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Austin Cook wins at Sea Island to earn trip to Masters

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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — PGA Tour rookie Austin Cook won the RSM Classic without being seriously challenged, closing with two birdies for a 3-under 67 and a four-shot victory.

The victory Sunday in the final PGA Tour event of the calendar year gives Cook a spot in the Masters next year.

Cook had a three-shot lead at the start of the final round at Sea Island. He made bogey from the bunker on the second hole and then didn’t drop a shot the rest of the way. Cook gave himself breathing room with a two-putt birdie on the 15th and a 15-foot birdie on the 17th.

J.J. Spaun closed with a 66 and was runner-up.

It was the second straight year at PGA Tour won at Sea Island. Mackenzie Hughes won last year.

Jonesboro, Arkansas alum Austin Cook earns PGA Tour card for 2022-23 season

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A former Razorback and Golden Hurricane earned his PGA Tour card for the upcoming season.

Austin Cook finished ninth in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals 25, his second straight season on the list.

Finals 25 R. Armour J. Bramlett D. Burmester E. Cole A. Cook T. Detry N. Echavarria A. Eckroat B. Garnett M. Gligic W. Gordon T. Goya B. Grant N. Hardy S. Harrington P. Knowles N. Lindheim D. Lingmerth B. Martin H. Norlander M. Schmid S. Stevens B. Stuard K. Westmoreland C. Young pic.twitter.com/cbcAmiqube — Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) September 5, 2022

He finished tied for fourth in the Albertsons Boise Open , the first of three events in the Korn Ferry Tour.

The first event of the new PGA Tour season starts September 15th with the Fortinet Championship. Cook finished tied for 11th in the event last season.

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Austin Cook

• Won first PGA Tour event as a rookie at RSM Classic, Nov. 2017

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Austin Cook

• United States
• Birthdate 3/13/1991 (33)
• Birthplace Jonesboro, Arkansas
• College Arkansas
• Swing Right
• Turned Pro 2014

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Wesley Bryan stays atop PGA Tour's Corales Puntacana

Morikawa, hoge, poston, straka share lead at rbc heritage, schauffele sinks two eagles on the front nine of the rbc heritage, scheffler: i was emotionally drained after the masters, wesley bryan chips in twice, shoots 63 to lead at puntacana, scottie scheffler, 'drained' after masters, 6 back at rbc heritage.

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'Let him cook': Tour pro lives up to viral catch phrase with home win, eyes big 2024 season on PGA Tour

Min Woo Lee leans into his viral catch phrase "Let him cook" by wearing a chefs hat as he closed in on the win at the 2023 Australian PGA Championship.

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BRISBANE, Australia — It's hard to know where Min Woo Lee does his best work. Tournament results this year suggest it's on golf's biggest stages. But one could argue it's on social media. There, the younger brother of LPGA star Minjee Lee does everything from mobilize his 600,000-plus total followers with a catchphrase, "Let him cook," to obtaining Steph Curry's cell phone through Instagram DMs.

"I'm in the TGL, and he's an investor," Lee said. "I messaged him and said, 'Get me on your team.' He hasn’t messaged me back [laughs]."

Lee is among professional golf's post-TikTok generation; joining the paid ranks after the video platform was created in 2016. He's as comfortable chipping in for eagle during a DP World Tour victory as he is posting a video online. His drives regularly reach 190 mph in ball speed. His short game resembles wizardry. And on Sunday, he did all of the above during a stunning three-shot win at the Australian PGA Championship.

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Lee, 25, fended off a field of stars from Australia, Europe and Asia to capture the first of two tournaments that make up the DP World Tour’s Down Under swing. Lee began the final day with a three-shot lead at Royal Queensland and a closing 68 gave him a 20-under-par 264 total. He defeated runner-up Rikuya Hoshino of Japan for his third career DP World Tour win. Lee is expected to rise to a career-high No. 38 on the Official World Golf Rankings when the next listing becomes is posted on Monday.

Australian Marc Leishman (64) was third at 16 under. Former U.S. Amateur champion Curtis Luck (69) was fourth, while LIV golfer Joaquin Niemann was fifth at 13 under, making an ace at the par-3 fourth. Adam Scott (sixth), Lucas Herbert and Cameron Davis were some of the names in the top 10.

