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Another week, another signature event on the PGA Tour.

The first round of the 2024 RBC Heritage is in the books, and numerous players took advantage of softer conditions at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, meaning birdies were aplenty on Thursday.

J.T. Poston holds the solo lead, and he has Scottie (no, not that one) to thank. Meanwhile, the Masters champion got off to a slow-ish start, but he finished strong after grinding through the middle of his round.

And in between, there are plenty of players crowding the top of the leaderboard with no major separation after 18 holes of play.

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J.T. Poston also has a Scottie connection

J.T. Poston hits a tee shot on the third hole during the first round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 18, 2024 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

There’s another important Scottie at Harbour Town this week. Katherine “Scottie” Poston, J.T. Poston’s daughter, who was born March 20, is with Poston for the first time since she was born. Along with wife Kelly, the Postons are off to a great start on Hilton Head Island.

Poston opened in 8-under 63 on Thursday to take the solo lead at the RBC Heritage. The 63 is the fifth time Poston has opened in 63 during a Tour event since the 2016-17 season, tied with Jordan Spieth for the most during that span. He had nine birdies and a lone blemish on the card to complete a stellar opening round.

“Maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe she’s a good luck charm,” Poston said of his daughter. “It’s been great. It’s definitely an adjustment. I think my wife and I were figuring it out. My mom is here. She’s helping us out, too. So we’ve got plenty of help. We’re just kind of figuring it out. But it’s good to have them here and sort of takes away the pressure of — I’m not worrying about golf when I’m at home. I’m trying to change diapers and take care of her.”

In the last five years at the RBC Heritage, Poston has finished in the top 10 three times while missing the cut in 2021 and 2023.

His 8-under start has opened up a two-shot lead on Seamus Power and Collin Morikawa.

He said the tournament is one he has circled on the calendar at the beginning of every year because he enjoys Harbour Town so much. Even with the extra responsibilities off the course, Poston is focused on playing strong golf on it. And he had no issues with that Thursday.

“My wife has been great,” Poston said, “She knows this is just how it is. We have to spend some time on the golf course. I’ve got to work on my game. I’ve got to stay sharp. She’s been awesome giving me the time to do that, and I’m not taking it for granted. I’m trying to be productive and get back home when I can help.”

Austin Eckroat as a patron

Austin Eckroat walks the first hole during the first round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 18, 2024 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

As Austin Eckroat explains it, he was struggling with “everything” last week at Augusta National, resulting in him missing the cut.

“I came off a really good stretch, and all of a sudden I couldn’t hit the golf ball,” he said. “It’s never far away from good golf, but it’s also — you’re never that far away from struggling a little bit.”

Eckroat didn’t touch a golf club on the weekend, instead taking a spot outside the ropes as a patron on Saturday at Augusta National to get away a bit and have a different experience.

And it paid off. Eckroat’s refocused approach resulted in an opening 5-under 66 on Thursday. The winner of the Cognizant Classic earlier this season had six birdies and a lone bogey, and he said his weekend refresh contributed to the quick start.

“It was honestly a really enjoyable weekend to go and watch the Masters,” Eckroat said. “I had never done it and tried to take some notes on some guys playing well. Sunday I watched at home and then ended up driving over here and took it easy.

“I went and watched Amen Corner. That was a really cool area. I wanted to see Tiger at least hit one shot, so I watched Tiger hit his tee ball on 10 and then I just hung out on 13. We had a good spot where we could see the second shots, and it was a really cool spot.”

Sahith Theegala's learning experience

Sahith Theegala reacts to a putt on the 18th hole during the first round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 18, 2024 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

Theegala wants to play every week on the PGA Tour. It irritates him when he’s off because he still watches golf on TV and wonders why he isn’t in the field. But he knows that’s not possible.

He went into this year with a goal of building a smarter schedule to handle the signature events and majors better. And thus far, he feels as if it is paying off.

Theegala is in the group of players at 5 under and three back of Poston. He fired a bogey-free 66 on Thursday coming off a T-45 at the Masters last week.

“I haven’t played quite as much, and my body is thanking me,” Theegala said. “I feel like I have more energy for the bigger events, which is awesome. It’s really worked out well at the start of the year.

