By Shane Ryan
HILTON HEAD, SC — As the leaders jockeyed for position down the stretch at the RBC Heritage, the funniest side plot at Harbour Town came courtesy of Dylan Frittelli. Early in Sunday’s final round, on the sixth hole, the 31-year-old South African pulled his drive left toward a waste bunker. Amazingly, the ball did not land — it got hung up in the Spanish moss hanging down from a tree branch.

When he found his ball, Frittelli gaped in confusion for a long moment before pulling off the shot of the day … or at least a shot of the day. Watch:

Shot of the ⁦@RBC_Heritage⁩ by ⁦@Dylan_Frittelli⁩

From in the tree moss to the fairway then pars the hole on 6

⁦@SportsCenter⁩ ⁦@PGATOUR⁩ pic.twitter.com/RfuunpK0Y6

— Ross Lordo (@RossLordo) April 17, 2022

The simple, almost puzzled swing, combined with the sheepish wave to the crowd, will never stop being funny.

The ball rolled into the fairway, and heroically, Frittelli hit his approach to 10 feet and made par. Or at least it was a par, until the rules officials caught wind of the shenanigans. Frittelli’s ingenuity doesn’t change the fact that he struck an illegal shot. Per PGA Tour Communications:

Dylan Frittelli was assessed a two-stroke penalty on No. 6 under Rule 10.1c (making stroke while standing across or on line of play).

— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) April 17, 2022

In simpler terms, that ruling means you have to be standing to the side of the ball when you hit it. If Frittelli had taken a step to the left and struck the overhead shot baseball-style, it would have been legal, but the fact that he was standing directly behind where he was aimed? That’s a no-no.

Afterward, Frittelli posted a video of the incident from a different angle, with some commentary that hinted he was not necessarily happy with the rules decision.

I thought this would be the greatest Par of my life ? I was assessed a 2-stroke penalty for “standing astride” my intended line of play during this shot. The rules of golf remain undefeated ? ?@SportsCenter top 10 play maybe? pic.twitter.com/KvnIIsXuQ9

— Dylan Frittelli (@Dylan_Frittelli) April 17, 2022

The final result was a double bogey, and Frittelli stumbled to a final-round 76, but the ‘Donk from the Moss’ will live on in our hearts.

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It started, like so many underdog stories, with a near disaster. On the first hole at TPC San Antonio, Spaun blundered his approach shot into the left rough, hacked out to 60 feet, and ended with a double bogey. Before the rest of the leaders had even posted a single score, he had dug himself an early hole. To his great fortune, though, the rest of the leaders would falter through a painful Sunday, while Spaun’s day would only get better.

“Honestly, it didn’t bother me as you would think,” he said after the round. “If anything, it kind of calmed me down. … I knew there was still a lot of golf and I’d rather double the first hole than the last hole, if I was patient and plugged away, I might put myself in contention.”

Beau Hossler, in the final group, was seeking to become the first player to win on the PGA Tour with a sponsor’s exemption since Martin Laird in 2020, and to complete a rapid turnaround after slipping below 400th in the World Ranking earlier this season. He played a strong front nine to reach 12 under, including a chip-in birdie at six, but a bogey at 10 knocked him back. He then lived out a nightmare on 14, butchering the par-5 to the tune of a double bogey:

From 2 back to 4 back.

Beau Hossler takes an unplayable and makes double after hitting it over the green at the 14th. pic.twitter.com/LrPAr3XKma

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 3, 2022

He finished the day right where he started, at 10 under, which marks his second excellent result of the year after a third-place finish at Pebble Beach, but which will come with its share of regrets for what might have been.

Those regrets also will plague Brandt Snedeker, who came off five straight missed cuts to vault into a share of the lead after a 66 on Friday and 67 on Saturday. In his last 18, though, he couldn’t make a single birdie, and a three-over 75 performance to fall to T-18 ended in mild embarrassment with a rushed three-putt on the last hole.

Like his playing partners, Dylan Frittelli was also at a loss, answering every birdie with a bogey until a rough stretch midway through the back nine ended his chances.

