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USA Today
26-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Peter Malnati Tee Times, Live Stream, TV Coverage
Peter Malnati Tee Times, Live Stream, TV Coverage | Texas Children's Houston Open, March 27-30, 2025 Peter Malnati heads into the 2025 Texas Children's Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course with +100000 odds. He made the cut and finished 36th in his last appearance at this course, the 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open. Before Malnati tees off in Houston, TX, let's analyze his recent performances to help you place your best bets. How to watch Peter Malnati at the Texas Children's Houston Open Date: March 27-30, 2025 March 27-30, 2025 TV: Golf Channel Golf Channel Location: Houston, TX Houston, TX Course: Memorial Park Golf Course Memorial Park Golf Course Live Stream: Watch LIVE with Fubo! What time does Peter Malnati tee off? Round 1 Tee Time: 9:15 AM ET 9:15 AM ET Round 2 Tee Time: 2:25 PM ET ESPN+ is the new home of PGA TOUR LIVE. Sign up now to access 4,300+ hours of live coverage from 35 PGA TOUR tournaments this year. Peter Malnati's last five tournaments Recent stats for Malnati Over his last 10 rounds, Malnati has ended the day below par three times, while also registering two rounds with a better-than-average score. He has not finished any of his last 10 rounds with one of the top-10 scores of the day. Malnati has ended up six or more shots behind the best score of the day in each of his last 10 rounds. Peter Malnati odds to win Golf odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook. Odds updated Tuesday at 5:19 PM ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub.
USA Today
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Peter Malnati seeks to find last year's winning mojo at the 2025 Valspar Championship
Peter Malnati seeks to find last year's winning mojo at the 2025 Valspar Championship PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Valspar Championship tournament director Tracy West remembers the purple cape of Hatcher Malnati flying in the air as he ran on to the 18th green at the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort to celebrate after his father, Peter, tapped in for victory at the 2024 Valspar Championship. With a manufacturer of paint and coatings as its title sponsor, the longtime Tampa stop on the circuit dubs itself as 'the most colorful stop on Tour' and sends 20 'color scouts' around the venue to hand out 2,500 prizes to fans who dress colorfully. 'The champ's kid has one of our prizes on and it wasn't staged,' West recalled. Malnati, who had gone more than eight years and four months between his only other victory, snatched up his four-year-old son in his arms and broke into tears while giving one of the most heartfelt victory interviews anyone can remember. 'Even I teared up and I'm not a crying person,' West said. Malnati birdied the 17th hole in the final round for a 4-under 67 and a two-shot victory, his first since the 2015 Sanderson Farms Championship, that validated all his hard work and guaranteed two years of job security. 'Playing on the PGA Tour was just a dream. It wasn't even a realistic goal. I was a very mediocre college player at a very mediocre college. Great college, mediocre golf program,' he said of his alma mater, the University of Missouri, where he met his wife Alicia. 'So I was still that kid. I would go out to practice and every 6-footer at the end of my practice session was to win the tournament. And even at that point in my life, I imagined that moment when I would be married to the love of my life and she would come running out and we would have our family. Like, that's something that I wanted.' Malnati, 37, won the Valspar last year three weeks after taking his first lesson with Bradley Hughes, a former player, who gave him a swing thought of trying to feel as if the clubhead exits the hit with the club on the same path as at address. It worked but when Malnati watched highlights of his victory he noticed that he didn't come close to achieving his desired swing plane. 'It was a powerful thought for me and it must have helped,' he said. But it didn't last long. Malnati has been mired in a slump for the last seven months, failing to record a top-30 finish since hoisting the Valspar trophy and missing the cut in seven of his last eight starts last season. 