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Express Tribune
14-07-2025
- Sport
- Express Tribune
Rookie Mouw rallies to win PGA Tour title
William Mouw fired a nine-under par 61 to surge to a one-shot victory in the ISCO Championship in Kentucky on Sunday, capturing his first US PGA Tour title in his 20th start. Mouw started the final round seven shots off the pace, but eight birdies in the first 13 holes at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville saw him power to the top of the leaderboard. He walked off the 18th with a 10-under par total of 270 but had to wait two hours to see if his three-shot lead would hold up. "I did all I can out there and played really good golf and left it all out there," Mouw said. "I guess I broke the course record, too, which is cool." Paul Peterson, the 37-year-old tour rookie who led by one after completion of the weather-disrupted third round on Sunday morning, made it an anxious wait. Peterson bounced back from two early bogeys with three birdies on the back nine. He pulled within one stroke with a 31-foot birdie at 16 but could get no closer. "It's tough to come up short," Peterson said. "But I played some good golf this week. I'm proud of what I did." Having started the round so far back, Mouw said he wasn't thinking too much about his position until a fan informed at the 12th that he was in the lead. "Knowing you're in the lead on 12 and having seven holes to play and playing very, very good golf coming in is definitely the best round I played," said Mouw, who added his final birdie at the 17th. Mouw's previous best finish was a tie for sixth at the Puerto Rico Open in March. The Californian had gained dubious fame in January when he posted an octuple bogey 13 during the second round of the American Express, earning kudos for his ability to laugh at the disaster. On Sunday, his first win had him fighting back tears. "I worked very hard for this," Mouw said.
Observer
14-07-2025
- Sport
- Observer
Mouw wins first PGA Tour title
WASHINGTON: William Mouw fired a nine-under par 61 to surge to a one-shot victory in the ISCO Championship in Kentucky on Sunday, capturing his first US PGA Tour title in his 20th start. Mouw started the final round seven shots off the pace, but eight birdies in the first 13 holes at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville saw him power to the top of the leaderboard. He walked off the 18th with a 10-under par total of 270 but had to wait two hours to see if his three-shot lead would hold up. "I did all I can out there and played really good golf and left it all out there," Mouw said. "I guess I broke the course record, too, which is cool." Paul Peterson, the 37-year-old tour rookie who led by one after completion of the weather-disrupted third round on Sunday morning, made it an anxious wait. Peterson bounced back from two early bogeys with three birdies on the back nine. He pulled within one stroke with a 31-foot birdie at 16 but could get no closer. "It's tough to come up short," Peterson said. "But I played some good golf this week. I'm proud of what I did." Having started the round so far back, Mouw said he wasn't thinking too much about his position until a fan informed at the 12th that he was in the lead. "Knowing you're in the lead on 12 and having seven holes to play and playing very, very good golf coming in is definitely the best round I played," said Mouw, who added his final birdie at the 17th. Mouw's previous best finish was a tie for sixth at the Puerto Rico Open in March. The Californian had gained dubious fame in January when he posted an octuple bogey 13 during the second round of the American Express, earning kudos for his ability to laugh at the disaster. On Sunday, his first win had him fighting back tears. "I worked very hard for this," Mouw said. — AFP
USA Today
13-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
William Mouw wins ISCO Championship in Louisville for his first PGA Tour victory
William Mouw won the ISCO Championship on Sunday at Hurstbourne Country Club, holding off a host of challengers for his first career PGA Tour victory. Mouw posted a 9-under 61 in the final round to finish 10 under overall. He topped Paul Peterson — who began the day atop the leaderboard at 8 under — by one shot. Peterson was 2 over through nine holes Sunday before making a back-nine charge, with birdies on 10, 14 and 16. But a birdie bid slid past the hole on the par-3 17th, and he was unable to convert a lengthy birdie putt just off the 18th green to force a sudden-death playoff. A 24-year-old from California, Mouw played collegiately at Pepperdine and turned pro in 2023. This week was his 20th PGA Tour start. Prior to Sunday, his best finish on the circuit was a tie for sixth at the Puerto Rico Open in March. He had $504,400 in career earnings but he picked up a check for $720,000 for this victory.
