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New Black Desert Resort to host first PGA Tour event in Utah in 60 years

Pga tour likes what it has seen in surveying utah’s newest golf course near ivins.

By Dick Harmon

Black Desert Resort is on a roll.

Literally, Black Desert Resort gained a giant piece of momentum for the new course located next to Entrada Golf Club in southern Utah.

It just opened in May.  

In the past 20 days, the Black Desert track landed a 2025 LPGA Tour event and a PGA Tour stop, the first Tour stop for Utah in 60 years.

The PGA Tour announced Friday that Utah’s newest golf course will host the Black Desert Championship in 2024. It will be part of the FedEx Cup fall series. In other words, many of the best golfers in the world will target Utah to chase Cup points.

This is huge.

The course hasn’t even cut its grass more than a few dozen times this summer and the world’s best players can now put two professional events on their calendar.

This is a home run for Utah, for golf in the state, and for Black Desert Resort, located in Ivins.

If you thought it was already hard to get tee times in southern Utah, just wait. The world will get a peek of Black Desert’s pristine and immaculate fairways and greens cut out of a beautiful lava field and word will spread about play all over the St. George area.

“Oh, this is big time,” said St. George director of golf Colby Cowan. 

“I mean, I think we’ll see big things happen around here because of it. I don’t think we fully understand the impact it’s going to have on our area and all golf courses. I mean, it’s going to elevate it to where people are going to be looking at St. George and Washington County as a true golf destination and getaway. 

“I think you can see some people saying, ‘Hey, let’s go to Bandon Dunes and the next year we’ve got to hit up St. George again.’ Everything is really gonna change the complexity of golf down here entirely. It’s a new set of eyes on all of our golf courses. I mean, it’s gonna help raise the tide a little bit. We’re all gonna benefit from it greatly and it’s going to make us work harder to make things better.”

In early May, I had the chance to play some of the holes at Black Desert. It was eye-popping, challenging, yet fair. The rough is minimal because of the wide fairways and the lava rock fields that line the entire layout. No question the layout can be set up to challenge the world’s best from the tips.

“We are thrilled to partner with Black Desert Resort in bringing PGA Tour golf to the state of Utah,” said PGA Tour executive vice president and president Tyler Dennis. “In introducing the PGA Tour — and the LPGA the following year — to a new market, we look forward to collaborating with the Black Desert Resort team in their vision for professional golf in the greater Zion community. Competitively, our members will enjoy the challenges and incredible views that define the Black Desert Golf Course.”

It is estimated the financial impact to the area will be more than $60 million. Black Desert Resort, when all phases are complete, is destined to be the largest resort in Utah — bigger than any ski resort. A hotel, shops, condos, spas, pools and the golf course will make it a destination stop for sure.

Covering the event as media or attending the event as a fan will be an interesting addition to the Utah sports scene.  

“Black Desert Resort has quickly made a huge impact on Utah golf history, already having announced an Epson Tour event, the Black Desert Resort Championship, this fall at Soldier Hollow Golf Course in Midway and bringing an LPGA Tour championship to St. George in 2025,” remarked Randy Dodson, publisher of Fairways Magazine, the official publication of the Utah Golf Association.

“With today’s announcement of a PGA Tour event in the fall of 2024, Black Desert Resort has reestablished Utah’s significance in professional tour golf, all at a time when the game of golf in Utah has seen significant growth. Junior golfers and even casual golf fans will now have a chance to see the world’s best golfers in person. And by the way, the golf course itself is a must-play.”

The Senior PGA Tour, now the Champions Tour, used to conduct a stop in Park City at Jeremy Ranch and we’d see some of the legends of the game. Then we had the Champions Challenge at Thanksgiving Point, which featured a lot of father-son combinations of senior pros, including hall of famers Johnny Miller, Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus and many others.

But this Black Rock Championship event is a long-overdue call from the PGA Tour itself. The last time we had a Tour event was the Utah Open back in 1963 at the Salt Lake Country Club when Tommy Jacobs earned the trophy.

The folks at Black Desert Resort should be extremely satisfied. Tour officials dropped in for a visit, toured the course, viewed the resort hotel plans, and bit. It’s a giant compliment to all involved.

It says a lot about Tom Weiskopf’s design, located in a beautiful setting in our red rock country. 

“We are honored to host the world’s most prestigious professional golf tours at Black Desert Resort,” said Black Desert’s managing partner Patrick Manning. “Bringing the best from the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour to Black Desert, then having the best experience imaginable, along with their fans, is priority No. 1.”

Can’t wait.

PGA TOUR to return to Utah after 60 years, coming to Black Desert Resort

S T. GEORGE, Utah ( ABC4 ) — The Black Desert Championship 2024 Professional Golf Association TOUR FedEx Fall Cup in October will mark the historic return of the PGA TOUR to Utah after more than six decades.

The event — which is set to take place on the Black Desert Resort ‘s 19-hole championship golf course designed by Tom Weiskopf — will run from Oct. 9 through Oct. 13. This is the inaugural tournament in the four-year agreement between Black Desert and the PGA TOUR.

VIP weekly hospitality tickets for the championship are now available online . Public general admission passes and daily hospitality tickets are scheduled to be available in June. Manning told ABC4.com that the only place ticket sales will be guaranteed will be from blackdesertevents.com .

“We are delighted to bring top-tier professional golf back to this region and look forward to making history with an unforgettable tournament experience,” Patrick Manning, managing partner of Black Desert said.

