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Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship2020 Round Three Broadcast NotesAdam Long?Grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, playing at?Bellerive Country Club??Played golf at Duke University (graduated in?2010);?very close with past coaches, players and administrators at Duke?Grew up playing ice hockey; played on a competitive travel team until he broke his leg in the 7th?grade, then quit playing; still a huge hockey fan.?Met his wife Emily in high school, but were dating different people at the time; reconnected after college through the game “Words with Friends”; Adam reached out to Emily through direct message and asked her on a date; Adam borrowed his grandfather’s corvette to pick up Emily and texted her when he arrived at her house, but she never texted back or showed up for the date. Turns out she was out on another date the same night and mixed up the dates with Adam. Adam gave her a second chance and the rest is history?Adam and Emily?are close?friends with Corey and Mallory Conners; they live near each other in Jupiter, Florida?Adam and Emily had a son, Trevor, during the pandemicFather (Gordon) is a pilot for American Airlines; got Adam into the game of golf and is an avid golfer himself (used to be a scratch golfer); Adam says his dad plays more than he does??Mother (Jane) is a retired schoolteacher; plays golf as well??Older sister (Lindsay) played college tennis at Lehigh University??Lists Tiger Woods and Brett Hull as his heroes??Enjoys going to his family’s cottage in Northern Michigan?Plays tennis and pickleball with wife Emily?Enjoys kayaking and paddle boarding??Coach – Josh Gregory; met Josh through his coach at Duke, who was friends with Josh from Augusta State?During 2019 Wells Fargo Championship, Adam’s?98-year-old?grandmother saw him play professionally for the first time.?Hudson Swafford?Became a supporter of breast cancer research after his mother had the disease; 2 years old when his mother was diagnosed; she’s at more than 30 years of survivalBorn in Lakeland, Florida; currently resides in?St. Simons Island, Georgia?Attended Maclay High School in Tallahassee, Florida?Played college golf at the University of Georgia; graduated in 2011 with a degree in Consumer Economics; three-time All-American selections?while playing at the University of Georgia?and was twice named all-SEC. He had to sit out a year at college because of shoulder surgeryMarried to Katherine Wainwright Brandon, who is a former president of the PGA TOUR Wives Association.?Swafford?proposed early in 2013, making sure both of their families would be on hand in St. Simons Island, Georgia, to celebrate after he popped the question. The couple was married there later that year on New Year’s Eve at Frederica Golf ClubCouple met at the University of Georgia. After college, she headed to graduate school to get a masters degree in accounting, eventually landing a position with KPMG in Atlanta.?They have one child: James (12/8/18)??According?, In the third grade, Swafford wrote a paper on how he hoped to win the?Masters?and U.S. Open one day.?Growing up, Hudson had a passion for baseball. He played both baseball and golf until he was 16. He chose to focus on golf because he thought his scholarship chances were higher with golf.?Huge University of Georgia fan, including football, basketball and baseball teamsFavorite professional sports teams are the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta Braves, or following former UGA quarterback Matthew Stafford in his NFL careerFavorite possession is his 2006 Jeep Rubicon that he drives all over the St. Simons Island when we are homeFalls asleep the minute he closes his eyes; whether it’s on a plane, the sofa, or in a movie theater. According to his wife: “He’s out every night before I’ve finished brushing my teeth.”?Mackenzie Hughes??From Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; lives in Charlotte with wife, Jenna and son Kenton?Started golf at the age of seven when his parents brought him along to the driving range instead of getting a babysitter?Was number one Canadian Amateur in 2011?First player to win on the Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada,?Korn Ferry?Tour and the PGA TOUR.??Mom is a vascular access nurse at Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, Canada … on the frontline? a standard bearer in Mike Weir's group at the 2004 RBC Canadian Open, shortly after he won the Masters.??Went to Kent StateBig sports fan: Maple?Leafs, Cavs, Panthers and Blue Jays?Dream foursome includes Tiger, Jack and Ben Hogan?Friends with NFL QB Alex?Smith;?Hughes and Smith were