“I joke with my buddies all the time. I would always say I’m playing every event I get into, half-jokingly, but I was like, I’m not missing a Tour event. We’ve grinded our whole lives to get here and now I’m just going to be skipping a bunch of events. It feels weird to take it off, but I see the benefit in doing so. That’s probably been the number one answer when I’ve asked guys that have played out here for a long time, what’s their secret to the longevity. It’s really not pushing it.”

Scheffler finishes strong

Scottie Scheffler hits a tee shot on the third hole during the first round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 18, 2024 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth were paired together for the first round of the RBC Heritage, and through five holes, Spieth was 4 under and Scheffler was 1 over. By day’s end, Scheffler nicked his fellow Longhorn and Dallas resident by a shot.

Scheffler’s incredible consistency again showed Thursday, as he opened in 2-under 69, just four days removed from his second Masters victory. Scheffler didn’t get to Harbour Town until later in the week and played only nine holes on the back side during the pro-am portion of his warm-up. Yet even after an early shank on a bunker shot that resulted in a double, Scheffler settled in and birdied Nos. 16-17 to card 2 under.

“It would have felt better if I got off to a better start, but I tried to give myself a little bit of grace there, but I got pretty frustrated towards the middle of the round because I was playing good, felt like I was hitting good putts, and my speed was maybe a touch off,” Scheffler said. “I think I was maybe too settled down to start the day. I wasn’t quite into the competition. I think maybe it was a bit of fatigue, whatever it was. But I felt like I was still kind of getting adjusted to the golf course.”

Scheffler made birdie on the par-5 second before the double on the third. He carded the second of his four birdies on the par-3 seventh and then had eight straight pars before his consecutive birdies.

In his last four starts, Scheffler has three wins and a T-2. And in that T-2, Scheffler was a couple putts away from forcing a playoff or even winning outright. He mentioned he didn’t get as much work in on the greens at Harbour Town this week, but who can blame him? He has plenty of things going on in his life, including his first child being born in the coming weeks, as well.

“I think sometimes that frustration from not playing my best I think kind of helps me focus sometimes,” Scheffler said. “You can use that as good energy and you can use that as bad energy, so I tried to use it as best I could for the good stuff today.”

Collin Morikawa continues Masters momentum

Collin Morikawa reacts after making a birdie on the 10th hole during the first round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 18, 2024 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Up until last week, Collin Morikawa was searching for his game. Yet for the second straight week, he looks like the player who won two major championships.

Morikawa is two shots back after an opening 65 that included seven birdies and one bogey. And a week after a T-3 at the Masters, Morikawa is in great position after the opening 18 holes at Harbour Town.

“Especially the way I’ve been playing, you never know how it’s going to be. But when you find this little rhythm and you find this kind of — just pathway, just to play golf, it’s very simple. Sometimes when you’re playing bad, you look back and you wonder why it can’t be that simple.”

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HOUSTON — Stephan Jaeger won his first PGA Tour event in his 135th attempt, closing with nine straight pars for a 3-under 67 and avoiding a playoff when Scottie Scheffler missed a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday.

Scheffler was trying to become the first player in seven years to win three straight starts on the PGA Tour, and he was right there with a chance. He two-putted for birdie from 20 feet on the par-5 16th and missed from 12 feet for birdie on the 17th.

His 5-foot birdie putt to force a playoff missed to the left, and Scheffler had to settle for a 68 and a co-runner-up finish.

“Obviously, I’m a bit disappointed right now,” Scheffler said. “It would be one thing if I pulled it or something like that. I just misread it. I don’t know why I misread it, it’s part of the game. Maybe I could have hit it with some more speed, I felt like I hit a nice putt kind of how I wanted to, just didn’t go.”

Jaeger, a 34-year-old German who came to high school in Tennessee when he was 16, earned his first trip to the Masters with the victory. He also is in the remaining four $20 million signature events this season.

Alejandro Tosti had a chance to become the fourth PGA Tour rookie to win this early in the year. He was tied for the lead until chipping too strong on the 18th and missing the 18-foot par putt for a 68.

There was a five-way tie for the lead at the start — the largest on Tour since 2009 — and eight players had at least a share of the lead at some point during the round.

Jaeger was always in the mix, taking the lead with an 8-foot birdie putt on the par-3 ninth hole at Memorial Park. That was his last birdie of the day, and no one could beat him.

“I was just tried to stay within myself,” Jaeger said. “Birdies eluded me on the back nine. But this golf course plays difficult, especially when you’re around the lead. I’m just super happy.”

