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Course File No. 04 is live: Spyglass Hill.

Five holes of dunes, thirteen of forest — the perfect blend of land and sea, and the toughest exam on the Monterey Peninsula.

The full file — architecture, the card, honest value, trip playbook:
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Spyglass is the hardest test of the Pebble Beach trio.

Pebble has the views. Spanish Bay has the links feel. Spyglass has teeth.

If your score matters to you, this is the one that will hurt it.

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The top-100 cutoff is the best race nobody's watching.

Horschel 98. Yu 99. Phillips 100. Kirk 102.

Top 100 after the fall keep their full card for 2027. Everyone below it starts over.

Two events left — starting this week with the inaugural Austin Championship at Fazio Canyons.

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@GolfDigest No Pasatiempo?!

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@theclubhouse0 9:18 or 4:27 in the summer. Morning golf with a nice warm up and then twilight summer golf is unmatched!

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@Petermoneymilla Damn haha why is this spot on. I’m the 50,54,60 guy but still. This is so accurate

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Frank Kennedy was 15-under through 72 holes at Q School — T28, inside the card line.

Then DQ'd for "serious misconduct." The Tour says he deliberately damaged a green with his putter. He says it wasn't intentional.

His DQ moved the cut. Seven other players got in.

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Spyglass Hill is two golf courses stitched together.

The first five holes run through open dunes with the ocean right there. Then you turn into the Del Monte Forest and it's target golf through the pines the rest of the way.

The whiplash is the whole point.

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One event left, and Eugenio Chacarra still leads the Race to Dubai.

He takes a 534-point lead over Rory McIlroy into the DP World Tour Championship. McIlroy is chasing an eighth Harry Vardon Trophy. Chacarra is chasing history.

Three wins this season — KLM Open, Italian Open, India. Hold on for one more week and he joins Seve Ballesteros and Jon Rahm as the only Spaniards to finish a season as Europe's No. 1.

Not bad for a guy LIV let walk.

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@b9bozzi Depends what you like but Sahalee is very hard to beat. Excited to see a tour event out there in the near future

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Blades Brown is 19 years old. He started Sunday seven shots back. He just won on the PGA Tour.

A final-round 63 — ten birdies — at El Cardonal in Los Cabos, then a playoff win over Ben James, who eagled the 72nd hole just to force overtime. Brown birdied the second extra hole after James missed from six feet.

The history: youngest PGA Tour winner since World War II, and the fourth-youngest ever. He skipped college, turned pro as a teenager, locked up his Tour card on the Korn Ferry Tour last month, and won in his 22nd career start.

And the course adds a layer: El Cardonal is a Tiger Woods design. A teenage prodigy winning on a course designed by the original teenage prodigy.

James deserves a line too — the 23-year-old former PGA Tour University No. 1 and four-time first-team All-American led by four and still nearly closed it out.

Across the Atlantic, Jon Rahm held off Hatton and McIlroy to win in Abu Dhabi — his first DP World Tour title in four years. What a Sunday.

Where does Brown rank among the great teenage breakthroughs — and how soon before he's a Ryder Cup conversation?

#golf #pgatour #golfnews #bladesbrown #wwtchampionship

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Jon Rahm's first start back, and he wins it.

65-67-66-67 at Yas Links for 23 under. No round worse than 67, five bogeys all week. Hatton (-21) and McIlroy (-19) both had their shot — four players were tied at 20 under early in the back nine — before Rahm birdied 11, 12 and 15 and walked away from it.

A record sixth Rolex Series title, his 11th on the DP World Tour, and his first win anywhere since the 2023 Masters.

Does he go back-to-back in Dubai next week?

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Jon Rahm leads Abu Dhabi by 1 at -18 after a Saturday 66, and the stretch that built it was birdie-eagle-birdie from the 10th.

McIlroy sits 2 back at -16, chasing a record 8th Race to Dubai title. Hatton's between them at -17.

Sunday's final round has everything.

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The road back for Rahm and DeChambeau comes down to one date: August 23, 2027.

The one-year suspension runs from their last LIV start, which wipes out the 2027 FedEx Cup season. Both passed on the Koepka deal. The Tour says it's not reopening it.

Realistic return: 2028.

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Yesterday: a 2-shot penalty for improving his lie, and a 70 that left him 8 back.

Today: 11 birdies. A 63. One shot off the lead in Abu Dhabi.

Rory McIlroy doesn't stay down for long.

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Golf Channel's NCAA fall awards have a Pacific Northwest problem — the good kind.

MVP: Max Herendeen of Illinois, the nation's top-ranked player. He's from Bellevue. A win, two more top-3s, and nothing worse than T-15 in four fall starts. He also beat the World No. 1 at this summer's U.S. Amateur.

Breakout team: Washington. The Huskies are No. 18 in their first season under Thomas Sutton, opened the fall with a third-place finish at Sahalee, and closed it with a win at the St. Mary's Invitational — after two straight losing seasons.

Best team went to Auburn, 3-0 head-to-head against No. 1 Oklahoma State.

The college game is loaded right now — and two of its biggest fall stories run straight through Seattle.

Is Washington turning into one of the best golf areas to grow up in the country?

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Pebble's greens average about 3,500 square feet — some of the smallest in championship golf.

That's the whole secret. The course doesn't beat you with length. It beats you with targets the size of a living room, with the ocean as the miss.

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Colonial has hosted a PGA Tour event every single year since 1946 — the longest-running non-major at the same course in Tour history. Hogan's Alley.

Per Golfweek, it's likely to be left out of the Tour's new Championship Series in 2028. The club views a spot in the second-tier Challenger Series as, in one source's word, "an insult."

The details are hard to argue with: the Tour wants only one DFW event in the top tier, and the Byron Nelson's sponsor reportedly put up the bigger offer. Colonial's fallback may be hosting the PGA Tour Champions season finale instead.

Eighty years of loyalty, outbid in its own metro. Is this just the cost of the new era — or is the Tour trading away the history that made it?

https://t.co/GmrdPEtRCZ

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@DPWorldTour Talk about rollout though that thing couldn’t have been placed in a better spot. Still impressive nonetheless!