In the absence of any fireworks among the other leaders, Spaun regrouped after his double bogey and began his slow rise to the top of the leader board. A brilliant approach on six yielded his first birdie of the day, and an up-and-down birdie on the par-5 fifth brought him back to even. Then on the ninth, trailing Hossler by two, Spaun responded to a bad break (his ball hit an NBC microphone) by pitching in from 50 feet:

Up and in

Perfection from @JJSpaun below the green. pic.twitter.com/l3JMREGf5s

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 3, 2022

As the leaders collapsed around him, Spaun played a steady back nine highlighted by a birdie at 11 and another at 14. By the time the endgame came around, Hossler was nowhere in sight, Frittelli and Snedeker were even further afield, and all Spaun had to worry about was a late charge from Matt Kuchar. (Matt Jones shot a field-best 66 to reach 11 under, two shots off the eventual winning score, and was one of the few players to best Jordan Spieth, who shot 67 in his final round before the Masters.)

The last moment of real drama came after Kuchar’s birdie on 17 to bring him within two shots heading to the par-5 18th. There, Spaun seemed to open the door just slightly with a pulled drive into the native area. But Spaun recovered safely into the fairway, forcing Kuchar to go for the green in two from 284 yards. His miracle attempt faded too early, and too much, and when the ball splashed into the water, Spaun knew a par would be plenty to seal the deal. His approach left a bit to be desired, but a terrific lag from 50 feet guaranteed his maiden Tour win.

Spaun has struggled with health issues in recent years after doctors told him he had diabetes but misdiagnosed the kind. Carmen Mandato

Spaun became the first player to win after making double at the first hole since Tiger Woods at the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. Unlike Tiger, Spaun needed this badly for his career. After reaching the PGA Tour for the first time in 2016, he put together three steady but unspectacular years. Then in his fourth full season, he endured unexpected weight loss. Diagnosed with diabetes, Spaun changed his diet and routine, but wasn’t feeling any better, later learning he was misdiagnosed with Type 2 when he suffered from Type 1. He stumbled to a 185th-place finish in the FedEx Cup points race in the 2019-20 season and followed that with 174th a year ago. Now, he’s got his full exemption, financial security, and a spot at Augusta. It marks quite a change of fortune, and he knows it.

“I think a year ago … I would have been telling you I have to do a lot of work to [stay on tour],” he said. “But to be here and overcome a lot of things and finally get a win? It’s everything you dream of.”

Dreams were a big theme of his post-round remarks, when Spaun admitted that the prospect of Augusta had floated into his thoughts on Saturday night.

“It’s something you dream of as a kid, playing at the Masters,” he said. “I was thinking about it last night, but there was still so much to be done. You’ve got to do your best to stay in the present. That’s what guys who win do that week, they take it one moment, one shot at a time.”

With a taste of success like this, Spaun will undoubtedly stick to the plan for the rest of the season, but it’s a good bet that despite the benefits of a zen mentality, he might take a moment sometime on Sunday to think ahead to what awaits him at Augusta National. For all the benefits of staying in the present, there are days when the future’s not so bad either.

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By John Huggan
The way things are going, the world of golf is going to have to get used to spelling Christiaan Bezuidenhout. Seven days on from winning last week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship, the 26-year-old South African added his national title to an already burgeoning resume with victory in the South African Open at Sun City. In what was the 110th playing of golf’s second-oldest championship, Bezuidenhout strolled home, his 18-under-par 270, a comfortable five shots clear of runner-up Jamie Donaldson. Another South African, the increasingly impressive Dylan Frittelli, was third, two shots further away from the new champion.

There were few moments of real anxiety for Bezuidenhout, but his closing 69 wasn’t quite devoid of stress. The 18-foot putt he holed for bogey on the par-4 eighth on the Gary Player County Club, after his approach had found the water fronting the putting surface, was clearly a vital thrust. Having started five shots ahead of Donaldson, Bezuidenhout had already seen his lead shrink by one before what he later acknowledged was the turning point of his day.

