South African golfer Christo Lamprecht delivered drama at the Pinnacle Bank Championship when he was in a greenside bunker on the last but dialled up a textbook bunker shot that trick-trick-trickled in, handing him his first ever Korn Ferry Tour victory.
American Megha Ganne continues to burnish her reputation on the biggest stages in women’s golf, this time with victory in the 125th US Women’s Amateur at Bandon Dunes.
At age 45, Rose became the oldest winner on the PGA Tour in five years when he defeated reigning US Open champion J.J. Spaun on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff at the FedEx St Jude Championship in Memphis.
Of all the players who hovered on either side of the bubble in the battle to advance to the second stage of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, the most compelling story belonged to the man whose career has been on a bubble for seven years.
It’s quite the undertaking and ballsy to “start over” in golf in your mid-30s, but when you’re as talented as these pros are, we guess you have to invent new ways to challenge yourself.
Shooting to join fellow Japanese star Mao Saigo as an LPGA major winner this season, Miyu Yamashita shot a two-over 74 in the third round to maintain a lead – albeit a slim one at one shot – in the final major of the year.
The Queenslander still thinks about the missed 10-footer that would have gotten him into a playoff with Ernie Els at Royal Lytham & St Annes. What might surprise golf fans, however, is the other putt in his career he wishes he could have a mulligan on.
Australian Golf Digest
