SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) Brooke Henderson didn’t have her best stuff at the Marathon Classic, but she did enough to stay on top of the leaderboard.

The 20-year-old Canadian made three bogeys in Saturday’s third round after not dropping a shot a day earlier. A bogey on the par-3 14th dropped her into a three-way tie for the lead, but Henderson responded with a birdie on the par-5 17th to move back ahead by one stroke. She shot a 2-under 69 for a three-day total of 11-under 202 at Highland Meadows.

”I made some birdies but I made some bogeys. I didn’t hit it how I normally hit it, so I kind of grinded it out as best I could, and that’s good. That’s a good sign when you can still shoot under par and not hit it very well,” Henderson said. ”Just going into tomorrow trying to get back to the way I normally strike it, and hopefully make a lot of birdies.”

Henderson has six LPGA Tour wins, including one earlier this season. This is the fifth time in her career she has held the 54-hole lead. She ..

Julie Inkster talks with Holly Sonders about being a part of the inaugural US Senior Women's Open.

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) Laura Davies had an inkling something special might happen on Saturday when she hit a series of perfect 7-irons on the practice range after a morning rain softened Chicago Golf Club.

The British golfer then seized a commanding five-shot lead over American Juli Inkster after three rounds of the first U.S. Senior Women’s Open with a 7-under-par round of 66.

”It’s guaranteed myself a sleepless night now, which is probably not what you want,” Davies said. ”I’m not saying I’d rather be tied for the lead, but you sleep a lot better when you’re tied for the lead.

”It’s there for me to lose now.”

The pressure is a little less considering her low number Saturday for an 11-under 208 total.

Davies birdied six holes, but took control with a 65-foot, twisting, downhill eagle putt on the par-5 12th hole.

”Had to be 65, 70 feet, but it had about four feet of break one way and about three feet of break back the other way,” Davies said. ”I walked back and forth and I walked up ..

Laura Davies makes a nearly impossible downhill putt for Eagle on the 12th hole.

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) Defending champion Scott McCarron and Bart Bryant shot matching 65s on Saturday to move into a share of the lead with Jeff Maggert at the Constellation Senior Players Championship.

McCarron birdied two of the final four holes at Exmoor Country Club for a three-round total of 16-under 200 in the fourth of five majors on the PGA Tour Champions schedule. Last year, he rallied to win the event at Caves Valley near Baltimore.

Maggert, who led most of the day, shot 66.

Vijay Singh (66) was one shot back. Three-time champion Bernhard Langer (67) and Illinois golf coach Mike Small (66) were another shot behind, and Scott Parel (70) was in a group at 13 under.

GULLANE, Scotland (AP) An 11-hour sleep and a hearty Scottish breakfast sparked the latest impressive round in Russell Knox’s glorious summer of golf, putting him in contention to seal back-to-back wins on the European Tour at the Scottish Open on Saturday.

Knox mastered the windiest conditions of the week over the Gullane links to shoot a 4-under 66 in the third round, leaving him two strokes off surprise leader Jens Dantorb (68) and one behind a six-way tie for second place in the event used as a tune-up for next week’s British Open.

The Scotsman doesn’t want this summer to end. After placing 12th at the U.S. Open last month for his best finish at a major, Knox was runner-up at the French Open and then won the Irish Open last week thanks to consecutive 40-foot birdie putts on the 72nd hole and first playoff hole.

Now, he’s got a great chance to win his home championship, a week before heading to the British Open also in Scotland. There’s also potentially the not-so-small matter of..

Much has been said about the lack of shotmaking required on the PGA Tour, with many of the courses on the schedule calling for bomb and gouge rather than using the ground to your advantage. It's why this European Tour stretch of the French, Irish and Scottish Opens is always so fun to watch, as many of the world's best face firm and fast conditions they aren't used to as they prepare for the Open Championship.
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For an extra challenge, the European Tour had players take on “The Hickory Challenge” at Gullane Golf Club during a practice round at the Scottish Open earlier this week. At the 180-yard par-3 12th, each pro was given a choice of hickory clubs, or “bootah knives” as Danny Willett hilariously describes them in the video below. The results were a bit mixed, and it made for a fun watch, which came as no surprise considering the Euro Tour's content game is always very strong:
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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) A capsule look at the seven previous British Opens held at Carnoustie:

Year: 1931

Winner: Tommy Armour

Score: 296

Margin: One shot

Runner-up: Jose Jurado

Prize: 100 pounds

Summary: Armour, a Scot who had emigrated to the U.S., was five shots behind Jurado of Argentina going into the final round when he closed with a 71 for a one-shot victory. Jurado was two shots ahead until a double bogey-bogey-bogey finish, topping a shot into Barry Burn on the 17th hole. Armour became the last Scot to win the British Open in his native land until Paul Lawrie took advantage of a collapse at Carnoustie in 1999.

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Year: 1937

Winner: Henry Cotton

Score: 290

Margin: Two shots

Runner-up: Reg Whitcombe

Prize: 100 pounds

Summary: Cotton, the `34 Open champion, was three shots behind Whitcombe going into a last day that featured such wet and miserable weather that play was nearly called off. He opened with a 74 and improved his score by one stroke each day, closing wi..

The scenes were nothing alike and wildly memorable.

Both started with a tee shot that sailed some 60 yards to the right during the final round of the British Open, and that’s where the similarities end.

Seve Ballesteros didn’t have to take a penalty drop from near the front tire of a black car in a parking lot at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He had a two-shot lead, and once he dropped his ball away from the cars, he had a short iron onto the green. The great Spaniard went on to capture his first major championship in 1979, and he was jokingly referred to as the ”Car Park Champion.”

Jordan Spieth?

He became the ”Driving Range Champion” at Royal Birkdale, and it was no joke.

Spieth already had lost his three-shot lead in the final round last year when his drive on the 13th hole flew well to the right toward the dunes, hit a spectator in the head and wound up in a bush. Spieth had no shot, and really no place to drop that improved his chances. His best option was to go back to the tee a..

Tom Coyne discussed his book and thoughts on Scotland with Golf Digest as the sport turns its attention to the homeland of golf.