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2024 WM Phoenix Open second round scores, updates at TPC Scottsdale

2024 WM Phoenix Open second round scores, updates at TPC Scottsdale


2024 WM Phoenix Open

Jim Knous of the United States plays an approach shot on the third hole during the second round of the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale on February 09, 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)

If this is Jim Knous’s final PGA Tour event, he can at least say he made it to one more weekend.

Knous, 34, is 4 under in his second round and inside the cutline at 3 under overall with four holes remaining.

Knous earned his way into the tournament on Monday at Pinnacle Peak Country Club, shooting 7-under 65 and advancing through a 4-for-3 playoff.

But it’s last call because Knous decided it’s time to hang up his golf spikes and is set to begin a new position working at Ping. Knous, who lost a playoff for the 2012 NCAA Division II title, is the most successful player to come out of Colorado School of Mines, which is also where Ping’s vice president of fitting and performance Marty Jertson went to school and he has long taken an interest in Knous, who has played Ping equipment throughout his career.

Knous made his PGA Tour debut at the 2017 WM Phoenix Open. It took seven years after turning pro before Knous earned his Tour card for the 2019 season. In all, he has made 44 Tour starts as well as nearly 100 more on the Korn Ferry Tour in his 11 years as a pro. But the grind of being on the fringes of the pro game also have taken their toll. He failed to get through Q-School this year and decided it was time to put his civil engineering degree to use.

But first, Knous has his college coach, Tyler Kimble, on the bag at TPC Scottsdale. Wife, Heidi, and the couple’s three kids watched his opening round and father, Jim, and mother, Ellen, were among his supporters walking with him on Friday afternoon. He holed out a bunker shot for birdie at 18, his ninth hole of his second round, and lifted his arms to the sky in delight. Then he birdied his next three holes. Last call may get postponed a little longer if he can finish strong.

“Thanks for the ride,” his father said in an interview with PGA Tour.com.

But Knous knows it is time to do something else after being on the road for 197 nights in 2022.

“I’m very proud of my career, but it’s time to be a dad,” Knous told Monday Q. “I’m just going to enjoy everything about this week, no matter what.”





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