The final scoreboard didn't reflect how close the scores were early. Lee's overnight lead was gone after two holes when Hoshino started the final day birdie-birdie while Lee made bogey-par. But only moments later, World No. 45 Lee showed why he finished T-6 at the Players this year and T-5 at the U.S. Open. Lee nearly aced the par-3 fourth and almost drove the 390-yard par-4 sixth. He birdied the par-5 seventh before setting up the shot of the tournament.

In the rough short of the green at the 574-yard, par-5 ninth, with Hoshino snapping at his heels, Lee, a former U.S. Junior champion, pitched his ball up and ran it 30 feet into the hole for eagle. He let out a primal scream, knowing the back nine was likely going to be a procession.

“I think that was probably the best atmosphere shot I’ve ever hit,” Lee said of the eagle.

After three birdies and a bogey in the middle of the inward nine, Lee walked through the tunnel at the par-3 17th with a four-shot lead. The 17th was styled as a party hole with bleachers full of bars and well-lubricated fans. Lee missed the green left, but played a deft pitch shot and made the four-foot par putt. Even a bogey at the 72nd hole couldn't dampen Lee's triumph.

“It's unbelievable,” Lee, who is PGA Tour-bound in 2024, having secured enough non-member FedEx Cup points to qualify for a card in the new year, said. “I’ve always thought I could win, but it took a while to get over the hump. Two wins in the last month or so, I’m really proud of my team and myself. There are no limits. I want to be the No.1 player in the world."

Watching on television was Lee's two-time major winner sister, Minjee. The 27-year-old had just gotten to Australia from the U.S. ahead of next week's Australian Open in Sydney, which is a mixed gender event.

"So proud, congrats to my little bro. Winner," Minjee posted to social media, with some relevant emojis.

The Lees have become pro golf's most fascinating siblings. Minjee, who recently secured her 10th LPGA Tour victory at the BMW Ladies Championship in October, and has two majors to her credit at age 27. She's the quiet, reserved one of the two, who hail from Perth on Australia's west coast. “You could say I’m the opposite,” Lee told Australian Golf Digest recently. "I think he’s just really comfortable showing his personality. I’m just a little bit more introverted.”

“Minjee’s a one-of-a-kind golfer and I’m slowly becoming a name myself," Lee said. "Every time I win, it seems like next week she wins. So, if you guys want to put some money on my sister next week."

Min Woo is the showman. His occasionally errant tee shots and thrilling escapes make him more like some of the other names on the Australian PGA trophy: Seve Ballesteros (1981), Greg Norman (1984, ’85), and Joe Kirkwood, the Australian pro and traveling trick-shot artist after whom the trophy is named.

So it was appropriate that on the 72nd green, during an interview, Lee said of his chip-in eagle, "I wanna see [the video] straight away. I would like to see it."

Well, that's easy. It's already on social media.

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For John Cook, Galleri Classic represents a homecoming and a going-away party

John Cook is a full-time golf announcer and part-time professional golfer these days, but the prospect of playing in the new Galleri Classic in Rancho Mirage was too good for Cook to pass up.

“It’s going to be quite a week. I’m really excited about it obviously,” said Cook, who spent the 1970s growing up at Mission Hills Country Club, the site of the Galleri Classic.

Cook continued to play the Dinah Shore Tournament Course in the 1980s and the 1990s during a pro career that produced 11 events on the PGA Tour. But in the last two decades, Cook has rarely seen his old home course.

“I’ve been back since we had moved away to watch Jason (his son) play a couple of AJGA events, but I have not been back to play since, well, 1999 I think was the last time I played it,” Cook said.

The Galleri Classic will offer a full circle closure for Cook, now 65 and spending most of his time working for Golf Channel. In fact, the new PGA Tour Champions event will likely end Cook’s professional career.

“I chose the Hoag (Classic) at Newport Beach and I chose Mission Hills,” Cook said. “These will probably be the last two I play, quite honestly. I don’t see myself older than 65 years old trying to come out and compete. What better places to call it a career than Newport and Mission Hills.”

Cook has already made history in the desert, winning the 1992 and the 1997 Bob Hope Classics, the tournament now known as The American Express. But even as Cook transitioned to the 50-and-over PGA Tour Champions, winning another 10 tournaments along the way, he hoped he would get a chance to play in the Coachella Valley again with a senior event.

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“Once they announced the (LPGA Tour) was leaving, I thought it was a perfect fit,” Cook said. “I had nothing to do with it, although I had mentioned to Miller Brady (president of the PGA Tour Champions division) something about it and he said, oh, it’s already in the pipeline. Alright, okay, I thought it was a perfect fit.”

