The PGA Championship gave us a $3 major champion, a three-team logjam at -8, and CP somehow finishing sixth despite owning the guy who won the tournament. Aronimink served up just enough chaos to bury anyone leaning on Tommy Fleetwood (cut), Robert MacIntyre (cut), or Russell Henley (cut), which is to say: most of us.
WILSON took the $100 weekly check by tiebreaker, scraping past VANILLA and JORGENSON with all three teams locked at -8. The trio's path was wildly different — WILSON rode Justin Thomas (-5), a vintage Scottie Scheffler (-2), and Joaquin Niemann (-1) to a perfectly optimal lineup; VANILLA leaned on Jon Rahm (-6) finally remembering majors exist; JORGENSON got a -5 from Ludvig Åberg and -3 from Chris Gotterup. And then there's CP, who paid three dollars for Aaron Rai, started him, watched him win the PGA Championship at -9, and still finished sixth. That is a feat. Owning the winner of a major and still losing money to the segment is the kind of thing that gets bronzed.
The biggest what-if belongs to KALLAS, who finished last at +13 in a universe where their bench was at -3. The damage: starting Russell Henley (+9, cut) over Alex Noren (0). Sepp Straka also went down at +17. In the alternate timeline where KALLAS benches two of the most reasonable starts on their roster for an Alex Noren / Daniel Berger pairing nobody alive would have predicted, they're a respectable middle-of-the-pack team. We do not live there.
Homa Cup-wise, this week was a Cam Smith resurrection sermon: KOVALA's $6 LIV flier climbed 94 OWGR spots (#239 → #145) and gained $3.98 — though as a LIV guy he only matters in the four major weeks, so calm down. Åberg climbed #15 → #13 and gained JORGENSON $3.59, and Rahm vaulted #20 → #12 and added $2.74 to VANILLA's column. Schauffele (#11 → #8) gained KALLAS $2.17, which is approximately one-eighth of the damage Alex Fitzpatrick and Russell Henley did to KALLAS this week. Season-wise, JORGENSON's Cameron Young is still the diamond of the year — up $27.03 since draft day at #3 OWGR — while CP's Viktor Hovland continues his fall from grace, down $3.52 and now #30.
With two events left in Segment 2, JORGENSON leads at 125, VANILLA's at 122, and WILSON climbed to 113. Three teams, three points apart, $100 segment bonus on the line. WILSON also pocketed $100 cash this week and now sits at +$100 in segment balance, second only to JORGENSON's +$150. KALLAS, meanwhile, dropped $25 for finishing last and is officially in the red. CP is at -$50 for the segment despite, again, owning the major champion. Golf is a stupid sport.
Goose egg of the week is a four-way feast, but the trophy goes to CP, who started Tommy Fleetwood ($31) AND Viktor Hovland ($22) and watched both miss the cut. That's $53 of starter capital evaporating before the weekend, which is how you finish sixth with the tournament winner on your roster. KALLAS also chipped in Russell Henley ($24) and Sepp Straka ($17) cuts to round out a truly horrendous Friday.
Next week it's the CJ Cup Byron Nelson — a level-1 palate cleanser. WILSON brings world #1 Scheffler and Jordan Spieth in his backyard; CP's $3 hero Aaron Rai is back trying to prove the major wasn't a fluke; JORGENSON loads up with Max Greyserman and Ryo Hisatsune. Set your lineups.