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Brandt Snedeker returns to PGA Tour after long sternum issue, ‘experimental surgery’

Brandt snedeker was just the second person on record to undergo an “experimental” sternum procedure in december.

Brandt Snedeker is making his return to the PGA Tour this week at the Memorial Tournament, but his nearly nine-month break from golf sounded anything but fun.

Snedeker revealed Wednesday that he had undergone an “experimental” procedure in December to fix a lingering sternum issue, and he’s been recovering ever since.

“Luckily, everything kind of went the way it was supposed to,” Snedeker said from Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. “Took a bone out of my hip and cut my sternum open and kind of created a new sternum in a sense. It is way more stable and hopefully does not cause me pain. So, so far, so good.”

Snedeker was diagnosed with manubrium joint instability, and he's been dealing with the issue since 2016. After the British Open the following year, he said it “felt like I broke my sternum.” He’s tried just about everything to try and fix it since then, including flying to South America for stem cell treatments.

Typically, Snedeker said, the injury comes from some sort of a traumatic event like a car accident. He, however, wasn’t involved in anything like that. His injury is the “only one that was on record of non-trauma related.” He’s not really sure how he got it, either.

Then at the end of last year, after struggling through the Fortinet Championship in September, Snedeker knew he had to do something different. The pain was just too much to keep playing through.

So in December, after convincing his longtime doctor, Snedeker underwent the “experimental surgery” in Nashville. The procedure had only been done one other time by that point.

“They took a bone about the size of my thumb out of my hip and they cut my sternum open and kind of cut across it and made a huge incision,” Snedeker said. “They dialed out about the size of my pinkie on my lower part of the sternum and upper part and put that bone in the middle of 'em and kind of created a dowel almost like thing. And then wrapped it with bone putty and paste and tried to kind of let it heal and reattach itself. So kind of broke my sternum on purpose, cut my sternum open and then kind of reattached it.”

Snedeker then took about five months off. He didn’t start hitting balls again until April 1, and didn’t play a full round until April 21.

Though it was a bit slow going, and he admitted he couldn't hit the range for long periods of time, Snedeker is feeling much, much better.

“I didn't have a setback,” he said. “Kind of kept getting better and better and never really had any pain or any kind of — I'll have some stiffness and soreness and that kind of stuff that's to be expected. I mean, I got my chest cut open, so it's going to be sore. But no pain or no sharp tingling or anything like that.”

Snedeker, 42, has won nine times on the tour in his career. His last win came at the Wyndham Championship in 2018. He made the cut just eight times in 22 attempts last season, and he finished T59 at the Fortinet Championship in September. Snedeker will tee off on Thursday afternoon in the first round of the Memorial Tournament alongside Davis Riley and Lucas Herbert.

His tour status is about to run out, too. He has five more events left on his minor medical exemption, and then his golf future will be a bit up in the air. Snedeker’s past wins and his spot at No. 27 on the all-time career money list will still help get him into certain events. But if he can't extend his tour card, it could get difficult.

Still, regardless of where his golf future takes him, Snedeker has no regrets about undergoing the procedure — even if it meant that he had to move on from golfing professionally.

“The decision I made at the end of last year was either this is going to work or it's not,” Snedeker said. “I can't keep doing what I'm doing. So if it doesn't work, then I'll find something else to do. And if it does work then hopefully I can come back here and do this. So that was kind of the thought process. I can't keep hitting my head against the same wall.

"So I had faith it would work, but you never know.”

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After seven years of pain, brandt snedeker gets some relief with delightful 3m open start.

Brandt Snedeker's first professional victory came in Minnesota long ago and he played for his country in the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club.

It has been a long road back to a state the PGA Tour veteran remembers fondly.

Snedeker's 7-under-par 64 on Thursday tied him with three others for second place in the 3M Open's first round at TPC Twin Cities, one shot behind leader Lee Hodges from Alabama.

That 64 was by five shots his best round in a season shortened by experimental sternum surgery last fall. He didn't hit a club until April, and didn't play competitively until the Memorial Tournament in late May. He came to Blaine having played just six events, the last four all missed cuts.

Then he made seven birdies — including four consecutively to end his front nine — and no bogeys.

"It has been coming," Snedeker said. "I've been playing good at home."

Masters champ Hideki Matsuyama, Tyler Duncan and Kevin Streelman each shot 64 as well. April's Zurich Classic winner Nick Hardy's 65 was tied for sixth with a finishing birdie after he wrapped his 9-iron around a tree attempting a obstructed, miraculous approach shot.

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Defending 3M Open champion Tony Finau started birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie and finished tied for eighth after shooting a 5-under 66.

All but Streelman played in the morning wave on a steamy, increasingly blustery summer day when the heat index hit 104 degrees. Matsuyama sought treatment after his round for heat-related issues.

Seeking to make the FedEx Cup playoffs and Ryder Cup team, late entry Justin Thomas shot a 2-under 69 and is tied for 43rd place.

Play was suspended because of approaching storms around 7 p.m. with 21 players still on the course. First-round play will resume at 8 a.m. Friday. Round 2 will be played as scheduled.

Snedeker was diagnosed as far back as 2016 with what he called "pretty much a broken sternum" that wouldn't allow him to practice or play. He managed the pain with Tylenol, steroids and trips to South America for stem-cell injections. He took two months off last summer, played a September tournament and felt stabbing pain for the final three rounds.

"It was now or never to do surgery," Snedeker said. "I tried everything that was legal under the sun. It was either that or no more golf."

The nine-time PGA Tour winner at age 42 and in his 19th pro season wasn't ready to give up the only job he has known.

"It took a little longer than I wanted," Snedeker said. "But I was finally able to put a round together today. It took a lot of hard work, practicing my tail off. Hopefully all that work has paid off and I'm ready to start playing some good golf now."

Hodges' 63 was his second-lowest round in his five-year pro career. He tied for 12th at the Memorial, then missed cuts in three of four tournaments — including last week's British Open — because of slow starts. Hodges made putts of 1 and 33 feet for birdies to start Thursday's round.

"Today was great ," Hodges said. "I was like, all right, here we go. I might as well make a lot of birdies if we're going to make a couple."

He made eight.

Off early, Finau played his first four holes in 5 under. He missed two birdie chances to go lower than a sizzling front-nine 30. He shot a one-over 36 on his back nine, unable to sustain such a blistering pace.

"It's incredibly hard to keep that going," Finau said. "I would have shot 53, I think, if I had continued. This is a crazy game."

Hardy's 186-yard shot from behind the tree and over water left an 11-foot birdie putt to end his round. His coach quickly bent the club back into shape.

"He's really good with club repair," Hardy said. "I've had inadvertent bent clubs, not through throwing, through wear and tear. But I've never hit a shot and bent a club before."

Snedeker's first pro win came in a July 2006 Nationwide Tour event in Byron, Minn., near Rochester. His 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup team beat Europe for the first time in eight years.

"A lot of fond memories here," Snedeker said. "First ever professional win was up here. I won a playoff, beat Jeff Quinney in a playoff. A lot of great memories, so hopefully I can cap it off with another one this week."

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SAN ANTONIO — There’s just something that fits his eye, tickles his fancy, releases any jitters. Whatever it is, the closing stretch at TPC San Antonio’s Oaks Course simply works for Brandt Snedeker.

And as he heads into the final round tied for the lead at the Valero Texas Open, his opponents best beware that they don’t want to tangle with the Tennessee native on the final five holes if things are close.

Snedeker used another hot stretch on the final portion of the card Saturday, posting three birdies on the final five holes to finish his day with a 67. After playing the last five holes in 8 under through the last two days, he now sits at 10 under, tied with J.J. Spaun and former Texas Longhorns Beau Hossler and Dylan Frittelli for the lead.

The affable Snedeker, known primarily for his short game, has uncharacteristically struggled a bit with his putter this week but has made up for it by hitting the course’s wide fairways, all despite swirling winds. For example, he played the final hole — a par-5 — smart and smooth, laying up to 125 yards for his approach and then sticking his third shot into 12 feet.

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And although he missed the putt, he still feels the final portion of the course could help him, if he needs a push on Sunday. He hasn’t been in the winner’s circle since the 2018 Wyndham Championship when he posted a comfortable three-stroke victory.

“(The final five holes) set up really well for me. I’ve got a good history there it seems like over the last few times I played here,” said Snedeker, who has finished in the top 25 in each of his previous four starts at this event, including a sixth-place finish last year. “I like the way they set up and I just feel really comfortable on them. And those are all birdie holes. You’re going to have to birdie a lot of those holes to go on and win this week. So I was able to kind of take advantage of it yesterday, got hot, and today I hit a bunch of quality shots coming in.

“Wish I could have made that up on 18, but besides that, I’ll be able to pull on that tomorrow coming down the stretch. If I need to make some birdies, I know I can do it, I’ve done it. So hopefully I won’t need to, but if I do, I know it will be there.”

Beau Hossler takes a tee shot on the first hole during the third round of the Valero Texas Open golf tournament. Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports

Meanwhile, Hossler also has had success at TPC San Antonio, making the cut in the last three years.

While Snedeker has struggled with his putter, Hossler has used a hot flatstick to get to the top of the leaderboard, something that was customary for him his first few years on Tour, but has failed him in recent seasons.

