This Past Week in Golf: Malnati, a Ross Restoration and The Raven

Peter Malnati needs a Sunday charge

World Wide Technology Championship, final round in Cabo. Coverage runs on Golf Channel from 3 to 6 PM ET.

Malnati was one shot off the lead after 36 holes. A 73 on Saturday dropped him to T13 at -13, eight back of 23-year-old Ben James (-21). He goes off at 11:47 AM ET with Cam Davis and amateur Jay Leng. Here's what's riding on it. Malnati finished the regular season 169th in FedEx Cup points, the top 100 keep full status, and his exemption for winning the 2024 Valspar runs out this year. He came to Cabo 157th, and as of Saturday night he's projected to move up to about No. 147.

Only a win would get him safe this week, moving him to about No. 81. Even second would only get him to about No. 107. If today doesn't do it, he has two more chances: Austin next week, then St. Simons Island, Ga., the week after.

“The pressure I'm feeling is that I love my job.” Peter Malnati

Follow the leaderboard. Scores, tee time and projected ranking via the PGA Tour. Win and second-place projections and quote via GOLF.com.

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Gil Hanse is restoring a Donald Ross course. It belongs to a college.

Denison University owns a 1925 Ross design in Granville, Ohio. The architect behind Pinehurst No. 2's restoration is bringing it back.

John Sutphin Jones commissioned Donald Ross in the early 1920s to build a course for the Granville Inn. It opened in 1925 with 63 sand bunkers and raised greens, and Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen both played it. Denison has run it since 2014, which makes it one of fewer than 10 Division III schools that own a golf course.

The first 13 holes are largely still Ross. Holes 14 through 18 were changed when houses went in. Hanse's plan widens the fairways, reopens corridors through the trees, restores the bunkers, and expands the greens to their old edges. It also replaces drainage and irrigation and pushes the full course past 7,000 yards. It stays open to the public, and donors are paying for the work.

“The course has great bones, and our goal is to work on the soft tissue of the course, the greens, the bunkers, the width of the golf holes, the corridors to play through.” Gil Hanse

The timeline: tree work begins in late fall 2026, the course closes in June 2027, and it reopens in spring 2028. Play the 13 Ross holes before then. Read the full story from Denison.

Photo at top: Denison Golf Club. Ty Wright, Denison University.

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The Raven gets its architect back

Robert Trent Jones II is returning to the Sandestin course it built, and it's shooting for a pro event again.

The Raven, on Florida's Gulf Coast, used to host PGA Tour Champions and Korn Ferry Tour events. Bruce Charlton of RTJ II will lead the restoration, and the course closes for the first nine months of 2027. It gets new greens, bunkers with modern drainage, and new irrigation. There'll be about 30% less sand, and the course grows from 6,900 yards to more than 7,200.

Two par 3s are worth watching. No. 6, now 203 yards, may get a new back tee. No. 16 is being redesigned to play about 250. A new 6,500-square-foot clubhouse opens in 2027, and a practice facility follows in 2028.

“It's still going to have its signature winding through pine trees and wetland areas.” Rick Hileman, Sandestin

Read Golfweek's report.

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