PING Tour News 15 Giugno

JUNE 15, 2015

14 PING PROS AT U.S. OPEN

AT #4, BUBBA WATSON IS PING’S HIGHESTRANKED PLAYER.

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ourteen PING pros from the PGA, European and Web.com tours, plus five players who are part of PING’s amateur program, will compete in the U.S. Open that begins Thursday at Chambers Bay GC outside Tacoma, Wash.

Among the PING pros, twotime Masters winner Bubba Watson is PING’s highestranked player at #4 in the Official World Golf Ranking.

Billy Horschel, fresh off a final-round 65 and a T8 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic, is in good form and ranked 20th in the world.

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WHAT’S IN THE BAG AMONG PING PROS AT MAJOR:

S55 Iron: 11 G30 Driver: 8

Horschel, Jiménez, Mahan, Palmer, Parry, Sullivan, Summerhays, Watson

G30 LS Tec Driver: 4 Cabrera, Farr, Hagy, Oosthuizen

Cabrera, Hagy, Horschel, Jiménez, Jaeger, Mahan, Oosthuizen, Parry, Sullivan, Summerhays, Watson

Glide Wedge: 12

Cabrera, Farr, Hagy, Horschel, Jiménez, Mahan, Oosthuizen, Palmer, Parry, Sullivan, Summerhays, Watson

FOWLER WINS 2ND STRAIGHT

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elying on a G30 driver and fairway wood, Australian Peter Fowler continued his impressive run on the European Senior Tour on Sunday with a convincing three-shot victory at -12 for his second-straight win.

He claimed his fourth title on the senior circuit at the ISPS Handa PGA Seniors Championship in England, one week after prevailing at the Acorn Jersey Open. In his last three events he has finished 1-1-T2.

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Keeping her eyes on the prize — exempt status on the LPGA Tour — Canadian teen Brooke Henderson is making the most of her sponsor invites and Monday qualifiers. At last week’s major, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship (her seventh start this season on the LPGA), the 17-year-old fired an opening-round 67 and went on to finish T5.

It was her second top 5. She will play in the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the Canadian Open. Her PING technology includes a G30 driver, fairway wood and hybrid, i25 irons, Glide wedges and a Scottsdale TR Craz-E putter.

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14 PING PROS AT U.S. OPEN

BILLY HORSCHEL U.S. OPEN

Chambers Bay GC University Place, Wash.

June 18-21 Angel Cabrera Oliver Farr Brandon Hagy Billy Horschel Stephan Jaeger Miguel Ángel Jiménez Hunter Mahan Louis Oosthuizen Jason Palmer John Parry Andy Sullivan Daniel Summerhays Bubba Watson Lee Westwood

2007 U.S. Open champion and 2009 Masters winner Angel Cabrera will vie for a third major trophy alongside notables Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Hunter Mahan, Louis Oosthuizen and Lee Westwood. Englishman Andy Sullivan, who has two victories on the European Tour this season, is playing in his first major by virtue of his top-60 world ranking.

Sullivan will also play in the Open Championship later this summer.

Of special interest when the pairings were announced: Watson and Cabrera are paired together in the opening two rounds, teeing off at 7:33 a.m. and 1:33 p.m. (PDT), Thursday

Miguel Ángel Jiménez (left) and Angel Cabrera played a practice round Monday at Chambers Bay GC, site of this week’s U.S. Open.

and Friday. Horschel and Westwood are playing partners, going off at 2:17 p.m. and 8:17 a.m.

In addition to Sullivan, other PING pros playing in their first major include

Europeans Oliver Farr and Jason Palmer, and Web.com regulars Brandon Hagy and Stephan Jaeger.