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Shoaib Bashir’s four for 69 is his best return in county cricket. And now he takes the new ball with Muhammad Abbas. Two new feathers for his Derbyshire cap.
This might be the moment to remind CCLive! readers that if a Championship team’s pitch is rated below average, poor or unfit, the home side will get zero points from the fixture, regardless of the match result.
Playing condition 16.2.6 reads. “In the event of a match being abandoned due to a pitch that has been rated unfit, or if the pitch is rated poor or below average, in accordance with the ECB’s pitch regulations, the home team shall be awarded zero points and any first innings points already achieved shall be rescinded,”
“The home team shall be credited with a loss and the away team a draw for tiebreaker purposes.”
A fourth wicket for Shoaib Bashir
A beauty from Bashir, as Bailey is bowled for one, the ball creeping past excellent defence and into his stumps. Lancs 314-8. Bashir has four.
Five wickets for George Hill
As Yorkshire roll out Hampshire for 251. JAck Lehmann the top scorer with 76 and a handy 17 at the close from Eddy Jack. Lyth and Bean settle at the crease.
And a couple more wickets at OT as Derbyshire fight back. Matty Hurst gives a dolly to Montgomery for 32 and Bashir bowls a half-advancing Tom Hartley for 17. Hartley turns his bat upside down and bangs the handle on the grass in disappointment. Lancs 306-7, Bashir 3-66.
James Price, Lancashire’s Easter bunny, head of marketing and communications has just appeared in the press box with a milky bar Easter Egg for everyone. Just don’t mention the SGMs…
Rain at Bristol – McKinney 182 not out
Rain has never been more welcome at Bristol, as the players are forced in with the score 348-2 after 67.2 overs. McKinney 182 not out.
A cracking caught and bowled by Shoaib Bashir, sliding onto his tummy rhythm and slurping it up. Michael Jones wasn’t too happy, but it looked legit to me. Lancs 283-5, Marcus Harris out for 125 just before tea.
And with the sun out, Marcus Harris close to his hundred and Shoaib Bashir bowling well at OT, time for me to write up for early Friday first edition. Do keep chatting BTL.
And Brett D’Oliveira (67 not out) is standing tall as the rest of the Worcestershire batting crumbles around him. Worcs 167-8 against new improved Middlesex. Two wickets to Naavya Sharma and Ryan Higgins. Worcs 171-8.
A hundred for Ricardo Vasconcelos!
And he’s just gone, a wicket for Jas Singh, after 127 from 170 balls. Kent breathe a sigh of relief. Northants 229-1.
A century for Alex Lees
Durham continue their unrelenting pummelling of Glos – as Alex Lees joins the three figures club. McKinney is still flying along – 141 from 140 balls. Durham 261-0.
Compared to what’s happening elsewhere, Hampshire are plodding along at Headingley. Ben Maynes and Jake Lehmann have put on an unbeaten 50 for the fifth wickets. Two wickets for George Hill. Hants 161-4.
A wicket for Bashir!
But no century for Josh Bohannon, who chops Bashir onto his stumps for 73, done by a ball that spins and bounces. Bashir, half a (luxuriant) head taller than most of the players on the field, does a little jig of happiness. A wicket in his second over. Lancs 157-3.
Apologies to all – McCullum is not at Hove. Just his lookalike. But Rob Key is. And we pause at OT while Rocky Flintoff runs out with the modern equivalent of brown paper and string to help Marcus Harris repair his bat.
Runs for Pope and Smith
Simon Burnton
Very good since lunch, though Smith (76) was nearly caught at gully off a flashing drive, for which he demonstratively chastised himself. They’ve both hit lovely cover drives. A sharp single ended with Patel’s throw hitting Pope (61) and running away to the boundary for five runs, which is always fun. Leicestershire looking a little forlorn. Surrey 172-2.
Warwickshire’s mediocre morning continues into the afternoon where they have just lost Beau Webster for 48. A second wicket for Ollie Robinson at Hove. Warwicks 116-5.
Timm Van der Gugten, enjoying his trip to Trent Bridge, has just picked up his fourth Notts wicket, Patterson-White bowled for one. Fergus O’Neill has bashed five fours to get the scoreboard moving, Jack Haynes 37 not out. Glamorgan frisky after that morale-boosting draw against Yorkshire. Notts 140-6.
