Ryan Fox hopes his breakthrough PGA Tour win opens the floodgates for his career in the US after a similar springboard happened on the European circuit in 2022.
A long day at the Players Championship on Sunday was extended into Monday when J.J. Spaun’s 30-foot birdie bid for victory at the 72nd hole stopped two rolls short, setting up a three-hole aggregate playoff with world No.2 Rory McIlroy.
In celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Players Championship, it’s interesting to note that the tournament has needed extra holes to decide a champion just five times. And it hasn’t happened since 2015.
For the third week in a row, the LPGA Tour needed a playoff to determine a winner. And this one nearly set the record for the longest playoff in tour history.
It’s never over until it’s over is a cliché that took on new meaning this past week at a mini-tour event in England when the apparent winner had his title taken away.
The putt didn’t have much in it, at least we thought. Turns out, it had a hair of right to left movement. Homa found this out in the most painful way imaginable:
Duncan wound up playing nine of the best holes of his life, shooting a four-under 31 that included birdies on the 17th and 18th holes, the latter of which came from 24 feet.