Thompson Perfect in GIR in Debut from Injury

by Roz Roberts III

It's been a while since Michael Thompson played a competitive round on the PGA Tour and he lit up the greens in his return.  In fact, he hit every single green in regulation at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.   That's 18 for 18 if your counting.   He carded a two under par 69 and he is currently tied for 29th with a few golfers still needing to finish round one. 

Any rust from the layoff might have showed up on the greens where Michel uncharacteristically 3 putted three times including his only two bogeys which came fairly early in his round.

Michael and his group are scheduled to tee of at 7:15am PT tomorrow.

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Thompson Returns in Vegas

by Roz Roberts III

After rehabing his shoulder for the last several months, Michael Thompson is ready to get back to work.  This week's Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas will be Michael's first tournament since injuring himself at The National back in June.

Michael will tee off in round 1 at 12:05pm PT and will be grouped with Troy Merritt and Richy Werenski.

Rob Bolton had the following tidbit in this week's Fantasy Insider article on PGATour.com:

He (Michael) has six starts on a Minor Medical Extension to earn 86.935 FedExCup points and a promotion to the Major Medical category. He's already secured conditional status, so he doesn't have to ration those starts

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2017 Thompson Invitational is in the Books

(left to right) Michael Thompson, PGA | Toni St. John | Kendal Todd | Alexandra Quihuis

(left to right) Michael Thompson, PGA | Mahanth Chirravuri | Jacob Goode | Caden Christopherson

This past weekend at the Oro Valley Country Club in Tucson, AZ, Michael Thompson hosted the annual Thompson Invitational junior golf tournament.  The yearly event invites the best junior golfers from Arizona.  On Saturday night, Michael hosts a dinner for all of the participants.

This year's girls winner was 15 year old Toni St. John from Gilbert, AZ while the boys winner was 13 year old Mahanth Chirravuri from Chandler, AZ.  Congratulations to them both!

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Mahanth Chirravuri and Toni St John Post Wins at The Thompson Invitational at Oro Valley Country Club
Thompson Invitational Final Results (Girls)
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Thompson Back In Action - Updated 8/31/2017

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Update:  Michael did not tee off with his assigned group although he's not listed as an official WD.  It remains to be seen if Michael will be able to compete in any of the upcoming Web.com Tour Finals events.

We look forward to cheering him on once he's fully recovered from his shoulder injury and 100% ready to play (whenever that is)!
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According to Rob Bolton on PGATour.com, Michael Thompson has recovered enough from his shoulder injury to compete in this week's Web.com Tour Finals.  The first event in the finals series is the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship which is held in Columbus, Ohio.

Michael tees off with Alex Cjeka and Austin Cook at 12:52pm ET from the first hole.

As you might recall, the Web.com Tour Finals are comprised of four events.  The top 25 combined money earners in these events earn PGA Tour cards for next year.

Here is the complete excerpt from Rob's Fantasy Insider article:

Returning to Competition
Michael Thompson … Sidelined the last two months with a shoulder injury. He's slated to return at the Web.com Tour Finals this week. Even if he doesn't snag one of the 25 PGA TOUR cards up for grabs, he'd open the 2017-18 season with conditional status for finishing 148th in FedExCup points. It might be tagged with a medical extension, too.

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And the Top Men's Golfer from Tucson is...

by Roz Roberts III

If you're reading this then your answer would probably be the same as ours.  No questions asked it's Michael Thompson...right?  Well Greg Hanson from the Arizona Star agrees.  He wrote an article on July 13th documenting his list of the top men's golfers from Tucson and Michael was his #1.   Way to go Greg!

You can read the article by clicking on the picture above.