The same could be said of the trio of birdies with which he welcomed the back nine, a run that restored his original edge and afforded him the luxury of a wobble on the penultimate hole. A fortunate ricochet off a cart path saved his errant drive from almost certain oblivion in the African bush. But there were shots to spare as pars on the closing two holes clinched the victory for the now three-time winner on the European Tour.

“It’s unbelievable to stand here with an Open win,” said Bezuidenhout, who earned €160,889 and moved to fifth on the European Tour’s Race to Dubai points list, the year-long competition wrapping up at next week’s DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. “It’s any South African golfer’s dream to win a national tournament. It’s unreal. I fought hard today. The front nine, things didn’t really go my way and I just dug deep to come out with a win today. The birdies at 10, 11 and 12 were massive. I have to say, the second putt on 11 was huge and obviously the putt on 12 was a bonus, I just tried to get it close inside a couple of feet and made it. I knew I had to make pars coming in, and I did it. I’m really, really chuffed to stand here as a winner.”

Warren Little
After a comeback win a week ago, Christian Bezuidenhout claimed his second straight European Tour title in a runaway on Sunday at the South African Open.

There was pleasure, too, for Donaldson. Plagued by injury over the last couple of years, this was the 45-year-old’s highest finish on the European Tour since he won the 2014 Czech Masters. But this return to something approaching former glories wasn’t a complete surprise. A tie for third at the recent Cyprus Open hinted at better things to come for the Welshman, whose 4-and-3 victory over former PGA champion Keegan Bradley at the 2014 Ryder Cup clinched victory for the European side.

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By Brian Wacker
There will no longer be COVID-19 pairings on the PGA Tour for players who continue to test positive for the virus after 10 days of isolation and 72 hours without any fever or respiratory symptoms.

The PGA Tour Policy Board approved the change to the tour’s health and safety policy on Monday and players were emailed on Tuesday afternoon notifying them of the decision, which is effective immediately.

“This guideline is underpinned by research conducted by the CDC that indicates that in no instances yet discovered has there been a case where virus is able to self-replicate beyond the 10th day following a positive test, and therefore an individual in this situation poses no harm to others,” Tyler Dennis, the tour’s chief of operations, said in the memo obtained by Golf Digest. “However, in the event that the individual continues to be tested [as is the case in the PGA Tour health and safety protocol], it is very likely that the individual will continue to return a positive result.”

Earlier this month, these players were allowed to return to competition but weren’t allowed access to locker rooms, fitness facilities and were only grouped with others in the “timed out” policy. Now, these players will be able to compete with no restrictions.

Dylan Frittelli, Harris English and Denny McCarthy have been subject to the “timed out” policy in recent weeks and were required to play as a single or in a group of other players who tested positive for COVID-19.

The email also said that the “timed out” players will not be required to take the PCR coronavirus tests at tournament sites for three months after their original onset of symptoms. It does remain to be seen, however, how the change in policy could impact next week’s PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park. The PGA of America said in a statement last week that it is continuing to review this particular situation and is discussing with its medical advisors as well as the tour, while taking into account the most recent CDC guidelines. Frittelli and English have qualified for the PGA.

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By Joel Beall
Four more players have tested COVID-19 positive at PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour tournament sites this week.

On Tuesday, the PGA Tour announced Chad Campbell has been withdrawn from the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit. Campbell, 46, was not yet in the field as he was listed as the tournament’s first alternate. Alex Cjeka now takes his place.

In a statement, Campbell said that while the positive test is “unnerving” he feels physically fine and is asymptomatic. “I support the tour’s protocol during this time and will be quarantining myself to protect others until I am well,” Campbell said.

Campbell is the third player attempting to play in the Rocket Mortgage Classic to test positive for COVID-19, joining Harris English and Dylan Frittelli. Seven players dropped out of last week’s Travelers Championship, although only two (Cameron Champ and Denny McCarthy) were the result of a player’s positive COVID-19 test. Campbell is the sixth PGA Tour player to be diagnosed with coronavirus in the past 12 days.

