Now THAT’S more like it! Five events across the globe this week, and golf feels like it is finally back in its rhythm. From Kenya to California, with Texas, Puerto Rico, and Georgia somewhere in between, professional golf was played on the LPGA, PGA, European and Korn Ferry tours, alongside one of those unaffiliated World Golf Championships. There were new winners and veteran ones, alongside ones with an ax to grind and much to prove. We all know that we aren’t all the way back to where we were, but just maybe, the light at the end of the long, cloudy tunnel shined just a bit brighter this week. Let’s run down all the winners together, in this week’s Tour Rundown.

World Golf Championship: Horschel claims 6th title at Dell Match Play

Billy Horschel donned the USA colors in 2007 at Merion, for a lopsided Walker Cup win over Great Britain and Ireland. 14 years later, he may finally get the chance to get fitted for team togs a second time. Horschel capped a less-than-optimal week (his words, more or less) with a gritty win over the last Texan standing, Scottie Scheffler. Horschel had done the prime-time thing before, winning a pair of playoff events in 2016, while NOT qualifying for the USA Ryder Cup side. This week, #FloridaMan gritted his teeth, set his accelerator to #amped, and survived a second-match loss to J.T. Poston (who?) to eventually reach the quarters against Tommy Fleetwood. Didn’t matter that #FairwayJesus had made an ace one round earlier; Horschel dispatched him on the 19th hole, with a par against Fleet’s bogey. In the semis, Horschel got past Victor Pérez of France, who had dispatched the week’s other ace-maker, Sergio García, in the round of eight. That 3 & 2 victory set him up for a match with Scheffler, the golfer making the most noise over the past 18 months, albeit without a victory. Yes, even more noise than Tony Finau.

Scheffler, a winning Walker Cup alumnus like Horschel (1o years later!) turned in the clutch performance of the week, dispatching everyone’s favorite tipper, Matt Kuchar, in the semis. Come to think of it, no, his quarter-final win over Jon Rahm might have been even more impressive. Wait, what about Ian Poulter in the round of 16? Holy smokes, Steve Stricker. Did you pay attention this week to Scheffler and Horschel? Please forget Finau and Simpson, at least until you put current #11 Horschel and #14 Scheffler (and Cantlay and Berger) on your short list of captain’s picks. Neither finalist played stellar golf (who could, after more rounds than any other golfer this week?) but they fought until the 17th hole, when Scheffler’s string ran of luck out.

LPGA Tour: Inbee Park grabs 21st tour title at Kia

Death, taxes, Inbee Park. All three are relentless. Each is unavoidable. Only one of them is welcomed by anyone but the competition. This week, Park and her compatriots returned to the tee after a one-month hiatus, at the Aviara golf club in Carlsbad, California. The Korean champion claimed a five-shot win over US Open runner-up Amy Olson and Lexi Thompson, with Jin Young Ko another shot back in fourth spot.

On Thursday, five golfers broke 70, and Park’s 66 was the prize round of the day. The champion followed her medal round with a pair of 69s, to take a five-shot lead into day four. Until her 72nd hole bogey, Park had remained in the 60s all week, the only player in the field to do so. Olson rebounded from a forgettable 75 on Thursday to play the final 54 holes better than anyone else. Thompson had even-par 72s over the first two days, before lighting up Aviara with a 66 of her own on Saturday.

It’s odd to look at a hall of fame member, one with seven major titles, and wonder if she will win one again. Park won her septet during the first seven years of her professional career, but has gone five years without a big title (the 2016 Olympic gold medal that year) Her play this week suggests that another one is not far away. Each of her pursuers waited for her to make a mistake, and Park offered a ray of hope with bogies at 12 and 13 on Sunday. Two holes later, on the reachable par-four 16th, Park drove the green and drained a 20-feet eagle putt, and the gate was locked.

PGA Tour: Dahmen claims inaugural win at Corales

Until Viktor Hovland won in Mexico last fall, no winner of the Puerto Rico Open had won for a second time on the big tour. Between you and me, any PGA Tour victory would suit me just fine, although I can understand how one win wets the appetite for a second. This week, Joel Dahmen became the latest, first-time winner in Puerto Rico, holding off local hero Rafael Campos and Sam Ryder by one meager shot.

Dahmen and Campos entered the final round in a tie for the top spot, and each played as if he had nothing to lose on the outward half. Dahmen turned in minus-four and snatched a two-shot lead over the pride of Boricua. On the inward half, each played as if they had everything to lose. Gone were the birdies, and Dahmen limped home in plus-two on the home nine. He was saved from a playoff when Campos made a bogey of his own, at the par-three seventeenth. At the final hole, Campos was halfway through his tying fist pump when his birdie attempt did a hard lip-out and stayed up and out.

Korn Ferry: Svennson outlasts McGreevy in Savannah

If it seems like just last fall that we were in Savannah for some KF Tour action, it’s because we were. Georgia’s river city is a wondrous host, and who better to win than someone who truly appreciates a chance to golf in warm weather? Canada’s Adam Svensson went into a playoff with Oklahoma’s Max McGreevy, after the later drained a clutch birdie putt at the 72nd hole. Oh, what he wouldn’t have given for a repeat performance on the first bonus hole!

Each made par at the long closer during the first go-round, missing similarly-makeable birdie efforts. On their second extra hole, Svensson’s birdie from eight feet dipped below the earth’s surface, and a second Korn Ferry win was headed home to British Columbia. McGreevey had entered the final round with a one-shot advantage over Stuart Macdonald. The latter struggled to a 76 on day four, doing McGreevy no favors in the motivation department. Svensson had a nice start, standing at -2 on the day after nine holes. When he finished the 18th, he had piled four more birdies onto his card, and looked to be a winner in regulation, until McGreevy came through in the clutch.

To be honest, no one can really decipher what the Korn Ferry Tour money list or The 25 list mean thus far. Is it a combined last year/this year thing? Who knows. Stay tuned to this space and when we know, you’ll know.

European Tour: South Africa’s Van Tonder holds off Janewattananond in Kenya

A week after the Magical Kenya Open drew our attention to Africa, the Kenya Savannah Classic cemented the wondrous country as a force to be reckoned with in tournament golf. Last week’s winner, Justin Harding, was in the thick of things until all four wheels came off on this week’s day four. After opening with 64-66-66, Harding’s run of great play reached its expiration date, and his 73 dropped him into a tie for 14th.

At the top of the leaderboard, Daniel Van Tonder and Jazz Janewattananond were making birdies by the bushel. Each had eight of them through 13 holes. One might think that their matching 64’s would have sent them far ahead of the chasers. One would have been wrong. Reaching 20-under par, also with 64s on Sunday, were Sam Horsfield and Calum Hill. If you didn’t go low on day four, you didn’t stand a chance.

Back to Van Tonder and Janewattananond: The former fell off the rails for a time, with bogeys at 14 and 15. Just when all seemed lost, he made birdie at the last to reach 21-deep. Janewattananond made a bogey of his own, at the 16th, but reached the same closing figure as Van Tonder. The pair took deep breaths, then headed back to the closing hole to settle matters. Twice they sawed off with pars, but then Van Tonder stuffed one close and drained the roller for a clinching birdie.