HyFlyers GC, captained from the beginning by Phil Mickelson (though absent most of this year), has never won a team title in any event over five seasons. However, in a “better late than never” scenario, the HyFlyers are one shot behind Legion XIII heading into Sunday’s last round of LIV’s season finale in Indianapolis and are being paced by the 2025 NCAA individual champion. Ole Miss alum Michael La Sasso—he of the massive calves—shot 60 on Friday and 66 on Saturday and has a one-shot edge over Laurie Canter in trying to win his first pro title.

If you remember, La Sasso signed with LIV in January and gave up both his final year of college eligibility and an invite to the Masters. It might be years before the 22-year-old can figure out if it was worth it. La Sasso has certainly made some good cash. According to the website Sportac, he’s earned more than $2.4 million on LIV this year, not counting whatever his signing bonus was. Too bad for him that a win in Indy would also come in the now-cash-strapped circuit that had to cut this purse in half, with $2.04 million going to the champion instead of $4 million.

He wasn’t backing too far off that on the weekend but admitted that Wyndham Clark’s stunning play in the BMW Championship gives he and his peers something to think about. Clark headed into the final round at Bellerive five shots up on the field, and a victory would give him three wins on the year, including the U.S. Open and a playoff title. Scheffler, meantime, has two wins, including his eight-shot rout in last week's FedEx St. Jude, and five runners-up.

“What Wyndham is doing this week, if he keeps playing the way he is, it's a conversation,” McIlroy told CBS after shooting 65 to get into a tie for second and into Sunday’s final group. The Ulsterman compared it to 2019, when he was named Player of the Year after winning the Players and FedEx Cup, while Brooks Koepka had three victories, including the PGA. "It's what your peers value," McIlroy said.

The difference for McIlroy remains Scheffler’s “unbelievable” consistency. “You look at Scottie's statistical profile, it's just like he's number one in strokes gained, he's number one in scoring average, he's number one in, like, so many statistical categories." To that point, Scheffler is top six in the tour’s three main stats categories (off-the-tee, approach and putting); Clark is top-20 in none.

By going 66-66 to open the BMW Championship at Bellerive, Thorbjornsen headed into the weekend in the projected 30th and last spot to make it to East Lake next week. The kid, who won his first title in Detroit this month, can certainly run hot and cold. In his last five starts, he’s gone Cut/T-7/T-40/Win/T-47. He’s mostly been impressive, though, with eight top-25s in 21 appearances. The Tour Championship bubble projections look like this right now: Thorbjornsen, Tom Kim, Sungjae Im, Adam Scott and Ryan Fox are the last five in; the last five out, from 31st, are Patrick Cantlay, Kurt Kitayama, Rickie Fowler, Bud Cauley and J.T. Poston.

The Palm Beach Post reported that Tiger Woods’ 17-year-old son will start classes this coming week at the private Benjamin School. It’s also golf season for the boys there, and Woods is part of a stellar team that won the Class 1A Florida High School Athletic Association title. Charlie, who shot 68 in the second round at state, was the Post’s Small School Co-Player of the Year last season with his Buccaneers teammate Andrew Tsar. This was not a standout summer for Woods, who ranks 311th in the Rolex AJGA Rankings. His best stroke-play finish was a T-28 in the Team TaylorMade Invitational, while Woods rallied to get into a 14-for-2 playoff in the U.S. Junior Am, only to miss advancing. Barring a dramatic change, Charlie will be playing golf at Florida State at this time next year.