At the Korn Ferry Tour’s TPC Colorado Championship, Brandon Wu, Taylor Montgomery and Jonathan Hodge have withdrawn due to testing COVID-19 positive during the on-site screening process.

“These positive test results serve as a distinct reminder that we all need to continue to be vigilant in this ever-changing climate,” said Korn Ferry Tour president Alex Baldwin. “We will further reinforce the elements of our health and safety plan to all constituents, and deliver our full support to those who test positive for COVID-19.”

Wu, Montgomery, and Hodge are the only players to test positive through the Korn Ferry’s on-site testing protocol.

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By Brian Wacker
Dylan Frittelli has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the fourth player to do so since the PGA Tour resumed its season three weeks ago.

The tour announced the test result in a statement on Sunday night. “I am experiencing no issues and feel great physically and was surprised and disappointed to learn of the positive test today,” Frittelli said in the statement. “I look forward to getting back on tour once it’s safe to do so.”

Frittelli, who missed the cut at the Travelers Championship after playing the first two rounds with Ian Poulter and J.T. Poston, has withdrawn from next week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.

The 30-year-old Frittelli, who lives in Austin, said in the statement that he noticed a minor increase in his respiratory rate overnight. The South African player took a required saliva test on Saturday for the tour’s charter flight to Detroit and the result came back positive on Sunday.

The tour announced that it has begun contact tracing and said it will offer its full support to Frittelli, who must self-isolate for at least 10 days and have two negative test results 24 hours apart or more before he can return to competition.

Poston also missed the cut at Travelers but flew home to St. Simons Island, Ga., on Friday and is scheduled to travel to Detroit for the Rocket Mortgage Classic, according to his agent. Poulter, who finished 64th at TPC River Highlands and is not in next week’s field, did not immediately respond to a message from Golf Digest.

Frittelli is the third player in the last seven days to have tested positive. Denny McCarthy tested positive on Friday and withdrew before starting the second round at TPC River Highlands. Cameron Champ withdrew from the tournament last Monday after getting a positive result to the test he took upon arriving at the Travelers.

The caddies for Graeme McDowell and Brooks Koepka also tested positive early in the week, and McDowell and Koepka subsequently withdrew from the Travelers out of caution (both players tested negative) as did Koepka’s brother, Chase. Webb Simpson also withdrew from the Travelers after a family member had tested positive. He, too, had tested negative.

At the RBC Heritage, Nick Watney tested positive prior to the second round at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and withdrew from that tournament.

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By John Strege
Jordan Spieth is a part of his biography. So is Tiger Woods, close enough, anyway, by one degree of separation. Yet Dylan Frittelli’s own contributions to his biography have not been sufficient enough to warrant wide attention.

Maybe the South African native is on the cusp of changing that. A 29-year-old PGA Tour rookie, Frittelli won the John Deere Classic by two strokes with a bogey-free weekend that included rounds of 65 and 64 on the TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Ill.

“Just proves that the work I’ve been doing is the correct work,” Frittelli said. “Being 150th in the FedExCup throughout the season is so frustrating because you don’t see the results come through. If you just keep sticking to it, and I made that change on my mental game this week and last week and thankfully came to fruition this week and helped me out.”

Frittelli’s sports psychologist is Jay Brunza, with whom he began working when he played college golf at Texas. Brunza is best known for his work with Woods throughout his amateur career, even caddying for him in his U.S. Amateur victories.

“He and I have been texting all week,” Brunza said from his home in San Diego. “I just sent him a short text last night.”

Brunza declines to reveal the substance of his work with clients, though he did offer this: “I think a nice way of putting it, I sent him a nice text of encouragement, positive encouragement, and we’ll see what happens. You don’t focus on win or else.”