partnered at Pebble Beach and worked out together during that week.??2019-20 season highlight was an up-and-down for par on the 72nd hole at the BMW Championship (Olympia Fields CC) to clinch position in the TOUR Championship for the first time; finished 14th in 2020 FedExCup standings. Xinjun?Zhang?During the pandemic, developed a daily 1-hour physical training program at home, focusing on core training, upper body strength, leg strength training, and aerobic exercises.?Played often with his wife during the pandemic.Learned to cook during the pandemic – including pasta and noodles from scratch.Born in?Shanxi, China, a countryside area and lived on a farm; had to walk through mountains in order to go to school; familyAt the age of 17, he was working as a security guard at Xi’an International Golf Clubin Xian; went from security guard to range picker to caddie; eventually picked up a club and loved the sport; first-ever 18 round of golf was an employee outing where he shot 118.Received no formal training until earning a spot on the Chinese National Team in 2007One of the first two players from mainland China to earn a PGA TOUR card, along with Marty Dou, in the 2017-18 season.??Became the first Chinese player to win on PGA TOUR Series-China, when he captured the Beijing Open in June 2014.?Family: Wife, Jessica; has a daughter, Vanessa,?born June 8, 2016?and a?son, Lucas, born June 23, 2019.?Interesting Golf Digest story here: Golf DigestNate Lashley??Won the?inaugural?Rocket Mortgage Classic?in 2019 by six shots over Doc Redman?as the last alternate when David?Berganio?Jr. (who also played collegiately at University of Arizona) withdrew.?Participated in Detroit’s 2019 Thanksgiving Parade as honorary guest.?Great Detroit News article here on his special connection to Detroit:?Lashley Detroit News special bond to the city of Detroit?In addition to golf,?played?football, baseball and basketball?at Mitchell High School in Mitchell, Nebraska.?Four-year letterman and?three-time all-state selection in basketball and, during his senior year, averaged 23.5 points per game.?All-time leading scorer in MHS history and?was named MVP of the Panhandle Prep All-Star game, an annual Nebraska high school all-star game,?as a senior.????Also?in high school, won the United States National Mathematics Award and was a U.S. Army Scholar Athlete Award winner.?????During his junior year?at the University of Arizona, parents (Rod and Char) and girlfriend (Leslie Hofmeister) were tragically killed in a private plane crash?(father had pilot’s license)?in Wyoming who were traveling back from one of Nathan’s collegiate golf tournaments:?ESPN? feature on Nate Lashley.????Father Rod?was influential in helping build a nine-hole track called Scenic Knolls Golf Course in their hometown of Mitchell, Nebraska. This is where Nate honed his game as a youngster.? The course is 3,261 yards and can be played during weekdays for $20 (18 holes) or $14 (9 holes).???Worked as a real estate agent?for a brief period in 2012?after professional playing career stalled.??2016 PGA TOUR?Latinoamerica?Player of the Year?– won three times??Sean O’HairPlaying on Major Medical Extension; has 15 remaining events to earn 287 FedExCup points to play out of the Major Medical Extension category for the remainder of the 2019-20 season. Prior to his injury, had played 22 or more events for 14 straight seasons (2005-18).In February of 2019 O’Hair withdrew from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with what doctors thought after an MRI were broken ribs. It turned out that it was much worse than that—after a month off, another doctor discovered that O’Hair had completely torn his left oblique muscle.The injury was so bad that it required surgery and a recovery process that included dry needling, a procedure in which a long, thin needle is used to treat the underlying muscular trigger points for pain and movement impairments. “I had quite a bit of scar tissue built up for whatever reason,” O’Hair said. “I had a car accident in '08 that it could have been that, I have no idea, but I hurt it playing golf at Pebble a couple years ago and that was it.”