England’s Richard Bland, 51, had never played Harbor Shores in Michigan but is leading going into the weekend.
while representing LIV Golf, another member of the Saudi-backed league is in the hunt at a PGA of America major.
Richard Bland, 51, is 12 under and leading by one shot over Scott Dunlap and by three over Chris DiMarco going into the weekend at the Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Mich. The member of Cleeks GC in LIV Golf is playing his first 50-and-over event, having received a special invitation from the PGA of America.
The Englishman was invited last year—“completely out of the blue, I wasn’t expecting it,” he said—but couldn’t play due to a conflict with a LIV Golf event. But when he saw his schedule would be free this year, Bland reached out to the PGA of America to see if he could use the invitation one year later.He is so far. Bland has turned in rounds of 64–66 so far, with 11 birdies, an eagle and just one bogey. Not bad for a course he hadn’t seen in person before.
“I kind of looked a little online … Googled the golf club and they had like a drone of each hole, so I kind of looked at that,” he said. Bland has played the best golf of his career in his later years. He won on the DP World Tour for the first time in 2021 at age 48 the nearly won again in 2022 before losing in a playoff to Viktor Hovland. He got to No. 48 in the Official World Golf Ranking in 2022 before leaving for LIV Golf in June that year, playing in the inaugural LIV Golf event in England and remaining on the circuit since.John Schwarb is the Senior Editor of SI Golf. He has covered golf for the St.
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