Thomas Detry, David Skinns and Taylor Moore all made mistakes down the stretch.

Scheffler was one shot behind when he missed the green on the par-3 15th and failed to save par on an 8-foot putt, falling two shots behind with three to play. He got one back with his birdie on the downwind 16th, where Jaeger had to lay up and settle for par.

Scheffler and Jaeger both missed good birdie chances on the 17th, and Scheffler had one last chance on the 18th.

Jaeger finished at 12-under 268 and cracks the top 50 in the world ranking for the first time.

Defending champion Tony Finau closed with two straight birdies for a 66 and joined Scheffler, Tosti, Detry and Moore in a tie for second.

This was the final week for players to move into the top 50 and earn a Masters invitation, and no one from outside the top 50 — Mackenzie Hughes and Tom Hoge had the best chances — did well enough to earn a spot.

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Austin Eckroat won a weather-delayed Cognizant Classic on Monday at PGA National Resort to pick up his first career PGA Tour title.

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Austin Eckroat had slept on a 54-hole lead before. But how would he sleep on a 61-hole lead? That was the question as Eckroat left the course on Sunday night clinging to a one-stroke lead with 11 holes to play as he readied for a weather-delayed Monday finish.

The answer? Pretty well, apparently.

Eckroat won the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches on Monday at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., leading the field in birdies and claiming his first PGA Tour victory in his 50th career Tour start.

The 25-year-old pro closed with a four-under 67, finishing 17 under overall, three clear of Erik van Rooyen and Min Woo Lee.

Eckroat, who is ranked 101st in the world, had a solid but unspectacular start to his season before this week. He’d made four of five cuts with no finish better than 25th and nothing worse than 42nd. His previous best finish on Tour was a T2 at last year’s AT&T Byron Nelson, which is also the only other time he’s held a share of the 54-hole lead. But it’s not like he imploded that Sunday — he shot a bogey-free six-under 65, which was only topped by Jason Day’s Sunday 62 , good for a one-shot win.

“You can’t really visualize what it will be messing around when you’re a kid on the putting green having putts to win PGA Tour events and win the Masters and stuff like that,” Eckroat said. “But coming into today, I’ve been in this situation before at the Byron Nelson where I had a lead. I didn’t really know what to expect what the feeling would be. I knew finishing second was heartbreaking. I’m not real sure. I still don’t think I’m sure how I feel yet. I know I’m excited.”

But this time, Eckroat’s final-round lead, at least on Monday, was never in doubt.

Eckroat, Shane Lowry and David Skinns shared the 54-hole lead, but a 3 1/2-hour weather delay hit the property before 26 players even had a chance to tee off on Sunday afternoon. When play resumed, the final pairings only had time to fit in a handful of holes.

Eckroat, in the penultimate pairing, finished seven holes and led at 15 under. Behind him, Lowry (12 under) and Skinns (11 under) marked their balls on the 6th hole fairway to resume from there Monday.

Van Rooyen shot 63 on Sunday and had the clubhouse lead at 14 under, but reports on Monday said he was seven miles down the road at the Seminole Pro-Member. He must have known a playoff was unlikely. He was right.

Returning to PGA National Resort’s Champion course for an 8 a.m. ET restart on Monday, Eckroat made four straight pars before he birdied the 12th and 13th. He failed to get up and down from a bunker on 14 and made bogey, but he didn’t make a mistake again.

Eckroat entered the Bear Trap — the diabolical three-hole stretch of Nos. 15-17 — with a two-shot lead. He two-putted for par on 15 and rolled in a 12-footer for birdie on 16 to stretch his lead to three. Stress-free pars on 17 and 18 secured the win — and unlocked a handful of new tournaments he’s now exempt into, including the Masters.

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Greg McLaughlin took control of The First Tee program in November 2018. After spending 14 years running the Tiger Woods Foundation and four as president of PGA Tour Champions, he understood he was facing a unique challenge.

It wasn’t as if The First Tee hadn’t had a good deal of success in its 21 years of existence. It had raised millions of dollars and introduced golf to several million youngsters. But McLaughlin knew then—as he knows now—that there was work to be done.

“We’ve been good,” he said last week. “We need to be better.”

The First Tee was launched in 1997, shortly after Woods’ historic victory at the Masters, during the initial wave of Tigermania. Although there had been quite a few African-Americans who’d had success on the PGA Tour, none were megastars the way Woods was from the minute he turned pro in August 1996.

