{"id":276141,"date":"2025-10-04T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276141\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T03:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:12:15","slug":"dallas-tom-kim-tied-for-fifth-3-back-of-garrick-higgo-at-sanderson-farms-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276141\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas\u2019 Tom Kim tied for fifth, 3 back of Garrick Higgo at Sanderson Farms Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) \u2014 Garrick Higgo kept his ball in play and took advantage of enough birdie chances for a 6-under 66 on Friday to build a one-shot lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship<\/a>, a Fall Series event that feels like a new start to the South African.<\/p>\n

Higgo ran off three straight birdies late in his round at the Country Club of Jackson, one of them the short par-4 15th where he nearly holed his bunker shot and tapped in for birdie.<\/p>\n

He was at 13-under 131, one shot ahead of Eric Cole (67) and Taylor Montgomery, who had nine birdies in a 10-hole stretch \u2014 the exception was a bogey. He holed a 25-foot birdie on his final hole for a 63 to boost his chances of keeping a PGA Tour<\/a> card for 2026.<\/p>\n

Only the top 100 keep full PGA Tour cards after the Fall Series end in November. Five tournaments are left on the schedule.<\/p>\n

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Cole had 10 birdies in the opening round, offset by a double bogey late in his round. He added seven more birdies on a calm, sunny afternoon to get in the final round as Cole goes after his first PGA Tour title.<\/p>\n

Danny Walker (68) was two shots behind in an important week for him. Walker is at No. 104 in the FedEx Cup. Vince Whaley (No. 102 in the standings) had another 67 and Dallas resident Tom Kim<\/a> (No. 99) saved par from a bunker on the 18th for a 66. They were three shots behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve made a bunch of cuts and feel like I\u2019ve played good the last six months,\u201d Whaley said. \u201cIt\u2019s getting harder and harder out here, and you need those big finishes, and I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019ve had that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Higgo already has one PGA Tour win this year, a week after the Masters in an opposite-field event in the Dominican Republic. But that nearly felt like the end. He suffered a labrum injury that all but wrecked the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

Higgo debated having surgery on his hip after the regular season, but realized he could handle it with a change in his fitness routine. He is lifting less and being smarter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t hurting me in my swing, but walking made it really bad, and then it would pinch the next day,\u201d Higgo said. \u201cSo just figuring out how I can avoid that. I\u2019ve changed the way I work out, just being a bit more clever with that, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the pain level is now 1 out of 10, though he still fatigues quicker than usual. But he feels like he\u2019s back on the right track.<\/p>\n

Higgo played in the final group with Scottie Scheffler<\/a> at the Procore Championship, where he tied for seventh. He\u2019s in the midst of another good week at the Sanderson Farms.<\/p>\n

Unlike most players in the field, his FedEx Cup rank is of little consequence. Having won the Puntacana Championship, he has his PGA Tour card locked up and is in The Players Championship. The Fall Series events no longer get a Masters invitation.<\/p>\n

The final round with Scheffler was an eye-opener watching how the world\u2019s No. 1 player operates and eventually wins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t tell you how much I learned, but I learned so much just by watching,\u201d Higgo said. \u201cHe\u2019s an inspiration for all of us. He\u2019s set the bar so high. It\u2019s just phenomenal how high his skill level is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sam<\/a>Top of leaderboard crowded at PGA\u2019s Sanderson Farms Championship after first round<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Cole, Sam Ryder, Garrick Higgo and Danny Walker share the lead after they each shot 7-under in the first round.<\/p>\n

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Find more golf coverage from <\/b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSON, Miss. (AP) \u2014 Garrick Higgo kept his ball in play and took advantage of enough birdie chances…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1430,1445,1505,62,358,66845,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-276141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-pga","12":"tag-scottie-scheffler","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tom-kim","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115313714960127799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}