Manning said volunteer spots for the event filled up within two hours.

“The tournament is an opportunity for our team and community to come together and represent our hometown,” Manning said.

The event schedule

• Official Pro-Am, open to the public
• Opening day, full field competition
• Second round of competition, full field competition
• Third round of competition, player field after the cut
• Final championship round
• Trophy presentation

“The Black Desert Championship is a landmark event for both the PGA TOUR and the state of Utah,” Manning said.

VIP tickets and exclusive hospitality opportunities are available online and include packages with varying levels of benefits and experiences.

VIP experience breakdown

• Multi-level club overlooking 16th green and par-3 17th hole
• Starts at $1,750
• Club on the 18th green over two levels, including covered open-air spaces and rooftop deck
• Starts at $2,250
• Grants VIP access throughout the day — both at the resort and on-course — across all five tournament days
• Starts at $7,500
• Access to walk inside the ropes for an entire round of competition with PGA TOUR players
• Starts at $10,000
• Join a PGA TOUR professional for 18 holes at the Black Desert Resort, including post-round reception
• Starts at $20,000 per team
• Play alongside two PGA TOUR professionals at Black Desert
• Starts at $30,000 per team

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Southern Utah to host PGA in 2024, LPGA in 2025 after 60 years

Michele Roepke Jul 6, 2023

Black Desert Resort, near St. George, UT, home golf course for the 2024 PGA FedEx Cup Tour and 2025 LPGA Tour stops. Photo: courtesy of Black Desert Resort

IVINS, Utah – The PGA TOUR and Black Desert Resort announced on Monday a new PGA TOUR tournament, the Black Desert Championship , set to debut in 2024 during the FedExCup Fall.

As part of a four-year agreement, the Black Desert Championship will mark Utah’s first PGA TOUR event in over 60 years. A celebratory kickoff announcing the event was held Friday in Greater Zion with Utah Governor Spencer Cox in attendance along with representatives from Black Desert Resort. The Black Desert Championship will be part of the PGA TOUR’s 2024 FedExCup Fall as a Full-Field event. Tournament dates will be announced at a later time.

The 2024 PGA TOUR Season begins in January with the FedExCup Regular Season, followed by three FedExCup Playoffs events in August and the FedExCup Fall starting in September. “We are thrilled to partner with Black Desert Resort in bringing PGA TOUR golf to the state of Utah,” said PGA TOUR Executive Vice President and President Tyler Dennis. “In introducing the PGA TOUR – and the LPGA the following year – to a new market, we look forward to collaborating with the Black Desert Resort team in their vision for professional golf in the Greater Zion community. Competitively, our members will enjoy the challenges and incredible views that define the Black Desert Golf Course.” The Black Desert Championship is one of two professional golf events coming to Black Desert Resort, which will also host an LPGA Tour event in 2025. Played against the stunning backdrop of southern Utah’s red rock mountains, the par-72 Black Desert Golf Course was designed by Phil Smith and the late Tom Weiskopf, the final design from the World Golf Hall of Fame 2024 inductee.

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“We are honored to host the world’s most prestigious professional golf Tours at Black Desert Resort,” said Black Desert’s managing partner Patrick Manning. “Bringing the best from the PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour to Black Desert and them having the best experience imaginable, along with their fans, is priority number one.” The PGA TOUR first appeared in Utah in 1930 when World Golf Hall of Fame member Harry “Lighthorse” Cooper won the Salt Lake Open. Seven years later, the TOUR returned to Salt Lake City in 1937, when Al Zimmerman won the first of back-to-back Utah Open titles. The historic Western Open, now known as the BMW Championship, stopped in the Beehive State a decade later when seven-time PGA TOUR winner Johnny Palmer captured the 1947 tournament in Salt Lake City. In 1948, Utah hosted the Utah Open Invitational, where Lloyd Mangrum edged George Fazio in a playoff. The event was played thrice (1958, 1960, 1963), with the 1963 edition – won by Tommy Jacobs by a stroke over Don January – the last time the TOUR played in the state. While the PGA TOUR returns to Utah for the first time since 1963, the Beehive State has been home to the Korn Ferry Tour’s Utah Championship, presented by Zions Bank since the Tour’s inaugural season in 1990. Contested at Oakridge Country Club since 2017, past champions of the tournament include John Daly (1990), Zach Johnson (2003), Brendon Todd (2008), and Cameron Champ (2018). The 2024 Black Desert Championship will be televised on Golf Channel, Peacock, and PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+.

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Utah Welcomes Return of PGA TOUR and LPGA TOUR with Stunning New Tournaments at Black Desert Resort

The PGA TOUR and Black Desert Resort have revealed plans for a new golf tournament, the Black Desert Championship, set to take place in 2024 during the FedExCup Fall. This event will mark the first PGA TOUR competition in Utah in over six decades.

The Black Desert Championship is not the only professional golf event scheduled at Black Desert Resort. The resort will also host an LPGA Tour event in 2025. Both tournaments will take place against the backdrop of southern Utah's breathtaking red rock mountains. The Black Desert Golf Course, a par-72 course designed by Phil Smith and the late Tom Weiskopf, will serve as the venue for these prestigious events. Weiskopf, a World Golf Hall of Fame inductee for 2024, played a significant role in the course's final design.