And as someone who played collegiately up I-35 in Austin, Hossler knows how special this would be, to win the 100th-anniversary edition of the event. This week has seen a number of the former champions — Ben Crenshaw, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, etc. — floating around the grounds as part of the celebration.

But Hossler is still looking for his debut victory on the PGA Tour and is playing on a sponsor exemption, meaning he’s trying to put the historic perspective aside.

“I just can’t get into that. To be honest, I’ll take a win at any tournament, right?” he said. “So it would be awesome. I mean, I went to college and I live an hour and 10 minutes away from here. With that said, if I start thinking about that, I’m in big trouble. So I’m just going to go out and play some golf tomorrow and hopefully, that’s enough.”

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Brandt Snedeker Returns To PGA Tour After Rare Surgery

The nine-time PGA Tour winner makes his long-awaited return at The Memorial Tournament following sternum surgery

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Brandt Snedeker returns to competitive action in The Memorial Tournament following a nine-month layoff after having surgery on a sternum injury that had troubled him for years.

The 42-year-old last played in September’s season-opening Fortinet Championship , where he tied for 59th. However, following that, he finally decided the time had come to address the issue. 

He explained: “So I had surgery. I had a sternum injury called - been dealing with it for six or seven years - called manubrium joint instability. So a really rare thing. But managed it the best I could and got to the point where I couldn’t play without pain anymore and got tired of dealing with it.”

Snedeker then explained he needed an experimental procedure to address the problem. He said: “So, had surgery December 1st in Nashville with my surgeon named Dr. Burton Elrod, kind of an experimental surgery, to say the least, to see if it would. Luckily, everything kind of went the way it was supposed to. Took a bone out of my hip and cut my sternum open and kind of created a new sternum, in a sense. It is way more stable and hopefully does not cause me pain.”

It was months following the surgery until Snedeker could return to practice. Still, he thinks the signs are good heading into the Muirfield Village tournament: ”So didn’t start hitting balls until April 1st. So had about five months of rehab. No golf,” explained Snedeker. “Feel like I kind of accomplished what we set out to accomplish, which was to try to swing without pain, and so far, so good.”

Snedeker then explained why this week’s designated event is the perfect opportunity to test his fitness. He said: “So, at some point, you have to jump into the deep end and see if it worked or not, and this felt like a good week to do it. I didn’t want to kind of dip my toe in at an easy place to do it, I wanted to find out at a tough place, and I figured this is the best way to do it.

“So excited to be back, excited to be back here on Tour and couldn’t think of a better place than Jack’s place.”

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The American has nine wins on the PGA Tour, with his most recent coming in the 2018 Wyndham Championship, which included a 59 in the opening round . 

At one point, he also reached World No.4, but his ranking has slipped considerably from that high point in 2013. Even battling the injury, though, he remained in the top 100 until January 2021 before a steep decline saw him fall to 368 in the world following his most recent PGA Tour appearance.

Snedeker admitted that the most recent years of the injury had taken the biggest toll. “Last three years, really. Yeah," he explained. "Been dealing with it for a long time. Did everything I could non-surgical to deal with it and just wasn’t, it was not getting where I needed to be. So this was a quality-of-life decision. Whether golf worked out after this, great. If it didn’t, at least I did everything I possibly could.”

Snedeker heads into this week’s tournament ranked 722th in the world, but with his injury problems apparently in the past, he will surely be confident of climbing back up the rankings sooner rather than later.

Mike has over 25 years of experience in journalism, including writing on a range of sports throughout that time, such as golf, football and cricket. Now a freelance staff writer for Golf Monthly, he is dedicated to covering the game's most newsworthy stories. 

He has written hundreds of articles on the game, from features offering insights into how members of the public can play some of the world's most revered courses, to breaking news stories affecting everything from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to developmental Tours and the amateur game. 

Mike grew up in East Yorkshire and began his career in journalism in 1997. He then moved to London in 2003 as his career flourished, and nowadays resides in New Brunswick, Canada, where he and his wife raise their young family less than a mile from his local course. 

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Brandt Snedeker on life at home, golf’s impending return and tips for better putting

Brandt Snedeker said he's eager to get back to competing.

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One thing we’re finding out during this coronavirus pandemic is that many PGA Tour pros are just like us. Case in point, PGA Tour veteran Brandt Snedeker.

Forced to balance a new form of home life with his job, the nine-time Tour winner has been juggling home schooling his children, while also trying to keep his game sharp.

Snedeker is consistently one of the best putters on the PGA Tour, and while he’s been home in Tennessee, he hasn’t just been working on his putting, he’s also been helping golfers around the country with their flat sticks.

