Sophia Schubert helps give the US the win for the Curtis Cup.

Sophia Schubert helps give the US the win for the Curtis Cup.

Team USA took home the Curtis Cup thanks to strong performances from players including Sophia Schubert.

Team USA took home the Curtis Cup thanks to strong performances from players including Sophia Schubert.

SCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP) Kristen Gillman led a U.S. singles sweep Sunday in the biggest blowout in Curtis Cup history.

Gillman, the 20-year-old University of Alabama star from Austin, Texas, beat 16-year-old Annabell Fuller 5 and 4 for the winning point to cap a perfect weekend at Quaker Ridge.

The Americans won 17-3, breaking the record for margin of victory of 11 set in a 14 1/2-3 1/2 victory at Denver Country Club in 1982. They improved to 29-8-3 in the series, rebounding from a loss in 2016 at Dun Laoghaire in Ireland.

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”I’m very proud of my players,” U.S. captain Virginia Derby Grimes said. ”They are a phenomenal group of girls. They’ve been so much fun to be around, and they just gelled and bonded.”

Passed over for the 2016 team, Gillman – the 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion at age 16 – joined American Stacy Lewis (2008) and England’s Bronte Law (2016) as the only players to go 5-0-0 since the format was changed to three days in 2008.

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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Shinnecock Hills was a lot bigger than Graeme McDowell expected.

But not too big.

McDowell was among those who began preparing Sunday for the U.S. Open on a course where golf first was played in 1891, and where the U.S. Open was last played 14 years ago. He had never been out to the Hamptons – ”Only as far as Bethpage, if that’s even considered part of Long Island,” he said – and his imagination told it would be a golf course tucked in among high-end real estate, like Pebble Beach.

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More than the size of Shinnecock Hills was the way it played.

”It’s back to being a pure U.S. Open with serious discipline in your iron play,” said McDowell, the 2010 Open champion at Pebble Beach. ”I don’t look at it and say, `I’m not long enough to win here.’ And that excites me. I haven’t seen anything that has upset me.”

Tiger Woods, playing the U.S. Open for the first time since 2015, arrived late Sunday afternoon and teed off with Jordan Spieth. ..

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Dustin Johnson is back in his spot as the world’s top-ranked golfer thanks to a dominant victory capped by an absolutely amazing hole-out for eagle.

”What a cool way to end the day,” Johnson said.

Johnson shot a 4-under 66 on Sunday making the St. Jude Classic his second PGA Tour victory this year and 18th of his career to take back the No. 1 ranking he held for 64 straight weeks before falling to No. 2 behind Justin Thomas a month ago . Johnson won the event for the second time, finishing with the eagle, three birdies and a bogey for a 19-under 261 total.

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”It means a lot,” Johnson said of reclaiming the No. 1 ranking. ”It was a long way to get there, and I held it for a long time and obviously JT took it from me for a little while. It was nice to finish like that and get it back.”

Andrew Putnam started the final round with a share of the lead for the first time in his career. He shot 72 and finished at 13 under.

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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Six days after Adam Scott qualified for the U.S. Open, he showed up at Shinnecock Hills with a new caddie.

Scott has parted way with David Clark and is using a club caddie he has used before at Shinnecock. Lenny Bummolo was with Scott when he set the course record at Shinnecock Hills with a 63 from the championship tees.

Scott says there’s never a good time to split with a caddie, and he had no reservations about turning to Bummolo. He says Bummolo knows the course as well as anyone and there will be a premium on reading the greens this week.

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Scott also has reunited with brother-in-law Brad Malone as his swing coach. He says they’ve been in touch the last few weeks.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Tom Lehman was standing outside of a Des Moines-area makeup shop waiting for his daughter/caddie when he got the call to head back to Wakonda Club.

Lehman told Rachael Chapman to pay her bill at Sephora as quickly as possible – because dad had a trophy waiting for him at the course.

Lehman, the second-round leader, took the PGA Tour Champions’ Principal Charity Classic after weather washed out the final round Sunday.

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Tournament officials had delayed the start of the third round by nearly five hours because of bands of light but persistent rain before calling the event.

With Lehman set to tee off last, he and Chapman went to a nearby mall to kill some time before the weather cleared out. But it never did – with officials delaying it nine times before calling it.

The 59-year-old Lehman shot a 7-under 65 on Saturday to reach 13 under and take a two-shot lead over Bernhard Langer, Glen Day, Woody Austin and Scott Parel.

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