it too much." But he's a poster child for the Tour's vulnerability with college stars. The top-ranked college player per Golfstat (Lopez-Chacarra is #2), Gotterup missed the top 5 in the multi-year PGA Tour University rankings. So, he only earned status on third-tier PGA Tour Canada, which puts him two full seasons away from Tour membership (one if he gets through KFT Q school)--with no guaranteed money.

The Tour is vulnerable to having its stars poached, but it's really vulnerable in the college pipeline, for whom a Saudi investment of $1 or $2 million changes everything. As Lopez-Chacarra said, “This contract gives me peace of mind and ensures the future of my family.”

And in his mind, it creates no barrier to future Tour membership. But the Tour came out to say that collegians forfeit their PGA Tour University standing if they play in non-Official World Golf Ranking events. (LIV responded by applying for standing with OWGR.) Pierceson Coody turned down a two-year, multi-million LIV deal that covered all travel expenses--plus a deal for brother Parker--because he thought it would jeopardize his Tour options. (He is the top-ranked player in PGA Tour University and earns full KFT status.)

But I don't see how the Tour can effectively bar independent contractors who have never been members. Hope the Tour offers more carrot and less stick for collegians.
 
The collegiate theater of the LIV Golf vs. PGA Tour war has begun playing out. OSU's Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra planned to come back for his senior year and so withdrew his name from this year's PGA Tour University standings. But he reversed course this week, taking the LIV offer. The Tour has promised sanctions against its members who go to LIV, but it can't penalize collegians who have yet to join the Tour. Lopez-Chacarra believes that will allow him to eat the LIV cake without jeopardizing a later Tour career. "The PGA Tour will still be there when I’m ready," he said in announcing the move.

Meanwhile, Haskins award winner Chris Gotterup (OU), who made the cut at the U.S. Open and this week in Connecticut, plans a Tour career and is hoping to use sponsor exemptions to get there. He says LIV hasn't approached him.

The difference is that Chacarra-Lopez has fellow-Spaniard Sergio Garcia pulling strings for him. And it's probably easier for a Euro to envision a career without the Tour.

Gotterup says that "good golf takes care of everything" and that if LIV offered him he probably wouldn't "entertain it too much." But he's a poster child for the Tour's vulnerability with college stars. The top-ranked college player per Golfstat (Lopez-Chacarra is #2), Gotterup missed the top 5 in the multi-year PGA Tour University rankings. So, he only earned status on third-tier PGA Tour Canada, which puts him two full seasons away from Tour membership (one if he gets through KFT Q school)--with no guaranteed money.

The Tour is vulnerable to having its stars poached, but it's really vulnerable in the college pipeline, for whom a Saudi investment of $1 or $2 million changes everything. As Lopez-Chacarra said, “This contract gives me peace of mind and ensures the future of my family.”

And in his mind, it creates no barrier to future Tour membership. But the Tour came out to say that collegians forfeit their PGA Tour University standing if they play in non-Official World Golf Ranking events. (LIV responded by applying for standing with OWGR.) Pierceson Coody turned down a two-year, multi-million LIV deal that covered all travel expenses--plus a deal for brother Parker--because he thought it would jeopardize his Tour options. (He is the top-ranked player in PGA Tour University and earns full KFT status.)

But I don't see how the Tour can effectively bar independent contractors who have never been members. Hope the Tour offers more carrot and less stick for collegians.
I’m typically an advocate for the PGA Tour on most things, but I think they’ve boxed themselves into a corner with collegians and overall access to the various tours these days. It’s a mess, quite frankly.
 

JogginFrog

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I’m typically an advocate for the PGA Tour on most things, but I think they’ve boxed themselves into a corner with collegians and overall access to the various tours these days. It’s a mess, quite frankly.
Yep. Today's leaderboard is a perfect example, with a recent grad and a current college player in the top 5.
 
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