Black Desert Managing Partner Patrick Manning ( who will be joining us on July 14 for the Silicon Slopes Conversation Series ) said, "We are honored to host the world’s most prestigious professional golf Tours at Black Desert Resort. Bringing the best from the PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour to Black Desert and them having the best experience imaginable, along with their fans, is priority number one.”

The Black Desert Championship will be a Full-Field event as part of the PGA TOUR's 2024 FedExCup Fall. Specific dates for the tournament will be announced at a later time. The 2024 PGA TOUR Season will commence in January with the FedExCup Regular Season, followed by three FedExCup Playoffs events in August, and finally, the FedExCup Fall starting in September.

The PGA TOUR has a historical connection with Utah, dating back to 1930 when Harry "Lighthorse" Cooper won the Salt Lake Open. The tour returned to Salt Lake City in 1937 and again in 1947 when Johnny Palmer emerged victorious in the tournament, which was then known as the Western Open. In 1948, the state hosted the Utah Open Invitational, with Lloyd Mangrum emerging as the champion. The last PGA TOUR event held in Utah took place in 1963, won by Tommy Jacobs.

Although the PGA TOUR has been absent from Utah since 1963, the state has been home to the Korn Ferry Tour's Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank since 1990. This tournament has been held at Oakridge Country Club since 2017 and has seen notable champions such as John Daly, Zach Johnson, Brendon Todd, and Cameron Champ.

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Ivins golf course scores biggest gain yet; PGA Tour event slated for fall 2024 or 2025

IVINS — For at least one weekend a year, Southern Utah will be the center of the professional golfing universe. 

After already gaining a stop on the LPGA Tour, St. George News has learned that the Black Desert Resort in Ivins will be announcing Friday that it will be hosting a stop on the PGA Tour. 

The full details will be announced in a news conference at the Ivins course Friday with Utah Gov. Spencer Cox expected to be in attendance. Black Desert Resort officials said back in March it will either be the fall of 2024 or 2025, depending on when the under-construction resort’s hotel and shopping district are completed.

The likes of Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Rickie Fowler and, if he’s still playing at age 49, Tiger Woods will be playing below the red mountains of Ivins. 

The PGA Tour solidified its place as the biggest professional golf league in the world after its merger earlier this month with the LIV Tour – a move that has generated some controversy because it would give the government of Saudi Arabia partial ownership of the league. 

According to Patrick Manning, managing partner of Black Desert Resort developer Enlaw LLC, while the course was the last designed by former PGA pro and architect Tom Weiskopf before his death last year and was worthy of the pros, the idea of the PGA Tour coming to Southern Utah didn’t seem likely. 

But Manning said he was convinced by Black Desert Resort golf director David Viveiros that it wasn’t an impossibility. Even so, when PGA Tour officials were invited to take a tour of the about-to-open course in February, the visit was meant to just be an introduction and a look-around. 

By the end of it, Manning received a surprise.

“We got the PGA to come out and visit the course. They loved it and they gave us a term sheet,” Manning told St. George News. “ I think there was probably just some good timing involved but they said yes.”

By March, the agreement was reached between the PGA Tour and Black Desert Resort but held from the public until the announcement Friday. 

It will be the first time the PGA Tour has come to the state since the Utah Open in the Salt Lake City area was last a PGA Tour stop in 1963.

It will also put the nation’s eyes on Ivins and the St. George area as the event is likely to be televised worldwide and nationally by either NBC, CBS or ABC/ESPN. 

“We’ve already had the PGA’s event coordinators out and they’ve identified the spots where the grandstands, the TV towers, all the scaffolding that’s gonna be needed for the event,” Manning said. 

Like the LPGA Tour event announced last month , the PGA Tour stop at Black Desert Resort will be a long-term contract with a stop in Ivins for at least the next five years and beyond. 

And that will also draw an annual economic influx in tourism dollars to the area in the tens of millions. 

According to the PGA Tour, most tournaments generate a $60 million to $80 million impact per year for a community. But that impact can be much larger. A recent Arizona State University study determined that the PGA Tour’s 2022 event in Phoenix added over $450 million annually to the Arizona economy. 

In comparison, the LPGA Tour stop is expected to generate $20 million yearly for the local economy, while the Greater Zion Convention and Tourism Office says the one-time event Ironman World Championship last year generated $62.1 million. 

Vivieros said usually a PGA Tour event draws golf fans from a 250-mile radius.

“Whenever a PGA tour or a professional tour event is implemented in an area, regardless of where you are from Albany the Pebble Beach, the 250-300-mile radius is in effect,” Vivieros told St. George News. The pool where you can expect will come from Vegas, Northern Utah, Mesquite and maybe even Southern California.”

Like the LPGA tournament, a plan is already in place for a system of shuttle busses and park-and-rides throughout Southern Utah to minimize the local traffic impact. 

“We are just doing everything we possibly can to keep cars off the road. That is a No. 1 priority for us,” Manning said. “We care about the community. We live in the community and we have some of the same frustrations, but in the end, I think that we should be embracing our visitors and we should be welcoming them to our town and share with them everything that we have here.”

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Chris Reed serves as a reporter for St. George News, where he has been honored with several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work, including first-place accolades. He started his journalism career as a sports reporter and editor in Southern California where he once compared shoe sizes with Shaquille O'Neal and exchanged mix tapes with members of the Los Angeles Kings. After growing up in the San Fernando Valley learning karate skills from Mr. Miyagi and spending a decade in Las Vegas mostly avoiding the casinos, he came to St. George for love and married his soulmate, a lifetime Southern Utah resident. He is the proud father of two boys, his youngest a champion against both autism and Type 1 diabetes.