Newsweek
12-07-2025
- Sport
- Newsweek
Surprising PGA Tour Pro Ties Scottish Open Course Record for Lead
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Everyone knows that links golf is a different animal entirely. That is what makes what happened at the Scottish Open highly surprising. The 2025 Genesis Scottish Open is just Chris Gotterup's second start on links courses in his professional career. His debut was also at The Renaissance Club a year ago, and it couldn't have gone worse, as he missed the cut by six strokes. However, a year later, the story is completely different. Gotterup enters the weekend of the tournament as the sole leader at 11-under. But it was his second round that turned heads, tying Bernd Wiesberger's 2019 course record (9-under 61). Gotterup started the day in full swing, carding six bogey-free birdies on the front nine to make the turn with a 29 strokes, his PGA Tour career-low nine. He then added three more bogey-free birdies on the back nine to complete one of the best rounds of his career. In fact, his second-round score improved his season-best by two strokes. His previous low score of the year was the 63 he carded in the first round of the Puerto Rico Open. That performance allowed him to climb 32 spots on the leaderboard, sitting in first place. In the first round, Gotterup posted a score of 2-under with four birdies and two bogeys. Chris Gotterup of the United States tees off on the 18th hole on day two of the Genesis Scottish Open 2025 at The Renaissance Club on July 11, 2025 in North Berwick, Scotland. Chris Gotterup of the United States tees off on the 18th hole on day two of the Genesis Scottish Open 2025 at The Renaissance Club on July 11, 2025 in North Berwick, the 2024 edition of this event, Gotterup bowed out early after carding rounds of 66 and 77 (3-over). Gotterup wasn't widely tipped to do well at the Scottish Open. Before traveling to Scotland, he had played 21 PGA Tour tournaments and is still searching for his first top-10 finish of the season. Chris Gotterup: "You just take what you can get" After the second round, Chris Gotterup evaluated his performance and explained the importance of taking advantage of good opportunities to achieve a score like his: "I definitely played good today. Not a lot of wind in the morning which was obviously beneficial," he said. "But yeah, it's funny, when it flips, you get some holes that you like and some holes that you don't like and vice versa." "I think there's definitely certain holes that feel nice. Nice three pars to finish." "You just take what you can get, what the course gives you." Gotterup will start Moving Day at 10:45 a.m. Eastern Time, grouped with Harry Hall, who is second, two strokes behind the leader. More Golf: Golfer struck by lightning at Iron Man tournament, airlifted to hospital
USA Today
27-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Resilience personified: Philip Knowles contending at Rocket Classic after 3 eagles Friday
Not one, not two, but three. That's how many hole-out eagles Philip Knowles had on his scorecard in Friday's second round of the 2025 Rocket Classic. And these weren't just your run-of-the-mill chip-ins, either. Knowles holed pitch shots from 40 yards, 37 yards and 27 yards to eagle three of the four par 5s at Detroit Golf Club — Nos. 4, 7 and 17. He also birdied the other one — No. 14 — to finish the day 7 under on the par 5s alone. He's the second player to make three eagles in a round on the PGA Tour this season. Chandler Phillips did it on Thursday at the Players Championship. "When you're playing bad, you never feel like you're going to play good again, and when you have days like today, you just don't understand how you could ever shoot a bad round of golf," Knowles said in his post-round presser Friday. "So, it was super rewarding. I got pretty lucky a couple times, I hit quality shots that ended up going in the hole, but I can't imagine chipping in three times for eagle ever again in my life." All of that culminated in an 8-under 64 in the second round for Knowles, who grabbed a share of the lead with Chris Kirk at 14 under early Friday afternoon. The 28-year-old from Florida fired a first-round 66 Thursday. Philip Knowles has had his share of adversity as a pro golfer Knowles hasn't made a cut on the PGA Tour since March and he only has one top-30 finish this season in 11 starts, which came at the Puerto Rico Open where he was T-16. But that could be chalked up to his recovery from an injury he suffered shortly after he'd graduated from the Korn Ferry Tour in 2022. "We're here in 2025 and I'm still playing out my rookie year starts playing on a medical [extension]. I got hurt that year early at Pebble, freak accident taking out the recycling, severed a nerve in my thumb so I didn't play much that year." His bad fortune didn't stop there. "In 2024 when I started to come back, I was actually on my way to Mexico for my first start on my medical [extension] and I broke out in shingles in my right eye. That persisted. I got on meds and then it came back, and I got off meds and it came back, and that happened four times over the next like six months." Or there. "Mixed in there as well I got a really bad case of mono at one point." Health issue after health issue derailed his PGA Tour career from the jump, but now, after two excellent rounds and a lot of highlight-reel shots at the Rocket Classic, Knowles suddenly finds himself at the top of the leaderboard in an event that features four of the top 20 players in the world. "We still don't know that we have the answer, and I still don't feel like I'm a hundred percent, but life goes on," Knowles said. "I've got two little girls, I've got a wife who needs me to help. It's not like I can spend my days just woe is me. "So today was — we laughed about it a little bit, me and my caddie. This felt like at least a little bit of the evening out of that law of averages. Not that I should expect to chip in for eagle multiple times." He must accrue enough FedEx Cup points in the starts left on his medical extension to keep his exemption status for the rest of the season. In order to keep it for 2026, he needs to finish inside the top 100 in the standings. Entering this week, he was 195th. "For me playing on a medical, it's kind of a unique position. I only have a handful of starts left, so kind of feels like every week is a big week and I feel like I've been playing with that burden for a lot of the year. "Though I haven't been in this position, I feel -- it doesn't feel unfamiliar. And to be here playing on the PGA Tour, you think you've never been in this position before, but we've all been in this position before at some level, be it college, junior golf, early professional golf, we've all been here." If Knowles — the world No. 519 — comes out victorious in Detroit, it would undoubtedly be one of the most unexpected wins on Tour in 2025. But no matter what happens, he has one thing he's certain he can look forward to: dad time. His wife and two young daughters are in Detroit with him this week. "[It's] the best," he said. "I mean, it's so much fun when you leave the golf course and it just becomes dad time. I mean, it's immediate. We go into lunch and all of a sudden you're sitting there trying to help a 2-year-old eat her lunch or not lose her mind, you know... But I love it and I wouldn't change it for the world. I'm always grateful to have them around. I would never not want them to be here."
