During the 2021-2022 PGA Tour season, Will continued to rise in the world of golf. ET in the final group with Mito Pereira. [7] With no status in 2019, Zalatoris relied on Monday qualifying and sponsor exemptions to play in Korn Ferry Tour events. Zalatoris is among a notable list of first-time TOUR winners who have committed to the Sentry Tournament of. Top 100 Courses in the U.S.: GOLFs all-new 2022-23 ranking is here! He became the first player to be voted Rookie of the Year without having a card in 20 years (Charles Howell III did so in 2001). QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play But I think the big thing for me is we spent a lot of time understanding the pressures of my golf swing and understanding how I push off my right side. Team. Amateur, when Zalatoris qualified as a 12 year old and competed as a 13 year old, alongside Scheffler and Spieth. Fitzpatrick made his first PGA TOUR win a major, claiming the U.S. Open at the same venue where he won the U.S. A month before his Masters breakthrough in 2021, Zalatoris was surprised by Romo with a congratulatory message for qualifying for The PLAYERS Championship. Szokol opens with 64, up 3 shots in Singapore, More PGA Tour changes: No cuts, smaller fields, Rahm sought Tiger's advice on staying No. He is fully focused on getting healthy and back onto the course as soon as he is able.". He was in the trees, close to a boundary fence on the 18th on the second playoff hole, when he wisely chipped out and made a 15-foot par putt. Among his eight top-10s are three runners-up, including at two majorsthe PGA Championship and U.S . Be the first one to comment on this story. Start the Golf Season off right with InsideGOLF ($100 value - just $20). Critics say new PGA Tour events copy LIV. I realized I dont need to be on the range for hours; I need to play. 7 World Ranking. For the time being, Zalatoris said hes using a 44.75-inch driver shaft, down an inch and a quarter from his former 46-inch gamer. Zalatoris experienced a string of close calls last year namely six top-six finishes in an eight-event stretch, including runner-up finishes at the PGA Championship and U.S. Open before his breakthrough victory at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Zalatoris doesn't enter the final round with any cushion because the same club that's troubled him in the early stages of his career can still be a nuisance. Spieth then birdied six of the next eight holes for a 29 on his way to a course-record 63. Will Zalatoris spent his weekend on the greens, but not the one he's used to. He previously worked for the DMN sports department from 2010-2022, where he served as SportsDay's lead digital strategist and oversaw coverage of college sports, HS sports, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, soccer and golf. Let us take your workout routines to the next level with our 365 day challenge and programs schedule. "T" = tied Are they right? Country Club when he tweaked his lower back. I think Ive just been so close so many times, so I think, if anything, after having the time off, its kind of hard to remind myself of all the second places.. MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The 10-foot par putt in regulation was so crucial and the moment so important that Will Zalatoris doesn't remember screaming out when he made it, "What are they gonna say now?". Will Zalatoris. Oops! Luckily for Zalatoris, Nelson organizers honored the exemption the following year and he made the start as a 19 year old. Sitting in a hospital bed on the Monday morning of the tournament, Zalatoris had to make one of the toughest phone calls of his life when he dialed up tournament director Jon Drago and withdrew from the tournament. 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He came shot consistently all weekend, shooting a 69 in each round Thursday- Saturday. Representing Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, Zalatoris won the U.S. Watching some of my friends play, going to the Presidents Cup, kind of keeping my mind active and spending some time with the guys back home, even just riding around in a cart when they were playing, Zalatoris described his downtime, keep my mind active, even though my body wouldnt let me. After his first TOUR victory at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in mid-August, the first of three FedExCup Playoffs events, Zalatoris was forced to withdraw during the third round of the following weeks BMW Championship due to injury. One wrote: There was a slew of hundreds of comments from Will Zalatoris's family, friends, and fans congratulating him on the start of the new chapter of his life. 3. He was the 36-hole leader at the 2022 PGA Championship before ultimately falling short of his first major championship after losing to Justin Thomas in a three-hole playoff. Zalatoris had to have an emergency appendectomy. He got married in December but also spent much of the time rehabbing. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is 2020 graduate of Penn State University, earning degrees in broadcast journalism and political science. Will had an outstanding collegiate and amateur career, which included representing the United States on the 2017 Walker Cup team at Los Angeles Country Club and winning 4 collegiate titles. At the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship, Will Zalatoris claimed his first victory on the PGA TOUR in dramatic fashion with rounds of 71-63-65-66 to finish at. Zalatoris experienced a string of close calls last year - namely six top-six finishes in an eight-event stretch, including runner-up finishes at the PGA Championship and U.S. Open - before his. Will Zalatoris walks back to the crowd with his arm around his fianc after winning his first PGA tournament during the last day of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn., Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. A closer look: For a while, Zalatoris was known as the golfer with the most money and the best ranking who had never won a PGA Tour event. [16], On August 14, 2022, Zalatoris won his first PGA Tour event, winning the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee on the third playoff hole against Sepp Straka. Will Zalatoris has withdrawn from the TOUR Championship with two herniated discs in his back. The 26-year-old has long displayed an aptitude for quickly bouncing back from injury. Zalatoris is among a notable list of first-time TOUR winners who have committed to the Sentry Tournament of Champions, which will be played Jan. 5-8 at The Plantation Course at Kapalua on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Its the PGA TOURs first designated event of 2023, with 17 of the top 20 players on the Official World Golf Ranking set to compete at the Plantation Course at Kapalua. But as Nelson week grew closer, those feelings the teenager were experiencing werent butterflies they were pains from an inflamed appendix. Will and family moved to Dallas, Texas when he was 9 years old and he began working hard on his game while competing in top junior tournaments. Theres not much time to shake the rust; Zalatoris is quickly back to the throes of elite competition. Straka followed with a shot that also hit the bank, took one bounce off the rocks and went into the water. He finished tied with Scottie Scheffler at the U.S. Open behind Matt Fitzpatrick at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Will Zalatoris has been nursing a bad back since the FedEx Cup playoffs, but he found an important way to fill his schedule between starts by tying the knot. "We're talking inches," he says. Glover closed with a 66 and wound up in a tie for third. Thursday afternoon in Hawaii cant come soon enough. He also has three runner-up finishes in major championships. The Players Championship will be contested next week without its biggest draw. The first event of 2023 also could be Will Zalatoris' first start since August. Zalatoris just missed earning one of the six automatic spots on the U.S. team for the Presidents Cup. He hasnt been in a film in nearly 20 years, according to his imdb page. 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational: How to watch, TV schedule, streaming, tee times, Meet the new GOLF Top 100 Teachers of America, 7 interesting gear finds inside Tommy Fleetwoods golf bag | Bag Spy, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. Smith declined interview requests. But those battles started long before they were competing for millions on golfs grandest stage. Zalatoris wanted to make swing changes to prevent an injury like this one from happening again. Weve looked at everything I was doing, to make sure I was doing all the right things and we were checking all the boxes, and it was strictly a motor pattern thing, said Zalatoris, who has opted to temporarily decrease his driver length (to approximately 44.75 inches, down from 46 inches) as he works through the setup change. He . "This course is where every shot you hit you're on the edge of your seat," Straka said. I spent some time with Dr. Greg Rose at [the Titleist Performance Institute], he said. He tried to play through the injury but withdrew on the next hole. He could have been referring to his runner-up finish to Hideki Matsuyama in the Masters last year or the playoff losses at Torrey Pines and at Southern Hills in the PGA Championship or most recently the putt that burned the edge of the cup that kept him from a U.S. Open playoff. How much "louder" will LIV Golf get in its second