At the 2024 Mitsubishi Electric Championship, Steven Alker carded rounds of 65-63-63 to finish at 25-under for the tournament, good enough for a four-stroke win over the field for his eighth victory of his PGA TOUR Champions career.
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The PNC Championship is held for the 26th time this week as the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida, hosts 20 two-player teams featuring a PGA Tour, Champions tour or LPGA player and one of their family members. After Tiger Woods made his return to action at the Hero World Challenge for the first time since withdrawing at the Masters, he’ll once again be back to tee it up at the PNC Championship alongside his son, Charlie. The duo was tied for second a year ago after the first round, but stalled on Sunday and ended up tied for eighth. Justin Thomas returns this year to play alongside his father, Mike. Justin Thomas finished third at the Hero World Challenge two weeks ago and will be feeling confident about taking his second PNC Championship title, as the Thomases won here in 2020. Defending champions Vijay Singh and his son Qass are looking to recreate their magic from 2022. Last year was their 16th time teeing it up together at this event, and they finally broke through for a win, becoming the first pair to shoot two sub-60 rounds at the event. Other pairings to look out for are Nelly Korda and her father Petr, Matt Kuchar and his elder son Cameron, and Bernhard Langer and his son Jason.
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At the par 510th good t- shot for Steven just a long iron coming in here this whole location and pole are getable today oh yes they are look at this shot by aler yeah there have been six Eagles at 10 today 22 birdies aler for his Eagle at the
10th Steven lost in a playoff here to Miguel anhel Jimenez back in 2022 aler missed about a 10-ft par putt to extend that playoff got to wonder if that was maybe a misread by aler cuz that did not even touch the hole for that eagle from couldn’t have been more than 6
Ft for birdie at 15 yeah wonderful shot in here take advantage of it and that’s really well done for Steven at 16 yeah nice play in here for Steven tough full location in this right front over at 17 Steven aler for birdie to get
To within one of the lead VJ sing in at 7 under and here comes Steven aler Steven aler for his birdie and a share of the lead man makes a lot of putts hits a lot of high quality shots great playing Again by Steven alred yeah he birdied
The last four holes and what you got to do from here is pick a Target something in the background a tree that he likes that know he knows that’s the proper line hit it at that the wind is hard left or right so look for this to peel
Just a little left or right going in there oh that may be right that’s n it’s right up the center of the green gets a kick it’ll go all the way back there and it does good shot oh excellent shot getting better all the time he’s got to look at
Eagle Ste St ala has this for Eagle yeah a birie back there at the par five fourth he drove it miles down there just had a middle iron maybe an eight iron so he has taken advantage of these FES so far this should go a little left
And maybe back to the right at the end but that one’s struggling yeah he just didn’t hit it hard enough Justin Leonard think he hit it red correctly Justin Leonard has the only eagle of the day BJ and Cass and Cass can it think BJ’s long my goodness aler for birdie and that
Gives Steven now the outright lead at 10 under does Play Down 12 yds but the wind out of the left maybe slightly hurting going a little left is the wind going to catch it it’s starting to catch it if this gets a kick it’ll be a good
Shot a little bit deep there’s a little back stop gother that’s coming back down that’s actually going to work out very nicely that’s a quality shot by Steven aler wonderful strike really was back over at the eighth Steven aler trying to stretch that lead yeah pretty good breaker from
Right to left wow what a great birdie that’s like stealing right here and lapping the field with birdie at the eighth cookie Trac of Technology presented by trackman Will Follow the t-shot of Steven aler well that 240 makes golf still fun yeah my boy laugh at me though
Cookie that ball was pummeled it was that was just beautiful and yeah hit the slopes that is long that’s going to be mid iron aler is aler is hammering the ball right now man I know there was no transition really you’re still playing professional golf you’re still trying to beat
Everybody in the field and whether there’s 54 holes or or 72 holes it really didn’t make much difference and I tell you this Steven aler he has a wonderful golf swing yes he does he has a very solid um yeah you know his turn his impact he’s very very solid I was
Going to ask you about that Tom what impressed you about Steven aler and he really came from nowhere we didn’t have anything worse than par yesterday either so nobody’s actually ever even made a bogey at 10 this week so that gets aler to 12 under bar
Now let’s go over to 13 and Steven aler straight into the wind two 60 past that right bunker kind of have to try to hug that and Steven alra has done that and this should be perfect John do you have an explanation as to why this is the
Third hardest hole in the golf course today I think just uh hole location’s kind of in a little kind of a corner into the wind back at the 13th Steven aler our leader 113 little into the breeze got just a little pitching wedge right here little left of the flag but looks
Like a pretty good line good chance to get one close he does right underneath the hole that’s got a great look at birdie no more than 5T normally pretty solid from this distance still is it’s tidy round of golf going uh and it’s looking easy isn’t it
John just try to hit it right at that little pot piece of rough right there and just go ahead and sling one yeah anything that right of the left bunker is great and that’s close should stay right of it it does that’s that’s perfect not sure Steven really caught