GOLF.com’s Ryan Asselta recently caught up with Snedeker while at home in Nashville. The 2012 Fed Ex Cup champion talked about how he’s learned “this retirement thing” isn’t really for him, the putting drills he uses at home, and a few keys you can try to roll in more putts.

Asselta: Brandt, you’ve been at home in Nashville and spending time out at your farmhouse. What has this layoff been like for you?

You know, it’s been a weird time. Never thought I’d see this in my lifetime. I’m trying to find the positives in a bad situation. Being home with the kids and trying to homeschool has been a new challenge for me to say to the least.

We head out to the farmhouse pretty much every weekend and get the kids outside. You don’t see anybody for several days, so it’s kind of nice. Plenty of room to run around and let the kids go fishing.

What’s been the toughest part about the layoff for you?

The worst part has been the uncertainty. I’m kind of ready to go back and get on the road and get back to playing golf. I joked with my brother and my dad and told them ‘this retirement thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.’ I’m definitely a guy who needs to be working or doing something.

Lots of reports of what the return to the PGA Tour will look like in June at the Charles Schwab Challenge. One idea is that flag sticks could be left in at all times. How would you feel about that?

I’ve always been a flagstick out guy. I don’t do well with the flagstick in. For some reason it kind of throws off my vision a little bit. I’ll have to wash my hands real clean after the round or carry sanitizer and use it every few holes and make sure you’re not putting your fingers on your face. It’s gonna be a necessary risk we’re going to have to take. I can’t see us playing with the pins in all day long.

Speaking of putting … you partnered up with one of your sponsors to give golfers some putting tips that they can use at home or at their own courses, correct?

Yeah, Wyndham’s been a partner of mine going on 12, 13 years now. They were my first sponsor ever out on Tour. Former CEO Steve Holmes is one of my best friends in the world and it’s fun to partner with them and give Club Wyndham owners a few tips during this downtime at home.

Obviously, I putt a little bit differently than most people. The pop stroke is not something you teach readily, but I kind of have some general thoughts on what I think good putting looks like. Even though my stroke is a little unorthodox I guess I still do a lot of the same things many of the great putters do.

You’ve ranked inside the top 25 in Strokes Gained: Putting on the PGA Tour for six consecutive seasons. What’s your biggest key to putting?

I’d say I do it a little differently, right? So, I’ve got two or three things that I always focus on when my stroke gets off.

One is to check if my stroke gets too slow. If it gets too slow, I start putting a lot of hit into the ball and when I do that my right hand gets involved too much and it breaks down. So, I’ve got to make sure my rhythm stays fast.

Number two is that I’ve got to make sure I hinge the putter going back. Kind of counterproductive to what most people think. Most people try and keep it locked in like Steve Stricker or Loren Roberts or somebody who only has shoulder movement. I can’t putt like that. I’ve got to have a little bit of hinge in the putter going back so that when I do hit it, I release that energy to the ball.

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And the third thing … I work on all of the time is the arc of my stroke. My stroke is so short that if it gets too much arc, I start missing short putts. I have a laser I use and some chalk I use to keep my stroke straight back and straight through.

So those are the keys that you work on. Can you give us three tips that a recreational golfer can use at home?

Probably the easiest thing that people do the opposite of, is that your back stroke has to be longer than their follow through. That’s the number one thing I see in all bad putters. Their stroke goes back too short and they’ve got to put a ton of hit into it and their follow through is too long. If you look at every great putter throughout the course of history … look at Brad Faxon’s follow through. It was two inches shorter than his back stroke. Ben Crenshaw is probably my favorite example. He had a big long, sweeping, beautiful back stroke and barely a follow through.

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Number two is something that is really easy to do. When you take a practice stroke, make sure you’re practicing the putt you’re getting ready to hit. Most amateurs take this big, long practice stroke for a two-footer. Or they’ll have a forty-footer and take this little tiny practice stroke. I try and imagine that there’s a ball down when I take a practice stroke. When you see me, I take five practice strokes for every putt. All I’m trying to do is figure out how hard to hit the ball. It’s a way to take the pressure off and kind of get your nerves out.

And the third thing is really easy. Have the putter shaft line right up your forearm. Have the putter almost too upright on the ground so the putter face doesn’t arc or open or close too much. Those are three things every great putter does, and you can do at home by looking in a mirror and figuring out pretty quick.

How about a drill. What’s the one drill someone who’s stuck at home right now can use during this time?

Easiest thing to do is to take another club or a broom and put it straight down on the ground and putt right next to it. Make sure that your stroke is not going too much off that straight line. It’s really simple and something I do all the time at home. Put a club down on along the heel or the toe of your putter and make sure it stays really close to that for five-, six-foot putts. It’s a great visual to make sure your putter is not arching too much. Hit 40 putts a day like that. It’s so easy to do and doesn’t cost any money and you can do it at your house. It’s something I do all of the time.

How about the mental side of putting. What is the key mindset that a good putter has to have?

Think that they’re going to go in. It might now go in on this one. It might not be the next one, but once the first one goes in, we’ll make a lot a row. I tell people all the time, I never get over a putt trying to make it. I get up over every putt trying to give it a chance of going in. I don’t get up there and try to hit the perfect putt.

I kind of see a wide track that a putt can travel on to go in the hole. I can be on the low side of that track and still make it and the high side of that putt and still make it. I see so many people get so enamored with one line to make the putt and if it doesn’t start on that line you have no chance of making it. Whereas, I see a huge track and give myself a lot of leeway. You don’t have to be perfect.

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Brandt Snedeker and Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, walk during the Golden Bear Pro-Am prior to the 2023 Memorial Tournament.

A painful—and flukish—sternum injury caused Brandt Snedeker to make an extreme "quality-of-life decision" late last year. And now that his pain has subsided, he's hoping his quality of golf comes back as well.

Snedeker will make his 2023 PGA Tour debut at this week's Memorial Tournament after undergoing what he described as an "experimental" procedure in December. The nine-time PGA Tour winner had a m anubrium joint stabilization performed by Dr. Burton Elrod, a Nashville-based orthopedic and sports medicine surgeon.

"Luckily, everything kind of went the way it was supposed to," Snedeker said at his pre-tournament press conference on Wednesday. "Took a bone out of my hip and cut my sternum open and kind of created a new sternum in a sense. It is way more stable and hopefully does not cause me pain. So, so far, so good."

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Wait, what? Moments later, Snedeker was asked to elaborate on a procedure he says has only been done one other time—and boy, does it sound painful.

"They took a bone about the size of my thumb out of my hip and they cut my sternum open and kind of cut across it and made a huge incision," Snedeker said. "They dialed out about the size of my pinkie on my lower part of the sternum and upper part and put that bone in the middle of 'em and kind of created a dowel almost like thing. And then wrapped it with bone putty and paste and tried to kind of let it heal and reattach itself. So kind of broke my sternum on purpose, cut my sternum open and then kind of reattached it."

Oh, that's it? As you can imagine, such a procedure required a lengthy rehab. Snedeker said he basically did 16 weeks of "just sitting still pretty much" before finally playing 18 holes again on April 21. He revved up his practice a couple weeks later.

"I was like I need to be able to have the practice sessions that I had beforehand. So I need to be able to hit 400 balls in a setting for four hours straight," Snedeker said. "And know that it can hold up to it. That was impossible the last three or four years. I just couldn't do it. I would be in so much pain I had to stop. The playing was the least of my worries."

Snedeker said his manubrium joint instability is a rare case, especially since there was no traumatic event that caused it. His chest first started really bothering him when he withdrew from the 2017 British Open.

"I felt like I broke my sternum. I came home and had X-rays, MRIs, all that stuff done," said Snedeker, whose most recent win came at the 2018 Wyndham Championship when he opened with a 59. "And that's where I started, they started seeing the problem. There was no solution. It was like, Okay, we're just going to manage it for as long as we can."

The 42-year-old Snedeker will play the rest of the season under a minor medical exemption and through sponsor exemptions. If he doesn't keep his PGA Tour card, he'll be able to use past champion and lifetime money list exemptions next season. "We'll kind of cross that bridge when we get to it," Snedeker said.

But for now, he's just glad to have made it to Muirfield Village for the PGA Tour's latest designated event.

"I'll have some stiffness and soreness and that kind of stuff that's to be expected," Snedeker said. "I mean, I got my chest cut open, so it's going to be sore. But no pain or no sharp tingling or anything like that."

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A spectator decided to catch Brandt Snedeker's golf ball during the third round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on the PGA Tour.

A PGA Tour spectator did the unfathomable during the third round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans . 

The moment arrived as Brandt Snedeker was playing his tee shot at the par-3 ninth hole at TPC Louisiana. 

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Snedeker, who was playing the PGA Tour's pairs event with Chez Reavie, didn't draw the ball to the back left pin as he'd imagined.

In fact, he left the club face open and his ball was heading so far right that it needed a loud shout of 'fore'. 

As soon as his ball landed over the gallery rope, a young spectator decided to catch it after the first bounce.

The moment prompted shock from the PGA Tour 's commentary team. 

"Oh my gosh," one exclaimed. "Oh no! Oh no!"

Another yelled: "He just caught the ball!" 

The fan knew instantly that they had made a huge faux pas. 

"Probably just wanted a souvenir fore his kid," one X user joked. 