At Chelmsford, Matt Critchley, Rothesay CC player of round one for his 173 and five for nine, has returned to earth with a bump. Out for a three-ball duck to Somerset secret weapon Tom Lammonby, who also dismissed Dean Elgar for 41. Essex 112 for five.
Lancashire are making hay the afternoon, Harris has fifty too, getting there with a drive past Bohanon’s feet to the deep mid-on boundary. Lancs 127-2.
Rob Key watching at Hove
Thanks to Mike Bennett and his steward spy.
“A decent effort from both Ollie and young Henry this morning but Fynn H-P probably still takes my pick for the bowling award that session.
“Robinson looks much fitter and to have regained a bit of the gas that was lacking last season, I think he was unlucky not to have picked at least one more wicket – a couple of edges falling short or squeezing through the cordon.
“Crocombe on as first change again, a couple of very tight overs from both ends with decent speed, although neither Yates nor Webster seemed particularly troubled in negotiating it.
“A steward told me that both *Baz and Rob Key are in attendance today, so you’d think this is Robinson’s best chance to get himself more firmly “into the conversation” before his last chance passes.
“The sun is breaking through a bit and both batters are looking settled but I’d still say advantage Sussex at this point.”
*this turned out to be just Rob Key, with Baz somewhere as yet unknown
A hundred for Ben McKinney!
McKinney, who was much mentioned last season but didn’t make the Ashes tour in the end, smacks two sixes and 18 fours in a brutal century against Gloucestershire. Durham 171-0.
Fifty for Josh Bohannon, in an early-season fruitful patch. A lunchtime stroll around OT revealed a little girl in fairy dress batting against her mum, and a boy in a Lancs shirt smacking his dad around the concourse. Lancashire 102-2.
Lunchtime scores
DIVISION ONE
Chelmsford: Essex 80-4 v Somerset
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 101-5 v Glamorgan
The Oval: Surrey 110-2 v Leicestershire
Hove: Sussex v Warwickshire 69-3
Headingley: Yorkshire v Hampshire 82-2
DIVISION TWO
Bristol: Gloucestershire v Durham 143-0
Canterbury: Kent v Northamptonshire 124-0
Old Trafford: Lancashire 88-2 v Derbyshire
Lord’s: Middlesex v Worcestershire 84-5
Time for one not very eventful over from Shoaib Bashir before they trundle in for lunch at OT. Lunch scores around the grounds to follow.
Fifty for Ricardo Vasconcelos
Kent’s bowlers also proving tasty fare – and Northants tucking in. Vasconcelos 73 not out from 94 balls.
Fifty for Ben McKinney
Big Ben McKinney doing exactly what the selectors are asking with 82 off 84 balls – though runs against Gloucestershire are some of the easiest. Apologies Glos supporters, I feel cruel typing that. Durham 141-0.
A wave to Will Unwin, who is sometimes watching from the stands at OT with his daughter, but is stuck behind a laptop today.
“I am intrigued by the lineup. After missing last season, for Lancashire at least, I am surprised Rocky Flintoff is not getting a chance. I can’t imagine Paul Coughlin is the long term answer either. Flintoff needs to develop and will not do it watching from the stands.
“I appreciate without Jennings, a Plan B is required but Singh has rarely convinced with the bat. Marcus Harris is an opener by trade and his experience could be significant there, taking the pressure off Singh, who could be allowed to move down the order.”
I should have said that Jennings is out with a calf injury – though Lancs hope he’ll be back for the next round.
I’d like to see Harris opening too but he bats five for Victoria, coming in after Leicestershire’s Peter Handscomb. This is his first game since the cracking Sheffield Shield final which Victoria lost by 56 runs to South Australia.
Lancashire SGMs
Reports from Lancashire’s two Special General Meetings at The Point here at OT last night are suitably chaotic. The first SGM, the one organised by the club, was adjourned before any of the seven resolutions were passed as there wasn’t a legal advisor in the room.
The second meeting, held by the “dissidents,”wanted to raise the number of former employees who could sit on the Board from two to four. It was won by 672-401 votes, but that wasn’t a big enough percentage to pass.