season? Zalatoris finds himself competing with other DFW stars like Spieth and Scheffler on a regular basis now that theyre all PGA Tour stars. In Texas, we couldnt practice, but we could play. "It's hard to say, 'About time,' when it's your second year on tour, but it's about time," Zalatoris said. Which is kind of a good thing and a bad thing, because when I was hitting the ball the way that I was, its hard to want to change anything, but at the same time I actually saw some benefits. Born in San Francisco, California, Will Zalatoris was introduced to the game early on playing with his parents at California Golf Club. After getting initial golf instruction from former U.S. Open champion Ken Venturi as a 6 year old in San Francisco, most of Zalatoris learning and development came in Texas after he moved to Texas as a pre-teen. December 1, I think, was the first day I was cleared for full activity, and really just have been doing as much as I can since then not being able to have a club in my hand for a couple months, I dont think Ive done that probably since I was 8 or 9. Besides him, Will Zalatoris' fans showered their blessings on the couple. Shortly after his second-place finish at Augusta, Zalatoris proposed to his long-time girlfriend Caitlin Sellers. [11] He followed it up with a T8 at the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship, and secured Special Temporary Member status after the Bermuda Championship in early November. One of Zalatoris favorite stories to tell about the three is a time when he and Scheffler were 11 and they played a round with Spieth (who was 14 at the time) at Bent Tree. CUT = missed the half-way cut Zalatoris, 26, hasnt teed it up since withdrawing during the third round of the BMW Championship in August with what turned out to be two herniated discs in his back. 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Junior Amateur in 2014. Zalatoris. This one could have gone either way, a playoff that featured three penalty drops in three holes, neither player making birdie and Zalatoris winning on the par-3 11th with a bogey. Amateur nearly a decade earlier. It was nice because I was able to bring the ball flight down; living in Texas, youre used to hitting the ball low, but its doing it by itself as opposed to having to manipulate it. Something went wrong while submitting the form. He had no realistic shot. He then withdrew from the following weeks TOUR Championship, finishing a disappointing 30th in the FedExCup after entering the week at No. Zalatoris' first professional victory came in July 2020, when he narrowly won the TPC Colorado Championship by one stroke. After withdrawing from the 2021 Open Championship due to a muscular issue, he finished T8 in his next start, the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational three weeks later. Will Zalatoris has withdrawn from the 2022 BMW Championship in the third round after suffering a back injury, the PGA Tour announced on Saturday. Zalatoris made the most of a four-month rehabilitation process after suffering two herniated discs in his back, but its a new year and hes ready to return to competition at this weeks Sentry Tournament of Champions. Zalatoris shot 1-under 69 on Thursday, but on the 15th hole he drove into the thick rough. He was the highest-ranked player in the world without a TOUR win before beating Sepp Straka in a playoff at TPC Southwind. 8 in the standings and is assured his first trip to the Tour Championship at East Lake. He had to sit out the Presidents Cup but did appear on-site to cheer on the U.S. Instead, it looks like the Sentry Tournament of Champions could be the site of his return. Will and Caitlin have been dating each other since they met in 2018 at Wake Forest College. 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Here are 10 things to know about Zalatoris: Most golf fans introduction to Zalatoris was during the 2021 Masters. He can be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com. Ive learned a lot about my body, probably more than I think I ever wanted to, Zalatoris said Tuesday afternoon in Hawaii. But the speeds the same; everything feels really good. Oosthuizen is teetering on the brink of missing three majors in 2023. Country Club when Zalatoris was being worked on by a PGA Tour physiotherapist on the 5th tee before ultimately deciding the pain was too much. Will and Caitlin stood on stairs decorated with green leaves and flowers, making an arc above their heads on an olive-colored wall. And that would keep alive a crazy stat: of the seven major championships played at Southern Hills, all were won by a player who led or co-led the tournament through 36 holes. I have watched this 100 times and still cant explain it. TSR3 Titleist Driver. Copyright 2023 PGA