Duke Alums on the 2023 PGA and LPGA Tours

[dudog84]

Streelman birdies #1 to move up to T12 at -4.

This is why I never comment on a round until it's over.

[Bob Green]

Through three rounds, Kevin Streelman is T33 at -2 while Adam Long is T45 at -1. Sunday tee times (EST):

Streelman 11:05 #10
Long 11:27 #10

[dudog84]

Alex will be playing Arnie's Invitational next week. The holiday break came at a bad time for him, he was hot with finishes of T11, T4, and T5 immediately before. He hasn't been quite the same player in 2023. He took this week's Honda off this year, hopefully tuning up and getting his mojo back.

[arnie]

Pasted from Art Heyman's post in Women's golf thread:


LPGA in Thailand
Jaravee Boonchant tied for first -7
Leona Maguire -5
Celine Boutier FrenchThai -4
In Pattaya a nice beach resort city
https://www.google.com/search?q=lpga%20thailand&tbm=

[arnie]

Pasted from Art Heyman's post in Women's golf thread:


LPGA in Thailand
Jaravee Boonchant tied for first -7
Leona Maguire -5
Celine Boutier FrenchThai -4
In Pattaya a nice beach resort city
https://www.google.com/search?q=lpga%20thailand&tbm=

After 2 rounds, Boonchant and Boutier at -10, 3rd place and 2 back. Maguire at -9.

[arnie]

After getting to even par and in good shape to make the cut; Adam took a snowman on the par 4 11th. Likely will miss the cut this week.

[dudog84]

After getting to even par and in good shape to make the cut; Adam took a snowman on the par 4 11th. Likely will miss the cut this week.

He makes the MSN front page for his troubles:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/gol...03e168987e46a1

Here's the actual video in all its gory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGTYfF9usLk

Adam is in serious danger of losing his tour card, he's projected FedEx #150 after this weekend. The season is ramping up, the fields are only getting stronger. His best finish is a T30, then a T42. He'll probably have to play the opposing tournaments (Puerto Rico Open, Puntacana, Barbasol, Barracuda) where they get 3/5 of the points but the fields are weak, and hope he snags a couple of top-5s.

Kevin also flirting with disaster, he's projected #121. Best finish T20.

[dudog84]

Alex will be playing Arnie's Invitational next week. The holiday break came at a bad time for him, he was hot with finishes of T11, T4, and T5 immediately before. He hasn't been quite the same player in 2023. He took this week's Honda off this year, hopefully tuning up and getting his mojo back.

Kevin got a sponsor's exemption, good for him. Pretty sure he was not on the list when I looked earlier.

[heyman25]

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/her...a-thailand/amp
Money for Boutier, Maguire, Boonchant
They all got a payday. Not amazing, but good start on LPGA

[arnie]

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/her...a-thailand/amp
Money for Boutier, Maguire, Boonchant
They all got a payday. Not amazing, but good start on LPGA

And Mina Harigae (on my list as a Dukie) finished 49th. Hopefully Boonchant will have a strong rookie season with Celine and Leona picking up more wins.

[dudog84]

Alex goes off at 7:27 Thursday, Kevin at 1:23. Probably the toughest field so far this season.

[seacap29]

Nice to see the Duke men's golf team performing well in Dorato Beach, Puerto Rico. In the fourteen team field Duke finished 2nd. Frosh William Love was first and junior Ian Siebers third.

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Nice to see the Duke men's golf team performing well in Dorato Beach, Puerto Rico. In the fourteen team field Duke finished 2nd. Frosh William Love was first and junior Ian Siebers third.

We spent Christmas vacation at the Dorado Beach hotel back in 1968 and 1969. Chi Chi Rodriguez was their touring pro and I met him. I also played their courses at the tender age of 14 and 15!

[dudog84]

We spent Christmas vacation at the Dorado Beach hotel back in 1968 and 1969. Chi Chi Rodriguez was their touring pro and I met him. I also played their courses at the tender age of 14 and 15!

Did you fence with him with your putter?

[heyman25]

https://goduke.com/sports/womens-gol...wgolf&season=0
Women have a lot more alums than men on pro tour circuit
Pulled this from GoDuke
HSBC in Singapore has Maguire Liu and Boutier

[dudog84]

Ok, going against my rule of commenting mid-round, but maybe I can reverse jinx Alex.

He's playing terrible! +3 through 9.

[AGDukesky]

Ok, going against my rule of commenting mid-round, but maybe I can reverse jinx Alex.

He's playing terrible! +3 through 9.

Lol and then he promptly double bogeys #10

[seacap29]

What in the world has happened to Alex?! An opening score of 39 41, 80 is not him.

[dudog84]

What in the world has happened to Alex?! An opening score of 39 41, 80 is not him.

Whatever he had going at the end of the calendar year (T11, T4, T5) has abandoned him. He's at the very bottom of the field and will not play the weekend. A shame, this is one of the big paydays on the schedule with a purse of $20M (last week's Honda purse was $8.4M), so just making the cut would have gotten him significant coin.

I hope he gets his **** together fast. Next week he plays in his first fifth major, The Players Championship.

After reaching the low 20s in the FedEx Cup standings (#22 from memory), in 2 months he will have tumbled to around 50. C'mon, Alex!

[duke79]

What in the world has happened to Alex?! An opening score of 39 41, 80 is not him.

Golf can be a very fickle game, even at the "pro" level. Often time a very fine line between playing well and not playing so well. And not always easy to figure out why and to correct it.