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.
A spectacular approach from a bare lie to the right of the fairway on the second playoff hole has delivered Victorian Lucas Herbert a third DP World Tour title in Japan.
Jordan Spieth had his typical flair for the dramatic late Sunday at the RBC Heritage, but ultimately it was Matt Fitzpatrick who prevailed on the third playoff hole after hitting a 9-iron to a foot for a kick-in birdie on the par-4 18th hole at Harbour Town Golf Links.
Victorian Brett Coletta has delivered a course-record round of nine-under 61 to win TPS Hunter Valley at Cypress Lakes Resort at the fourth playoff hole.
A solo second-place finish at the tournament was worth $US828,000, but because you had to add the prizemoney for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth places, then divide the aggregate among the five players, the amount was diluted.
For the first time on the European Tour since 2003, there were six starters in a sudden-death – and ultimately floodlit – playoff for the Turkish Airlines Open title.
After winning the FedEx Cup title in August and taking PGA Tour player-of-the-year honours, few would have blamed Rory McIlroy for easing through the rest of 2019.
A birdie at PGA National’s par-5 18th was all he needed on the first playoff hole to capture his second win of the season, and the eighth of his career.