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Meet the guy who is bringing the PGA Tour to Utah

by: Wesley Ruff

Posted: Jan 16, 2024 / 09:35 PM MST

Updated: Jan 16, 2024 / 11:35 PM MST

SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — The PGA tour moved from Hawaii to the mainland this week. In October, the tour will come to Utah.

The Black Desert Resort is planning on hosting the first tour event in Utah since 1963, and it’s all thanks to Patrick Manning.

In 2004, Manning was invited to check out a property in southern Utah.

“I was living in the Florida Keys, and I said I’ll go check it out. ‘Where is it?’ They said ‘St. George.’ I said ‘Awesome, okay, where is St. George?’ They said ‘Utah.’ I said ‘Where is Utah?'” Manning said.

When he got here and looked around, he was hooked.

“I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I just knew I was supposed to sell my other resorts and other projects and my homes and just stay here,” he said.

So, he stayed and started building the Black Desert Resort — complete with a championship golf course and a big hotel. Then, he thought, “Why not bring the PGA Tour here?”

“We got on the phone with the PGA and we just said we want a FedEx Cup Event, and they were laughing. I said ‘I don’t know what’s funny.’ They said ‘We get 100 requests like this per year.’ I said ‘Not from us.’ We somehow convinced them to come out here and visit the next week,” Manning said.

Landing a PGA Tour event is a tough prospect, especially for a new course. But when the PGA Tour came here, and took a look at the scenery, they said “It’s a go!”

“After walking the course for seven hours and seeing the platform that Black Desert provides, he said, ‘You’ve got a PGA Tour.’ And a quote from Steve Wenzloff, ‘There are spectacular courses on the PGA Tour, there are epic holes, but nothing will pop on national television like Black Desert,” Manning said.

There is still much to do before the tour comes here the first full week of October. The hotel isn’t finished, they need to build grandstands on top of the lava, but the fact that they landed an event so soon is amazing.

“To be awarded a PGA Tour before our grass had grown in all the way is pretty rare,” Manning said.

It will be interesting to see what the worlds best golfers think about the course when they finally get to play it.

“We know that they will say it’s beautiful, and they’ll say we treated them and their families at the highest levels that they would expect to be treated, but the golf course, we’ll have to wait and see. I don’t know if we’ll see super good scores, or not as good scores, we’ll have to see,” Manning said.

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Utah’s Tony Finau enjoys an emotional victory — his second PGA Tour win in a row

A week after winning the 3m open, the salt lake city native sets a tournament record in detroit by finishing at 26 under, winning by five strokes..

Tony Finau holds the winner's trophy after the final round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic golf tournament, Sunday, July 31, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Tony Finau started the hottest month in Utah weather history by watching his son play in a junior tournament in Murray and will begin August in Farmington, by staging his foundation’s pro-am tournament.

In between, the West High School graduate smoked his PGA Tour competitors with the best two-week performance for any professional golfer connected to the state. After going 5 years and 5 months between his first and second tour titles, Finau needed only a brief stay in the Upper Midwest to claim two more trophies and combined earnings of nearly $3 million.

That’s what shooting 43 under par for 144 holes will do for you, as Finau followed his victory in the 3M Open in Minnesota with a win Sunday in the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Michigan. He shot 64-66-65-67 for a 26-under-par total at Detroit Golf Club and a five-stroke win over Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Young and Taylor Pendrith.

That’s good stuff, from a golfer who once was known as a poor closer.

“I’m proud of the way I’ve fought through adversity through my career, and now I’m a back-to-back champion,” Finau said in a news conference. “That’s what happens. They say a winner is just a loser that’s kept on trying, and that’s me to a ‘T.’ … I’m only here as a winner because I chose not to give up and just keep going.”

How does @TonyFinauGolf follow up his first bogey of the week ... With a birdie and a fist pump 💪 His lead is back to 4 shots @RocketClassic . pic.twitter.com/2J4dnPJmXt — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 31, 2022

Amid whatever disclaimers may exist, such as fields weakened by LIV Tour defectors or a lull between the major tournament season and the FedExCup Playoffs, Finau’s ball-striking provided an emphatic argument for the merits of his July achievements. In Detroit, he hit 66 of 72 greens in regulation (91.6%), tying the PGA Tour’s third-best rate since the statistic started being tracked in 1980. Finau made that accuracy with his irons possible by hitting 46 of 56 fairways (82.1%) on a tight, three-lined course.

Finau reached seven (of 16) par-5 holes in two shots for the week. So while hitting every green in regulation for 72 holes on a par-72 course theoretically would require 144 shots, he needed 143 swings to get on the greens in Detroit.

“Wins are so special out here, because they’re so rare,” Finau said. “The PGA Tour is where the best players in the world are. It doesn’t matter what tournament, you have to play well, you have to earn the victory. To have earned these last two [wins] is very satisfying.”

His four-day score also was eight strokes better than last year’s winning total and broke the tournament record of 25 under, set in 2019 by Nate Lashley, a two-time winner of the Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open. Starting with the Sunday conclusion of The Open Championship at St. Andrews, Finau has shot higher than 67 only once in his last nine rounds – and that was a 68.