Part of the reason the PGA Tour Seniors seems like a strong fit for the Coachella Valley is players like Cook who have long histories in the desert because of The American Express. Cook’s personal history includes a playoff loss in the 1986 event to Donnie Hammond and then two of the most dramatic victories in tournament history.

In 1992, Cook won a five-man playoff at Bermuda Dunes, making birdies on the first three holes with a chip-in and then chipping in for an eagle on the fourth hole to beat Gene Sauers. In 1997, Cook shot rounds of 62 and 63 on the weekend at Indian Wells Country Club, setting a then-tour record for 36-hole scoring in beating Mark Calcavecchia by a single shot. Calcavecchia led by three starting the final round and shot 67, but still fell to Cook.

“Poor Calc reminds me all the time,” Cook said. “Every time I play with Gene Sauers or Calcavecchia, they remind me of those two years.”

Those were the days when Cook still lived at Mission Hills, then a place where both PGA Tour and LPGA players lived or used as a West Coast base for their careers. Cook and his family first came to Mission Hills in 1971, with Cook falling under the wing of former U.S. Open champion Ken Venturi, who was the director of golf at the course.

Cook won the U.S. Amateur in 1978 while playing at Ohio State and was part of the school’s 1979 NCAA championship team. He turned pro later that year, but remained at Mission Hills.

“I think that we were playing it every day, Fred (Couples) and me and George Brett (Kansas City Royals third basemen and club member) or Kirk Triplett, who was around at the time a little bit, Mike Mitchell (Cook’s friends and a Mission Hills teaching pro),” Cook said. “When we all played it, remember this is back in the 1980s and the 1990s, the golf ball was doing what it was doing and it was a very formidable golf course. We would play either the gold tees or a combination, and it was very formidable.”

When the LPGA announced its major championship at Mission Hills, now the Chevron Championship, was moving to Houston for 2023, Cook was excited but confused.

“I was kind of shocked. Fifty-some years, you don’t just pull the plug on history and a major championship and what the LPGA is all about and who played there into the early ’70s and then into Lorena (Ochoa) and Annika (Sorenstam),” Cook said. “That’s really kind of a head scratcher.”

Cook said he basically retired from tournament golf five years ago as his television schedule with Golf Channel increased. He could still play a few times a year, but he didn’t play at all in 2022 while battling melanoma below his eye. While the cancer was invasive and moved into his check, he is now healthy and has been playing.

“I’m a lot better than I was last year,” Cook said.

With the chance to play Mission Hills one last time and with Michelle DeLancy named as tournament director after years of running the Boeing Classic in Seattle, Cook figured he could play two final senior events in Southern California.

“I thought, you know, I’ve been playing a little bit and I have been playing okay,” Cook said. “I’m not going to embarrass myself. So I thought why not? Why not go back and play?”

As for ending his tournament playing days, Cook believes the Galleri will be the perfect sendoff.

“Honestly, I’m as excited as I can be,” Cook said. “We’ve got the great support of my family. Our daughter from Australia is coming, bringing our granddaughter. My son is going to caddie for me and my oldest daughter and her family are coming. It is going to be pretty special.”

2024 Corales Puntacana Championship field: Full field and player rankings explored

A fter a successful Masters outing, the PGA Tour is set to return this weekend with two events. The Corales Puntacana Championship is scheduled to tee off on Thursday, April 18 at the Corales Golf Club in the Dominican Republic. The event will take place parallel to the 2024 RBC Heritage.

Being played in its originally intended slot, the Corales Puntacana Championship will feature a 132-player field competing for the top prize. The 18h tournament of the 2024 PGA Tour schedule boasts a $4,000,000 prize purse. The event will be headlined by Nicolai Hojgaard, Mark Hubbard and Alex Noren, among others.

It is pertinent to note that World No.34 Hojgaard will be the sole top 50 OWGR-ranked player at the event. Reigning champion Matt Wallace will not be returning to defend the title this weekend.

2024 Corales Puntacana Championship field

Hojgaard leads the field for the 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship . Coming off the back of a T16 finish at the Masters, all eyes will be on the Danish golfer.

Notably, several big names on the Tour ditched the event to play the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links instead. Notably, the signature event has a $20 million prize purse.

