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In two short seasons on the PGA Tour, Sungjae Im has earned a reputation as an ironman, playing nearly every week while putting up promising results. The 21-year-old South Korean won his first tour title Sunday, capturing the Honda Classic at truculent PGA National by taming the course’s vaunted Bear Trap while his pursuers fell by the watery wayside.
No matter how players described the Champion Course at PGA National, they all came away battered and bruised in a Honda Classic that was one of the most trying regular PGA Tour events in recent memory, writes Sean Fairholm.
There were three English flags atop the Honda Classic leaderboard as Sunday dawned, but Tommy Fleetwood, Lee Westwood and Luke Donald all came up short in the final round.
Brooks Koepka’s missed cut at the Honda Classic was the latest poor performance in an uncharacteristic stretch for the four-time major champion.
Sami Välimäki won the European Tour’s Oman Open on Sunday, defeating South Africa’s Brandon Stone in a playoff in the port city of Muscat.
A coronavirus scare involving Italian players Lorenzo Gagli and Edoardo Molinari created a stir before the start of the Oman Open.
The apparent demise of Coul Links, a proposed course in the Scottish Highlands denied planning permission by the nation’s government, was a stunning setback for the man who had spent five years of his life and a considerable amount of money on the project, writes John Hopkins.
In bringing the U.S. Open into sharper focus with an edgy branding campaign, USGA officials are setting the narrative rather than having it set for them, which has happened too often in recent years, writes Ron Green Jr.
Without officially calling it a rota, the USGA has decided that future U.S. Opens will be played on a smaller collection of courses, perhaps as few as five or six.
The chance to use a late legend’s putter can stoke the imagination, this week’s installment of The Divot explains.
Mike Cullity
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