Zalatoris

TULSA, Okla. – A bogey save from a cart path, an up-and-down from a penalty area and a missed 4-footer on the 70th hole. Will Zalatoris overcame all of it ...

The trio grew up together in Dallas, and each went on to win the U.S. Junior Amateur. Zalatoris has had his chances. He bogeyed the next hole, as well, and was in trouble after his tee shot on the long, par-3 eighth hole bounded into the penalty area. Then his tee shot on the sixth hole caught a gust and bounded into the bushes that line the course. Short putts are the weakness for one of the TOUR’s best ball strikers, but Zalatoris made clutch putts on the final two holes. He now has five top-10s in his last seven major appearances, including a pair of runners-up. TULSA, Okla. – A bogey save from a cart path, an up-and-down from a penalty area and a missed 4-footer on the 70th hole.

TULSA, Okla. – The bunkers have caused some problems for players this week at Southern Hills, as has the thick Bermuda rough, but what about the concrete?

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Will Zalatoris came up just short in a three-hole playoff against Justin Thomas at the PGA Championship.

For the week Zalatoris finished 10th in strokes gained/putting. That is the aberration in his nacesant career. You have to be a ballstriker, and a bad man, to go with the draw. All he lacks is the trophy to prove it. For Zalatoris to get where he wants to go, the short game is an equation that needs an answer. He entered the week 96th in SG/around-the-green and a whopping 185th in putting. The leaderboards told us he remained in the mix thanks to Pereira having his own struggles but it sure didn’t look or feel like Zalatoris was a viable threat, especially after he turned a 27-foot birdie try into a three-putt bogey at the 16th. “Those are putts that you keep in the memory bank for the future.” He now has a five top-10s in his first eight major starts, a feat not accomplished since Ernie Els. “Yeah, I love it,” Zalatoris said of the pressure inherent to major stages. But when he absolutely and unequivocally needed it, Will Zalatoris’ much-maligned putter answered and answered with vigor, converting a testy eight-footer on Southern Hills’ infamous 18th green Sunday evening to send the 25-year-old into a playoff at the PGA Championship and near the precipice of stardom. Unfortunately for Zalatoris, over the next nine holes he looked like a passenger asked to fly a plane without help from the control tower. Still, though Zalatoris left as the runner-up in his Tulsa tango with Justin Thomas, it is an experience the young Texan took in stride. Playing in the penultimate group Sunday with former Wake Forest teammate Cameron Young and starting three back of 54-hole leader Mito Pereira, Zalatoris came out looking very much like the wunderkind who took the game by storm last season, his drives and his approaches listening to his every command.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Will Zalatoris saw nearly every inch of Southern Hills on Sunday as one of the best ball-strikers in golf struggled to harness a s...

He opened with a couple of birdies at the fourth and fifth holes to apply some pressure, then came to the par-3 sixth, where that gust of Oklahoma wind sent his approach sailing into a shrub. Thomas was the only one making a move up the leaderboard, though, and that gave Zalatoris hope. ”I battled like crazy today, especially on 6 — I caught a random gust of wind and had to save bogey off the cart path. Zalatoris pitched to within 10 feet for birdie and slid the putt by to fall behind Thomas, who drove the green and two-putted. “I didn’t have my best stuff yesterday, which ultimately was kind of the difference“ he said. Then, needing birdie on the brutal 490-yard 18th, Zalatoris came up short with his approach.