Another added: "Send him to jail. Right away"

From there, the duo managed to save their par to stay on nine-under for the tournament. 

This is not the first time something like this has happened and it likely won't be the last. 

Last year, a fan did the same to Nelly Korda 's golf ball during the final round of the Amundi Evian Championship 

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You don’t see this every day…  A fan catches Brandt Snedeker’s tee shot on the 9th hole 😅. @PGATOURLIVE pic.twitter.com/GL3f5U68BC — Jake Marsh (@PMTsportsbiz) April 27, 2024

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Former Somerby champ Brandt Snedeker working his Minnesota magic at PGA Tour's 3M Open

A rare medical condition nearly derailed brandt snedeker's golf career a decade after he won his first event as a pro at somerby golf club. he's back and aiming to again be one of the world's best..

It’s been 17 years and 12 days since Brandt Snedeker stood on the 18th green at Somerby Golf Club in Byron, hands and putter in the air while fighting back tears.

The Scholarship America Showdown is but a footnote in pro golf history now — an event on the Nationwide Tour (now the Korn Ferry Tour) that was held just twice at Somerby, in 2006 and 2007.

In fact, the 2007 event was called simply the Showdown at Somerby, due to a lack of a primary sponsor. For that same reason — the Tour wanted a local business or company to take over naming rights for the event, but an agreement couldn’t be reached with any — the Showdown splashed into a water hazard after that second go-round, never to resurface.

In 2006, though, it was a significant event for thousands of golf fans in southeastern Minnesota and a springboard for Snedeker — the first professional win for an up-and-comer who’d had incredible success as an amateur and at Vanderbilt University in his hometown of Nashville, Tenn., where he was a First Team Division I All-American as a senior in 2003 (the same year he won the U.S. Amateur Public Links championship).

Snedeker was just 25 years old when he birdied the second playoff hole — he’d made a 15-foot eagle putt on his 18th hole that day to force a playoff — at Somerby on July 16, 2006, to beat Jeff Quinney.

Snedeker had come oh-so-close to his first victory as a pro three weeks earlier, when he eagled the 18th hole of the final round to force a playoff with Kyle Reifers at the Nationwide Tour’s Chattanooga (Tenn.) Classic. Snedeker missed a 20-footer that day on the first playoff hole, and Reifers walked away the winner, just two hours away from Snedeker’s home.

A better fate awaited Snedeker in southeastern Minnesota a few weeks later, though he didn’t celebrate his first win as a pro in a manner that might be expected. He told the Post Bulletin after winning the playoff against Quinney that he was going to enjoy the victory by “grabbing some McDonald’s drive-through and getting some sleep so he could catch an early flight” the next morning.

Nearly two decades later — after a Ryder Cup win (2016), a FedEx Cup championship (2012), a PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award (2007), nine Tour wins, nine top-10 finishes in major championships and presumably many more-expensive celebratory meals — Minnesota is still home to some of Snedeker’s best memories as a pro.

He’s back this week, playing in the 3M Open, the PGA Tour’s annual stop at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, not far from Hazeltine National in Chaska, where he helped the U.S. snap an eight-year drought by winning the Ryder Cup in 2016.

Snedeker — who autographed the locker he used in the Somerby clubhouse after winning there — found some of his Minnesota Magic on Thursday, shooting a 7-under-par 64 to sit in a three-way tie for second place after the first round of the 3M.

After a 3-under-par 68 in Friday’s second round, he not only made the cut for the weekend but he is within range of earning his first PGA Tour win since the 2018 Wyndham Championship.

He opened with two bogeys and a double-bogey — with a birdie mixed in — in his first five holes Friday. But he rallied with six birdies the rest of the way and is tied for third place at 10-under-par, five shots back of leader Lee Hodges. "A lot of fond memories (in Minnesota)," Snedeker told reporters Thursday. "First ever professional win was up here. I won a playoff, beat Jeff Quinney in a playoff. A lot of great memories, so hopefully I can cap it off with another one this week."

Snedeker’s bogey-free opening-round 64 allowed him to breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that caliber of play is still in him at 42 — and that it’s never left, but rather was masked by health issues.

Since that magical Ryder Cup run in 2016, Snedeker has battled through a rare sternum injury; the diagnosis, he said, was an “unstable manubrium joint,” which caused varying levels of pain every time he hit golf balls. He said he extensively researched the condition and discovered there have only been approximately a dozen cases in the entire world over the past 15 years, all of those except his were caused by some sort of trauma, such as a car accident.

“You have a joint in the middle of your sternum that kind of flexes and bends a little bit so if something happens to it, you have a little bit of mobility,” Snedeker told PGATour.com. “Mine was kind of separated, for lack of a better term. It would come back together, but it was pretty much a broken sternum when I started to hit golf balls.”

