Saturday, October 26, 2013

Thompson Climbing the Leaderboard in Malaysia

by Roz Roberts III

After posting a three over par opening round, Michael Thompson has slowly been climbing a leaderboard after he has posted consecutively better under par rounds highlighted by Saturday's third round four under par 68 and he is now tied for 33rd at the CIMB Classic in Malaysia.

In his second round, Michael started off with a bogey and a double bogey in his first two holes which had him at 6 over par for the tournament.  Since then he is a total of 8 under par.  After the slow start in round two, he fought back with four birdies to finish the second round at one under par.  In the third round, Michael carded five birdies and a single bogey.

The final round will be aired on Saturday night on the Golf Channel from 11pm - 3am ET.

Online Links
Leaderboard
Michael's Scorecard

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Thompson Starts Another PGA Season

by Roz Roberts III

Last year, the PGA Tour decided to restructure their season to help give fall events more significance.  The newly created 2013/2014 season got started earlier this month with events earning precious Fedex Cup Playoff points.  Michael Thompson got his new season underway at this week's CIMB Classic in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.  The CIMB Classic is considered a standard PGA Tour event and receives full Fedex Cup points and all money earned will be counted as official PGA Tour earnings.  Those changes have made this event much more attractive to Tour players and so the field is the strongest ever for this event.

Since Malaysia is on the other side of the dateline, Thursday's first round actually occurred on Wednesday night here in the US.  Michael shot a three over par, 75 and is currently tied for 65th.  He is paired with Boo Weekly and Retief Goosen for the first two rounds.

The Golf Channel is carrying live coverage in the evenings.  Second round coverage will be on Thursday night from 10:30PM to 2:30AM ET.

Online Links
Leaderboard
Michael's Scorecard