Roger Chapman is in the spotlight at the Chief PGA Championship, a year afterwards his advance achievement in chief golf's a lot of acclaimed above championship.
''Last year, I array of snuck in beneath the radar,'' New Era Hats Cheap the 54-year-old Englishman said Wednesday, a day afore the alpha of play at Bellerive Country Club. ''I've aloft the bar myself. That puts a bit added burden on me.''
Chapman was a abruptness champ endure year at Harbor Shores in Michigan. Seven weeks later, abutting Gary Amateur (1987), Jack Nicklaus (1991) and Hale Irwin (1998) as the alone players to win two chief above titles in the aforementioned season, demography the U.S. Chief Accessible at Indianwood, aswell in Michigan.
''It was an absurd year, it's difficult to put into words,'' he said. ''Sometimes, you just accept to say, ''Dreams appear true.''
Chapman's best accomplishment in eight starts this analysis is a 10th-place tie in the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic in backward March.
''The accomplished few weeks I've been a little afraid absent to play here,'' he said. ''Now that I'm here, I feel a bit added relaxed.''
A acreage of 156 will try and bound Chapman on the par-71, 6,959-yard course. Leaders 1354 Snapbacks There are 34 all-embracing players entered apery an event-record 18 countries.
Tom Watson, the champ in 2001 and 2011, is a allotment of the challengers accessible to yield a run at Chapman's crown.
The 63-year-old Watson has 39 PGA Bender wins and 14 Champions Bender triumphs. He is acquisitive his bold can annular into appearance afterwards several active performances in four outings this season.
''It's been inconsistent appropriate now,'' he said. ''I haven't had a absolute constant clash yet this year. But it can about-face around. A lot of times, it just takes one swing.''
After a convenance annular Wednesday, Watson said the Bellerive advance will favor the abundant hitters.
''It's arena very, actual long,'' he said. ''Or I'm accepting shorter.''
Bernhard Langer, a backstab Masters champion, has two victories this season.
John Cook accomplished additional to Chapman, two acclamation back, endure year. Cook became the aboriginal non-winner of the accident to shoot in the 60s in all four rounds.
In the endure Champions Bender event, The Hundreds Snapbacks Esteban Toledo won the Insperity Championship on May 5 at The Woodlands in Texas to become the aboriginal Mexican best in bender history. He exhausted Mike Goodes on the third playoff hole.
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