After treating the condition with steroids and over-the-counter pain relievers for nearly six years, he’d had enough. His play and his earnings dipped significantly in recent seasons — he made more than $3.1 million in 2019, but earned just more than $352,000 in 2022, when he made just 8 of 22 cuts and halted his season in the fall to undergo career-saving surgery, which he likened to snapping two Lego pieces together.

"It was now or never to do surgery," Snedeker said. "I tried everything that was legal under the sun. It was either that or no more golf."

He didn’t swing a club again until April, but the surgery was a success. He was able to swing pain-free for the first time in years. Rounds like Thursday’s — his best round since returning to the Tour in early June, and his first sub-70 round in a PGA Tour event since December 2021 — have his confidence growing.

It also doesn’t hurt to be back in Minnesota, where he’s made so many great golf memories.

"It took a little longer than I wanted," Snedeker said Thursday, “but I was finally able to put a round together. Hopefully all the work pays off and I can start playing some good golf."

Brandt Snedeker wins at Pebble

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- With one last birdie, Brandt Snedeker finally had a chance to catch his breath at one of the best places in golf.

He was on the 18th tee at Pebble Beach with a three-shot lead Sunday as he gazed into the sun at an endless ocean and tried to grasp just how far he has come in the past few months.

There was that big win at the Tour Championship to claim the $10 million prize as the FedEx Cup champion.

He played in his first Ryder Cup.

In his past nine tournaments, he has six finishes in the top three, including back-to-back weeks as the runner-up to Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods .

Snedeker wasn't about to let anyone get in his way at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

"Just hard to put into words, to have a stretch of golf like I had the last couple of months," Snedeker said after his two-shot win. "Something you dream about. Something you think that you can do, but you don't really know until you actually put it together. And I have.

"I'm really enjoying this, and hopefully can parlay this into the best year of my career."

He was the best all week at Pebble Beach, finishing at 19-under 267 to break by one shot the tournament record. Mickelson (2007) and Mark O'Meara (1997) each had a 20-under 268 when Poppy Hills was still in the rotation.

Snedeker built his lead in the final round by playing the opening seven holes in 5 under, fired at the flag on the par-3 17th to set up his last birdie and closed with a 7-under 65, his 10th consecutive round in the 60s.

A tap-in par on the 18th gave him a two-shot win over Chris Kirk , who stayed in the hunt all day without ever putting too much pressure on Snedeker.

The hottest player in golf, Snedeker finally has a trophy to show for it.

"The last two weeks, playing great but running into two Hall of Famers, really motivated me to go out and prove that I can handle the lead," he said.

With his fifth career win -- and fourth in the past 22 months -- Snedeker improved to a career-best No. 4 in the world, making him the second-highest American in the world ranking behind Woods.

"Sneds is officially the best golfer on the planet right now," Ian Poulter tweeted from his home in Orlando, Fla. "Some serious golf he is playing."

In five starts this year, the 32-year-old from Nashville already has a win, two second-place finishes and a third. He never had much of a chance against Woods at Torrey Pines or Mickelson at the Phoenix Open, who each had big leads going into the final round.

Snedeker was tied with James Hahn , a 31-year-old rookie from the Bay Area, and seized control with an eagle and three birdies on the opening seven holes. Snedeker responded to his only bogey, a three-putt at No. 9, by rolling in birdie putts on the next two holes.

Hahn was looking forward to learning something from his debut in the final group, and he saw Snedeker put on a clinic.

"I learned that he is a better guy than he is a golfer. The dude is world class," Hahn said. "He's obviously one of the best, if not the best golfer right now, and possibly for the last year. But how he conducts himself as a person on and off the golf course, that's also world class. He deserved to win today. ... I'm sure if you ask him, it was never a doubt that he was going to win the golf tournament."

Snedeker concurred.

"I definitely didn't want to do anything but win today," he said. "I was out there for one purpose and one purpose only, and I was extremely focused all day. I did a great job of staying patient and I did a great job of playing the golf course the way you're supposed to play it."

He now heads off to a vacation on Maui before returning for the stretch run leading to the Masters.

Winning a major is the next step for Snedeker, who has emerged as a veritable threat wherever he plays with a confident putting stroke and a dramatic increase in hitting fairways off the tee.

Kirk never got closer than two shots of the lead, missing an 8-footer on the 16th that could have put some pressure on Snedeker. He closed with a 66 to finish at 269, a score that would been good enough to win all but four times at Pebble Beach since this event began in 1937.

"We've had a lot of tournaments like that on tour this year where somebody has really just kind of blitzed the field," Kirk said. "I felt like I played well enough to win a golf tournament and came up a little bit short."

