Kurt Kitayama\u2019s three-shot victory Sunday at the 3M Open marked his second career PGA Tour win.<\/p>\n
It was his first alongside his older brother, Daniel.<\/p>\n
Daniel Kitayama, who has caddied off and on for his brother over the years, picked up the bag for the first time this season at last week\u2019s Barracuda Championship, which was Kurt\u2019s first event after splitting with his previous caddie, Tim Tucker. And as Tucker worked spot duty for his old boss, Bryson DeChambeau, at this week\u2019s LIV U.K. event, Daniel was looping a second straight week for little bro.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, the caddie change wasn\u2019t my choice actually,\u201d Kitayama said Sunday evening, \u201cand so I had to find someone that I knew, I had to find someone that I trusted, and my brother\u2019s been on the bag before. We won twice in Europe. He\u2019s always been around me at tournaments and whenever he can, so I figured that was going to be the best fit to finish the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kurt Kitayama was T-4 at the John Deere Classic, his last tournament with Tucker on the bag, before tying for 14th in Tahoe. Tucker was filling in for DeChambeau\u2019s regular caddie, Greg Bodine, and told Golfweek that after this week, \u201cI will see what opportunities there are in the caddie world.\u201d DeChambeau was T-11 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Said Kurt of Daniel: \u201cHe helped me stay calm out there, make good decisions, and yeah, just helps having family on the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kitayama\u2019s win moved him to No. 53 in FedExCup points, so with one regular-season tournament left, he\u2019s guaranteed to qualify for the playoff opener, the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kurt Kitayama\u2019s three-shot victory Sunday at the 3M Open marked his second career PGA Tour win. It was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-98912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114929931668574838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98912","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=98912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}