Josh Bohannon is dropped in the slips on 28. Chappell prowls back to his mark near the Old Trafford pavilion where hundreds of people are gathered in zipped-up fleece excitement. A good turn-out all the way round the stands for the first home game of the season.
At The Oval, Surrey are 52-2 against Leicestershire, both openers gone.One of those wicket-takers was Josh Hull who sent Sibley on his way for four. Gary Naylor is keeping an eye on things.
“Josh Hull is back at The Oval bowling from the same end as he did in his one Test. There’s no speedgun here (as far as I can see), but he looks very sharp, pushing 90mph I suspect, delivering a heavy ball. At 21, he has lost a bit of that teenage gawkiness, though he’s a big unit and will need to manage his body carefully.”
He’s huge isn’t he? I watched him go through his paces at Grace Road. Like an oak tree in a forest of saplings.
Glamorgan’s van der Gugten and Ryan Hadley have reduced Nottinghamshire to 50 for three, though not before Ben Duckett, who turned down his IPL gig for the CC, had knocked out 25 at about a run a ball. Joe Clarke is not out for a nippy 18 from 20 balls.
Round the grounds Northamptonshire’s Ricardo Vasconcelos and Luke Procter are having fun against Kent (58-0); Durham’s Ben McKinney and Alex Lees similar japes against Gloucestershire (59-0) but elsewhere the bowlers are taking early-season prizes.
The first email of the day drops into the CCLive postbag. Hello Mike Bennett!
“Good morning from Hove, where the glorious weather of the last few days has given way to slightly overcast conditions, although the sun is doing it’s best to break through.
“Living in Scotland means I very rarely get the chance to watch the CC in person, so despite being a Yorkie, staying just around the corner from the County Ground this week meant this was too good an opportunity to pass up.
“Fynn Hudson-Prentice opening the bowling with Robinson has bowled a couple of very sharp overs and Robinson has just whistled one past Alex Davies’ nose, so it looks like we’re shaping up for a decent first session.
“Thanks for the ever-great work with the live blog, it’s a lifeline for those of us stranded in cricket wildernesses! (Although a dedicated reader, this is the first time I’ve written in).”
It’s lovely to hear from you Mike and I’m glad the Guardian can help keep you connected. I’d be interested in what you think about Robinson and Henry Crocombe, both who are on the ECB scouts’ radar. And I see Warwicks have lost two early wickets – one each to Robinson and Hudson-Prentice. Sussex 12-2.
And an early wicket for Abbas, as ever liquid gold. Singh with an elaborate prod, edging to Guest. Harris strolls out to resume his usual relaying of the foundations role. Lancashire 13 for two.
An early wicket here at OT, though we were too distracted in the press box by a frozen telly to notice. Luke Wells well caught, diving to his left at third slip off Ben Aitchison, for four. It brings in Josh Bohannon’s for his 100th first-class match.
Haseeb Hameed will have the rest of the day to admire the ball by Timm van der Gugten that, in bright sunshine, sent him on his way first ball. HH cocked his leg to dink the ball into the leg side but instead lost his leg stump.
Out come the Derbyshire players, hands firmly stuck around handwarmers, deep in pockets. Lancs have three changes from the side that drew with Worcestershire – adding Mitch Stanley, Marcus Harris and Paul Coughlin. Muhammad Abbas has the new ball from the Statham End.
Domestic Journalism Awards
Congratulations to all the winners of the ECB’s Domestic Journalism awards – jobs well done.
Christopher Martin-Jenkins Young Journalist of the Year: Cameron Ponsonby
Christopher Martin-Jenkins Broadcaster of the Year: Aaron Viles
Outstanding Online Coverage: BBC Sport Online
Highly Commended: The Cricketer Online
Regional Newspaper of the Year: Yorkshire Post
Highly Commended: Liverpool Echo
Podcast of the Year: The Final Word
Highly Commended: Wisden Cricket Weekly, 150 Not Out: Somerset County Cricket Club
Video Content Creator of the Year: Cricket District
Photo of the Year: David Griffin
Highly Commended: Nathan Stirk
I love the elongated figures in the winning photo Groundstaff from above by David Griffin, who is here at Old Trafford today to cover Derbyshire. You can find it here if you scroll down the page.
