Last week KALLAS finished 8th with two measly points. This week they ran the table at Colonial with a -35 bonus-adjusted score, a +7 jump up the standings, and the warm hug of $25 in their pocket. Russell Henley (-12), Mac Meissner (-11), and Gary Woodland (-10) is not a sentence anyone expected to write in May, and yet here we are.
KALLAS take it by seven over VANILLA's -28, which wasn't actually close once Henley closed it out. The $24 spent on Henley at auction looks like a steal now; the -2 champion bonus is just the gravy. Eric Cole (-12) and Ben Griffin (-11) carried VANILLA to a clean runner-up — no leaks, no bench regrets, just not enough to chase down the Texan onslaught. KOVALA snuck into third on the back of Alex Smalley (-11) and Ryan Gerard (-9), also with a perfect lineup.
The biggest what-if was, charitably, tiny. JORGENSON left a whopping two strokes on the bench by starting Akshay Bhatia (-4) over Andrew Putnam (-6). In the alternate universe where you start Andrew Putnam over a top-30 OWGR player on a hunch, JORGENSON finishes a stroke or two better and still doesn't catch KALLAS. Nobody is filing a grievance over this one. JORGENSON also edged NIMSGER on a tiebreaker at -15, which was the actual drama of the bottom half.
Nobody really moved in the Homa Cup this week — every single weekly mover registered "essentially flat" because OWGR didn't refresh in a meaningful way. So we zoom out: Cameron Young is up $26.70 since draft day for JORGENSON, Matt Fitzpatrick up $22.36 for KOVALA, and Jon Rahm up $17.92 for VANILLA (though that last one only matters in the four major weeks — calm down, VANILLA). On the bust side, Viktor Hovland is down $3.86 since draft day for CP and Tommy Fleetwood is down $3.20 in the same bag. CP is single-handedly funding the Homa Cup bust ledger.
The big news: Segment 2 is in the books. VANILLA wins it with 144 points, edging JORGENSON (139) and WILSON (137) by the slimmest of margins. That's $100 in segment-bonus cash for VANILLA on top of their $50 segment balance. JORGENSON, meanwhile, finishes the segment with $150 in weekly cash — more than the actual segment winner — and nothing to show for it but bragging rights and a 5-point sting. CP closes the segment at -$75 and dead last. Brutal, symmetrical, on-brand.
Goose egg of the week goes to STAT SHEET's Sungjae Im, a $12 starter who missed the cut and contributed nothing to a top-1-to-5th tumble. NIMSGER doubled up with Tony Finau ($11) and Rasmus Højgaard ($4) both missing the weekend, which explains the -4 rank slide nicely. WILSON's Harry Hall and CP's Chris Kirk also got the axe, but nobody hurt themselves quite like STAT SHEET dropping from 1st to 5th in one week.
Next up: the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village — a Level 2 event, so $50 to the weekly winner. Every single OFFGC team owns a top-9 OWGR player in the field: WILSON has Scheffler, NIMSGER has Rory, JORGENSON has Cameron Young, KOVALA has Fitzpatrick, STAT SHEET has Justin Rose, CP has both Fleetwood AND J.J. Spaun, and KALLAS has Xander. Set your lineups carefully.