Woods was 20 at the time. By the end of that year, Sports Illustrated had named him its Sportsman of the Year, and in April 1997, he won the Masters by 12 shots. “He’s a boy among men,” Tom Watson said at the time. “And he’s showing the men how to do it.”

Woods was going to be the golf role model that African-American kids had never had. If young basketball players aspired to “Be Like Mike,” young golfers could aspire to “Be Like Tiger.”

And thus The First Tee, with backing from the PGA Tour and the World Golf Foundation and with former President George H.W. Bush as its first honorary chairman, was started soon after Woods’ stunning win at the Masters.

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If you read all the literature put out by the tour on The First Tee or hear the mentions of it during televised tournaments, you would think it has been an unqualified success. There is a lot to be proud of, including the fact that there are currently about 3.8 million kids involved in various First Tee programs around the country.

That number, however, is deceiving. In all, there are 150 First Tee chapters nationwide and about 1,400 First Tee locations located in those chapters that have direct access to golf courses.

Those programs have about 160,000 kids in them, and according to McLaughlin, all have at least “some access” to golf courses—some on 18-hole courses, others on nine-hole courses, some on three- and six-hole courses.

The bulk of First Tee programs are located in elementary and middle schools, Boys & Girls Clubs and YMCAs. There is little access to golf courses in those programs, although some do get kids to driving ranges and putting greens while teaching them the rules and etiquette of golf.

McLaughlin readily acknowledges the issue. “We need to get more of our kids the chance to get on a golf course,” he said. “If you want them to really fall in love with the sport, they need to actually play it on a regular basis. We’re living in an era nowadays where kids are almost forced to choose one sport by the time they’re 12 and play it all year round. The more kids we can get playing, the better chance we have for them to want to pursue golf.”

I suggested to McLaughlin that now would be a good time to ask (tell?) tournament directors at stops on the PGA Tour, Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Champions that giving First Tee kids access to their golf courses will be considered part of the tour’s contract with those clubs.

“Write that!” McLaughlin said. “Please write that! Of course, that would be a great thing for us.”

Another issue is diversity. In all, roughly 48 percent of current First Tee members are minorities—about 25 percent are African-American. The number is lower at First Tee facilities with a direct tie to a golf club or public golf course—about 15 percent. About 39 percent of the kids are girls.

McLaughlin, who started overseeing The First Tee in November 2018, says its priorities include increasing the diversity of its membership and providing participants with better access to golf courses.

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“Those are numbers we need to grow, and now is a great time to do it,” McLaughlin said. “In the past, there’s been a tendency to take the path of least resistance when trying to start up programs—in other words, go where we’re welcome. That’s been a good strategy in some places, not as good a strategy in others. We need to be more aggressive in terms of becoming more diverse, and now is very much a time to do that.”

With all the money raised and all the various chapters around the country, The First Tee has produced only two players—and only one a full-fledged First Tee product—who have reached the PGA Tour. Scott Langley, who is a minority in the sense that he’s left-handed, came up through The First Tee and credits much of his success to the program. Cameron Champ, who is the product of a biracial father and a white mother, was in the program briefly as a youngster but advanced so quickly that he didn’t remain. Others have gone to college on golf scholarships and have had success as amateurs, but everyone agrees the numbers should be better.

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Harold Varner III, who is one of only four minorities on tour right now (Woods, Champ, Joseph Bramlett), who learned to play at what was then Gastonia Municipal Golf Club, where his father paid $100 a summer so the youngster could play the golf course Mondays through Fridays, has talked often about the need for more teaching in The First Tee program.

“Harold would like to see us be more aggressive in that area,” McLaughlin said. “I agree with him. We’ve got about 350 PGA professionals who work with the program, but it would help if we could get more of them involved and get the kids more time with them.”

Varner has spoken often about the aspects of The First Tee he admires, but he also thinks there needs to be a more aggressive approach across the board. “In some places, it’s like golf day care,” he told me once. “If they’re trying to get more kids to grow up playing the game, it has to go beyond teaching them etiquette. They have to be taught to play—and to love—golf.”

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McLaughlin believes that the George Floyd tragedy can represent an opportunity for golf and for The First Tee.

