1. Rahmbo!
If you didn’t catch these putts live or in highlight form in the social mediaverse, do yourself a favor watch ’em. DJ’s a must make. Rahm’s moonshot masterstroke…How many attempts do you think it’d take you to make both? 500?
- Golfweek’s Todd Kelly…”Dustin Johnson drained a snaking 43-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole on Sunday to force a playoff in the BMW Championship with Jon Rahm.”
- “But on the first playoff hole, Rahm poured in a 66-footer for birdie to win the tournament, his second of the year and fifth PGA Tour win.”
- “Rahm overcame a first-round 75 and a third-round penalty to shoot 66-64 over the weekend. He led by two late Sunday, but Johnson birdied the 15th to make it a one-shot deficit. Johnson’s birdie on 18 forged a tie.”
2. Meanwhile, Hojgaard rising…
AP report…”Danish teenager Rasmus Hojgaard rallied from a five-shot deficit Sunday with a 7-under 65 and won the U.K. Championship at The Belfry on the second playoff hole against Justin Walters of South Africa.”
- “The 19-year-old Hojgaard won for the second time this season, following his victory in the Mauritius Open late last year that made him the first European Tour winner born after 2000.”
- “Walters closed with a 70 and ran out of crucial putts. He holed a 4-foot par putt on the 18th hole in regulation that caught the right edge of the cup and curled in. He holed a 10-footer for par on the first extra hole at the 18th to extend the playoff. But he was well right of the 18th green the next time, pitched to 15 feet and missed the par putt.”
3. Brandon Wu wins, earns U.S. Open berth
Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine…“Brandon Wu grew up in Scarsdale, New York, less than 10 minutes from Winged Foot. He’ll now get to spend a week at home, eating his dad’s homemade Chinese food, while he competes in his second straight U.S. Open.”
- “The 23-year-old Wu, who qualified for and tied for 35th at last year’s national championship at Pebble Beach, won the Korn Ferry Tour Championship on Sunday at Victoria National in Newburgh, Indiana. It was his first victory on the developmental tour and thanks to some one-time eligibility changes by the USGA, it earned him a berth in next month’s U.S. Open.”
- “It hasn’t even set in yet,” Wu said. “I’ve run through the scenarios so many times the past few days, you know, what it would feel like going home, getting to play and getting to tell my friends that I can play this year. It’s hard to believe. I’m just really happy.”
4. Austin Ernst finally follows up
AP report on Ernst’s first W since 2014/144 starts…“Austin Ernst rallied to win the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship on Sunday for her second LPGA Tour title, closing with an 8-under 63 for a two-stroke victory over Anna Nordqvist.”
- “Four strokes behind Nordqvist entering the round, Ernst had the best score of the day, making 10 birdies and two bogeys at Pinnacle Country Club. She joined 2014 champion Stacy Lewis as the event’s only American winners.”
5. Playoff exit for Tiger, attention turns to Winged Foot
Golf Channel’s Will Gray…“Woods failed to factor for the second straight week, and as a result he won’t advance to the Tour Championship for the second straight year. Woods followed a T-58 finish at TPC Boston with another largely listless performance at the BMW Championship, failing to break par in any of his four rounds on the difficult North Course at Olympia Fields.”
- “Needing a top-5 finish at the start of the week, Woods was outside the top 50 when he signed his final scorecard of the season.”
- “I didn’t play as well as I wanted to the first couple days,” Woods said after a final-round 71, his best score of the week. “Today was nice. I hit the ball really well, and made only a couple putts. But today was more indicative of how I want to play in a couple weeks.”
6. British Am: A Brit winneth
Golfweek’s Julie Williams…“Joe Long became the first Englishman to collect the R&A’s British Amateur trophy since 2017. There were few there to see it Sunday at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, thanks to pandemic protocols, but Long defeated good friend Joe Harvey in the scheduled 36-hole final to put his name in golf lore.”
Full piece.
7. …and on the women’s side…
AP report…”In another win for German golf, Aline Krauter rallied from an early deficit to win the Women’s Amateur Championship on Saturday with a 1-up victory over Annabell Fuller at West Lancashire.”
- “The victory came a week after Sophia Popov won the Women’s Open at Royal Troon.”
- “Krauter, a 20-year-old who plays at Stanford, was 3 down through four holes of the 18-hole championship match. He won six of the next eight holes to build a 3-up lead. Fuller closed to the deficit to one hole with a birdie on the 17th, but Fuller could only match pars with Krauter on the final hole.”
8. Tour Championship qualifiers/starting scores
9. Rahm’s winning WITB
Driver: TaylorMade SIM (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Aldila Tour Green 75 TX
3-wood: TaylorMade SIM (15 degrees)
Shaft: Aldila Tour Green 75 TX
5-wood: TaylorMade SIM (19 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI (Black) 8 X
Irons: TaylorMade P750 (4-PW)
Shafts: Project X Rifle 6.5
Wedges: TaylorMade MG Hi-Toe (52), TaylorMade MG2 (56-12SB, 60)
Shafts: Project X Rifle 6.5
Putter: TaylorMade Spider X
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
Ball: TaylorMade TP5 (#10)
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