“I've got 16 starts to try to keep my job, and after I keep my job, I've got to keep my job as far as make enough points to get in the playoffs,” he said. “I don't want to get ahead of myself. I think my potential is a lot better than that, but I think mentally I just want to kind of take one step at a time and just baby steps.”O’Hair also learned plenty along the way as well, about his game and himself: “I think I got a little bit lazy and took too much for granted right before I got injured,” he said. "I think I was more counting the days to retirement and I think you get that taken away from you, the ability to play golf, and you figure out that you love the game still and you still want to compete.”Turned professional in 1999 at the age of 17 after an All-American AJGA career; story had a happy ending, ultimately earned PGA TOUR card for the 2005 season and finished runner-up at the AT&T Byron Nelson that season, his “welcome to the PGA TOUR” moment; in July of 2005, O’Hair won the John Deere Classic to qualify for The Open Championship; O’Hair did not have a passport and only through the U.S. State Department was he able to get to St. Andrews where he finished T15Born in Lubbock, Texas; lives in Scottsdale, ArizonaMet future wife Jackie Lucas, a college golfer, on a practice range in 2001; they married in 2002 and have four children: Molly Kate, Luke, Grady, Trevor RyanAnirban?LahiriIn India with his family when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Arrived in mid-March with the intention to play in the Indian Open and?couldn’t leave the country for five months. 2019-20 PGA TOUR season was limited to only 13 events – didn’t play after the Arnold Palmer Invitational until the Regular Season finale, the Wyndham Championship. While in India, spent six weeks?weeks?with his coach, Vijay Divecha. Disassembled his swing and rebuilt it, which Lahiri says is a process?they have done previously together.?Has not played well for nearly two years with only one top-10 in 2018 Mayakoba Golf Classic.?“We basically disassembled the engine and put everything back together. In the last few years, I’ve only had the opportunity to see Vijay for short periods of time and those were often?fixes. This time, we have rebuilt from scratch and started with the assumption you don’t know how to play golf and have never held a club. We started with the grip, posture, the basics and fundamentals, and worked our way up. We deleted the good and the bad stuff, and it’s a clean slate. We’ve?actually done?this a few times previously to give ourselves a reset,” he said.?During the lockdown, he started a series called “Cooking with the?Lahiris” for his social media channels.? contributed nearly US$10,000 towards the Prime Minister Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund in India.?His father, a physician in the Indian armed forces, introduced him to the game of golf when he was 8 years old.??He played his first junior golf event at the age of 12 at Royal Calcutta Golf Club.??Meteroic?Rise in the golf world in 2015:?He won two European Tour events in a three-week span in 2015 and jumped into the top-40 in the world rankings. He continued his incredible season with a T5 finish at the PGA Championship (becoming the first player from India to earn a top-five finish in a major) and becoming the first player from India to represent the International Team at the Presidents Cup in 2015. Represented India during the 2016 Olympic Games.?Huge?practicer?and proponent of Vipassana meditation.?In fact, after finishing T2 at the 2017 Memorial Tournament, he spent 10 days at a silent meditation retreat in Massachusetts.?Donated his earnings from the 2015 Presidents Cup to a meditation center in India.?“How Vipassana meditation breathes life into Anirban?Lahiri's?golf game”??He speaks English, Hindi and Bengali and learned Punjabi because most of the amateur golf he played was in that region of India.??Wife,?Ipsa, is a huge traveler and adventurer.?Ispa?and Anirban married in 2014.?Fun fact:?He had to cut his honeymoon short in order to play The Open Championship.??Couple welcomed daughter Tisya on Februrary 4, 2019.Big foodie and loves traveling. Provides fans with photos of his travels and meals.??Known for using?#currypower?in many of his posts.??Tyler?McCumber?Played with Tiger Woods in the third round of the 2020 Farmers Insurance Open as Woods' 83rd victory was still in sight. Woods (T9 finish) shot 69, while?McCumber, playing in front of huge crowds for the first time in his career, shot 68 (finished T21)?Grew up in Jacksonville, Florida and attended?Nease?High School Played golf at the University of Florida from 2009-2013 where he earned honorable mention All-American recognition twice?Father is Mark?McCumber, a 10-time champion on the PGA TOUR highlighted by wins at THE PLAYERS Championship and the TOUR Championship.??Started the Jacksonville Beach chapter of the charity,?OneWave?Jax, with his older sister.?OneWave?is a non-profit surf community tackling mental health issues with a simple recipe...saltwater therapy, surfing and?fluro.??Also grew up surfing and playing baseballIn winter of 2017, embarked on a six-week trip in Australia and New Zealand where he hitchhiked with just his