as the All-American helped the defending national champion Cowboys play their way into the 2026 NCAA Championship with a second-place finish at NCAA Regionals in California. After three round of play Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, the team traveled back to Stillwater with a stop in Dallas, where they dropped off Stout so he could compete on a sponsor’s exemption in the PGA Tour’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson. Stout won’t obviously have gotten a practice round in at TPC Craig Ranch but an afternoon tee time at least makes Thursday a little less hectic.

Koepka has been one of the best ballstrikers in golf since returning to the PGA Tour, ranking third in SG/apprach and eighth in tee-to-green. Unfortunately for the five-time major winner, the short game has not cooperated, ranking 141st in SG/putting. He changed out putters last week at the PGA Championship but the struggles were still there, which is why he's making another flatstick switch at this week's Byron Nelson to a Scotty Cameron Fastback 1.5. “Hopefully I can just kind of [get] some confidence with it and build some momentum off of it,” Koepka said earlier this week in Dallas. So far, it seems to be working, as Koepka is three under through three holes in the morning wave.

The New Englander and Jim Furyk, the recently named U.S. Ryder Cup captain for 2027, have accepted roles as the first two captain’s assistants named by Brandt Snedeker for this year’s Presidents Cup at Medinah. As a first-time captain, Snedeker would figure to lean heavily on these two because of Bradley’s most recent experience and Furyk’s work at the helm when the Americans routed the Internationals in the 2024 Presidents Cup in Montreal. With the U.S. on a 12-match unbeaten string, Keegan has the chance to enjoy a truly cathartic week of hugs and fist bumps.

DeChambeau recently led a group that acquired Sportsbox AI, a golf training app that uses mobile phone-driven 3D motion capture technology and interactive AI for coaches and players to analyze their swings. DeChambeau told the Katie Miller Podcast that Sportsbox AI is part of his training now: “I'll be at the U.S. Open with it, and then past that, I'm really excited to showcase this to the world.  We're going to be lowering the barriers to entry with golf. … It's part of this virtuous ecosystem that I'm helping build right now.” DeChambeau also told the host he believes space aliens are real and the footage of Alan Shepard hitting a golf shot on the moon is not. Because, well, "science."

and only five schools qualifying for the NCAA Championship, the Yellow Jackets’ 2025-26 season is likely to end after Wednesday’s final round. And so with it the coaching career of Bruce Heppler after 31 years in Atlanta. Upon Heppler announcing this would be his last season in December, I wrote about his myriad of accomplishments. His résumé at Tech includes 74 tournament wins, 14 ACC titles and four NCAA runner-up finishes … but no national title. Don’t get hung up on that last point. Since first covering college golf in the 1997, I can’t name a coach with more enthusiasm for his school, dedication to the well-being of his players past and present and passion for improving college golf. Unfortunately, he won’t get to take a final bow at nationals, but his legacy is unrivaled.