"It means everything to me that my kids can watch me ... " @TonyFinauGolf gets emotional after his win @RocketClassic . pic.twitter.com/DyBmEwqDOG — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 31, 2022

Finau, a Salt Lake City native whose family of five children now spends the summer in Lehi and the school year in Arizona, played the tournament’s first 64 holes without making a bogey. He three-putted from 70 feet on the par-3 No. 11, before making a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-4 No. 12. That response pretty much closed out his first win as a 54-hole leader, after being tied with Pendrith and having gone 0-for-5 in that position.

Even though he won by three strokes with a big comeback in Minnesota, Finau was disappointed with a wobbly finish. Sunday was another story. “All I wanted to do this week was show that I’m a winner and a champion,” he said on the CBS telecast, “and I think I did that today.”

So a golfer who stood 150th in FedEx Cup points as of late February is now seventh, with a shot at an $18 million bonus for winning the season competition. Finau will spend this week in Utah, with his foundation pro-am tied into the Korn Ferry Tour’s Utah Championship at Oakridge Country Club, then will compete in the three-event Playoffs, starting Aug. 11 in Memphis. He has automatically qualified to play for the U.S. team in the Presidents Cup in North Carolina in September.

🎙 @TonyFinauGolf meets with the media following second win in as many weeks @RocketClassic https://t.co/SlZ2sylq4r — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 31, 2022

Finau writes an annual list of goals, and “one of my goals was to be a multiple winner on tour this season,” he said. “To be able to accomplish that is amazing, Another goal was to win the FedEx Cup, and I put myself in position to do that.”

As a Draper resident, Mike Weir won two PGA Tour titles in three starts, with a tie for third place in between, over a four-week stretch in California in February 2003. That run is the only real challenger to Finau’s July performance among Utah pro golfers. On the amateur side, Preston Summerhays, whose father, Boyd, is Finau’s coach, won the State Am in Midway and the U.S. Junior Am in Ohio in consecutive weeks in July 2019 by going 12-0 in match play.

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Utahn Tony Finau wins 2nd straight PGA Tour victory

DETROIT (AP) — Tony Finau ran away with the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday at Detroit Golf Club to become the first PGA Tour player in three years to win consecutive regular-season events.

Finau closed with a 5-under 67 for a five-shot victory and a tournament-record 26-under 262 total. Taylor Pendrith (72), Patrick Cantlay (66) and rookie of the year front-runner Cameron Young (68) tied for second.

Finau coasted to his fourth career victory, a third title in 11-plus months. He was the 3M Open winner last week in Minnesota, where he rallied from five strokes back to win by three. Brendon Todd was the last to win two straight in the regular season, doing it in 2019.

Finau, the Salt Lake City native with Tongan-Samoan heritage, began his stretch of success last August at The Northern Trust, where he had his first victory in five years and 142 PGA Tour starts.

Finau stopped another drought in Detroit, winning for the first time in six attempts when he had or shared the 54-hole lead in a PGA Tour event. With his sixth birdie at No. 17 and a closing par, he broke Nate Lashley's tournament record of 25 under set in 2019 during the inaugural PGA Tour event.

The PGA Tour will close the regular season at the Wyndham Championship, with the North Carolina event opening Thursday. Players on the bubble will have one last shot to finish in the top 125 of the FedEx Cup standings to earn a spot in the playoffs and a full card next season.

Finau and Pendrith started Sunday tied and their potential duel in Detroit turned out to be a dud.

Pendrith had his first lackluster round of the tournament after he shared the first-round lead with Finau, led him by one shot after the second and matched his 21-under total through three rounds.

The 31-year-old PGA Tour rookie from Canada hit an errant tee shot on the second hole to the right in the rough behind tree branches — after being distracted by a fan running across the fairway — and later pulled a 9-foot to lose the lead for good.

Cantlay, No. 4 in the world ranking, had his third straight round in the mid-60s after opening with a 70. Young bounced back from a first-round 71 to finish second for the fifth time.

Pendrith struggled in the final round just as he did the only other time he had a 54-hole lead. He led the Bermuda Championship last October by three shots before a 76 dropped him into fifth place, which was his best finish before his showing in the Motor City. Pendrith played in his third tournament after missing nearly four months with a broken rib.

Finau began to pull away from Pendrith with an 11-foot birdie putt at No. 4 and a tap-in for birdie at No. 7.

He made a 21-foot putt for birdie at No. 10 for his third birdie. After his first bogey in the tournament at No. 11, Finau made a 31-foot putt with a break from right to left at No. 12 and Pendrith missed an 11-foot putt on the same hole to fall four shots back.

Cantlay surged within three shots of the lead with a 5-foot eagle putt at the par-5 14th. On the same hole, Finau made his fifth birdie of the final round to lead by four shots.

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Utah golf: Trio of Utahns contend on 3 different Tours

By sean walker, ksl.com | posted - june 23, 2024 at 4:46 p.m..

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SALT LAKE CITY — On two tours in two different states, a pair of Utah natives put themselves in contention for a win Sunday afternoon.

Tony Finau was tied for the lead on the back nine of the Travelers Championship before the Rose Park native who lives in Lehi shot 66 to finished tied for fifth with a four-day total of 18-under-par 262 at TPCRiver Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.

It's the second consecutive top-five finishes for Finau and third time in as many starts with a top-10 finish as he collected his $702,500 share of the purse.

