That leaves Vegas, a four-time Tour winner, wrestling with a confounding blur of pride and despair. “Oh God, it’s been very rough for so many years,” said Vegas, who shot a solid 2-under Wednesday on the bully South Course in the opening round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines.
Scores from the PGA Tour Farmers Insurance Open on Wednesday -9 Ludvig Aberg (Sweden) 63 -7 Danny Walker (USA) 65 Hayden Springer (USA) 65 -6 Lanto Griffin (USA) 66 Aldrich Potgieter (South Africa) 66
Hideki Matsuyama can increase his lead on the PGA Tour money list this week at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Calif., which begins on Wednesday and ends on Saturday because of the NFL conference championship games on Sunday.
With the $918,000 check for finishing second in the $8.8 million event, Thomas becomes the latest PGA Tour player to surpass the $60 million mark in career earnings. He is now 10th all time at $60,827,898, passing Matt Kuchar on the list. Thomas is still just under $60 million shy of all-time leader Tiger Woods.
Scores from the PGA Tour The American Express on Saturday -23 Sepp Straka (Austria) 65 64 64 -19 Justin Lower (USA) 63 66 68 Jason Day (Australia) 64 66 67 Charley Hoffman (USA) 65 63 69 -18 Patrick C
Why this week lines up perfectly for Ludvig Aberg Our experts are circling for another victory for this column, as Brandon Gdula had both Patrick Cantlay and Jason Day in the mix last week, and Christopher Powers had Max Greyserman.