“I was living in L.A. during the Rodney King riots [in 1992],” he said. “This has a different feel. I don’t think the people who are protesting right now just want to raise their voices for a while and then go home. I think they want to see real change happen.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is the chairman of The First Tee board and former commissioner Tim Finchem the vice-chair. “I think the two of them have the ability to wield a lot of influence helping us get more access to golf courses and more time playing golf for the kids,” McLaughlin said. “I know they both want to see that happen.

“There’s an opportunity here right now. The combination of people wanting to be outdoors more in the wake of the pandemic and the reaction to George Floyd’s death puts us in a position where we can grow the brand and grow golf. We’ve spent the last two weeks analyzing ways to do a better job in the communities where we already are and how to get into more minority communities and reach more minority kids. We know we need to reach out more to disadvantaged communities.”

Former President George W. Bush succeeded his father in 2011 as The First Tee’s honorary chairman and still holds the post. I asked McLaughlin about involving former President Barack Obama, also an avid golfer, in the program.

“I had a meeting with President Obama’s chief of staff last year about having him do a clinic in Washington or Chicago,” McLaughlin said. “He was very open to the idea, but we haven’t gotten it done yet. There’s going to come a time when President Bush [who is 73] will step aside, and I would think President Obama [who is 58] would be the first person we would approach to see if he would take on that role.”

McLaughlin has long had a reputation in golf as someone who gets things done. There’s little doubt the tour brought him into The First Tee because it recognizes that there is still a lot that can be done better.

As he says, The First Tee has done good work. But there are still a lot of ways to improve. There is no better time to begin that work than right now.

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 The only one 5-star golf resort in the Moscow region

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The best golf clubs in moscow: luxury, exclusivity, and entertainment.

By Walter Raymond

February 24, 2015

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In Russia, the western concept of building architecturally beautiful golf courses filled with modern and luxurious amenities has found fertile ground. What was considered a frivolous pastime during the time of the Soviets has become the latest trend for the stylish set. These days, there are countless options around Moscow to practice golf, polo, ski, yachting, and other sports alongside 5-star hotels, luxurious country houses, and magnificent villas.

The game of golf is a sport that requires passion and expertise. It is also part of a culture that considers this pastime a synonym of social prestige and exclusivity. In recent years, the new Russian elite has turned to golf as a vehicle of integration in the era of globalization. Golf courses are also meeting and socializing spaces where Muscovite tycoons can relax and also seal business deals.

Golf Courses in Russia

The Moscow Country Club, Pestovo Golf & Yacht Club, Tseleevo Golf & Polo Club, and Zavidovo Golf Club, PGA National Russia are some of the most exclusive and elegant golf courses in Russia. Some of them have made it to the list of Top 15 golf clubs in the world, a source of great prestige for the country.

Moscow Country Club Moscow Country Club

The first 18-hole golf course built in Russia, Moscow Country Club, hosts the exclusive PGA European Tour. Located just eight miles from the city center, this luxurious facility was created by architect Robert Trent Jones Jr . The design takes advantage of a typical Russian birch and spruce forest to provide a natural environment of extraordinary beauty.

Pestovo Golf & Yacht Club Pestovo Golf & Yacht Club

The Pestovo Golf & Yacht Club is 18 miles from the heart of Moscow, close to historical monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries. Designed by famed architects Paul and Dave Thomas , this 18-hole course is part of a complex that includes a yacht club, an equestrian center, and a health and wellness facility. Pestovo Golf & Yacht Club is Russia’s version of a classic country club with multiple attractions.

Tseleevo Golf & Polo Club Tseleevo Golf & Polo Club

This park is among the best in Eastern Europe and was awarded the 2014 World Golf Award as the best golf course in Russia. Located 25 miles from Moscow, it is part of a vast complex featuring an 18-hole golf course, designed by Jack Nicklaus , a polo club and a mountain ski club with four tracks. The design combines classic Scottish, Alpine, and English features in a dreamy landscape.

Zavidovo Golf Club, PGA National Russia Zavidovo Golf Club, PGA National Russia

Less than 60 miles from Moscow, this golf course with a definite Scottish design is the only one in Russia recognized as a PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association) from Britain and Ireland. Located in an ecologically pristine area on the banks of the Volga River, the Zavidovo Golf Club embodies the spirit and appearance of the legendary Scottish golf courses. Its many springs and streams, hills, forests, swamps and lakes justify its reputation as a very demanding circuit. Last year, it entered the exclusive club of the 15 best golf courses in the world.   ■

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