Finau carded back-to-back birdies on the par-3 11th and par-4 12th holes to tie for the lead midway through the back nine. But after a birdie on the par-4, 293-yard No. 15, the West High graduate had a double bogey on the par-3 16th hole to finish four strokes out of a playoff between Scottie Scheffler and Tom Kim.

Scheffler fired three consecutive birdies on the back nine to lead by as many as two strokes down the stretch. But after a group of protesters interrupted the final hole just as Scheffler, Kim and playing partner Akshay Bhatia got to the 18th green, Kim finished off a wild near-eagle approach shot with a birdie to send the duo to a playoff.

In the extra hole, Scheffler drove 280 yards to the right side of the fairway before laying up 156 yards within 11 feet of the hole for a par that lifted the world No. 1 golfer to his fourth victory of the year in the PGA Tour's $20 million limited-field, no-cut signature events. The reigning Masters champion earned a payday of $3.6 million with the victory .

He's the first player since Arnold Palmer in 1962 to win six times before the month of July on the PGA Tour.

"It's pretty special. It's been a great season," Scheffler said after his round, which he celebrated with his wife, Meredith, and infant son, Bennett, by his side. "I've been fortunate to come away with some wins and it's been a lot of fun. Tom played his heart out today. He's a great player, a great champion. It was fun battling him today."

BYU's Cooper Jones adds top-25 finish in Korn Ferry Tour debut

More than 1,500 miles away, Cooper Jones was in contention until the latter stages of his Korn Ferry Tour debut at the Compliance Solutions Championship in Norman, Oklahoma.

The former Lone Peak standout who just completed his freshman season at BYU shot 66-66 to cruise past the cut line inside the top five. He added a 1-under 71 in Saturday's third round before carding eagle on the par-5, 621-yard fifth hole en route to a 1-over front nine that included three bogeys.

Jones carded even-par 72 in Sunday's final round to finish tied for 16th, earning an exemption into next week's Korn Ferry Tour event in Springfield, Illinois, where he headed immediately following the conclusion of Sunday's event.

Jones, who has received his two-year church mission call to Trujillo, Peru, earned an exemption to the event with his win in the Bridgestone Collegiate during the season. His initial goal was "to make the cut," but when he woke up Friday, he realized he could do much more.

"It's different than college, you got to be all gas the whole time." Cooper Jones reflects on his first made-cut on the Korn Ferry Tour this week @cschampgolf . pic.twitter.com/PSAa1KPZeK — Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) June 21, 2024

"I feel like the last year since I've been in college, it's kind of been my question is, like, what do I need to do to get better and to that level; Korn Ferry, PGA Tour level," Jones said. "These last two days, it's kind of made me realize just to sharpen everything up and more mentally just be aggressive, be smart, roll the putter good and you'll be set."

Jones pulled one back with a birdie on the par-4, 445-yard 15th hole. But his chase faded as John Pak, who shot 64-66-65 in the first three rounds, drained his second birdie on the par-5 12th hole to pull away for good en route to 23-under and a three-shot win. Only Jackson Suber, the 24-year-old Ole Miss grad, carding nine birdies including seven of the nine holes on the back to shoot 9-under 63 in the final round and finish two shots off the lead.

Former BYU golfer Peter Kuest rallied with an eagle on the par-5 17th hole to shoot even-par 72 and match Jones at 13-under, while former BYU golfer, coach and Davis High alum Daniel Summerhays finished tied for 43rd at 9-under.

Weber High graduate Connor Howe, who played collegiately at Georgia Tech, shot even-par 144 in two days before missing the cut.

Big-time birdie for @MWeirsy ! He's just one shot back @DicksOpenGolf . pic.twitter.com/5IgzDdI8y1 — PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) June 23, 2024

Weir finishes 2nd in Champions event

Former BYU golfer Mike Weir shot 5-under-par 67 to finish second by one shot to Padraid Harrington in the Dick's Open in Endicott, New York.

Harrington, who made a key par save on the par-3 17th hole en route to a 4-under 68, captured his eighth PGA Tour Champions title and second of the year with his third consecutive Dick's Open title.

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Salt Lake City Summer League dates, history & everything you need to know

By curt bishop | jun 20, 2024.

Now that the NBA Finals have reached their conclusion, it's time to focus on the offseason leading up to the 2024-25 NBA season.

However, just because we're in the offseason doesn't mean that basketball stops. In fact, there's more basketball to be had.

Starting July 6, there will be three summer leagues to follow. The California Classic Summer League is first, followed by the Salt Lake City Summer League and the NBA 2K25 Summer League.

The Salt Lake City League will obviously take place in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Delta Center, home of the Utah Jazz . Here is everything else you need to know about this summer league.

Everything to know about the Salt Lake City Summer League

The Salt Lake City Summer League is the second of three summer leagues that will take place this offseason. It will begin on Monday, July 8 and last until Wednesday, July 10.

Four teams will be involved in this year's Salt Lake City Summer League. The Oklahoma City Thunder, Philadelphia 76ers, Memphis Grizzlies, and the Jazz will compete against one another.

The Sixers will play host to the Thunder at 7 p.m. Eastern Time to kick things off. At 9 p.m. Eastern, the Jazz will play host to the Grizzlies.

The next day also features two games. This time, the 76ers will host the Grizzlies while the Jazz host the Thunder. The game between Philadelphia and Memphis will start at 7 p.m. Tip-off for the game between Utah and Oklahoma City will be at 9 p.m.