Ajaz Patel makes his debut for Leicestershire today. The Foxes will have to crank up their match skills from their defeat by Sussex in the last round, to hold off Surrey at The Oval.
To Old Trafford, where the outfield is busy with slip catching practise and bowling run ins. Derbyshire have won the toss and have sent Lancashire in to have a bat.
Division Two table
Middlesex 22
Derbyshire 16
Lancashire 14
Durham 13
Northamptonshire 12
Kent 11
Worcestershire 11
Gloucestershire -1
Division one table
Essex 22
Warwickshire 16
Nottinghamshire 13
Somerset 13
Glamorgan 12
Surrey 11
Sussex 10
Yorkshire 10
Leicestershire 3
Hampshire 2
Fixtures
DIVISION ONE
Chelmsford: Essex v Somerset
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire v Glamorgan
The Oval: Surrey v Leicestershire
Hove: Sussex v Warwickshire
Headingley: Yorkshire v Hampshire
DIVISION TWO
Bristol: Gloucestershire v Durham
Canterbury: Kent v Northamptonshire
Old Trafford: Lancashire v Derbyshire
Lord’s: Middlesex v Worcestershire
Preamble
Good morning! Welcome to round two of this Championship summer – all cherry blossom and leftover hot cross buns . We have another full set of matches and can start to divine whether last week’s wins for Sussex, Essex and Middlesex were anything more than early season luck. Play starts around the grounds at 11am, do join us.
Two men and two women, whose identities have not yet been released, died when they tried to board a water taxi off the coast of Saint Etienne au Mont, near Calais.
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Scheffler and Woodland take turns to throw darts at the pin on 1. MacIntyre, perhaps mindful that he needs a super-low number today if he’s to somehow survive, also goes for the flag but pulls his approach, and he’ll be shortsided in the bunker.
The world number one Scottie Scheffler is out and about. He doesn’t quite catch his opening drive, and peers after it quizzically, but while it’s shorter than usual, it’s straight. Robert MacIntyre and Gary Woodland follow him down. MacIntyre gets a good reception from the gallery, despite yesterday’s toddler-style tanty, flashing a middle finger at the pond on 15 which had just snaffled two of his balls, and burying the hosel of his club into the ground at 17. No news yet as to whether or not the Augusta National suits have given him a clip round the lug. Perhaps they think a round of 80 was punishment enough.
A disappointing three-putt par for Wyndham Clark at the par-five 8th. Having found the heart of the bowl-shaped green in two, he races his 50-foot eagle putt 11 feet past, and gets a bit over-excited with the one coming back, too, knocking that a couple of feet past. He tidies up to stay at -3, but that’s a big chance spurned.
Justin Rose’s ball has found the tree line all right. His backswing is hampered by an awkward loblolly. So he does exceptionally well to punch a low shot under the branches, through the green, and just off the back. But he leaves his putt from the fringe eight feet short, and can’t make the par saver. That’s three bogeys in a row, if we’re counting the denouement to last night’s round, which we surely must. Bogey for Brooks Koepka, too, as he’s unable to read a putt with a 20-foot right-to-left break correctly. But it’s a birdie for Jordan Spieth, who walks in a straight-ish 15-footer after finding the heart of the green. Koepka drops to +1; Spieth and Rose are both -1, but one is much happier about it than the other.
Justin Rose was running “a little hot” after bogeying 17 and 18 last night. He’s not 100 percent happy with his opening drive today, either, sending it dangerously close to the tree line down the right. His playing partners Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka are also out of position. Not the most auspicious start for the marquee group of the morning. Rose starts the day at -2; Spieth and Koepka at level par.
Birdie for Aaron Rai at 2! The 31-year-old from Wolverhampton, now based in Florida, gets up and down from sand at the front to move to -2. The winner of the Par 3 Contest has to double up with a Green Jacket at some point, it’s surely in the post, we’re overdue statistically, 66 years and counting. So why not this year?