'When you win you can't help but feel like, 'Hey, I've got something, something's clicked, I figured something out.' And then the game is so humbling. I've been in this rut and I was kind of approaching that definition of insanity where I was working really hard, I figured the stuff that I did to help me win must be the right stuff, so I just did it over and over and over and over and over again. And I just wasn't getting any results.' On the one-year anniversary of his fruitful lesson with Hughes, he made the difficult decision to part ways and began working with Liam James, an Englishman who works with several Tour pros and was introduced to Malnati by his longtime trainer. It's the first time Malnati hasn't received instruction from a former player. 'He has studied the swing; he's studied the mechanics. So it's a different perspective for me. He's taken me on a little bit of a different kind of route to understanding what I do. I think just having that different voice, that different perspective I'm learning, I'm growing,' he said. Malnati hasn't finished better than T-49 this season and last week he missed his fifth cut in eight starts this season. He did so in excruciating fashion, making a triple bogey on the final hole at TPC Sawgrass to miss the cut at the Players Championship by one stroke. But Malnati returns to a place with good vibes and where the pieces to the puzzle all fit in place. He will be honored at Innisbrook Resort during a ceremony at the end of play on Thursday at Peter Malnati Appreciation Day, and he remains as upbeat as ever that he is on the verge of turning a corner. 'We're all just a hot streak and a little bit of confidence away from crushing it,' he said, and of his swing changes added, 'I have that feeling that the sky's the limit. Obviously, it's all happening below the surface right now, we haven't seen anything come to fruition in this short three-week time yet, but under the circumstances I feel really, really good.'
USA Today
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
2025 Valspar Championship shows the love for defending champion Peter Malnati
2025 Valspar Championship shows the love for defending champion Peter Malnati PALM HARBOR, Fla. — With his trademark floppy bucket cap and a bright, highlighter-yellow golf ball, Peter Malnati has cultivated a look that makes him relatively easy to distinguish from the field during a PGA Tour event. Not so at this week's Valspar Championship at the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort. That's because instead of a standard baseball cap, tournament organizers have provided volunteers with floppy hats and the first 500 spectators through the gates to watch Thursday's first round of the tournament will receive a Malnati-style hat. Among a field of 155 players, it may be as hard to pick out Malnati as Steve McQueen or Pierce Brosnan in the final heist of the classic movie 'The Thomas Crown Affair.' [In that case, it's a bowler hat that is part of the disguise that confuses the surveillance team.] 'It's pretty cool and funny,' Malnati said. 'In a way it's almost making fun of the fact this guy nobody has ever heard of won this tournament last year but he's actually really cool and he wears a bucket hat. That's kind of how I interpret it.' Malnati won the Valspar Championship last March by two strokes over Cameron Young thanks to a final-round 4-under 67. It marked Malnati's first win on Tour in nearly nine years. The bucket hat isn't the only way the tournament is celebrating its defending champion. It's become a tradition for the previous year's winner to get a parking spot painted for them in the player parking lot and Malnati's celebrates his love of bicycles, the Kansas City Royals and more. It was revealed on Sunday and the Hot Wheels car was a big hit with Malnati's two sons. Every champion also gets a mural painted in his hometown. Malnati's, which includes an image of him holding son Hatcher over his head just as he did on the green after tapping in his winning putt, was painted on the side of a parking ramp in downtown Knoxville that faces a Farmer's market that the family likes to attend. 'He was so tickled,' said Valspar tournament director Tracy West. 'It's our way to let the champion bring the win back to his community.' To really lean into celebrating Malnati's victory, West added another new twist. She proclaimed the first round Peter Malnati Appreciation Day. Once play finishes on Thursday, Malnati will be feted during a ceremony shortly after 6 p.m. ET, hosted by former Tampa Bay Buccaneers great Ronde Barber, who also serves as the tournament general chairman. Malnati knows about his day and is scheduled to attend his ceremony but the rest remains a surprise, so we won't spoil it. 'We went all in,' West said. 'To our knowledge, we're the only PGA Tour event to honor our defending champ during tournament week.'
