Icon Sportswire(Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Welcome to the Dew Sweeper, your one-stop shop to catch up on the weekend action from the golf world. From the professional tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here's every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of August 7.
Hideki heating up
Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas have been mentioned as Player of the Year candidates. Time to throw Hideki Matsuyama into the mix. The fledgling star took a torch to Firestone over the weekend, cruising the Akron property in a record 61 strokes on Sunday to capture the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. It was his third PGA Tour win of the season, and sixth worldwide victory since the Tour Championship.
“My expectations at the beginning of the week weren’t that high,” said Matsuyama after his round, “but here we are.”
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FacebookPinterestMarianna MasseyChris Stroud reacts to his birdie putt on the 18th hole during the final round of the Barracuda Championship at Montreux Country Club. He won in a playoff. (Photo by Marianna Massey/Getty Images)

Six weeks after Sergio Garcia won the Masters, PGA Tour veteran Chris Stroud saw the Spaniard at the AT&T Byron Nelson and congratulated him on a long overdue first career major championship.
Garcia’s response?
“He said just, ‘Take it easy,’” Stroud recalled Sunday night. “It will come to you.”
Sunday, it finally did for the 35-year-old journeyman. After 290 starts, Stroud picked up his first PGA Tour victory at Montreux Golf and Country Club, where he emerged from a three-man playoff to win the Barracuda Championship.
“It's been a long time,” said Stroud, who made three birdies and an eagle over his final five holes of regulation in the Modified Stableford format, then had to wait out a weather delay and the conclusion of the rest of the tournament to see..

FacebookPinterestIcon SportswirePaul Goydos watches his tee shot on the first hole during the final round of the 3M Championship at TPC Twin Cities. (Photo by David Berding/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

It was a victory that began to take shape on Saturday for Paul Goydos, who had the low score on the lowest scoring day in PGA Tour Champions history, a 12-under par 60. Anything more than that and he likely wouldn’t have been the last man standing on Sunday.
Goydos’ tap-in birdie on the first playoff hole, the par-5 18th at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minn., on Sunday gave him a victory over Gene Sauers in the 3M Championship. It was Goydos’ first victory of the year and fifth of his senior career.
“I putted well the last 45 holes,” Goydos said. “I putted as well as I probably could. Today I hit some squirrelly shots, but hung in there and hung in there and hung in there.”
In Saturday’s round, Goydos made 10 birdies and an eagle, helping bring down the scoring average for the day to..

Gregory ShamusAKRON, OH – AUGUST 06: Hideki Matsuyama of Japan reacts on the 17th green during the final round of the World Golf Championships – Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club South Course on August 6, 2017 in Akron, Ohio. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)Four years ago at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Hideki Matsuyama was paired with Tiger Woods for the opening two rounds. Just 21 at the time, he watched Woods tie the Firestone course record in the second round, which helped him go on to win the tournament for an eighth time. On Sunday, Matsuyama channeled his inner-Tiger, posting a bogey-free nine-under 61 to match the course record and win his second world golf championship with a score of 16-under 264.
Matsuyama, 25, entered the final round two shots back of leaders Zach Johnson and Thomas Pieters, but immediately closed that gap with a chip-in eagle on the par-5 second hole. The world No. 3 added three more birdies on the front to turn in five-under 30…

Matthew Lewis/Getty ImagesSolheim Cup captains Juli Inkster and Annika Sorenstam make their captain's picks and finalize their 2017 teams ahead of this month's matches at the Des Moines Country Club.The teams for the 15th edition of the Solheim Cup matches will both reflect fresh blood and a fresh start when the United States and Europe line up at the Des Moines Country Club, Aug. 18-20. The home side will sport three Cup rookies, with the Old World team debuting four new players in the biennial contest.
At a press conference following the Ricoh Women’s British Open at Kingsbarns, non-playing U.S. skipper Juli Inkster added two captain’s picks—18-year-old LPGA rookie Angel Yin and 25-year-old Austin Ernst—to her 10 automatic qualifiers (see below). Europe’s Annika Sorenstam also named her four wild-cards—Anna Nordqvist, Emily Pedersen, Caroline Masson and Madelene Sagstrom—to complete her side.
Both captains made it clear how difficult it had been to arrive at their respectiv..

Gregory ShamusAKRON, OH – AUGUST 04: Hideki Matsuyama of Japan plays a shot on the 17th fairway during the second round of the World Golf Championships – Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club South Course on August 4, 2017 in Akron, Ohio. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)Hideki Matsuyama won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational with superior ballstriking that saw him lead the field in strokes gained/tee-to-green each day. Matsuyama was particularly strong on Sunday when he averaged a whopping 335.5 yards off the tee while hitting 16 of 18 greens in regulation with his Srixon Z 945 irons and Cleveland 588 RTX 2.0 wedges. Matsuyama also took out his TaylorMade M2 3-iron in favor of a 19-degree Honma TW727U hybrid this week and changed to a TaylorMade TP Mullen putter.
During a final-round 61 (that tied the course record on Firestone's South Course), Matsuyama hit approach shots to 12 feet (which led to an eagle) as well as 4 feet, 15 feet, 9 feet, 12 feet, 4 feet, 9 fe..

FacebookPinterestTracy Wilcox/PGA TourJordan Spieth sinks a birdie putt at the ninth hole during the final round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club. (Photo by Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR)

AKRON, Ohio – When Jordan Spieth missed his birdie putt on the first hole at Firestone CC Sunday afternoon, John Wood, who caddies for Matt Kuchar, couldn’t contain himself walking down the second fairway, turning to Spieth’s caddie Michael Greller and asking playfully, “Where was that two weeks ago?”
Spieth and Kuchar, the main protagonists in the British Open at Royal Birkdale won by Spieth after a breathtaking scoring run down the stretch, were paired together in Sunday’s final round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. The stakes weren’t quite as high as they began the day well behind 54-hole co-leaders Zach Johnson and Thomas Pieters.
It was the second time in as many years the two were paired together the last day at Firestone, and each man carded a two-under 68, with Spiet..