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A tournament week that began with further accusations of Patrick Reed having played fast and loose with the rules ended with Reed hoisting the hardware at the WGC-Mexico Championship. Reed, 29, made three late birdies at Club de Golf Chapultepec near Mexico City to overtake Bryson DeChambeau, who shot 65 Sunday but was undone by a bogey on the 71st hole.
Reed may have said all he intends to say about his high-profile rules violation last December at the Hero World Challenge but the subject isn’t going away, as criticisms of Reed leveled last week by Brooks Koepka and former TV analyst Peter Kostis made clear.
Viktor Hovland, the highly touted Norwegian who won the 2018 US Amateur at Pebble Beach and was low amateur at last year’s Masters and US Open before turning pro, scored his first professional victory Sunday, winning the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open by a stroke.
When Rory McIlroy said last week he has no interest in joining the provocative Premier Golf League if it ever gets up and running, it was a body blow to a concept structured on star power, writes Ron Green Jr.
Colin Montgomerie’s observations of life as a senior competitor suggest he’s a man who’s mellowed since his European Tour heyday, writes Lewine Mair.
In an interview with GGP last Thursday, Hall of Famer Kathy Whitworth shared memories of her friend and rival Mickey Wright, the LPGA great who died last Monday at age 85.
Acushnet Holdings Corp., the parent company of the Titleist golf brand, weighed in last week on the recently released Distance Insights Report – issued jointly by the R&A and the USGA – with president and CEO David Maher taking issue with the report’s conclusion that increased hitting distance by elite male players is undesirable and detrimental to golf’s long-term future.
James Wilson’s hopes of becoming the fifth Scot to win the South African Amateur Championship in the past 10 years were dashed when he lost to 16-year-old South African sensation Casey Jarvis in this year’s scheduled 36-hole final over the East course at Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club, writes Colin Callander.
Though a few top players elected to skip last week’s WGC-Mexico Championship, a golf destination in another corner of the country has much to commend it, this week’s instalment of The Divot explains.
Mike Cullity
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