surfboard and backpackResume includes three wins on the Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada in 2018 (where he was named Player of the Year) and three victories on PGA TOUR Latinoamerica (2014, 2016)Emiliano Grillo?Ambassador for Puntacana Resort & ClubBorn in?the city of Chaco, in the province of?Resistencia?in?Argentina,?he?grew up playing the?same course, Chaco Golf Club, as?PGA TOUR winners José?Cóceres?and Fabián Gómez?Left Chaco at age 14 to work on his game?and?then?left Argentina at age 16 to attend the?IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.???Loves soccer and is a diehard fan of Argentina’s River Plate football club. He always keeps track of big games or competitions?going on or coming for River.??Fishing?is?of his biggest passions. Joking, he has even said that if he could earn as much as he does in?golf?he would consider giving it a shot as his sport.?It’s something he has done his entire life, going out fishing at the river in?Chacho?since he was a little boy.???Member of famed "Class of 2011" and competed alongside Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Daniel Berger,?Xander?Schauffele?and Ollie?Schniederjans?during amateur golf days.?Justin SuhBorn June 12, 1997; hometown is San Jose, California; attended Evergreen Valley High SchoolRare four-time qualifier for the USGA Junior Amateur (others include players like Jordan Spieth and Tiger Woods); finished second at the 2015 California State Championships as a high school senior??Coming into this week’s tournament, finished in the top 10 in three of his last four starts on the LocaliQ Series, which consists of players from the Mackenzie Tour, PGA Tour Latinoamerica and PGA Tour China after those seasons were wiped out because of the pandemic.Recently played an 18-hole match with former college rival Collin Morikawa where he bested the PGA Championship winner. Suh began?playing tournaments at the age of 6 and shot his first 72 at the age of 7; competed often with his older sister Hannah, who attended University of California, Berkeley. He learned a great deal about the game of golf from watching YouTube videos of Tiger Woods??Graduated from USC’s Marshall School of Business in 2019 with a degree in Business Administration; on the course, first-team All-American in 2018 and 2018 PAC-12 Player of the Year; broke USC’s season records for wins (five), stroke average (68.73), lowering Jamie?Lovemark’s?2007 mark, and for rounds under 70 (21); one of the five finalists for the Jack Nicklaus Award in 2018, one of the 10 semifinalists for the 2018 Ben Hogan Award.Finished his college golf career as the number one ranked amateur in the world?Made his debut as a professional on the PGA TOUR at the 2019 Memorial Tournament at Murfield Village; struggled on the course after turning professional due to nagging wrist injury; took part in press conference (see photo) at the 2019 Travelers Championship along with Matthew Wolff, Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland: Golf DigestChris?Zambri?was his coach at USC?Kelly KraftAfter missing the entire 2019-20 PGA TOUR Season due to injury, playing the 2020-21 season on a Major Medical Extension. Had surgery on September 26 of 2019 to repair left hip (labrum and hip impingement) after falling out of the 2019 FedExCup Playoffs.Last week’s Safeway Open (Missed Cut) was his first start since the 2019 NORTHERN TRUST. Born in Denton, Texas, lives in DallasDuring his final year at Billy Ryan High School, 2006–07, Kraft served as team captain while earning All-District honors.Played collegiately at SMU in Dallas.Won the 2011 U.S. Amateur in August, beating world-number-one Patrick Cantlay in the final, 2 up. In April 2013, Kraft and Tia Gannon were married in Sea Island, Georgia.Luke List?Parents Bonny and Mark were both All-America swimmers; Bonny was a Pan-American gold medalist and is in?two Halls of Fame; she met Mark while they were swimming for the University of North Carolina.????Go-to karaoke song is “Jumper” by Third Eye Blind???Coach – Jamie Mulligan (also coaches Patrick Cantlay)?Both of his sisters were collegiate swimmers as well (Bekah?– at Whitworth College;?Sarah?– at UNC)???On not following in the family tradition: “I?hated the practice--in the pool twice a day for a couple?of??hours?by yourself. Meanwhile, golf practice is fun. It clicked that I could be doing that instead of swimming up and down the pool every day.???Wife Chloe, daughter Ryann (10/25/18)?Seattle native attended Vanderbilt University and graduated in 2007 with a degree in Human and Organizational DevelopmentLove to Travel and Cook? ................
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