Meanwhile, the Dominican Republic event will feature a mixed bag of golfers from the PGA Tour and DP World Tour on its field. Daniel Berger, Cameron Champ, Joel Dahmen, Alex Fitzpatrick, Billy Horschel, Michael Kim, Chad Ramey, Justin Suh and Carl Yuan are some names to watch this weekend.

Listed below is the complete field for the Corales Puntacana Championship:

• Tyson Alexander
• Sangmoon Bae
• Paul Barjon
• Ricky Barnes
• Daniel Berger
• Brandon Berry
• Joseph Bramlett
• Jacob Bridgeman
• Wesley Bryan
• Hayden Buckley
• Jorge Campillo
• Rafael Campos
• Ryan Celano
• Cameron Champ
• Kevin Chappell
• Erik Compton
• Parker Coody
• Pierceson Coody
• Austin Cook
• Trace Crowe
• Joel Dahmen
• Joe Deraney
• Zecheng Dou
• Kevin Dougherty
• Jason Dufner
• Adrien Dumont de Chassart
• Tyler Duncan
• Nico Echavarria
• Harrison Endycott
• Patrick Fishburn
• Alex Fitzpatrick
• Wilson Furr
• Tommy Gainey
• Chris Gotterup
• Max Greyserman
• Cody Gribble
• Ben Griffin
• Lanto Griffin
• Juan Jose Guerra
• Scott Gutschewski
• Chesson Hadley
• Paul Haley II
• Justin Hicks
• Garrick Higgo
• Harry Higgs
• Joe Highsmith
• Charley Hoffman
• Nicolai Hojgaard
• Billy Horschel
• Mark Hubbard
• Chase Johnson
• Michael Kim
• Kevin Kisner
• Patton Kizzire
• Philip Knowles
• Matt Kuchar
• Peter Kuest
• Nate Lashley
• Thriston Lawrence
• David Lipsky
• Thomas Longbella
• Justin Lower
• Ryan McCormick
• George McNeill
• Mac Meissner
• Troy Merritt
• Francesco Molinari
• Matt NeSmith
• Henrik Norlander
• Sean O'Hair
• Jeff Overton
• Ryan Palmer
• Taylor Pendrith
• Raul Pereda
• Victor Perez
• Scott Piercy
• D.A. Points
• Willy Pumarol
• Chez Reavie
• Davis Riley
• Julio Santos
• Matti Schmid
• Braden Shattuck
• Greyson Sigg
• Hiram Silfa
• Ben Silverman
• Roger Sloan
• Alex Smalley
• Austin Smotherman
• Hayden Springer
• Jimmy Stanger
• Kyle Stanley
• Sam Stevens
• Brian Stuard
• Callum Tarren
• Josh Teater
• Davis Thompson
• Alejandro Tosti
• Martin Trainer
• Jhonattan Vegas
• Jimmy Walker
• Nick Watney
• Richy Werenski
• Vince Whaley
• Tom Whitney
• Carson Young

More details on the PGA Tour 's 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship, including prize money and tee times, will be updated soon.

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'The Catch' 2024: How to watch, stream the NFL saltwater fishing tournament on CBS Sports Network

Top nfl players will join forces with the best in the sfc billfish championship for a special tournament.

The second edition of Sport Fishing Championship's "The Catch" powered by Verizon, a made-for-TV tournament starring pairs of NFL players alongside some of the best anglers in the SFC Billfish Championship will debut Saturday afternoon.

Seven boats will set off from Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with seven pairs of NFL players aboard, several of whom have special connections to each other. There's a pair of brothers in Dalvin and James Cook and Quinnen & Quincy Williams , teammates like Kayvon Thibodeaux and Brian Burns on the New York Giants and James Bradberry and Jalen Carter on the Philadelphia Eagles , and star running backs like Alvin Kamara of the New Orleans Saints and Raheem Mostert of the Miami Dolphins . Also in the picture are Jeffrey Simmons, Rachaad White , David Njoku and Trey Hendrickson .

These NFL standouts will be partnered with SFC's star anglers, who will be in their element as they seek to win this event. "The Catch" will feature the standard billfish catch-and-release scoring system used in the SFC, putting the skills of these anglers as well as their visiting mates from the gridiron to the test as they try to become champions of The Catch.

All events through The Catch will support the Coast Guard Foundation.

How to Watch "The Catch" powered by Verizon

Date: Sat., April 20 Location: Pier Sixty-Six -- Fort Lauderdale, Florida Time: 3 p.m. ET TV: CBS Sports Network Stream: Paramount+

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