Finally, things come to a conclusion on July 10. The Grizzlies and Thunder will match up in the first game, with tip-off being at 7 p.m.

The Jazz and Sixers will close things out. Tip-off for that game is at 9 p.m.

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Beau Welling admits he’s quirky. He embraces it. Stop Welling — a golf course architect who helped his pal Tiger Woods put the finishing touches on both highly acclaimed Bluejack National outside Houston and Payne’s Valley at Big Cedar Lodge near Branson, Missouri — and you’re likely to get an earful on a topic that might surprise you.

For example, Welling is known for his love of Sasquatch, and even had someone dress up as the mythical creature at his wedding a few years back to peer in through a window. And it doesn’t stop there.

Welling, who grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, owns a degree in physics from Ivy League Brown University, and he also studied Irish literature at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and is quick to evoke Oscar Wilde or James Joyce when it suits the conversation.

But when Welling, who still maintains a deep Southern drawl, started to actively follow the game of curling during the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, what had started as a passive interest became an obsession.

Architect Beau Welling speaks on what will be the fifth tee at the Travis Club in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Errich Petersen for Travis Club)

“The more I watched, the more fascinated I got,” Welling told Golfweek when on-site for the official groundbreaking of the Travis Club in Austin, Texas. “It fits my brain. It’s strategic. And it’s a Scottish game that shares many qualities with golf. Both games are steeped in integrity and honor. In both games, you call your own fouls and there’s a degree of physics. So the science of it all just fascinated me. The friction and trajectories. There was a lot for me to chew on.”

Between the 2002 and 2006 Olympics, Welling found himself working on a few projects in Canada and that only helped to fuel the inquisitive fire he’d already been slowly building.

By the time the next Winter Games were played in Turin, Italy, Welling had become a bona fide fanatic. He estimated that of the 80-some hours of coverage NBC Sports had of the sport that year he consumed nearly all of it. Welling took vacation from a project he was working and learned everything about the sport he could.

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Welling even researched many of the American team members and found an interesting similarity. Unlike other countries from around the world whose teams were stacked by various regions, the American team was comprised largely of members from one small town — Bemidji, Minnesota. Welling realized the U.S. National Championships were to be held that year in the same town, the home of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. And when a work assignment he had scheduled overseas was canceled, perhaps fortuitously, Welling says, he decided a field trip was in order.

“This starts to feel like a calling, a sign from God, that I’m supposed to go to this,” Welling said. “I look online and you can buy tickets, but I see the time has lapsed, so I’m worried about this. I get my longtime assistant on the case and she has a thicker accent than I do. She gets someone on the phone and says, ‘Hey, my boss just loves curling and he comes in here every day talking about it and I don’t know what the heck he’s talking about it, but I just know he’d love to come up there and is there any way you can help me get him a ticket?’

Moderator Stephen Reynolds, left, Gil Hanse, and Beau Welling, during an event in Frisco, Texas. (Photo by Tim Schmitt/Golfweek)

“The guy on the phone says, ‘Do you mind if I ask where you’re calling from?’ and when she says North Carolina he asks why anyone from there would interested in curling. And she says, ‘Well, he’s from South Carolina.’ And they got me a ticket.”

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Scottie Scheffler wins sixth PGA Tour title of the year after intruders disrupt play

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Scottie Scheffler beat Tom Kim on the first playoff hole to win the Travelers Championship on Sunday — waiting out a disruption by intruders who sprayed powder on the 18th green for his sixth win of the year.

That’s the most in one PGA Tour season since Tiger Woods won six in 2009.

And Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked player, still has two months to go.

It was Scheffler’s fourth victory of the year in the PGA Tour’s $20-million limited-field, no-cut signature events, earning him a payday of $3.6 million. He also won the Masters and The Players Championship.

Scheffler closed with a five-under-par 65 for a four-day total of 22-under 258 at the TPC River Highlands. After the disruption on the 18th, which delayed play for about five minutes when police tackled the intruders, Scheffler left a 26-foot putt from the fringe on the edge of the cup and tapped in for par. Kim then made a 10-foot birdie putt to match Scheffler at 22 under.

The six people were protesting climate change. They came out of the crowd while the leaders were lining up their putts on the final hole of regulation. The protesters sprayed white and red powder, leaving stains on the green. At least one of the group was wearing a white T-shirt that said, “NO GOLF ON A DEAD PLANET.”

The hole location on the 18th was moved for the playoff to avoid the parts of the green affected by the intruders. Scheffler hit his approach to within 11 feet while Kim found a plugged lie in a greenside bunker. Scheffler two-putted for par and the victory.

“When something like that happens, you don’t really know what’s happening, So it can kind of rattle you a little bit,” Scheffler said.

“That can be a stressful situation, and you would hate for the tournament to end on something weird happening because of a situation like that,” he said. “Tom and I both tried to calm each other down so we could give it our best shot there on 18.”

Coming off a tie for 41st in the U.S. Open — by far his worst finish of the year — Scheffler trailed Kim by three strokes after the first round, by two after the second round and by one heading to the tee on Sunday.

Scheffler took a one-stroke lead over Kim with three straight birdies on Nos. 13-15 — he had putts for eagle on two of them. While Tom Hoge signed for a 62 to finish at 20 under, and Sungjae Im joined him there, Scheffler and Kim matched pars over the next two holes to set up the surprising finish.

Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau, Justin Thomas and Akshay Bhatia tied for fifth at 18 under. Bhatia was also in the final group that was disrupted by the protest.

“I was scared for my life,” Bhatia said. “I didn’t even really know what was happening. ... But thankfully the cops were there and kept us safe, because that’s, you know, that’s just weird stuff.”

Scheffler and Kim share a June 21 birthday — Scheffler is six years older — and they celebrated with New Haven pizza before the tournament about 30 miles north. The birthday buddies and Dallas-area residents played together in the final group on Sunday, chatting and joking together.

“As much as I love him, I would have loved to take that away from him,” Kim said of Scheffler claiming the winner’s trophy. “But I’m happy for him, and after I tapped out, after he tapped out, he said some really nice words and it meant a lot to me.”

But only one of them could hold the trophy at the end.

And just like it’s been so often of late, it was Scheffler.

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Golf Talk Today: Travelers Championship Round 3 tee times, LIV Golf Nashville ultimate party

The PGA Tour gears up for Round 3 of the Travelers Championship while LIV Golf hosts for the first time in Nashville.

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Welcome to Playing Through’s new morning ritual: Golf Talk Today.

Each morning will feature a Golf Talk Today, in which the crew will discuss various elements of the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and other professional golf tournaments.

It is Saturday at the Travelers Championship , the final PGA Tour Signature Event, and LIV Golf begins its second round in Music City.

Tom Kim leads by two shots over Collin Morikawa, Akshay Bhatia and Scottie Scheffler. It is a birdie fest at TPC River Highlands, so expect moving day to feature a lot of birdies, much like Friday did.

Shane Lowry and Robert MacIntyre fired off 8-under 62s on Friday to jump up the leaderboard. The Irishman moved up 27 spots, while the Scottish player went up 35 places.

The PGA Tour and LIV Golf do not have cutlines this week. Let’s look at the round 3 tee times for the Travelers Championship and take a look at the LIV Golf leaderboard.

Travelers Championship Round 3 Tee times (ET):

*All players will go off 1st tee*

8:00 a.m. — Eric Cole, Justin Rose

8:10 a.m. — Adam Schenk, Russell Henley

8:20 a.m. — Andrew Putnam, Davis Riley

8:30 a.m. — Adam Scott, Ben Griffin

8:40 a.m. — Jason Day, Max Homa

8:50 a.m. — Chris Kirk, Nick Taylor

9:00 a.m. — Jake Knapp, Peter Malnati

9:10 a.m. — Emiliano Grillo, Chris Gotterup

9:25 a.m. — Billy Horschel, Sepp Straka

9:35 a.m. — Nick Dunlap, Matt Fitzpatrick

9:45 a.m. — Cameron Young, Jordan Spieth

9:55 a.m. — Harris English, Taylor Moore

10:05 a.m. — Stephan Jaeger, Victor Perez

10:15 a.m. — Adam Hadwin, Viktor Hovland

10:25 a.m. — Mackenzie Hughes, J.T. Poston

10:35 a.m. — Lee Hodges, Seamus Power

10:50 a.m. — Lucas Glover, Thomas Detry

11:00 a.m. — Austin Eckroat, Corey Conners

11:10 a.m. — Sahith Theegala, Keegan Bradley

11:20 a.m. — Michael Thorbjornsen, Brian Harman

11:30 a.m. — Matthieu Pavon, Ludvig Åberg

11:40 a.m. — Si Woo Kim, Cam Davis

11:50 a.m. — Webb Simpson, Christiaan Bezuidenhout

12:05 p.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Will Zalatoris

12:15 p.m. — Sam Burns, Adam Svensson

12:25 p.m. — Kurt Kitayama, Wyndham Clark

12:35 p.m. — Brendon Todd, Tommy Fleetwood

12:45 p.m. — Patrick Rodgers, Denny McCarthy

12:55 p.m. — Taylor Pendrith, Rickie Fowler

1:10 p.m. — Tom Hoge, Patrick Cantlay

1:20 p.m. — Tony Finau, Robert MacIntyre

1:30 p.m. — Shane Lowry, Justin Thomas

1:40 p.m. — Xander Schauffele, Sungjae Im

1:50 p.m. — Akshay Bhatia, Scottie Scheffler

2:00 p.m. — Tom Kim, Collin Morikawa

LIV Golf Nashville Update

The Saudi-backed tour is in Nashville for the first time, and the crowds have flocked to the Grove.

Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs GC leads the teams after they posted a combined 14-under. The Crushers GC posted the second-best team score at 10-under.

Abraham Ancer posted a bogey-free 64 on Friday to hold a one-shot lead over Tyrrell Hatton, who signed for a 6-under 66.

U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau continues to win over the crowds, except for Brooks Koepka’s son, Crew . DeChambeau shot a 4-under 67 at The Grove and is three shots back. He is tied for fourth with three other players. His fill-in teammate, John Catlin, fired off a 5-under 68. He shot the best among the Crusher GC.

. @b_dechambeau keeps the celebrations going on the party hole #LIVGolf @Crushers_GC pic.twitter.com/4EbmAuCkIn — LIV Golf (@livgolf_league) June 21, 2024

While DeChambeau may have some fatigue from last week, that did not stop him from entertaining the masses. He put on a show at the party hole, the par-3 15th, and the fans absolutely loved it.

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Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. For more golf coverage, follow us @_PlayingThrough on all major social platforms. You can also follow her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @savannah_leigh_sports.

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