Frittelli hinted at the gist of their texts. “It was mental clarity,” he said. “I owe a lot of credit to Jay Brunza. We worked on tons of techniques to try and perform the best. I’m not going to give away too many of the techniques, but the plan for this week was just to be creative and have fun. I’ve just been carrying a lot of weight on my shoulders. I’d obviously won on the European Tour, but my exemption was running out at the end of this year, so I was looking at, if I don’t keep my card here on the U.S. tour, I have to go to Korn Ferry Tour school and play the playoffs there, and try and get my card back. Then I’m giving up three or four weeks to play in Europe where I can try to keep a card. All this stuff has been going through my mind.”

His was a victory that was not a long time coming, though it might have seemed that way. The meteoric rise of young college stars, from Spieth to Matthew Wolff and Collin Morikawa, overshadow the traditional route, the slow, steady ascent that Frittelli has undertaken.

Frittelli was a senior star at the University of Texas, when Spieth, whom he immediately nicknamed “Superstar,” joined the team as a freshman. The Longhorns won the NCAA Championship that year, with Frittelli holing a title-clinching 30-foot birdie putt. He began his professional career in Europe, though with a goal of playing the PGA Tour. He won tournaments on the Challenge Tour in 2013 and 2016, then won twice on the European Tour in 2017, when he reached 44th in the World Ranking.

“Everybody seems so spoiled now, expecting that guys are going to come out of college and win a tournament,” Brunza said. “His was kind of the true, normal development, like baseball, where you start out in the minor leagues and work your way up. He won on the Challenge Tour, works his way onto the European Tour, gets the experience and wins twice. He came over here and earned his card, made a lot of cuts. You can see it, that constant development.”

In the final round on Sunday, Frittelli calmly and no doubt enjoyably equalled the second-best round of the day. He cinched the victory with a birdie at the par-5 17th hole.

His first PGA Tour victory, incidentally, came in the same tournament that Spieth won in 2013 for his first win. No one is yet labelling Frittelli a superstar, though for one magical weekend, at least, he played like one.

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By Joel Beall
The Masters, perennially the paramount event of the golf calendar, feels even bigger this year with a host of engaging storylines and return of a certain 14-time major winner. Somewhat ironic, as the Masters field is smaller than it has been in decades.

Four players qualified for the tournament via Official World Golf Ranking following the WGC-Match Play, and one spot is potentially up for grabs at this week’s Houston Open. But with Brooks Koepka officially dropping out of the proceedings—the reigning U.S. Open champion remains sidelined with a wrist injury—the 2018 Masters field will feature no more than 87 players, the smallest amount of entrants since 1997.

Late additions to the field were Cameron Smith, Chez Reavie, Satoshi Kodaira and Dylan Frittelli, gaining entry for finishing inside the OWGR Top 50. The Houston Open winner also receives a Masters invitation if he’s not already eligible. Ian Poulter was informed by various entities after Saturday morning’s Match Play victory that he had accumulated enough OWGR points for a Masters invite, only to discover 10 minutes before his quarterfinals match that one more win was required to earn his spot. Poulter lost that match 8 & 6 to Kevin Kisner, and now needs to win in Houston to play at Augusta National.

Related: The entire line-up for the 2018 Masters and how they earned an invite

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By Shane Ryan
AUSTIN — Kyle Stanley just accomplished what Shubhankar Sharma, Dylan Frittelli and Xander Schauffele could not—he actually held on to a lead against Sergio Garcia. The Spaniard is finally beaten in the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, but he didn’t go easy. Not in the group stages, where he trailed each match as late as the 11th hole, and came back to win all three. And not Saturday, where he turned a 3-down deficit into 1-down with five holes to play, and nearly made Stanley the fourth straight victim of a late comeback.

It was Sergio’s short game that finally let him down on the 14th, when he and Stanley both drove over the green. Stanley’s pitch was solid, stopping six feet from the hole, but Sergio misjudged his own effort and ended up 20 feet away. Stanley made his birdie to win the hole, and though Sergio won the 15th to return to 1 down, another iffy pitch on 16 left him with an 11-foot birdie putt that he missed by inches. When Stanley buried his 10-footer, the match—and Garcia’s tournament—was effectively over.

