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USA Today
28-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Four golfers, including a speed trainer, are Monday qualifiers for 2025 CJ Cup Byron Nelson
Four golfers, including a speed trainer, are Monday qualifiers for 2025 CJ Cup Byron Nelson The CJ Cup Byron Nelson added the final four golfers to its 156-man field with the addition of the Monday qualifiers. Waterchase Golf Club in Fort Worth, Texas, located about 50 miles southwest of TPC Craig Ranch, host of the Byron Nelson, was the Monday qualifier site. There were 63 names on the tee sheet when the day started and 51 scorecards were handed in at the end of the day. Four golfers survived Monday qualifier to make Byron Nelson Nelson Ledesma, 5-under 67 Bobby Massa (a), 5-under 67 Ross Steelman, 5-under 67 Nick Watney, 5-under 67 Andrew Loupe also shot 5-under 67 but he was odd man out after being eiminated in a 5-for-4 playoff. If Massa's name sounds familiar, he reached the quarterfinals of the 124th U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, last summer before being eliminated by eventual champion Josele Ballester. Massa is currently an instructor and trainer in the Dallas area who, since 2015, "has trained a number of golfers – professional and amateur – to enhance flexibility and increase their speed to add more distance," according to the USGA. Notable names who didn't make it through Monday qualifying William McGirt Tag Ridings Charles Reiter Joseph Bramlett (WD) Kevin Tway (WD) Dylan Wu (WD) 5 Monday qualifiers went on to win on PGA Tour Since 1980, only five Monday qualifiers went on to win later that week: Corey Conners (2019 Valero Texas Open), Arjun Atwal (2010 Wyndham Championship), Fred Wadsworth (1986 Southern Open), Kenny Knox (1986 The Honda Classic), Jeff Mitchell (1980 Phoenix Open).
USA Today
30-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Eagle, eagle, albatross!: Tag Ridings recalls his magical nine holes in 2005 American Express
Tag Ridings smiled when asked about his play in the 2005 American Express, then the Bob Hope Classic, and said every two months or so someone asks him to recount that record-setting day. Ridings' third round that week at Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage, one of four courses in the desert tournament that year, is still in the record books. Ridings is the only golfer in tour history to have two eagles and a double eagle in a single round, and he did it in just nine holes. It's a round Ridings, in contention this week at the Galleri Classic after a 9-under 63 on Saturday, remembers well. 'You know, we played so many courses in that Hope out here, you say, 'oh, I don't remember this course or that course, I only played one year,' ' Ridings said. 'I only played Tamarisk one year. It's had been off the rotation for a little while.' Playing the back nine at Tamarisk as his opening nine of the day, Ridings started the historic run with a 2-iron from 256 yards on the par-5 12th that found the hole for the rare albatross. Later, Ridings made eagles on the par-4 17th from the fairway and then the par-5 18th. "Of course, I can remember certainly every hole on that nine,' Ridings said. 'And I remember most of the holes on that back just because of the strangeness of the round." Despite being 7 under on those three holes, Ridings managed only a 6-under 66 on that day. 'I recount the fact that I had a double eagle and two eagles in nine holes, but I also had five three-putts in 10 holes,' Ridings laughed. Ridings followed the record round with a fourth-round 76 (the event was five days and 90 holes at the time) and missed the cut.
