{"id":447142,"date":"2026-01-30T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447142\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:23:08","slug":"pga-tour-winner-23-dqd-from-farmers-insurance-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447142\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour winner, 23, DQ&#8217;d from Farmers Insurance Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Brennan was disqualified after the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan fired a two-under 70 on the North Course at Torrey Pines on Thursday but was later disqualified from the PGA Tour event in San Diego.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the official PGA Tour communications team, Brennan breached Model Local Rule (MLR) G-11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Tour claim he was using &#8220;non-permitted green-reading materials&#8221; in round one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear whether Brennan self-reported, a rules official noticed or one of his playing partners flagged it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Brenann played round one alongside Joe Highsmith and Frankie Capan III.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Aaron Rai was supposed to play in the group but withdrew before the tournament began without explanation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brennan, 23, turned professional in 2024 after graduating from Wake Forest University and made a name for himself last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On his third PGA Tour start &#8211; and first as a professional &#8211; Brennan won the Bank of Utah Championship by four strokes on a sponsor exemption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victory earned him a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour. Brennan is ranked 35th in the Official World Golf Ranking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>According to the MLR, players are restricted to committee approved yardage books and hole location sheets, and a map of the entire course no larger than letter or A4 sized paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The USGA states that breach of the rule, in the first instance, is a two-shot penalty. The second breach results in disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan was making his third start of the season. He missed the Sony Open cut and then tied for 56th at The American Express, won by Scottie Scheffler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Justin Rose held a one-shot lead after 18 holes at the Farmers. An emotional Brooks Koepka fired a 73 on his first PGA Tour start since 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael Brennan was DQ after the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open for a breach of Model Local Rule G-11; use of non-permitted green-reading materials<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOURComms\/status\/2017062048891621726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>More follows.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Brennan was disqualified after the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open. Brennan fired a two-under 70&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,1747,85],"class_list":["post-447142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}