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As big years go, 2019 has become one of the biggest in Rory McIlroy’s sparkling career. With a birdie on the first extra hole at Sheshan International Golf Club on Sunday, McIlroy defeated Xander Schauffele to win the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, his fourth victory of 2019.
In an exclusive conversation before the WGC-HSBC Champions with GGP’s Lewine Mair, McIlroy revealed his plans for a summertime base in London and shared his thoughts on myriad other matters.
With a successful defense of her title at the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA on Sunday, Nelly Korda established herself as arguably the top American in the women’s game.
Brendon Todd, a past PGA Tour winner who subsequently struggled with the full-shot yips, won the tour’s inaugural Bermuda Championship on Sunday thanks in part to a closing 62 at Port Royal Golf Course.
For a guy whose convention-bending television career had been cancelled abruptly in an unexpected phone call from his boss at CBS Sports just days earlier, Gary McCord didn’t sound like a man embittered by his unexpected firing in an interview last week, writes Ron Green Jr.
With a tie for 28th in the WGC-HSBC Champions, Phil Mickelson was projected to fall out of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in nearly 26 years, ending the longest run of consecutive weeks in the top 50.
Albane Valenzuela and Haley Moore were among the notable young players who earned LPGA Tour cards upon Saturday’s conclusion of the circuit’s 144-hole Q-Series in Pinehurst, N.C.
Nathaniel Crosby, who recently was reappointed as U.S. captain for the 2021 Walker Cup at Seminole Golf Club, will benefit in one very meaningful way from that match’s May date: He will not have to worry as much about prospective U.S. players turning professional before the match is played, writes Jim Nugent.
Doug Hanzel won the Society of Seniors Dale Morey Championship in Southern Pines, N.C., last Wednesday, his fourth victory of the season on the senior amateur circuit.
Playing in a club tournament, when every stroke counts, offers a chance to appreciate the professionals, who sign for a score every tournament round, good or bad, this week’s installment of The Divot explains.
Mike Cullity
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