Hahn wound up with a 2-under 70 and tied for third with Jimmy Walker (66) and Kevin Stadler (65). The day wasn't a total loss for Hahn. He previously tied for fourth at the Humana Challenge, and his tie for third gets him into Riviera next week. He hasn't missed a cut this year and is already 11th in the FedEx Cup standings.

The only drama on a pristine day on the Monterey Peninsula came from Patrick Reed . His 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole gave him a tie for seventh with Fredrik Jacobson , and kept Jacobson from qualifying for the Match Play Championship by 0.0002 points.

The final spot in the 64-man field based on the world ranking instead goes to Shane Lowry of Ireland, who did not play this week.

Even better for Snedeker was leaving with two trophies. He and his amateur partner, Nashville investor and longtime friend Toby Wilt, tied for first in the pro-am. Wilt endowed a golf scholarship at Vanderbilt, and Snedeker was the first recipient.

Snedeker has come a long way and might just be getting started.

"I would love to be known as the best American golfer," Snedeker said. "I've got a long way to go to do that, but this is a great start to the year. Couldn't have scripted much of a better one, except for maybe winning the last two weeks if the guys (Woods and Mickelson) hadn't played."

Mickelson, the defending champion, hit two more balls in the ocean on the 18th hole, but at least this time he didn't slip on the rocks. He closed with a 72 and tied for 60th.

Snedeker kept to his strategy of attacking the opening seven holes, the key to scoring at Pebble Beach.

He hit a 4-iron that caught the collar of the green and rolled to 4 feet on the par-5 second hole for an eagle, matched birdies with Hahn on the fourth hole, and then hit a 3-wood that skirted the collar of the green on the par-5 sixth and settled 20 feet away for a two-putt birdie.

From there, the FedEx Cup champion had to worry about the rest of the field. Kirk, Walker and even Retief Goosen all tried to make a run, and it looked as though Snedeker might help them out when he gunned his birdie putt past the hole and off the green at the ninth for a bogey.

Snedeker made five bogeys this week, and answered with a birdie four times. He rammed home a 25-foot birdie on the 10th, and then followed that with a 15-foot birdie on the 11th to expand his lead to four shots.

From there, it was a battle for second place -- and for the final spot in the Match Play Championship. Mickelson already has said he won't be playing in two weeks, so the top 65 are eligible.

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The highlight of his career came at the 2012 Tour Championship where victory gave him the US$10million prize for winning the FedEx Cup. Earlier in the year he won his third US PGA Tour title and entered the top 20 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time. During a practice round for The 141st Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St Annes, he holed a driver from the tee on the 336-yard, par four 16th hole, and in the tournament proper, opened with rounds of 66 and 64 to equal the record for the lowest opening 36-hole score. Weekend rounds of 73 and 74 left him in a share of third place, four shots behind winner Ernie Els.

Was selected by United States Captain Davis Love III as a wild card for The 2012 Ryder Cup, and contributed one point from three matches, teaming up with Jim Furyk to defeat Northern Irish pair Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy in the Saturday morning Foursomes.

Was introduced to golf by his maternal grandmother, who managed a golf course in Missouri. Came through the Web.com Tour and in 2007 was named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. Had garnered immediate attention that year after carding a course record-equalling 61 in the first round of the Buick Invitational.

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - Three more players are joining the field for the inaugural Myrtle Beach Classic.

Tournament officials announced Friday that Brandt Snedeker, Jhonattan Vegas and Joel Dahmen will play at next month’s event at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club. The three join Cameron Champ, Daniel Berger and Charley Hoffman - who were announced on Thursday.

Joining the field! Brandt Snedeker– A nine-time winner on the PGA TOUR & 2012 PGA TOUR FedEx Cup winner Jhonattan Vegas– A three-time winner on the PGA TOUR Joel Dahmen– A one-time winner on the PGA TOUR Visit https://t.co/LBOjqs222p to get your tickets. pic.twitter.com/YbPrTX5LK6 — Myrtle Beach Classic (@MyrtleBeachCl) April 26, 2024

Snedeker is a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour and won the FedEx Cup in 2012. Vegas is a three-time winner on the tour while Dahmen has won once in his career.

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It pays to play well on the PGA Tour. Just ask  this week’s winner, Taylor Pendrith .

The 32-year-old won the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, on Sunday after a late birdie on the 72nd hole to secure his first-ever win on the PGA Tour in his 74th start.

For his efforts, Pendrith will take home the top prize of $1.71 million, while Kohles, who was in the lead before a bogey on the par-5 18th, will bank $1.03 million as a consolation prize.

With $9 million up for grabs, check out how much money each PGA Tour player earned this week at the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson near Dallas.

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