This weekend was not exactly a unique situation for Sergio, who has a long career of playing close matches that come down to the wire. He’s been successful, too—it would require about 10 hours of research to find out how many true back-nine comebacks he’s had, but with a little shorthand, we can establish without much difficulty how he fares in close matches. In singles duels that went to the 18th hole or beyond, Sergio has amassed a record of 14-8-1. For what it’s worth, his career record in the same scenario in pairs matches is 12-8-1.  

What is it that makes Sergio so adept in these situations? It would be easy to reach the simple conclusion that he’s a clutch player, but before last year’s career-defining Masters win, he was known as anything but a reliable pressure performer—at least in stroke play events. I caught up with him in the parking lot after his loss to Stanley this afternoon, and posed the question two different ways. Unfortunately, the answers to these mysteries sometimes don’t sound especially profound, and often it’s because the truth itself isn’t very profound.

“No, it’s quite simple,” he said. “You just keep at it. You just keep pushing and keep believing that you can do it.”

Okay, but is there something special about his particular style that makes him more resilient than many of his peers?

“No, don’t get me wrong,” he said. “I don’t enjoy that. I’d rather be 2- or 3-up on the front and play the back like I’ve been playing it, and win 5 and 4, but unfortunately I didn’t manage to do it all week.”

So he didn’t quite see what I was after, and it’s never easy to badger a player after he’s just lost—two questions was about the extent of what I could get away with before he and his agent and the other reporters would start to look at me with more than just a hint of annoyance. Nor could I ask Kyle Stanley, who like most other winners in the morning session declined all media appearances in favor of eating and preparing for his quarterfinal round against Justin Thomas. But even if the atmosphere wasn’t conducive to that type of discussion, it may be that the answer he gave was about as deep as it gets. Sergio is a natural fighter, and it may even be that he unconsciously gravitates toward dramatic situations. The flip slide of his skill under pressure in match play singles is his inability to make things easy, and we’ve seen the consequences of that in the majors for the better part of two decades. Maybe the minimized damage of a bad hole in match play is a sort of comfort—a disaster can only cost you a hole, not a tournament, and therefore it’s easier to maintain a sense of optimism and even aggression.

That said, Sergio broke through the final barrier by winning the Masters last season, and that removes a significant pressure blockage from his brain. Never again will he have to listen to a Ryder Cup crowd heckle him for never winning a slam, and never again will we have to wonder on the back nine if he’s about to blow another opportunity. It should give him a measure of freedom in 2018, and as we’ve seen over the past month, his form is solid. Top-ten finishes at the Valspar and WGC-Mexico, a win in Singapore, and now a gritty fight to make the knockout stages in Austin all bode well for Augusta. Tiger Woods was the last repeat winner at the Masters, 16 years ago, but though Sergio has walked in the predictive shadow of favorites like Phil, Bubba, Spieth, Rory, and Tiger himself, there’s a better chance than many think he’ll win his second green jacket next month.

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By Ryan Herrington
South Africa’s Dylan Frittelli hopes to win plenty more European Tour titles after claiming his second on Sunday, beating Arjun Atwal in a playoff to take AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. But chances are he won’t win another while using only 13 clubs. The 27-year-old former college teammate of Jordan Spieth’s at the University of Texas shot a closing 67 to finish at 16-under 282 at Heritage Golf Club, then birdied the first extra hole for the win. But it was back on the sixth hole that he had his most interesting adventure.

Frittelli’s tee ball missed the fairway wide right, and came to rest behind some small trees. In trying to hit a recover shot, Frittelli wound up breaking his iron in half. The ball was advanced about 30 yards, and then Frittelli hit his third just shy of the green only to chip-in for par. Take a look for yourself:

Drive into the trees ?
Snaps club during second shot ?
Chip-in for par

Eventual winner @Dylan_Frittelli had an eventful 6th hole during today’s final round. pic.twitter.com/LX8g15hg1k

— The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) December 3, 2017

Unable to replace the broken club, Frittelli didn’t let it bother him, making birdies on two of the next three holes and four over the final 12.

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