PGA Champions Tour News: Winless in 2024, Steve Stricker in contention at Kaulig Companies Championship, 2nd Place

By Jocko Connelly

 

 

Steve Stricker chips onto 2nd hole green, 2nd Round, Kaulig Companies Championship, 7 12 2024 (courtesy IMAGN, photo by Jeff Lange, USA Today Sports)

 

Steve Stricker PGA Tour Champions, 2nd place, 2nd Round Kaulig Companies Championship July 12, 2024.mp3

 

2024 Kaulig Companies Championship
Second-Round Notes
Friday, July 12, 2024
Firestone Country Club (South Course) | Akron, Ohio
16th of 28 PGA TOUR Champions events in the 2024 Season

 

Steve Stricker, 66-68 – 134 (-6)
• The 57-year-old seeks his 18th win on PGA TOUR Champions (73rd start)
o A win would move him into T14 on the all-time PGA TOUR Champions wins list
o Last win: 2023 Sanford International
• Seeks his eighth senior major title, which would move him into T3 on the all-time list
o Last senior major win: 2023 Kaulig Companies Championship
• Looks to become the second three-time winner of the Kaulig Companies Championship (2021, 2023)

Would join Bernhard Langer (2014, 2015, 2016)
• Has been inside the top 5 after 13 of the last 14 rounds at the Kaulig Companies Championship, including finishes
• Making his 10th start of the 2024 season, he has eight top-10 finishes and entered the week No. 4 in the Charles
Schwab Cup standings
o Best finish of 2024: 2nd (American Family Insurance Championship)

 

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