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Everett wins NCAA title in playoff
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Broc Everett made his first college golf title one to remember.
Given a second chance, on the 18th hole, Everett poured in a 15-foot birdie putt in a playoff to beat Brandon Mancheno of Auburn and win the NCAA men’s individual title Monday at Karsten Creek Golf Club.
”I was fortunate to get another chance – and a good look,” said Everett, a senior at Augusta.
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Everett had a 10-foot birdie putt to win in regulation and missed it to the right. He closed with a 1-under 71 and joined Mancheno at 7-under 281. Mancheno, a freshman for the Tigers, got up-and-down from the right side of the green on the par-5 18th tor a 72.
In the playoff on No. 18, Mancheno went for the green with a long iron. He pulled it to the right, and the ball bounced next to a tree, leaving an impossible shot for the left-hander. Mancheno did well to chip it across the green into the rough, and he chipped that one to a few feet to save par.
Everett laid up from th..
What you need to know entering the final stroke-play round at the 2018 NCAA Golf Championship
There are 18 holes left at the NCAA Championship to determine a medalist and who advances to match play. Here's a primer for Monday at Karsten Creek
How much money every golfer won at the 2018 Fort Worth Invitational at Colonial
Justin Rose emerged the winner, making more than $1 million at the 2018 Fort Worth Invitational. Here's how much money every golfer at Colonial made
Rose wins Colonial and moves to No. 3 in the world
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Justin Rose closed with a 6-under 64 and finished at 20 under Sunday at Colonial for a three-stroke victory over U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka in the Fort Worth Invitational.
Rose won for the ninth time on the PGA Tour and became the fifth player with multiple victories this season. Rose also won the HSBC Champions in Shanghai in the fall. The 37-year-old from England earned $1,278,000 and a plaid jacket for winning at Hogan’s Alley. He moves to No. 3 in the world and will have a mathematical chance to reach No. 1 next week at the Memorial.
Koepka shot 63, but had started the day four strokes behind Rose in the final group. Emiliano Grillo shot 64 and finished third at 16 under.
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While Rose missed matching Zach Johnson’s 2010 tournament scoring record of 259 because of bogey on the 72nd hole, first-round leader Kevin Na matched the course record with a closing 61 and finished fourth at 14 under.
Rose opened with two straight bir..
Birdie on 18 gives Lee a victory on her birthday
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) Minjee Lee birdied the 18th hole Sunday for a one-stroke victory over In-Kyung Kim at the LPGA Volvik Championship.
Lee, who turned 22 on Sunday, three-putted for a bogey on No. 17, dropping into a tie with Kim, who finished her round around the same time. So Lee needed a birdie to win on 18, a reachable par 5. Her second shot landed a few feet to the right of the green, and she calmly chipped to about 3 feet
She made the putt to finish at 4-under 68 and 16 under for the tournament. It was the Australian standout’s fourth career victory and first since 2016.
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Kim (67) shot a 32 on the back nine and birdied No. 18, but it wasn’t enough to force a playoff at Travis Pointe Country Club.
Moriya Jutanugarn (65) finished third at 14 under.
Lee took a two-stroke lead into the final round, and that was her margin over playing partner Stacy Lewis before Lewis (71) bogeyed No. 7 and 8. Kim emerged as the biggest threat to Lee when she birdie..
England’s Paul Broadhurst shoots 63 to win Senior PGA
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) Paul Broadhurst wishes he had played this well in his 23 years on the European Tour.
”I know a lot more about my swing now and I guess you get that with age and experience,” the 52-year-old Englishman said after shooting an 8-under 63 on Sunday to win the Senior PGA Championship by four strokes and match the best 72-hole score in tournament history.
Broadhurst finished at 19-under 265 at Harbor Shores for his second senior major victory. The 63 was the best fourth-round score by a winner. Rocco Mediate also shot 19 under at Harbor Shores in 2016.
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Also the 2016 British Senior Open winner, Broadhurst led the field with 26 birdies and passed third-round co-leaders Tim Petrovic and Mark McCarron with a 4-under 31 on the back nine.
Petrovic was second after a 69. McCarron had a 70 to tie for third at 14 under with Jerry Kelly (65).
Broadhurst earned a career-high $585,000 for his fourth PGA Tour Champions victory and moved to the t..
Rose 20 under at Colonial for 3-stroke win over Koepka
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Justin Rose got his first PGA Tour victory at Jack Nicklaus’ tournament. His latest came after finishing 20 under at Hogan’s Alley, three strokes ahead of defending U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka.
”If you are able to win at a course that has great history, has had great champions, and if I begin to look at the courses I’ve won at, this definitely strengthens that group even more,” Rose said after his closing 6-under 64 Sunday in the Fort Worth Invitational.
Along with the plaid jacket that comes with winning at Colonial, the longest-running PGA Tour event still played at its original site (since 1946), Rose added to an impressive list of traditional courses where he has won.
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There was that victory at Muirfield Village in the 2010 Memorial, and the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion among his nine PGA Tour wins. His 11 international victories include the 2014 Scottish Open at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club, and the 2007 Volvo Masters at Valderram..
McIlroy fades at Wentworth, says game ‘not quite there’
VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) Even as he took apart Wentworth with one of his best rounds of 2018, Rory McIlroy knew something wasn’t quite right.
”There was still enough loose shots in that first 36 holes to know that, OK, it’s not quite there,” McIlroy said of the three-shot lead he held going into the weekend at the BMW PGA Championship.
So it didn’t really come as a surprise to the former world No. 1 that his game slightly unraveled on Saturday and Sunday.
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McIlroy followed up his masterful 7-under 65 on Friday – ”the best round I’ve ever seen,” according to playing partner Alex Noren – with scruffy rounds of 71 and 70 to come up short at the European Tour’s flagship event.
He finished in second place on Sunday, two shots behind Francesco Molinari.
McIlroy has been working on some swing changes with coach Michael Bannon in Florida, and he said it was a work in progress.
”When you’re working through a bit of a swing change or a swing tweak, it takes ..
Molinari holds off McIlroy to win by 2 shots at Wentworth
VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) Rory McIlroy left his victory charge too late at Wentworth as Francesco Molinari delivered a clinic in front-running to win the BMW PGA Championship by two shots with a 4-under 68 on Sunday.
McIlroy, who led by three strokes at halfway, entered the final round tied for the lead with Molinari on 13 under par but a Sunday shootout at the European Tour’s flagship event never really materialized.
Instead, as McIlroy toiled to a 70 that was propped up by birdies on the par fives at Nos. 17 and 18, Molinari went bogey-free for a second straight day to claim the fifth victory of his career and the biggest since a World Golf Championship in Shanghai in 2010.
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The Italian only dropped two shots all week and finished on 17-under 271, with McIlroy alone in second place. Alex Noren (67) and Lucas Bjerregaard (65) were tied for third place a stroke further back.
Molinari moved into the automatic qualifying places for the Ryder Cup, which ..