-5: Burns, McIlroy
-3: Clark (6), Kitayama, Day, Reed
-2: Rai (2), Rose, Scheffler, Lowry, Schauffele
Wyndham Clark’s birdie putt at 6 looks good. A straight roll. But it drifts a little to the right just before reaching the cup, enough to kink out. That really did look like it was going in. So he remains at -3 for both his round and the Tournament overall. He’s no longer the only player out there in red for his round today: Im Sungjae, who finished second on debut in the November Masters of 2020, birdies 7 and 8 to move into credit today – he’s +3 overall – while the old trooper Freddie Couples birdies 2 to get back to +5. Such a shame about that hideous run at 15, 16 and 17 yesterday – quadruple bogey, double bogey, double bogey – but you can forgive a 66-year-old for running out of gas under the heat of the late-afternoon sun.
The Par 3 Contest winner Aaron Rai starts his second round calmly and confidently. Tea Olive found in regulation, and a long birdie putt that shaves the hole. He remains at -1 after yesterday’s 71, a round that promised more after going out in 33. Meanwhile Wyndham Clark’s run of consecutive birdies comes to an end at 5. Just a par, though he’s now landed his tee shot at 6 into the heart of the green, using the slope to bring his ball towards the flag tucked away front left. He’ll have a good look at birdie from 18 feet, a putt not exactly flat and straight, but as flat and straight as they come around here.
At the risk of belabouring the point, here’s a bit more on how difficult Augusta National is playing this week. As mentioned earlier, yesterday’s scoring average was 74.65, just over two-and-a-half shots over par. That’s the highest first-day average since 2017 (74.98) although we did get more sub-70 rounds yesterday than we did on Thursday nine years ago: five to two. Though how much attention our defending champion and co-leader Rory McIlroy will pay to all this is moot: he shot 72 in the first round in 2017, but 67 yesterday. Golf is almost as difficult to analyse as it is to play.
Clark is the only player out this morning under par for his round so far. A small sample size, but one that nevertheless suggests low scores will come at a premium today. To illustrate: Tom McKibbin, whose Masters debut isn’t going to plan. The 23-year-old from Belfast shot 75 yesterday, and he’s opened this morning with three bogeys and a double in his first five holes. He’s clattered down the standings to +8, and isn’t the only player from the LIV tour to be struggling this week: none of the tour’s ten representatives broke par yesterday, with their big guns Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm shooting 76 and 78 respectively, two of the pre-Tournament favourites as good as out of the running already.
It’s three birdies in a row for 2023 US Open champion Wyndham Clark! On a roll, he cracks his tee shot at the long par-three 4th pin high, to eight feet, and walks in the putt. The late-blooming 32-year-old from Denver tied for fourth at last year’s Open, so he’s trending in the majors, albeit with a nine-month hiatus, but he’s not got a good record at Augusta National: one missed cut and a tie for 46th. Looks like he’s in the mood to right that particular wrong.
-5: Burns, McIlroy
-3: Clark (4), Kitayama, Day, Reed
-2: Rose, Scheffler, Lowry, Schauffele
It promises to be a glorious day at Augusta National. Sunny and dry, with temperatures set to reach 80 degrees by the afternoon. Not too much in the way of wind. It’ll be more of the same during the weekend, so expect conditions to get tougher and tougher as the course gets harder and faster. Given that yesterday’s scoring average was 74.65, already up nearly two strokes from last year’s average of 72.81, we could be in for plenty of high jinks on Sunday afternoon. Cannot wait.
The first adjustment towards the top of today’s Leader Board comes courtesy of the 2023 US Open champion Wyndham Clark. He birdies 2, wedging over the bunker guarding the right of the green to a couple of feet and tidying up. He follows that up by finding the dancefloor of the elevated green at 3 in regulation, then steering in the right-to-left 12-footer that remains. A birdie-birdie blast, and Clark moves confidently into red figures.
-5: Burns, McIlroy
-3: Kitayama, Day, Reed
-2: Clark (3), Rose, Scheffler, Lowry, Schauffele
-1: Rai, Bridgeman, Woodland, Li, Taylor, Fleetwood
… also, before we head out onto the course, it’s probably best if we grab ourselves a snack. How about one of these new dark-milk chocolate bars with caramel and rice crispies? CANDY BAR: the only Soviet-branded candy with a hazelnut crunch! Horseshoe theory enthusiasts will be delighted to see the late-stage capitalism of the USA swinging all the way around towards a socialist idyll. Just $2.25. Sounds delicious, get me two.
