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Playoff

May 12th, 2025

WATCH Ryan Fox chip in during dramatic playoff to win Myrtle Beach Classic

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March 17th, 2025

Players 2025: Rory McIlroy faces J.J. Spaun in Monday playoff at TPC Sawgrass

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.

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June 17th, 2024

US Open 2024: The format, rules and holes played if a playoff is needed at Pinehurst

The four men’s majors each adopt a different playoff format, while overtime hasn’t been required at a US Open for 16 years.

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May 20th, 2024

PGA Championship 2024: Here’s the playoff format used to settle a tie at Valhalla

Two of the three previous times the PGA Championship came to Valhalla, a playoff was needed to decide things.

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March 18th, 2024

Players 2024: Here’s the playoff format used to settle a tie at TPC Sawgrass

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.

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October 30th, 2023

Celine Boutier, France’s greatest LPGA player, wins Maybank Championship in epic nine-hole(!) playoff

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October 9th, 2023

Luke List makes the most of Sanderson Farms playoff gift, slams door shut with long, fist-pumping birdie

Luke List buried a long birdie putt to make quick work of a five-man playoff at the Sanderson Farms Championship.

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July 3rd, 2023

‘IT’S BEEN A LONG ROAD’: Rickie Fowler’s comeback win is special for reasons only he can fully understand

Of all the painful ways to lose a golf tournament, “death by a thousand pars” has to be one of the most torturous.

May 15th, 2023

WATCH: Dustin Johnson overcomes TRIPLE-BOGEY to top Cam Smith and Branden Grace in Tulsa playoff

Dustin Johnson couldn’t do anything right for a big stretch late Sunday at LIV Golf’s event Sunday outside Tulsa at Cedar Ridge Country Club.

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May 1st, 2023

C’MON AUSSIE: Hannah Green’s patience is rewarded with playoff win and first LPGA title since 2019

The climax of the JM Eagle LA Championship befit a Hollywood-scripted show.

WATCH: Lucas Herbert’s playoff heroics clinch THIRD DP World Tour title

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Matt Fitzpatrick dodges Jordan Spieth twice, slams door shut on third playoff hole to claim RBC Heritage

Brett Coletta breaks course record – and Lincoln Tighe’s heart – to claim TPS Hunter Valley

Watch Haotong Li, who nearly quit the game 10 months ago, hole this OUTRAGEOUS birdie putt to win again

WATCH: Mini-tour pro wins event in playoff only to be DQ’d after rules review

It was a shot in the dark, and Luke List hit the bullseye in Farmers Open win

August 16th, 2021

ADAM BOMBS IT: Scott misses four-foot putt for victory as Kevin Kisner comes up clutch in six-man playoff

Kevin Kisner had never won a playoff on the PGA Tour. Adam Scott had never lost one. All that was about to change…

July 5th, 2021

Cam Davis shines to emerge victorious in another wild PGA Tour playoff

The Sydneysider earned a start at the 2022 Masters along with a raft of invitations and a hefty PGA Tour exemption for this first win on tour.

February 22nd, 2021

Watch Max Homa shockingly miss a three-foot putt to win on Riviera’s 18th hole

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: 

November 25th, 2019

Tyler Duncan defeats Webb Simpson in a playoff to win the RSM Classic

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.

November 11th, 2019

Unusual playoff means Tyrrell Hatton made $US1.5 million more in prizemoney than the fivesome that finished second

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.

November 11th, 2019

Tyrrell Hatton wins Turkish Airlines Open in six-man playoff that finished under floodlights

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.

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