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When Tiger Woods underwent spinal fusion surgery in April 2017, many believed he’d never play again, let alone win. But as he has throughout his career, Woods defied expectations, winning the 2018 Tour Championship, the 2019 Masters and now his 82nd PGA Tour title, the Zozo Championship, thereby matching Sam Snead as the tour’s all-time victory leader. Woods finished three strokes ahead of Hideki Matsuyama on a sunny Monday morning in Japan, three days after a typhoon blew through, postponing the second round and reportedly stranding Woods and some of his tour colleagues at a Domino’s Pizza temporarily.
Just more than two months from his 44th birthday and two months removed from a fifth surgery on his left knee, Woods used the first official PGA Tour event played in Japan to remind us of his genius, writes Ron Green Jr.
England’s Steven Brown, who had been in jeopardy of losing his European Tour card, won the Portugal Masters on Sunday, overtaking South African Brandon Stone for his first title on the circuit.
Oliver Fisher, the Englishman who shot the first 59 in European Tour history at last year’s Portugal Masters, exhibited his penchant for responding to potential disaster in dramatic style at this year’s edition of the tournament, where he secured his card for next season with a top-10 finish, writes Lewine Mair.
With strong finishes in Portugal, South Korea’s Jeungheun Wang and England’s Jack Singh Brar also secured their European Tour cards for 2020, while Ireland’s Paul Dunne is bound for Q-School after missing the cut.
Although she has mellowed with age, Sweden’s Helen Alfredsson still has the fire to compete at a high level, as evidenced by her sweep of this year’s senior women’s majors, writes Steve Eubanks.
Ha Na Jang, the ebullient South Korean who made a splash on the LPGA Tour with her fist pumps and victory dances, captured her fifth career LPGA title on Sunday, the BMW Ladies Championship in her homeland, defeating Danielle Kang on the third playoff hole.
A quiet top-10 at the BMW Ladies Championship was enough for Jin Young Ko to clinch the LPGA’s Rolex Player of the Year award with three tournaments left to play.
The United States team captured the inaugural Women’s PGA Cup – a 54-hole, stroke-play competition that also featured teams of club professionals representing Canada, Australia, Sweden and Great Britain & Ireland – defeating the Canadian squad by four strokes on Saturday at the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas.
English boys’ international Josh Hill set a new standard last week by winning the MENA Tour’s Al Ain Open in Abu Dhabi at the age of 15 years, 6 months and 26 days, becoming the youngest player to win a men’s tournament offering Official World Golf Ranking points, writes Colin Callander.
An autumn outing that is a combination golf tournament, nature walk and pub crawl is a good example of how the game can be enjoyed in so many different ways, this week’s instalment of The Divot explains.
Mike Cullity
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