His Drive he’s got 224 front 255 hole in contrast VJ only has 175 to the front so wow maybe he was just trying to hit that little squeezer out there he’d like to take that front bunker out of play if he can kind of going up the
Right trying to turn and a nice job oh my goodness look at this shot by Steven aler oh man he just doesn’t back off gets it past that flag about 15 ft pretty good chance to make this one gave it a run yes he did hello how easy
Is this round looking for Steven aler yeah this is just a clinic right here it’s unbelievable how well he’s playing Steven aler on the T at 16 it’s strong Par Four right here into the breeze good hole location need a good one yes very good really good swing great balance there
Nice Shot there by aler right down the center 156 here for Steven has to be a little bit right of this flag maybe at that Marshall you see back there yeah or right over the center of the bunker that nose in the bunker right over that maybe
That would be a good spot cannot miss left here no yeah this is a little bit left but good weight and that’s an aggressive shot yeah not that much left what a what a play great look here I have to give this a little bit of left or right movement but not
Much just about that much making it look easy cookie he’s now nine under on his round today this is impressive Steven aler now on the T seven wins this is his 5 fourth start on the PGA tour Champion efficient little start bird at one two putt birdie at the
Fourth this is right down the center always felt one of the most important things John when you’re leading a golf tournament go out and have a great day driving takes so much pressure off you yourself you talk about getting long on a regular tour they’re getting proportionately long out here as well
Yeah four iron for Steven aler 218 front 232 hole up the right hand side this will get a nice little kick oh hits the cart path hit the cart path oh he got a bounce off the lava look out well when you win things happen really good that needs to stop it does
Stays on the green what a break that ball bounces you the the way that you want it and he’s fortunate he knows it he was talking about it kind of laughed about it and you know kind of shrugged it off and you know cookie according to from what Bob said oh my goodness
[Applause] I’m sitting there thinking I don’t know that I ever won that I didn’t have an exceptional break somewhere those things happen when you win golf don’t apologize for it no don’t apologize for it because you get bad ones and here’s a guy that just that went from seven or eight to
Three John Cook uh tell me about the t- shot here at eight yeah plays 11 yards downhill 204 yards from this T moved a t up a deck this is a six iron yeah just looking center of the green or anything just right of the flag would be ideal
And that’s something right there just hit a 10 ft right of the flag excellent that’s spectacular when you’re leading that is a really quality golf swing right there this is a lot closer than I thought this is only about 5T yeah he buried this hole yesterday too Lanny and
He did today that was very very easy that graphic at the bottom we just showed scoring average 65 and change he’s making the landing area wider than it would have been if he’s going at the flag so he’s also it also means he’s going to hit this really hard which he
Did that was that was a big swing for a pitch and it’s to the right oh it hung in there good shot now excellent right underneath the hole about 14 ft beautiful flirting a little bit with that right bunker has only made one bogey this week and that came on the
Eighth hole of round one and he shot one under on his opening round and shot 30 on the incoming nine and shot a bogey 363 yesterday and boom boom baby wow he is playing his own little tournament right now hitting a shot offline yeah I agree I don’t think there’s another well the
One the next tole you got bunkers but this is a seed right up the left Center that’s gorgeous right there at that turn Point perfect second for aler at 14 213 all in just trying to hit it out to the right front part of the green which is at 204 yeah
Anything up on the putting surface and that is perfect like you said cookie that is absolutely what he was trying to do Steven aler for Eagle at 14 and goes up this slope big breaker from right to left down the backside got to worry about speed didn’t hit it hard enough but that’s
Going to be a very easy birdie and that gets aler to 23 under and for the moment setting up it’s like parallel lines his feet are aimed down the railroad track on the left and he’s aiming the ball down the right railroad track right at the flag it’s right at it
Why not g match yeah that’s it thank you very much enjoy your tip boys he’s been perfect today he really has we aiming about 12 15 ft left but a good strike nonetheless now just 5T for birdie get the 24 under par they’re even going in the edges for him good put nice
Two I I know I’d be standing up there with driver and just make a good swing not only that it it really opens up that left hole location if you get it way down there on that right side yep right in the middle of the Fairway that’s fine
Yep yeah almost play this like you got a one shot lead yeah put the icing on the cake right here just go ahead and take care of business yeah it’s a little little right but might it whole high like he has been all week but no it
Doesn’t break right at the end no it doesn’t that’s straight from there doesn’t break left we thought it was going to go left that doesn’t break left doesn’t break left John was bogey free that week 56 holes with no bogeys stress no stress did he hit it did he hit it did
He hit it yes sir Sten aler with a birdie on the last hole finishes at 25 under wins the mitubishi electric championship at while aligning matches Lauren Roberts low 54 total set back in 2011 at 25 under
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I really enjoyed Hale Irwin on the broadcast last week.