Scott McCarron wins Senior Players Championship when Bernhard Langer double-bogeys 17th hole

FacebookPinterestRyan YoungScott McCarron poses with the Sam Snead Cup following his victory in the Constellation Senior Players Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club. (Photo by Ryan Young/PGA TOUR)

The PGA Tour Champions, in the absence of the legends who initially gave it its cachet, doesn’t usually garner consideration on a crowded golf stage. Bernhard Langer has been its exception.
Those who defy age tend to warrant attention. The lines in Langer's face might give away his impending 60th birthday, but his golf has not reflected it, at least until a different wrinkle breached his dominance on Sunday.
Langer was closing on a fourth straight victory in the Constellation Senior Players Championship, two pars away from claiming a third major championship this year alone, when inexplicably he imploded and handed victory to Scott McCarron.
Give credit to McCarron, at least, for putting himself into position to cash in in the unlikely event that Langer wobbled. McCarron shot a bogey..

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Bryson DeChambeau birdies the 18th hole to earn first victory at the John Deere Classic

Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Rodgers were two of the top amateur players in recent memory, both of whom brought lofty expectations to the PGA Tour. And while both have had some professional success, neither had had a breakthrough victory, and on the back nine of the John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run on Sunday, it came down to the two of them, and DeChambeau prevailed.
Entering the final round, DeChambeau, 23, was four shots behind Rodgers, and that deficit had grown by the time he reached the 10th hole at even par for the day. The 2015 U.S. Amateur champion caught fire on the home nine, making birdies on four of his next five holes to get to 16-under. After a wayward drive on the 17th, DeChambeau pulled off a 270-yard recovery shot to reach the par-5 green in two and two-putt for birdie.
Rodgers was just a few groups behind, and sitting at 18-under. DeChambeau found the green in regulation on the 18th, with a 12-foot left-to-right putt to finish at 18-under. As it neared the cup, it..

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South Korea’s Sung Hyun Park rallies to win the U.S. Women’s Open by two strokes

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — With a final-round 67, South Korean’s Sung Hyun Park finished off a furious 36-hole rally to claim victory in the 72nd U.S. Women’s Open, her first on the LPGA Tour.
Park, 23, opened with a one-over 73 at Trump National Bedminster on Thursday to put herself seven shots off the lead of China’s Shanshan Feng. Park was still seven back after a second-round 70, moving up from T-58 to T-21. But with a third-round 67, she moved into fourth, three back of Feng and now with a chance for a Sunday charge to claim the title.
After turning with a two-under 34 on Sunday, Park came home with birdies on the 12th, 15th and 17th holes to finish with a 11-under 277, outpacing amateur Hye-Jin Choi (71) by two strokes. Feng, trying to become the first wire-to-wire winner since 1977, also held a share of the lead on the back nine Sunday but stumbled on the 18th hole with a triple-bogey 8 to close with a 75 and fall to T-5.
Park’s victory avenged her disappointing finish a year ago at the..

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The clubs Bryson DeChambeau used to win the John Deere Classic

Bryson DeChambeau won his first PGA Tour event with a Sunday charge at the John Deere Classic that culminated with a final-nine 30 to give him a 65 and one-stroke win when Patrick Rodgers bogeyed the 71st hole.
Those irons served him well on Sunday as DeChambeau gave himself plenty of birdie opportunities by hitting 17 greens in regulation (boosting his tournament mark to 79.17 percent). DeChambeau was particularly on target over the final nine where he used his Cobra King Forged One Length irons and King wedges to knock approach shots to seven, 16, 10, 10 and 14 feet (he hit the par-5 17th in two).
When DeChambeau won his first pro event on the Web.com Tour last year he boldly proclaimed that it was “the day the game changed” in regards to single-length clubs.
DeChambeau told Golf Digest at the time that, “I knew I was carrying the torch of one-length clubs, but I knew it was going to prove itself out in the end. The game is due for a change. Irons haven’t really changed in 20 years, ..

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Rafa Cabrera-Bello closes with 64, low round of tournament, beats Callum Shinkwin in playoff

FacebookPinterestGregory ShamusRafa Cabrera-Bello of Spain celebrates victory on the first playoff hole of the Scottish Open. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

TROON, Scotland — In the end, victory in the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open belonged to Rafa Cabrera-Bello. To the Spaniard went the title, the $1,166,660 first-place check and a massive confidence boost going into this week’s Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. But everything else—mostly sympathy—was owned by the runner-up, Callum Shinkwin.
The record book will say that Cabera-Bello shot a closing eight-under 64 over the Dundonald Links, the low round of the tournament, to first reach 13 under par, then beat the 24-year-old Englishman with a birdie at the first hole of sudden death.
But that isn’t really the story.
Playing the final hole in regulation—a 586-yard par 5—Shinkwin was left of the putting surface in two shots, with a bunker between him and the flag. The lie didn’t look great and neither did the resul..

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