For the first time since 2009, there was a hardware split at the season finale. Here's how things ended up at the Tour Championship, where rookie Xander Schauffele won the tournament but Justin Thomas claimed the FedExCup:Leaderboard: Xander Schauffele (-12), Justin Thomas (-11), Russell Henley (-10), Kevin Kisner (-10)What it means: Schauffele put a cap on a standout rookie season by erasing a two-shot deficit in the final round at East Lake. A winner earlier this season at The Greenbrier Classic, he now becomes the first rookie to win twice since Keegan Bradley in 2011. Schauffele's 72nd-hole birdie edged him past Thomas, but Thomas' consolation prize came in the form of the $10 million check for winning the season-long race. After a year that included five wins and a major, Thomas started the week at No. 2 in the points race and easily moved past Jordan Spieth, who tied for seventh.
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Round of the day: Henley played his college golf at nearby Georgia, and he made a lucrative run up the leaderboard with a 5-under 65 in the final round. Henley won earlier this year at the Shell Houston Open and capped his season with a bogey-free effort that included four front-nine birdies and lifted him from 27th to 11th in the final FedExCup standings.Best of the rest: Thomas started the week with the inside track on Player of the Year honors, and he put it on ice with a final-round 66. Thomas made five birdies against just one bogey and after contending all week long finished alone in second place. While a win would have clinched the FedExCup, the final standings left him well in front of Spieth and Schauffele, who finished the season in third.Biggest disappointment: The victory drought continues for Paul Casey. The Englishman appeared poised to win his first tournament in the U.S. since 2009, but he didn't make a single birdie until the final hole of the day. By then it was too late, as a 3-over 73 dropped Casey from sole possession of the lead into fifth place, three shots behind Schauffele.Shot of the day: A 3-foot putt is usually old hat for a Tour pro, but things can get interesting when the stakes are raised. Schauffele was in close range for a title-clinching birdie that caught the left edge of the hole and dropped, sealing his second win of the year and eliciting a deep sigh from the winner.
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Jutanugarn closing gap on Smith at USWO Defending champ and Rolex world No. 4 Sung Hyun Park (76-77) did not make the cut. The No. 1 player in the world, Ariya Jutanugarn, is No. 1 on the
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Lee Westwood and longtime looper Billy Foster have officially split, with the move actually happening before the former World No. 1 captured the Nedbank accompanied by his girlfriend, Helen Storey. The split could have reverberations across the bib-wearing circuit when coupled with Matt Kuchar's
Lee Westwood parts with caddie Billy Foster after 10 years
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Kuchar used a local caddie at Mayakoba because he entered at the last minute and his regular looper, John Wood, had a previous engagement. Westwood used his girlfriend, Helen Storey, who previously caddied for him in Denmark. Wood is back to work with Kuchar this week at the Australian Open. Billy Foster's 10-year run with Westwood is done.
Golf notebook: Westwood parts with caddie after 10 years
The second round of the Japan Golf Tour's ANA Open was temporarily suspended after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over the country. According to reports, the missile, the second North Korea has fired over Japan airspace, reached an altitude of 470 miles and travelled 2,300 miles before landing in the Pacific Ocean.
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BETHPAGE, N.Y. — Damn near everybody at Bethpage Black was trying to get inside Brooks Koepka's head, and even his caddie couldn't do it. The fans were screaming for the charging Dustin
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Jerry Kelly won the Boeing Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title, closing with a 6-under 66 for a one-stroke victory over Jerry Smith. Advertising Kelly tied Smith hit to 3 feet for birdie on the par-4 16th and moved ahead with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th. After Smith
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Brooks Koepka eagled the 72nd hole Sunday to cap off a final-round 64, win the CJ Cup and supplant Dustin Johnson as the new No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. Here's how Koepka took over
Brooks Koepka ascends to world No. 1 after absurd CJ Cup finish
National Baseball Hall of Famer John Smoltz won the celebrity event at the LPGA Tour's Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions 2019 on Sunday, Jan. 20, in Florida.
Calmer winds turn Sunday at the Sentry Tournament of
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The Plantation Course has some the widest fairways and largest greens on the PGA Tour primarily because of the winds that buffet the layout, like those that gusted to 35 mph for the first three days at this year's Sentry Tournament of Champions. Sunday was a different story, with the wind switching directions and calming considerably.
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AUSSIE golf great Karrie Webb will decide at the end of the year whether to continue competing fulltime against women half her age. But the 41-year-old is adamant the rise of precociously-talented
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Sep 10, 2018 · Tony Finau added to US Ryder Cup team as captain's pick. Tony Finau has been named to the Ryder Cup team, the final pick by U.S. captain Jim Furyk
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Defending champ Kim: 'I feel finally in peace' In-Kyung Kim returns this week to defend her Ricoh Women's British Open title still feeling the fulfillment her victory brought her at Kingsbarns.
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LPGA professional Brittany Lincicome will make history next month as the fifth female ever to compete in a PGA TOUR event. Lincicome, a Diamond Celebrity ambassador, accepted a sponsorship exemption to compete in the 2018 Barbasol Championship from July 16-22 at Keene Trace Golf Club outside Lexington, Kentucky.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Matt Wallace took his shots on time and took the lead at the World Tour Championship. The 28-year-old Englishman, who was fined 3,000 pounds ($3,800) for slow play in the first round, shot a 7-under 65 Friday for a one-stroke lead over Danny Willett (67), Jordan Smith (68) and Adrian Otaegui (68).
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