Sam Greenwood/Getty ImagesI Think…At 7:30 on Sunday morning, Cameron McCormick was on the range at Royal Birkdale, working with one of his players. It wasn’t Jordan Spieth, who was leading The Open. And it wasn’t Austin Connelly, the fiery kid who was playing in the next-to-last group with U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka. It was a player most people haven’t heard of, Laurie Canter of England. Turns out, Canter was one of McCormick’s success stories on Sunday, shooting two-under 68 to finish T-37 along with Masters champion Sergio Garcia and former No. 1 Jason Day. Canter joined not only Spieth and Connelly on the list of McCormick’s recent triumphs but also Noah Goodwin, who came from 4 down with eight holes to play to win the U.S. Junior on Saturday. And going back last month, there’s So Yeon Ryu taking over the top spot in the Rolex Rankings. With all of these top players, McCormick remained his humble and introspective self. It wasn’t about him. It was about his players and their p..

Michael CohenSYLVANIA, OH – JULY 23: In-Kyung Kim of South Korea walks th ninth fairway during the fourth and final round of the Marathon Classic Presented By Owens Corning And O-I held at Highland Meadows Golf Club on July 23, 2017 in Sylvania, Ohio. (Photo by Michael Cohen/Getty Images)In-Kyung Kim of South Korea shot a 63, the best round of the day on Sunday, to win the LPGA Marathon Classic in Sylvania, Ohio, by four strokes.
Kim needed only 28 strokes to complete the front nine at Highland Meadows Golf Club, the lowest on the LPGA since Lydia Ko did so at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship in 2016.
Kim completed 72 holes in 21-under par 263, four better than runner-up Lexi Thompson, who closed with birdies on three of her last four holes. LPGA rookie Nelly Korda, the 54-hole leader, posted a three-over 74 and finished tied for eighth, nine strokes back.
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Matthew Lewis/R&AMatt Kuchar speaks to the media at a press conference after his second-place finish at the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.SOUTHPORT, England — The PGA Tour’s version of Santa Claus got hit by a bus on Sunday night at Royal Birkdale.
The bus was being driven by 23-year-old Texan Jordan Spieth, who was speeding toward the third leg of the career Grand Slam, Champion Golfer of the Year honors and history. He blew through a red light and kept going, running off with the claret jug at the 146th Open Championship.
The victim was 39-year-old Matt Kuchar of St. Simons Island, Ga., the player with the fifth-most wins on the PGA Tour (seven) without a major. Watching helplessly was his wife, Sybi, and the couple’s two children, who had flown in just that day from Colorado. They planned to surprise the happy-go-lucky golfer behind the 18th green when he wrapped up his final round. Instead they found him battered, disoriented and fragile.
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Warren Little/R&ASOUTHPORT, ENGLAND – JULY 23: Jordan Spieth of the United States celebrates his victory on the 18th green with caddie Michael Greller during the final round of the 146th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale on July 23, 2017 in Southport, England. (Photo by Warren Little/R&A/R&A via Getty Images)SOUTHPORT, England — Jordan Spieth was in big, big trouble on the 13th hole on Sunday. Well, somewhere near the 13th hole. After hitting the worst tee shot of his life, taking a tour of some equipment trucks, and finally — and we don't say “finally” lightly — taking a drop on Royal Birkdale's driving range, Spieth faced a long, blind recovery shot. But there was another problem: he had no clue how far he was from the hole.
Enter Michael Greller.
“We took our time getting the line, getting the number,” Spieth's caddie said of the odd situation that took 21 minutes to unfold. “He thought it was about 270, I thought it was 230, so that was alarming.”
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FacebookPinterestCliff HawkinsGrayson Murray celebrates after holing a five-foot putt to win the Barbasol Championship. (Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images)

The Barbasol Championship has an unfortunate distinction, the PGA Tour event played in the most imposing shadow in golf, if not played in a vacuum altogether.
It is played off Broadway, way off, as it were, in Opelika, Ala., opposite the British Open. And in the wake of Jordan Spieth’s remarkable victory at Royal Birkdale on Sunday, the question is whether anyone would even notice?
Grayson Murray no doubt would ask a different question: Who cares? For Murray, his victory in the Barbasol Championship on Sunday likely was as personally significant as Spieth’s win was in golf circles generally.
Murray, 23, is a PGA Tour rookie of uncommon potential that was under threat of going unfulfilled because of a variety of factors, among them the social anxiety with which he was diagnosed, according to this story by Ryan Lavner of GolfChanne..

Stan BadzSOUTHPORT, England — Cameron McCormick politely excused himself from the gaggle of well-wishers trying to shake his hand beside the 18th green on Sunday at Royal Birkdale. You see his prized pupil, Jordan Spieth, was ushering him over to take his first picture with a certain iconic trophy, and well, you know, that’s kind of a big thing. So big that McCormick pulled out his cellphone and turned on his Facetime app so that friends back in the United States could see him huddle with the new British Open champion for a couple of thrilling moments.
To claim the claret jug and his third career major title, Spieth had to hole a series of momentous putts on the back nine at Birkdale, a succession that will be replayed for years to come. It began with a six-footer for a clutch bogey save on nearly apocalyptic 13th. Followed by a four-foot birdie on the 14th (after nearly holing his tee shot), a 40-foot eagle on the 15th, a 25-foot birdie on the 16th and a six-foot birdie on the 17th. I..