Adam Schenk

Kourtney Schenk wasn't going to miss seeing her husband, Adam, try to win his first PGA Tour title at the Valspar Championship.

Kourtney was interviewed on the course by NBC’s Cara Banks, and said, “I’m feeling good so I decided to walk 18.” That meant she was in her hubby’s gallery to see him chip-in for birdie at the first and build an early two-stroke lead. She arrived at the hotel where Adam was staying about the time he was waking and preparing to go to the course. She was at home in Indiana and had family over Saturday preparing baby acknowledgements. Did we mention that Kourtney is eight months pregnant and the couple is expecting its first child? She hardly slept, rising at 2 a.m. “You can’t miss stuff like this.”

Adam Schlenk's wife Kourtney woke up at 2 a.m. to make it to the Valspar Championship Sunday while 8 months pregnant.

[Adam’s first win](https://golf.com/news/2023-valspar-championship-watch-sunday-tv/) no matter the situation. “He always has it in him,” Kourtney said. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State University, earning degrees in broadcast journalism and political science. to get to the airport and then got into her husband’s hotel room right as he was waking up. He plans to take a good bit of time off once the baby is born. “We were working on the nursery while he was playing.

Adam Schenk caught a tough break after a bad drive on No. 18 and a closing bogey cost him a shot at his first career PGA Tour victory Sunday at Valspar.

I had a chance with the wedge shot that came up short, and then I had a chance with the putt, which surprisingly actually hit the pin and came close. Ultimately, Schenk decided to hit a left-handed lay-up at the par-4 finishing hole, but he sent his ball through the fairway. Wish I could have lightly hit somebody and stayed where I had a chance to get to the green, but it did not, and I didn't deserve it. And when Taylor Moore posted 10 under, Schenk holed a 16-footer for par at the par-3 penultimate hole to remain tied for the lead. “I want to close one out some day, but how many chances am I going to have?” Schenk said he thought to himself. “So, I'm not leaving this putt short.

Adam Schenk made a risky left-handed shot with the Valspar Championship on the line after catching a bad break. See the video.

If the left-handed shot went haywire, he might have ended up with worse than a bogey. With his ball right against the base of a tree, Schenk’s options were to take an unplayable with a 1-stroke penalty or flip his club over and attempt a left-handed shot. Schenk walked up to the 18th tee at 10-under for the tournament, which was tied with clubhouse leader Taylor Moore.

Adam Schenk has a one-stroke lead over challengers Jordan Spieth and Tommy Fleetwood ahead of the final round of the Valspar Championship.

The middle stretch of par saves on 9 and 10 were good putts to hole. But he rallied to birdie the 16th and 18th to keep his hopes of securing a maiden PGA Tour title alive. "Pars were good.

Taylor Moore delivered the clutch shots to move into contention, closed with a 4-under 67 and won the Valspar Championship.

He effectively won the tournament with a great swing with a 9-iron on the 15th and his big putt on the next hole. His only shot was hitting an inverted gap wedge left-handed, and it was a dandy, shooting across the fairway into the rough. It was roughly the same line as Moore had hit his tee shot earlier, only Schenk’s ball rolled through the gallery and stopped next to a pine tree. Spieth was tied for the lead when he sent his tee shot into the water on the 16th and managed to stay in the game by getting up-and-down from 163 yards to salvage bogey. He made tough par saves on the 16th and 17th holes to stay tied. “I was thinking it was Tommy one back of us with a few holes to go and so I thought we could still kind of control it from the last group.

Moore, 29, punched a ticket to Augusta National with his win at Innisbrook.

Taylor Moore picked up his first career PGA Tour victory after winning the Valspar Championship in Florida on Sunday thanks to a brutal 18th hole by Adam ...

[gives him $1.5 million](https://www.foxbusiness.com/money), and being his first win on tour, it’s the highest payout he’s gotten to date. Schenk took his time to assess the putt and stepped up to the ball knowing he had to hit it for the playoff. Schenk, needing a good approach shot for a solid par putt, instead hit to 41 feet away from the cup. The shot was shanked, driven left into the crowd before it came to rest beside a tree. But for Schenk, he just needed a par to force it. [four of his last 10 holes](https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/golf), Moore waited in the clubhouse and watched as Adam Schenk and Jordan Spieth walked to the 18th hole to see if a playoff was needed to determine a champion.

Adam Schenk and Jordan Spieth both made crucial mistakes in the final holes on Sunday afternoon.