Rory McIlroy is the strong competitor for the BMW PGA Championship following his re-visitation of the Tour Championships in Georgia on 28 August, beginning Thursday at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England.
McIlroy caught his third FedEx Cup title by finishing the greatest last round rebound in Tour Championship history. He will be a captivating figure at Wentworth, however there are five different players to keep an eye out for here.
Shane Lowry
Ireland’s Lowry has demonstrated that the course suits her. In his last five appearances at Wentworth, he completed seventeenth. His best exhibition came in 2014, second just to McIlroy.
Lowry, 35, would have equipped for his most memorable appearance in the Tour Championship if Adam Scott or Aaron Wise had made an intruder on the 72nd opening at the BMW Championship in Delaware on August 21, however each passed a clasp to get the last. Make. two spots.
Lowry scored a 68 in a BMW on Sunday and completed twelfth, yet went three-putts from around 65 feet for an intruder in seventeenth. At number 23, Lowry has not won an occasion since catching the 2019 British Open. At the Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland.
Justin Rose
Rose, 42, likewise hasn’t won beginning around 2019 at the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego. 1 in the rankings, 2013 US Open hero Rose, is presently positioned 58th.
In 18 PGA Tour occasions this season, he has recorded just two top-10 completions, and his best completion was a fourth-place finish at the RBC Canadian Open in June, when he played with turning into the primary European to shoot 59 on the PGA Tour. Of. He wound up with 60.
His presentation in the majors has been frustrating. He missed the cut at the Masters, completed thirteenth at the PGA Championship, 37th at the US Open and couldn’t contend at the British Open with an unfortunate back.
Be that as it may, Rose has had some accomplishment at Wentworth. He completed second in 2007 and 2012. Last year he completed 6th.
Francesco Molinari
Like Lori and Rose, Molinari, 39, has had her minutes at the occasion. In 2018, shooting last cycle 68, he brought home the BMW PGA Championship with two shots over McIlroy. He has recorded six top-10 completions at Wentworth beginning around 2012.
In July 2018, Molinari caught eight shots at Quicken Loans National in Maryland, getting done with 62, and after three weeks he won the British Open in Carnoustie, Scotland, by two shots, turning into the principal Italian player to win a significant. Went.
He botched an opportunity to win one more Major in 2019, when two up at the Masters he found water with his tee shot at No. 12 in the last round, which brought about a twofold intruder. He finished in a tie for fifth.
This previous season, he recorded just a single top-10 completion in 17 appearances on the PGA Tour, not getting it done at the Masters and US Open. He completed fifteenth at the British Open.
Billy Horschel
Horschel, who won the BMW last year, got his seventh PGA Tour triumph at the Memorial Tournament in Ohio toward the beginning of June, beating Wise by four strokes. She scored 65 in the third round, putting her five ahead, and she completed the last round with an even 72.
Horschel, 35, turned out to be simply the second American to win a BMW. The first was Arnold Palmer in 1975, when the competition was known as the Penfold PGA Championship. Horschel, presently positioned fifteenth, succeeded at No. 18 with a methodology shot that came under two feet from the cup. He changed a putt over completely to wrap up with 65 and a single shot win.
Lee Westwood
Westwood, 49, is one of in excess of twelve players in the current week’s field of LIV Golf, the new series supported by Saudi Arabia.
Positioned 100th, his best execution on the PGA Tour this season was fourteenth at the Masters. He missed the cut at the PGA Championship and completed 34th at the British Open.
Westwood, a previous world No. 1, BMW has always lost, despite the fact that he came close, losing in the end of the season games to Luke Donald in 2011. Last year, Westwood completed 71st. He said he wanted to play four DP World Tour occasions in 2023.
