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Saturday 2 July 2022LIV GolfYear in Review
Grace wins LIV Golf Invitational Portland
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, North Plains, Oregon · Thursday 30 June to Saturday 2 July 2022 · Branden Grace’s win no. 1 on the LIV Golf · purse $20,000,000 USD
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 26 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 67° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/11°C · wind 13 km/h NNW, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R225°/14°C · wind 13 km/h NNW, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R322°/13°C · wind 12 km/h NNW, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Carlos Ortiz MEX · 205Closed with 69 (birdie at the last) but Grace's final-round 65 beat him by two. Branden Grace wins first U.S.-based event for controversial LIV Golf tour, takes home $4,375,000 (ESPN News Services via ESPN, 2022-07-03)
48 started, 48 made it
Same week
LIV Golf event
LIV Golf Invitational Portland
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club (Witch Hollow), Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, North Plains, Oregon
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Branden Grace
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ESPN News Services via ESPN
3 July 2022
Played flawless golf, played really, really well when I needed to do something special and came up and managed to pull it out,
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Branden Grace | 69 · 69 · 65 | 203 | −13 |
| 2 | Carlos Ortiz | 67 · 69 · 69 | 205 | −11 |
| T3 | Dustin Johnson | 68 · 68 · 71 | 207 | −9 |
| T3 | Patrick Reed | 72 · 68 · 67 | 207 | −9 |
| 5 | Louis Oosthuizen | 71 · 69 · 69 | 209 | −7 |
| 6 | Jinichiro Kozuma | 71 · 69 · 70 | 210 | −6 |
| 7 | Talor Gooch | 72 · 70 · 70 | 212 | −4 |
| T8 | Matthew Wolff | 72 · 71 · 70 | 213 | −3 |
| T8 | Justin Harding | 72 · 67 · 74 | 213 | −3 |
| 10 | Bryson DeChambeau | 72 · 69 · 73 | 214 | −2 |
The golfer
born 1988-05-20, Pretoria, South Africa; RSA; turned pro 2007; age 34 that week; tour wins to date: 1.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet