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While it looked for a while like she would let it get away, Sei Young Kim seized the LPGA’s CME Group Tour Championship title in dramatic fashion on Sunday, draining a long birdie putt on the final green at Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Fla., to win by a stroke. With her heroics, Kim earned $1.5 million, the largest payday in women’s golf history.
After a stellar week in the Middle Eastern desert, Jon Rahm scored a Dubai double on Sunday, winning the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship and the season-long Race to Dubai, accomplishments that earned him $5 million combined.
Tyler Duncan, who retained his PGA Tour card at the Korn Ferry Tour Finals this fall, won his first tour title, the RSM Classic, defeating Webb Simpson with a birdie on the second playoff hole on Sunday in Sea Island, Ga.
No player in the modern era can make the best golf look so effortless and enjoyable as Rory McIlroy, who capped his season with a fourth-place finish in Dubai, writes John Hopkins.
LPGA commissioner Mike Whan, who is closing in on 10 years at the helm and has renewed for an unspecified period, is just as enthusiastic about his job now as he was the day he showed up, writes Steve Eubanks.
Davis Love III, who was in the field last week for the 10th renewal of the RSM Classic, a tournament he was instrumental in creating, will do what he does best – be himself – as he transitions to TV work as a member of CBS Sports’ golf broadcast team, writes Ron Green Jr.
The withdrawal of Brooks Koepka from the Presidents Cup due to injury – he was replaced on the U.S. team by Rickie Fowler – raised the question of how long it will be before Koepka is healthy enough to play competitive golf again.
The change in format of the CME Group Tour Championship that made all 60 players in the field eligible to win $1.5 million gave the tournament the feel of a major.
A European Tour video highlighting the return of child interviewer “Little Billy” Jenkins went viral following its release last Friday, much like the boy’s debut video in 2016.
The calculating methodology behind the World Amateur Golf Ranking will change in January, with the USGA and R&A adopting a new system called the Power Method that promises a more holistic view of performance.
Hometown favorite Steven Fink won the Society of Seniors Founders Cup last Thursday at TPC Las Vegas.
This week’s installment of The Divot probes a mystery: What happened to kilties on golf shoes?
Mike Cullity
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