Safeway Open Live Stream: He had to settle for a 65, still not a bad way to celebrate his 33rd birthday.On the heels of Monday’s Tour Championship which ended the previous PGA Tour season, the Safeway Open begins a new campaign this week at Silverado Country Club, and it’s going to be a nice tune-up for some of the better players teeing it up next week at the U.S. Open at Winged Foot.
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William Hill lists Mickelson as the 20-1 co-favorite along with Si-Woo Kim. Other 2020 Safeway Open contenders include Brendan Steele (22-1), Harold Varner (28-1) and Joel Dahmen (28-1). Spieth and Garcia are both getting 30-1 PGA odds this week. Before locking in your 2020 Safeway Open picks or entering any PGA DFS tournaments on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel, be sure to see the golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
Another PGA Tour season being upon us is a little hard to fathom, but it’s indeed here. The 2020-21 PGA Tour campaign starts on Thursday at Silverado Country Club with the Safeway Open. With a later start on the West Coast, it will be cocktail golf in wine country as several players prepare for next week’s U.S. Open.
There’s still plenty of star power in what is typically a slower week before a major, including Phil Mickelson and Jordan Spieth. The Texan is looking to figure things out ahead of the U.S Open — and start of the new season — after struggling mightily down the stretch last season. Spieth is currently outside the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings and hoping to rejoin that class in 2020-21.
After three rounds, a trio of golfers share the lead in California with Brian Stuard, Cameron Percy and James Hahn all sitting at 16 under. It’s setting up to be a wild finish on the West Coast as 17 golfers currently sit within three shots of the lead with just 18 holes to play. Phil Mickelson, fan favorite fresh off a win on the PGA Tour Champions, sits at 8 under and will be looking to post a low number early to have a shot at contention.All have dealt with some form of injuries. Swafford is missed most of last summer with foot surgery. Suh had a wrist injury right when he turned pro that slowed his progress.
And then there was 38-year-old O’Hair, a four-time PGA Tour winner. He tore his oblique at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February 2019, had surgery to repair and remove scar tissues, and he didn’t play another PGA Tour event until Pebble Beach this year. He played the Honda Classic. And then golf shut down.
“I’ve been out pretty much almost a year-and-a-half now,” said O’Hair, who missed the cut in the Safeway Open last week. “So it’s trying to get in a groove again, in the routine again. My body is still not quite there as far as the workload that you do from traveling and hitting balls and walking and practice. It’s kind of hard to practice that at home.”I’ve tried to play as much as I can at home to get ready for this, and this is going to be my first three weeks in a row for a year-and-a-half, so that’s going to be a big task for me, for sure.”Suh chipped in for birdie on the 17th, and then made an 18-foot par putt on the 18th when his approach rolled off the side of the green into a collection area.
Mackenzie Hughes of Canada had a 67 and was at 9-under 135 along with Adam Long, who ran off six straight birdies and was 8 under through 12 holes on his round until he made back-to-back bogeys. Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth and Sergo Garcia will all play the Safeway, and they are joined by a host of young players looking to break through as the 2020-21 PGA Tour season begins.
The PGA Tour offseason lasted merely two days, so now it’s time to get right back out there on the course to kick off the new campaign. Coming in off a win on the PGA Tour Champions, Phil Mickelson begins his 30th season on the PGA Tour as a professional. The highlights for this 50-year-old will be fewer and farther between, but they will surely still exist as he continues to play major championships and potentially compete at a place like Augusta National and the Masters. The story of Phil’s career is one of longevity and consistency, and nothing says that like starting your 30th season before jet setting to New York to revisit maybe the most painful loss of your career next week at the U.S. Open.Stewart Cink won the season-opening Safeway Open at 47 years old Sunday for his seventh PGA Tour victory and first since the 2009 British Open.
Cink closed with a 7-under 65 — rebounding from a bogey on the 17th with a birdie on the 18th — for a two-stroke victory over Harry Higgs.Cink is the oldest PGA Tour winner since Phil Mickelson at 48 at Pebble Beach in February 2019. Cink’s last victory came at the expense of then-59-year-old Tom Watson at Turnberry, with Cink winning a four-hole playoff.Cink did it the old fashioned way Sunday, with a short game that repeatedly put him in great shape on the greens. He one-putted 10 times, scrambled for pars after driving into the sand twice and had eight birdies to finish at 21-under 267.Stuard, Cameron Percy, and James Hahn entered the day tied for the lead.
Percy (74) was done when he went double bogey, double bogey, bogey over a three-hole stretch on the front nine. Hahn (72) bogeyed three of the first six holes and couldn’t recover. Stuard was 1 over through eight and chased the leaders the rest of the afternoon.Cink’s bogey on the par-4, 362-yard 17th was only his second of the week and trimmed his lead to one stroke after Higgs eagled the par-5 16th to get to 19 under.
After hitting his second shot on the par-5 18th into the rough behind the green, Cink chipped to 3 feet to set up final birdie, then waited for the final three groups to finish.Higgs missed a 10-foot birdie putt on 17, then parred 18, a hole where he made an albatross Friday.Redman, who began the day eight strokes behind the leaders, closed with six consecutive birdies to take a two-stroke lead. The 22-year-old stayed on top for about two hours until Cink’s final push.
“The last few holes are pretty easy and I just got hot,” Redman said. “It happens, so it was awesome.”The 2020 Safeway Open marks the beginning of the 2020-21 PGA Tour schedule as it tees off Thursday from Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, Calif. Coming off the playoffs last week and with the U.S. Open next week, the 2020 Safeway Open field is missing a lot of big names. But former major winners such as Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth and Sergio Garcia are among the golfers who will be teeing it up.
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