Ryder Cup training camp is shaping up for the first

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP)– A lot for all the PGA Trip fall occasions having weak fields.The Procore

Championship in Napa, California, is shaping up to be training camp for the Ryder Cup for the American team to prevent getting rusty ahead of the Sept. 26-28 matches.Advertisement “I know I’ll be

there,”Scottie Scheffler said.Ditto for Xander Schauffele, who recommended the world’s No. 1 player was a strong voice in urging whoever is on the U.S. team to be at Silverado Resort on Sept. 11-14. That was a big concern at the last Ryder Cup, held outside Rome

in 2023. The PGA Tour season that year ended Aug. 27 with the Trip Champion at East Lake, and the majority of the group had a full month away from tournament golf before going to Marco Simone for the start of the Ryder Cup on Sept. 29. Justin Thomas and Max Homa were the only players in Napa, along with U.S. captain Zach Johnson. Europe had its players at the BMW PGA Champion in England. Team Europe went out to a fast start at Marco Simone and cruised to a simple victory to recover the cup.Advertisement The Procore Championship is the only PGA Trip event on the schedule

between the Tour Champion and the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York City. It likewise is the same week as the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.Odds are against having all 12 of the Americans there– among them is Bryson DeChambeau, who is prohibited from the PGA Trip because he’s with LIV Golf.U.S. captain Keegan Bradley informed Sports Illustrated he would utilize among his six badger DeChambeau, who ended up in the top 10 at 3 of the 4 majors this year.”Bryson is going to be an extremely essential piece to us winning the Ryder Cup, “Bradley said in a text to SI.”He brings a lot.

He brings energy, passion but most importantly, he’s one of the best players on the planet. “Ad The LIV Golf League season ends Aug. 24 with its team championship in Michigan. The only other competitors for DeChambeau would be a YouTube match or European trip drops in Switzerland, Ireland, England or France.Justin Leonard increasing Justin Leonard played 4 rounds of competition last week for the very first time in eight years, making the cut at the British Open and finishing in a tie for 59th.

Leonard, 53, remained mainly away from golf while working as a television expert, and this is only his 3rd year playing a full PGA Trip Champions schedule.He had actually not played in the British Open given that 2016 at Royal Troon– where he won The

Open in 1997– and he was pleased to be amongst 3 players 50 and older to make the weekend at Royal Portrush. Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson were the others.Advertisement”It’s a different kind of pressure coming over here and playing as a PGA Tour Champions guy, “Leonard said. “There aren’t lots of expectations. But still, it’s good to come over and play well and validate coming over.”And then Leonard with his dry funny bone found a perk to his performance.

“Plus, consider

all the world ranking points I got this week,”he said”We have actually done a hard reset on the ranking. It’s rough thinking there are more than 4,000 golfers out there much better than I am. But I showed them all wrong today.”

His world ranking going into Royal Portrush was No. 4,689. Leonard’s tie for 59th moved him all the way to No. 1,436. So now there are only 1,435 players better than him.Advertisement But he has one thing going for him. Leonard has a better world ranking than Tiger Woods(No. 1,626) for the very first time because the very first week of

1997. Hard reset, indeed.Senior European trip The PGA Tour Champions is taking its program out of the nation next year with the Portugal Invitational set for July 31 to Aug. 2. It becomes part of a five-year partnership and will be the very first time a PGA Tour-sanctioned event for stroke play remains in Portugal.That will give the PGA Trip Champions players the possibility of a three-week stay in Europe if they choose.

The Senior British Open is the week in the past, and the Senior PGA Champion on the Legends Trip will be the week after.Advertisement The 78-man field will have players from the PGA Tour Champions and the Legends Trip in Europe, with a total purse of$ 3 million at The Els Club Vilamoura.Ernie Els redesigned the course, which formerly hosted the Portugal Masters from 2007 through 2022. The World Cup of Golf was kept in Portugal in 2005.”The players are going to like it, not just the golf course but this whole location, “Els stated.”It’s such a lovely part of the world.”Significant cuts Xander Schauffele made it through a 3rd consecutive year making it in every major, taking his overall to 15 in a row dating to a weekend off in the 2022 Masters.Advertisement The opposite end of that was Cameron Smith, who missed out on the cut in

all of them. He almost had some prominent company. 2 other significant champions, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson, missed out on the cut in 3 out of four.Schauffele was amongst 17 players to make the

cut in all 4 majors. That includes Corey Conners, who made it in the U.S. Open but had to withdraw in the last round with injury.Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton were the only

players from LIV

Golf to make the cut in all 4 majors. That’s a smaller sample size considering the objective for numerous LIV players is to merely qualify or otherwise enter into a major.Calamity Corner

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Scottie Scheffler had no such issues at “Calamity Corner,” the well-known par-3 16th hole at Royal Portrush for the British Open.He made birdie in the opening round and once again on Friday. He started to build his lead with a 3rd straight birdie on Saturday

. And in the final round, he drilled his tee shot to 15 feet.He missed out on. “It’s just a difficult hole, I guess,” Scheffler stated with a laugh.Calamity Corner does not have quite the exact same familiarity as the 12th hole at Augusta National, so one more birdie might not have actually been as notable as the time Scott Verplank made birdie all 4 rounds in the 2003 Masters.Advertisement Scheffler thought back to the very first time he played it in a practice round.”It was drizzling and blowing in out of the left,

and I smoked a 3-wood to 30 feet, and I believed it was a quite amazing shot,” Scheffler stated.” And then I was betting Sam Burns in a practice round, and he hit 3-wood to about 25 feet and made it.” Divots Even though Nelly Korda hasn’t won this year, her seven-win season in 2024 gave her such a big lead that she’s still No. 1 in women

‘s golf.

Korda has been No. 1 for 70 successive weeks, the fifth-largest streak since the females’s world ranking started in 2006. … Scottie Scheffler registered his 4th triumph of a minimum of 4 shots at the British Open, the most PGA Trip titles by four shots or more considering that Tiger Woods did it five times in 2000.

… Xander Schauffele connected for seventh in the British Open and earned $451,834, moving him past$

60 million in profession PGA Tour profits. Scheffler ended up being the fourth player to exceed$ 90 in profession tour money.Advertisement Stat of the week Scottie Scheffler, Harris English and Chris Gotterup offered Americans a 1-2-3 finish in the British Open for the very first time given that 1998, when it was Mark O’Meara,

Brian Watts and Tiger Woods.Final word” I have actually gotten everything I desired out of this week apart from a claret jug, and that’s even if someone was simply a little bit much better than the rest people.”– Rory McIlroy on his return home to Northern Ireland for the British Open. ___ AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf