🏌🏻 Car Crash To Tour Lead

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For our 593 new subscribers this week, our Saturday edition is a super quick update version to bring you the latest scores and updates from the tours, an interesting weekend feature and a tip to improve your game!

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Today's Trivia: Which current star holds the record for being the number one ranked amateur in the world for the longest period of time? Answer at the end of the mail.

⛳ This day in history: The account book of lawyer Sir John Foulis of Ravelston records that he played golf at Musselburgh Links on 2 March 1672, and this has been accepted as proving that The Old Links, Musselburgh, is the oldest playing golf course in the world.

TOP STORY
Cauley Leads Cognizant Classic, Rahm On Top In Jeddah

⛳️ PGA Tour: Bud Cauley shot a 6-under 65 on Friday at PGA National to take a one-shot lead after 36 holes of the Cognizant Classic.

Cauley was seriously injured in a 2018 car crash and is playing a tour event for only the third time in nearly 4.5 years.

World No 2 Rory McIlroy lies T-6, three shots behind the leader.

Cognizant Classic Round 2 Leaderboard 

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 🚀 LIV Golf: Masters champion Jon Rahm and Adrian Meronk share lead after the opening round of the LIV Golf League event in Jeddah.

Bryson DeChambeau lies T-3 alongside Charl Schwartzel and Joaquin Niemann, with Louis Oosthuizen a further stroke back in sixth.

Wildcard Anthony Kim shot a six-over 76, good enough for the last place.

LIV Golf Jeddah Round 1 Leaderboard

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🔰 LPGA Tour: Ayaka Furue carded a four-under 68 to take a two-stroke lead after three rounds of the LPGA Tour's HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore.

Hannah Green (67) lies second while overnight leader Celine Boutier (72) and Andrea Lee (67) are tied for third, three strokes behind Furue.

World No 1 Lilia Vu is T-9 alongside Brooke Henderson and first round leader Sarah Schmelzel.

HSBC Women's World Championship Round 3 Leaderboard

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Worth Mentioning

WEEKEND READING
These LPGA Players Won Consecutive Weeks On Tour

It's uncommon for players to capture back-to-back titles, and only a few LPGA golfers have achieved this feat.

🏌️Patty Tavatanakit: Thai golfer Tavatanakit is the latest player to win back-to-back titles, winning the Aramco Saudi Ladies International on the Ladies European Tour by an incredible seven shots followed by a one-shot victory at the Honda LPGA Thailand.

🏌️Celine Boutier: In 2023, Boutier won the Amundi Evian Championship followed by the Freed Group Women’s Scottish Open to become the first woman since Ariya Jutanugarn in 2016, to win a Major and the next tournament straight after.

🏌️ Jin Young Ko: Former World No 1 Ko won 5 LPGA titles in 2021 including back-to-back victories at the Cognizant Founders Cup and BMW Ladies Championship.

🏌️ Annika Sorenstam: Sorenstam holds the record of following up a tournament win with a Major title on four different occasions - twice in 2005 alone.

Check out the complete list.

DRIVING RANGE
Drill For Club Face Control

In this video, we'll discover a little more about golf club face and path control and a couple exercises you could try out to help assist in your efforts to gain more control over your golf swing and ball flight.

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