Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other PGA Tour members who teed off in the Saudi-funded golf league Thursday are no longer eligible for PGA Tour events under penalties Commissioner Jay Monahan shared soon after the first tee shot was struck.
The former Chapin Eagle appeared in 27 games for the Gamecocks on the mound, going 5-3 with a team-best 3.17 ERA and 55 strikeouts in 54 innings pitched.
The eighteen runs scored sets a tournament record since moving to Cary, North Carolina in 2009 and the run differential also sets a new record since the tournament moved to Cary in 2009.
This clash of the Carolinas will feature the return of storied head coach Tom Knotts to Charlotte. Knotts won eight state titles while coaching in Charlotte and has six during his time at Dutch Fork.
The Gamecocks, under second-year head coach Shane Beamer, will open the 2022 season at home on Saturday, Sept. 3, when they host the Georgia State Panthers.
Johnson, whose last victory was the Saudi International in 2021, is No. 13 in the world, the highest-ranked player in the field. He has held the No. 1 spot in the world longer than any player since Tiger Woods.
Mickelson will be joining Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia and three other former major champions in a 54-hole tournament at Centurion Golf Club with $25 million in prize money and $4 million going to the individual winner.
Coastal’s season comes to an end at 39-20-1 overall. The Chanticleers closed out the season going 22-7 over their final 29 games and posted wins over six NCAA Regional teams.
Though two grand juries in Texas declined to pursue criminal charges against Watson earlier this year, the NFL is investigating whether he violated its code of conduct and interviewed the quarterback in person last month as part of its investigation.
Coastal carried over the momentum from the game one ninth-inning walk-off win into the nightcap, as Johnson and Rowan, Jr. hit back-to-back opposite-field home runs into the ECU jungle beyond the outfield wall to put the Chanticleers on top 3-0 after one inning of play.
Reece Fields was the winning pitcher while John Michael Faile made a memorable return to the lineup with a home run in his first at bat since the Conference Carolinas Tournament.
The Celtics can take a 2-0 lead — and absolute command — of the NBA Finals on Sunday when they visit the Warriors in the second game of the title series.
Coastal Carolina (37-19-1) will play the winner of No. 1 East Carolina and No. 2 Virginia tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET in another elimination game of the 2022 NCAA Greenville Regional.
Coastal Carolina (36-19-1) will play the No. 4 seed Coppin State (24-29) tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET in the first elimination game of the 2022 NCAA Greenville Regional.
Playing for national titles is familiar territory for Landon Powell and the other former Gamecocks on his staff. Now that championship mentality from Columbia is ingrained in the DNA of this North Greenville program.
Three months after declaring he was “fully committed” to the PGA Tour, Dustin Johnson is among 42 players in the field for next week’s LIV Golf Invitational, which offers a $25 million in prize money that’s backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.