While we wait for the meaningful action to begin, let’s whack on a tune. Now then, “CBS” + “music” = Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen. It also equals this. All together now (for it has lyrics) …
Well it’s springtime in the valley on Magnolia Lane
It’s the Augusta National and the master of the game
Who’ll wear that green coat on Sunday afternoon?
Who’ll walk the 18th fairway singing this tune?
Augusta, your dogwoods and pines
They play on my mind like a song
Augusta, it’s you that I love
And it’s you that I’ll miss when I’m gone.
It’s Watson, Byron Nelson, Demaret, Player and Snead
It’s Amen Corner and it’s Hogan’s perfect swing
It’s Sarazen’s double eagle at the 15 in ‘35
And the spirit of Clifford Roberts that keeps it alive
Augusta, your dogwoods and pines
They play on my mind like a song
Augusta, it’s you that I love
And it’s you that I miss when I’m gone
It’s the legions of Arnie’s Army and the Golden Bear’s throngs
And the wooden-shafted legend of Bobby Jones.
Preamble
“What are we all going to talk about next year?” Yes, well, Rory’s keeping his riff alive, isn’t he? It’s a good while today until the defending champ turns up for work, mind you, so in the meantime, here’s how the top of the leaderboard looked after 18 holes …
-5: Burns, McIlroy
-3: Kitayama, Day, Reed
-2: Lowry, Schauffele, Rose, Scheffler
-1: Li, Taylor, Fleetwood, Campbell, Rai, Bridgeman, Woodland
… and here’s the Friday running order. Some pre-Tournament favourites in Ludvig Åberg (+2), Bryson DeChambeau (+4) and Jon Rahm (+6) need to get their gamefaces on and quick.
Today’s tee times (USA unless stated, all times BST)
1240 Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Sam Stevens
1250 Brian Campbell, Tom McKibbin (NIrl), Andrew Novak
1302 Wyndham Clark, (a) Mateo Pulcini (Arg), Mike Weir (Can)
1314 Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Zach Johnson, Michael Kim
1326 (a) Ethan Fang, Davis Riley, Danny Willett (Eng)
1338 Daniel Berger, Brian Harman, Adam Scott (Aus)
1350 Fred Couples, (a) Pongsapak Laopakdee (Tha), Min-Woo Lee (Aus)
1402 Jacob Bridgeman, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Aaron Rai (Eng)
1419 Michael Brennan, Corey Conners (Can), Harry Hall (Eng)
1431 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Maverick McNealy, JJ Spaun
1443 Ludvig Aberg (Swe), Chris Gotterup, Jon Rahm (Spa)
1455 Brooks Koepka, Justin Rose (Eng), Jordan Spieth
1507 Ben Griffin, Sepp Straka (Aut), Justin Thomas
1519 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Scottie Scheffler, Gary Woodland
1531 Harris English, Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Marco Penge (Eng)
1551 Johnny Keefer, Haotong Li (Chn)
1603 Max Homa, Naoyuki Kataoka (Jpn), Carlos Ortiz (Mex)
1615 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Jose Maria Olazabal (Spa), Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa)
1627 Angel Cabrera (Arg), (a) Jackson Herrington, Sami Valimaki (Fin)
1639 Ryan Fox (Nzl), Max Greyserman, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa)
1651 Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Matt McCarty, Vijay Singh (Fij)
1703 Casey Jarvis (Rsa), Kurt Kitayama, Kristoffer Reitan (Nor)
1715 Nicolas Echavarria (Col), (a) Brandon Holtz, Bubba Watson
1732 Sam Burns, Jake Knapp, Cameron Smith (Aus)
1744 Keegan Bradley, Ryan Gerard, Nick Taylor (Can)
1756 Jason Day (Aus), Dustin Johnson, Shane Lowry (Irl)
1808 Akshay Bhatia, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Patrick Reed
1820 Bryson DeChambeau, Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Xander Schauffele
1832 Russell Henley, Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Collin Morikawa
1844 (a) Mason Howell, Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Cameron Young
1856 Patrick Cantlay, Viktor Hovland (Nor), Alexander Noren (Swe)
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