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Brendon Todd didn’t have any hard feelings on Saturday night.
After all, Todd had just taken the lead at the John Deere Classic after his third round 66 put him in the driver’s seat to capture his fourth PGA Tour title.
But then the question came: There are five guys in the house this year who are three or four shots away now. kick you out?
Todd laughed because he knew exactly what the home It includes.
“My family came over from Tuesday to Thursday, so it was fun to spend time with them,” Todd said. “I didn’t want to subject them to home debauchery.”
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the home Points to Todd, JT Poston, Patton Kizzire, Grayson Sigg, Denny McCarthy, and Ben Kohles who hired together a year earlier for the event. Poston ended up winning in 2022 and got most of the pack running again. Without Todd and Coles, Seb Straka and Chris Kirk got in on the fun.
“It’s funny because we’re all good at — we played a bunch of games at home, too,” McCarthy said. “You know, throwing a frisbee, baseball. We’re all really good at that stuff, too.”
The house has about six or seven bedrooms, McCarthy said, and they were lucky enough to get exactly the same room from 2022. It’s about a 15-minute drive east of TPC Deere Run, tucked into cornfields.
Once the entire crew returns from the track after their runs, that’s when the real rivalries begin, too.
“It was a fun week,” McCarthy said. “We were playing cards and board games and outdoor activities, so it was fun. Once you leave the golf course to go home, everyone is there, and you kind of jump into whatever game they are playing at the time.”
The relaxed atmosphere obviously works. While skipper Todd missed out this year, McCarthy entered the final round with a shot at tying for the second time. Kirk and Poston were eight golfers in a tie for sixth. Sigg and Straka were just another shot at T14. Only Kizzire missed the cut.
“I feel like college golf again,” Poston said of home after his win a year ago. “I loved the team atmosphere. I’m still very close with a lot of my college mates. I just love the team game, the team atmosphere, so it kind of has a little bit of that feel to it.”
“Even though we don’t play on the same team, you come home and everyone pulls each other down. Yesterday Denny and I played in the last set together. We just go out there and have fun and try to beat each other.”
Earlier in the week, Poston said it’s common for guys to stay together at AirBNBs, but guys can’t find a house big enough to hold six of them each week. But when the same thing from last year was available again, Poston said they jumped on it and opened up a “fraternity house” on the PGA Tour again.