What you missed this weekend: Thomas locks up POY, Uihlein earns card and Lewis delivers story of the year
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Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth enjoy their friendship, but it’s their rivalry that’s pushing them to get better
Justin Thomas & Jordan Spieth have played against each other since age 13. Their rivalry carries to the PGA Tour, where they’re pushing each other to be better
Watch this NBC cameraman show amazing reflexes to avoid getting smacked with a golf ball
TV cameramen aren’t usually in the line of fire during golf tournaments; they’re often standing behind the golfers rather than out front. But when Marc Leishman was facing a nasty lie near a hazard on the 18th hole at TPC Boston during Monday’s final round of the Dell Technologies Championship, one member of the NBC crew found himself, as it turned out, a little too close for comfort.
Justin Thomas earns fifth victory of the season at Dell Technologies Championship
Justin Thomas earns fifth victory of the season at Dell Technologies Championship
Thomas wins Boston for 5th title of the season
NORTON, Mass. (AP) Justin Thomas added another big title to a season filled with big moments by outlasting Jordan Spieth and Marc Leishman on the back nine of the TPC Boston to win the Dell Technologies Championship.
Two shots behind at the turn, Thomas surged ahead with a short birdie and a 6-foot par save while limiting the mistakes that cost his challengers. He closed with a 5-under 66 for a three-shot victory that was much tighter than the margin suggested.
Spieth wasted a start that riled up the Labor Day crowd – birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie – with too many mistakes on the back nine. He fell out of a share of the lead by missing the 14th green with a 5-iron from the fairway. Needing an eagle on the par-5 18th to stay in the game, he pushed a 4-iron into a tough lie in the bunker, blasted over the green and closed with a bogey for a 67.
Spieth was runner-up for the second straight week in the FedEx Cup playoffs, though that was enough to move up to No. 1 in the standings with o..
The clubs Justin Thomas used to win the Dell Technologies Championship
Justin Thomas won the Dell Technologies Championship for his fifth win of the 2016-17 PGA Tour season and became the frontrunner for player of the year.
Kevin Chappell played his way on to the U.S. Presidents Cup team and responded perfectly
Kevin Chappell jumped from 11th to 10th on the Presidents Cup points list in the final qualifying event, grabbing the last automatic spot by .23 points
Kevin Chappell played his way on to the U.S. Presidents Cup team and had a perfect response
Kevin Chappell jumped from 11th to 10th on the Presidents Cup points list in the final qualifying event, grabbing the last automatic spot by .23 points
Chappell grabs last spot to make Presidents Cup team
NORTON, Mass. (AP) Kevin Chappell made his first Presidents Cup team by a fraction of a point, and he needed a lot more help that he realized.
”I made it a lot more exciting than it needed to be,” Chappell said.
Chappell, who won his first PGA Tour event earlier this year in San Antonio, earned enough FedEx Cup points from the Dell Technologies Championship to secure the 10th and final automatic spot on the U.S. team.
This was the final qualifying event for the Presidents Cup, which starts Sept. 28 at Liberty National.
Chappell will be one of at least four U.S. players making their debut in a Presidents Cup or a Ryder Cup. He spent the last month getting weary of talking about the possibilities, suggesting that he could live with however it turned out.
That changed when he shot a 69 on Sunday and was projected ahead of Hoffman, meaning he controlled his own fate.
”I didn’t know what it meant until I tried to go to sleep last night,” Chappell said Monday on his way to the ai..
Maria Sharapova is the cringey bad actor of the week
If you follow tennis, you may know that Maria Sharapova was suspended in 2016 for using a drug called meldonium that had very recently been added to the WADA ban list. Her predictable excuse was that she didnt know it was banned—it had been administered to her for a decade under a different name—and for all we know, that may be true.