This week Championship in Napa, Cali., Served as a DE FACTO RYDER CUP CHAPTER For American captain Keegan Bradley and Team USA. Eleven of the 12 members were in Napa this week, with 10, putting it in the first event of the FedEx Cup of PGA Tour autumn season. Xander Schauffe, whose son, as soon as he was born, did not make the trip. Bryson Dechambeau participated in celebrations outside the course, but has no right to play as he is not a PGA Tour member.
The first few days in the summer country have seen most of Team USA admirable perform with a trip to Bethpage Black on the horizon. Ben Griffin holds the 54-year lead. Scottie Scheffler fired a 64 -round round to enter the shock distance. Russell Henley and JJ Spaun put themselves in position for a ran weekend at Resort Before you are stumbled on Saturday.
But between Griffin and Scheffler removes a name that can soon become a match in Future Ryder Cups. A name that just gave a win for the United States at the Walker Cup in Cypress Point.
Jackson Birch.
Amateur no. 1 world was Team USA’s anchor at Last week 17-9 first over Great Britain and Ireland on the Monterey Peninsula. Koivun came first in all four sessions for Captain Nathan Smith. He went 3-1, including tone setting victories in both single sessions. Koivun’s 3 and 2 victory over Tyler Weaver on Sunday Singles began an avalanche that saw the US win 8.5-1.5 to secure the cup.
Koivun’s Walker Cup performance was only the last in an impressive summer run to see Star Auburn, who already provided his PGA Tour card through the accelerated PGA University, continues to announce itself as a future force. Koivun lost cut in the US previously open going T11-T6-T5 In his next three PGA Tour. Then, he appeared on Cypress Point and helped carry the US Walker Cup team to an extraordinary victory.
“I think we’ve all seen Jackson all year long, all summer, how incredible he played, and when he closed his match, I said, ‘Thank you for playing. “It was just an honor for me to have it in my team,” Smith told Koivu last Sunday. “I think in every sport, if you are coach or captain, when your best player is your hardest player and sets tone for the team and simply brings the level of professionalism, we went into the carriage after his match, and he jumped inside and he would run the cart. I will simply go travel to the passenger side. “This summarizes it.”
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Koivu’s T5 conclusion at the Wyndham Championship put him in this week’s ProCore Championship, where the team he hopes to one day be part of it is preparing for a very predicted showdown in Bethpage Black in two weeks. But while Koivun is still an amateur – he will receive professional status whenever he decides to leave Auburn – he has already proven to belong to PGA Tour. So it was not surprising that he ran to Ryder Cup Russell Henley team member Friday before the round and called on his goal.
“I ran to Russell Henley in the range and told him I would capture him, so it was my goal,” Koivun said on Friday after his round.
Koivun did well on his promise, firing a second round to throw in a tie for second place along with Henley. This dizzying 66 included a magnificent 3 iron that Koivun hit in two legs, seven inches for the eagle in the 12th hole.
On Saturday, while Henley and Spaun slipped on board, it was Koivun who continued to mount the accusation towards Griffin at the top of the manager’s table. He left for a shaky start with the back-back-back luggage in three and four, but responded with birds in eight and 11. He then rolled in an eagle blow 43 feet in 12 and made birds at 14 and 15 to shoot 4 to set himself in the final group on 15 under. Koivun will begin the last round of Sunday a stroke behind Griffin.
“(I’m going for him) I try not to handle it otherwise and just go to play golf,” Koivun told NBC after the round when asked to play in the last group in a PGA Tour on Sunday for the first time in his career.
Koivun passed on Saturday paired with the US Open JJ Spaun champion, who will be a rhythm of Ryder Cup in Bethpage. He beat with four and beat Henley with six. He chose two shots at Griffin. But Scheffler is just a shot after him after the world no. 1 shake the rust to light an 8-nine 64 that included 10 birds and a double noise.
Koivun will enter Cauldron on Sunday on Sunday, hoping to trace a member of Team USA as he kept the best player of the game to become the second amateur that won a PGA Tour event in the last 30 years.
It is a long task, but it is also something he has built for.
“I’m trying to be the best, and I just have to continue putting myself in situations in which I can perform well, and practice my tail in the season out or when I’m not competing just to be done better,” Koivun said.
This mentality has seen the 20-year-old already marking his ticket to PGA Tour, deliver a Walker cup and has it in a position to set up a PGA Tour trophy as a Sunday amateur.
This week in Procore was Everything about the Ryder Cupwith the tournament fading in the background between a many questions about couplesChemistry, golf balls and decisions that have not been made. However, through the 54 holes in Napa, Team USA is looking at some things he hoped for, and one thing that is likely to see more in the future as Jackson Koivu’s star continues to grow.
