May. 16, 2010
MORE: Interactive Kodak Challenge scorecards
The Kodak Challenge is a first-of-its-kind competition for PGA TOUR players, who must play at least 18 of the 30 Kodak Challenge holes to be eligible to win. A player's lowest score relative to par on his best 18 Kodak Challenge holes will be counted. The player with the lowest cumulative score relative to par wins $1 million and the Kodak Challenge trophy.
2010 KODAK CHALLENGE: The 2010 Kodak Challenge schedule continues this week on hole No. 18 at Harbour Town. The second year of the competition includes 21 of the original 30 holes, with two tournaments joining the Kodak Challenge: No. 15 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., site of the Quail Hollow Championship; and No. 14 at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, home of the Memorial Tournament presented by Morgan Stanley.
The remaining new holes appear at returning tournaments that move to new courses and two existing courses that have changed holes. Twenty-nine of the 30 Kodak Challenge tournaments for 2010 have been finalized. An announcement on the 30th tournament will be made in the near future.
THIS WEEK'S HOLE: The par-4 347-yard 17th at TPC San Antonio
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| Third and fourth rounds |
| As the pros raced to get in the third and fourth rounds of play Sunday at the Valero Texas Open, Jimmy Walker scored an early round birdie on Kodak Challenge hole No. 17 to move into a tie for first place in the 2010 Kodak Challenge. Walker sunk a 13-footer on the 347-yard par 4 at TPC San Antonio to join Rickie Fowler at 8-under par in the $1 million Kodak Challenge competition. |
| Charlie Wi joined Walker in carding a third round Kodak Challenge birdie Sunday at the Valero Texas Open. Wi is currently two shots behind Walker and Fowler. |
| The Kodak Challenge Moment of the Day belonged to Mark Hensby, who dropped his approach shot just 9 inches from the cup. Chad Campbell's 23-footer from just off the green was the longest Kodak Challenge birdie Sunday. |
| No. 17 was the 2nd easiest hole on the course Sunday. The pros scored 17 birdies, 42 pars and 4 bogeys Sunday. |
| The Valero Texas Open was the 14th of 30 tournaments to participate in the 2010 $1 million Kodak Challenge competition. The next Kodak Challenge hole is the par-3 13th hole at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial on May 25-30. |
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| Second round |
Better weather greeted the pros on Kodak Challenge hole No. 17 Saturday at the Valero Texas Open. Marc Leishman led the Kodak Challenge contenders during the second round at TPC San Antonio, posting a birdie on the 347-yard par 4 to move into the second place tie at 7 under.
Leishman placed his approach shot just 3 feet from the cup, leaving an easy birdie putt to move to within one shot of Rickie Fowler's Kodak Challenge lead at 8 under.
Carl Pettersson and Mark Wilson each carded Kodak Challenge birdies Saturday to join the tie at 6 under, just two shots off Fowlers lead.
The easiest Kodak Challenge birdie of the day belonged to John Morse, who left his second shot just seven inches from the pin. The Kodak Challenge "Moment of the Day" was delivered by Michael Clark II. Clark's 341-yard drive landed on the green, making him only competitor Saturday to drive the Kodak Challenge hole. Clark narrowly missed his 50-foot eagle putt. |
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| First round |
Steve Lowery carded an opening-round birdie on Kodak Challenge hole No. 17 at the Valero Texas Open to move within two strokes of the 2010 Kodak Challenge lead. Lowery's 9-foot birdie putt on the par-4 347-yard hole at TPC San Antonio moves him into a tie at 6-under on the Kodak leaderboard. Rickie Fowler, who is idle this week, currently holds sole possession of the Kodak lead at 8-under.
Johnson Wagner, Lee Janzen and J.B. Holmes also scored Kodak Challenge birdies to join the group tied at 5-under. 2009 Kodak Challenge runner-up, Bo Van Pelt also posted a Kodak Challenge birdie Thursday.
The "Kodak Challenge Moment" of the day belonged Tom Gillis, who sank a 17-footer for birdie from just off the green.
The Kodak Challenge hole was the third easiest hole on the course during Thursdays opening round of the Valero Texas Open, yielding 42 birdies, 92 pars, 20 bogies and 2 double bogies. |
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| 2010 round-by-round statistics on the par-4 17th |
| 1 |
16 |
3.885 |
0 |
42 |
92 |
20 |
2 |
0 |
| 2 |
16 |
3.864 |
0 |
39 |
98 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
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| Current Kodak Challenge Leaderboard |
| T1 |
Jimmy Walker |
11 |
-8 |
| T1 |
Rickie Fowler |
10 |
-8 |
| T3 |
Matt Kuchar |
9 |
-7 |
| T3 |
Marc Leishman |
9 |
-7 |
| T3 |
Kevin Na |
8 |
-7 |
| T3 |
John Senden |
8 |
-7 |
| T3 |
Dustin Johnson |
7 |
-7 |
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