Golfing J's on PGA Tour: June 23-26 Quicken Loans National

[GTJT622]

The Tour heads east a bit from Pittsburgh and the U.S. Open over to the nation's capital area at Bethesda, MD, and the Congressional CC for this week's event. We really are in a flurry of major championships right now with some normal tour events mixed in between. The Tour has the British Open coming up in 3 weeks (July 14-17) and then 2 weeks later the PGA Championship takes place, with Canada's national championship sandwiched in between those 2. Then, the Olympics is right around the corner in August.

This week there will be 4 Golfing J's participating (current FECS in parenthesis):

• Roberto Castro (41)
• Stewart Cink (147)
• Chesson Hadley (154)
• Cameron Tringale (94)

Matt Kuchar (21) and Bryce Molder (54) will be taking this week off.

Roberto Castro is in this week's pgatour.com power rankings... http://www.pgatour.com/power-rankings/2016/06/20/quicken-loans-national.html

CBS will have weekend network TV coverage. Like last week, Thursday's 1st round appears will be dealing with t'storms and potential heavy rains. The weekend looks gorgeous though.

Good luck to our GJ's this week - particularly Chesson and Stewart who really need to get things going here as we get into the final stretch of the season with 2 months to go before the Barclays and Fed Ex events begin...as well of course as assuring their place on the Tour next year. For that matter, Tringale, who has struggled the last 2-3 months after a strong start to the season, needs to play well to stay inside the top 125.

 

[GTJT622]

Cink will not be playing after all.

All 3 Golfing J's competing this week will go off in the morning session on Thursday with Castro being the first off at 7am. All will of course be in the afternoon session on Friday with Castro scheduled to head out first at noon.

Having said that, again, I fully expect Thursday's first round to include play suspensions due to bad weather, so the schedule will likely (IMO) be altered quite a bit over the first 2 days. Friday thru Sunday looks outstanding.

 

[BornAJacket]

Any story on Cink, or is he just playing less as he approaches "golf retirement".

If they want to send that weather our way, I think we'd take it. No significant rain around here in weeks.

 

[GTJT622]

Cink's wife is battling cancer.

 

[BornAJacket]

Ok, I remember reading about that now. Thanks for the reminder. Certainly a change of life there.

 

[GTJT622]

As expected, this morning's first round is suspended. And, this may last a while as we are getting pounded with rain right now here in God's Country...and with plenty more on the way later today. Like last week's US Open, there could be some guys who don't even tee off today.

 

[BornAJacket]

send that rain south! please

 

[GTJT622]

Leaderboard: http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboard.html

Hadley: -1 thru 10
Castro: +1 thru 15
Tringale: +2 thru 8

 

[GTJT622]

Castro birdied 2 of his last 4 holes to finish at Even for his delayed first round.

Hadley is -1 thru 13 holes. Really hoping he can finish off strong.

Tringale is +2 thru 11 holes.

 

[GTJT622]

Great job by Chesson Hadley today. He cards a 3-under 68. Hopefully he can duplicate that effort on Friday.

Meanwhile, Tringale is +2 thru 16.

 

[BornAJacket]

looks like Tringale finished +2.

Leader is -7.

 

[GTJT622]

The projected cut suggests Even par and you keep playing. Right now, Castro is -1 thru 16 thanks to a birdie on #16. Hopefully, he can finish off strong (on the green in regulation on #17).

Hadley is +1 for the day thru 12 (and -2 for the tournament). Still in good shape to make a cut. Would be a boost for him as he hasn't made a cut in a while.

Tringale's play continues to struggle. He's +1 for the day and +3 for the tournament making the turn today. Ugh.

With these guys not qualified for the World Golf Championship event coming up nor the British Open, they are starting to run out of opportunities to boost their FedEx ranking. Castro is in pretty good shape already. No worries there. Hadley is on the outside looking in. Tringale is on the inside but falling back.

 

[GTJT622]

Castro bogeys the 523 yard par 4 (yes, that's right...it's a par FOUR!), the toughest hole on the course, to finish Even for the 2nd day in a row. Hopefully, that sticks to be good enough to make the cut.

Hadley is +2 for the day now and -1 for the tournament thru 14 holes. He started on the back nine today.

 

[GTJT622]

Tringale misses the cut again. pgatour.com leaderboard projects he will drop in the FedEx standings from current 94 to 102. Moving in the wrong direction towards that 125 cut off. Back in the spring his ranking was around the 40-60 range, IIRC.

Castro (Even) and Hadley (-1) both make the cut, though far back from the leaders. Hadley in particular though still can help his FedEx ranking by finishing strong the next 2 days. Castro tees off Saturday at 8:22am and Hadley goes off not long after that. Good luck to those GJ's.

 

[Texwood]

Ollie scored a win on the web.com tour today in a 3-way playoff.

Leaderboard Link

 

[GTJT622]

Thanks for the heads up on Ollie. That's great news.

 

[BornAJacket]

Ollie scored a win on the web.com tour today in a 3-way playoff.

Leaderboard Link

Great tournament for Ollie!

 

[BornAJacket]

Castro and Hadley finished #62 and #64 for the tournament.

I see:
Kuchar - 1064 points
Castro - 720 points
Tringale - 441 points
Hadley - 224 points

Is this after the past weekend?