TOUR, Inc. All rights reserved. Find more golf coverage from The Dallas Morning News here. According to Golf Monthly, Sellers has completed her post-graduate studies at the University of Texas and is most likely working as a marketing analyst. The fix: adjusting his setup, with the goal of reducing the strain on his back. Your login session has expired. At seventh in the Presidents Cup points standings, he likely would have been among the six . Mr. Gilmore is watching you and very proud., Zalatoris handled it with good humor, responding to Sandler by saying If youre ever in need of a caddie again let me know. Zalatoris, 24, played in Saturday's final round alongside Justin Rose. Clearly ready to end the first-timers . The event was the first of three events in the 2022 FedEx Cup Playoffs, With his win, Zalatoris moved to first in the FedEx Cup standings ahead of Scottie Scheffler.[17]. Zalatoris, 26, hasn't teed it up since withdrawing during the third. Kim is the first player since Tiger Woods to win twice on TOUR before turning 21. Im more efficient in my golf swing, he said. Willy Z is FINALLY a winner on the PGA Tour pic.twitter.com/p02shNTaK2. [12], In October 2021, Zalatoris shot his career low round (61) on the PGA Tour at the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi. He is on a lifelong quest to break 80 on a course that exceeds 6,000 yards and to see the Buffalo Bills win a Super Bowl. The highlights of the season came when he finished 2nd at both the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open, then capped off an exceptional season with his first PGA Tour victory at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Please logout and login again. Topics of discussion included how Zalatoris seems to always step it up in majors as well as what its like to play in a group behind Tiger Woods. And after all of those adjustments, Zalatoris and his teams fears of making changes to a swing that has already racked up six major top-10s in three years were unwarranted. He lost a sudden-death playoff to Luke List when List hit his approach shot to a foot away from the first playoff hole and made birdie. For the first time in 138 days, Will Zalatoris will play a PGA Tour event this week at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Kevin Prise is an associate editor for PGATOUR.COM. That offer came in 2015, when Zalatoris was 18 years old. Copyright 2023 PGA TOUR, Inc. All rights reserved. PGA TOUR players on Scottie Schefflers breakout season. PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, and the Swinging Golfer design are registered trademarks. Zalatorisand his playing partner, Emiliano Grillo, let the group of Sam Burns and Adam Hadwin through as they waited for the PGA Tour physio. pic.twitter.com/qtEj1JyZdL. 121, knowing that only the top 70 advance to the next tournament. William Patrick Zalatoris (born August 16, 1996) is an American professional golfer. When Zalatoris first broke onto the golf scene, golf fans on social media were quick to point out their favorite Zalatoris doppelgngers. Lucas Glover came away with a consolation prize. Back in 2015, he finished T4 at the Pacific Coast Amateur shortly after returning from an emergency appendectomy. He also has three runner-up finishes in major championships . The post included the caption, Best day of my life. [6], Zalatoris turned professional in 2018 but failed to make it past First Stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Q School. Was all but a lock to make roster as a captains pick, begging the question of who will replace him, How Will Zalatoris turned his putter into a strength. 1 spot in the FedEx Cup, assuring him a reasonable shot at the $18 million prize in two weeks. College career [ edit] Zalatoris was born in San Francisco, California. Szokol opens with 64, up 3 shots in Singapore, More PGA Tour changes: No cuts, smaller fields, Rahm sought Tiger's advice on staying No. Im always available for you, Mr. Gilmore. Zalatoris was born in San Francisco, California. The former U.S. Open champion came into the FedEx Cup playoffs at No. He birdied the first hole, made only one other birdie, shot 70 and tied for 13th. Claims victory in first FedExCup Playoffs event before advancing to BMW Championship, Will Zalatoris new driver before Genesis Scottish Open, For all other business inquiries please contact Allen Hobbs: ahobbs@playersgroupmanagement.com, Our Address: Players Group Management Fan Mail - Will Zalatoris1800 Alexander Bell DriveSuite 200 Reston, VA 20191. The Wake Forest alum has been a premier ball-striker for four consecutive seasons in TOUR-sanctioned competition, and he admits its not natural inclination to want to change anything.

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