Orlando, Fla. (AP)-Russell Henley delivered a late indictment that Arnold Palmer would have made proud, covered by engaging in the 16th hole to gather with a 2-under 70 at Bay Hill on Sunday for the biggest victory of his career.
Henley followed Collin Morikawa with three shots with five holes to play in the Arnold Palmer Invitational when it all changed with a few fluctuations with two shots.
Morikawa missed the green on the par-3 14th hole and took Bogey, while Henley hit his tee shot to just within 10 feet for Birdie, which cut the shortage to one shot. However, nothing was more stunning than the par-5 16th hole.
Morikawa explained a fairway bunker and beat Wig to 18 feet. Henley went rough through the green to thick and had to go from more than 50 feet along the slope to a front pin on a green yellow, as if it had hardly any grass.
It ran to the hole when it hit the pin and fell to Eagle, so he first led the entire day when Morikawa could not convert his Birdie Putt.
Henley ended with two pars and Morikawa, who closed with a 72, could not catch him.
Corey Conners opened with 15 straight pars, made a Birdie in his round of 71 and finished two shots behind. The consolation prize for the Canadian earned the only place that was available this week this week in the British Open this summer at Royal Portush.
Henley finished 277 at 11 under and earned $ 4 million out of $ 20 million wallet. It was his fifth career victory on the PGA Tour, although never against a field so strong. The victory moves him to No. 7 in the world.
Liv Golf League
Hong Kong (AP)-Sergio Garcia made an early eagle to pull ahead and then produced four straight birdies around the bend, closing with a 7-under 63 for a three-shot victory over Dean Burmester in Liv Golf Hong Kong.
Garcia won his second LIV title, after he won in Andalucia last year in Andalucia.
Burmester shot a 62, while 54-year-old Phil Mickelson had a 64 and finished in third place, four shots behind. Mickelson had his best finish in the league -funded competition and his first top 10 since the third event last year in Jeddah.
Garcia and his fireballs won the team competition.
LPGA Tour
Sanya, China (AP) -Rio Takeda van Japan shot 8-under 64 to win the Blue Bay LPGA by six shots about Minjee Lee of Australia for her second LPGA Tour title.
The 21-year-old Takeda finished 17-under 271, starting with three rounds at 69. Lee Sloot with a 67 to end up at 277, with Ayaka Furue from Japan a shot back after a 68.
Takeda won her first LPGA title four months ago and took the Toto Japan Classic in a six-hole play-off.
Jeeno Thitikul, the number 2-ranked player of the LPGA, closed with a 74 and was 13 strokes behind. It was also a disappointing tournament for the rough of Yin van China. She is number 4 but ended with a 73 and was 19 shots of the winning pace.
PGA Tour
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico (AP)-Karl Vilips from Australia walked away three straight birdies to break out of an unexpected duel and played his best wave for an 8-under 64 to win the Puerto Rico Open, his first PGA Tour victory in just his third start as a pro.
The victory will bring him to the player championship and the PGA championship in May next week, together with a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour.
Vilips reacted to a sensational charge by Rasmus Down-Gaard-Pernes van Denmark, who had six straight holes bird to start the rear nine and closed with a 63. The Dane briefly took the lead when Vilips made a bogey on the 12th hole with a wedge from the fairway.
Vilips Birdied the next three holes, including a handy pitch to set up Birdie on the Par-5 14th Hole to regain the lead, and a T-shirt 5 feet for Birdie on the Par-3 15th.
European tour and sunshine tour
Johannesburg (AP)-The Scottish golfer Calum Hill was an eight-shot deficit by closing with an 8-under 62 and then parliament on the second play-off hole to survive Jacques Kruyswijk and Shaun Norris and to win the Joburg open.
Norris, who had a lead of four shots and shot 70, hit the second extra hole in the water. Kruyswijk (66) missed a 3-foot par putt that would have extended the play-off.
Hill won his second European tour title after his victory in the Cazoo Classic 2021.
Korn Ferry Tour
Santiago, Chile (AP)-Logan Mcallister won the Astara Chile Classic for his first Korn Ferry Tour title, who shot 63-64 in the weekend for a victory of a blow to Davis Chatfield.
Mcallister finished 19-under 265 at Prince of Wales Country Club. The 25-year-old former Oklahoma player won in his 60th start of the Tour.
Chatfield closed with a 66. Matthew Anderson (64) bound for the third at 15 with Hank Lebioda (65), Kenssei Hirata (67) and Cole Hammer (71).
Other tours
Laetitia Beck closed with a 5-under 66 for a three-shot victory over Sophia Schubert in the Atlantic Beach Classic on the Epson Tour. … Tyler Hodge shot a 3-under 69 and held up for a one-off victory over Kerry Mountcastle and Tim Hart in the New Zealand PGA championship on the PGA Tour of Australasia. … Jenead Wong from Malaysia Birdied The last two holes for a 3-under 68 and a one-off victory over SOOOMIN OH van Zuid-Korea in the Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship for women in Vietnam. … The Australian WPGA championship, co-chilled by the Ladies European Tour this year, was canceled due to the approaching threat of Cyclone Alfred.
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