NBC Sports
18-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Valspar Championship 2025: How to watch, streams, field and prize money
The PGA Tour concludes its Florida run with the Valspar Championship. Here's some need-to-know information: When and where is the Valspar Championship? March 20-23 on the Copperhead Course (par 71, 7,351 yards) at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida. How to watch the Valspar Championship (All times EDT) March 20 2-6PM: Golf Channel/NBC Sports App March 21 March 22 1-3PM: Golf Channel/NBC Sports App 3-6PM: NBC/Peacock/NBC Sports App March 23 Who is in the field at the Valspar Championship? There are 156 players eligible to compete. Notables include: Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood and Luke Clanton (a). Click here for the full field. What is the Valspar Championship purse and prize money? The purse is $8.7 million with $1,566,000 and 500 FedExCup points going to the winner. What is the cut at the Valspar Championship? The top 65 players and ties through 36 holes qualify for the final two rounds. Who won the 2024 Valspar Championship? Peter Malnati earned his first PGA Tour win in eight years, defeating Cameron Young by two shots. Malnati got a great break on the 16th hole when, in some gnarly greenside rough, he was awarded relief from a sprinkler head, and saved par. He then birdied the 17th to take a one-shot lead, while Young bogeyed No. 18. Malnati avoided a big mistake on his final hole to collect the first prize, a two-year Tour exemption and his first trip to the Masters Tournament.
Chicago Tribune
17-03-2025
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Today in Chicago History: DePaul stuns UCLA to reach NCAA Final Four
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 17, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) 1971: Lou Malnati and his wife, Jean, opened their first deep-dish pizzeria in Lincolnwood. After working with his father at Pizzeria Uno, overseeing Pizzeria Due and opening Su Casa, Malnati debuted his own pizza place on St. Patrick's Day. 'Seldom has the lowly but luscious pizza been served in a more attractive atmosphere than this,' Tribune columnist Will Leonard wrote days later. 'The former Novak's restaurant, at 6649 N. Lincoln Av., has been completely redone with warm, soft lighting, dark wood paneling, red carpeting and stained glass windows.' Malnati often hosted charitable events at his flagship restaurant, including an annual benefit for a scholarship fund set up in the name of friend and Chicago Bears halfback Brian Piccolo. Malnati died of cancer at age 48 in 1978. His sons took over. Marc Malnati stepped down as CEO of the company in 2016 but remains involved in the family business. 1979: DePaul University men's basketball coach Ray Meyer made it back to the Final Four for the first time in 36 years. The Blue Demons faced No. 1 seed UCLA in the regional final with a chance to reach the Final Four in Salt Lake City. UCLA, led by David Greenwood and Kiki Vandeweghe, was a heavy favorite. DePaul came out slow and deliberate, and with 5 minutes, 50 seconds left in the first half led 35-26. 'There was a timeout,' Tribune sports columnist Rick Talley wrote the next day. 'And after looking at the clock, 65-year-old Meyer peered down at his players seated on the bench and said: 'All right! Now we're going to pull it out. They're going to come out of this timeout in a trap zone, and we're going to take it right at 'em.' 'How did Meyer know UCLA would come out in a trap zone? Because he's been coaching 37 years and he knows how other coaches think.' At halftime, DePaul led by 17. They held on for a 95-91 victory. For the first time since his first season at DePaul in 1942-43, Meyer was in the Final Four. The other three teams: Magic Johnson's Michigan State, Larry Bird's undefeated Indiana State and surprising Penn, a No. 9 seed. Indiana State squeezed past DePaul 76-74 on March 24, 1979, and advanced to the NCAA championship game. 1985: Dallas-based Southwest Airlines began service from Chicago's Midway International Airport. The first destination: St. Louis. Introductory rates were just $17 for the seven daily flights aboard Southwest's Boeing 737-300s and 737-200s. 1992: Carol Moseley Braun upset Sen. Alan Dixon in the Democratic primary election, then went on to become the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Want more vintage Chicago?
