A playoff victory at the RSM Classic ends a 11-plus-year winless streak on the PGA Tour for Charles Howell III and ends doubts about whether he could win again
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Each week, GolfChannel.com takes a look back at the week in golf. Here’s what’s weighing on our writers’ minds. On Lexi Thompson claiming ANOTHER event for the U.S. on the LPGA tour … Lexi Thompson delivered another title for American women by winning the CME Group Tour Championship Sunday at Tiburon Golf Club. That’s nine for […]
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – It has been a rite of spring along the lines of pimento cheese sandwiches and blooming azaleas. Each year in the run up to the Masters, Charles Howell III tried – and often failed – to qualify for his hometown event. Howell admitted this week at the RSM Classic that he’s struggled in […]
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – Patrick Rodgers made the cut on the number at the RSM Classic and began the weekend at Sea Island Resort a dozen strokes off the pace. What he did from there was historic. Rodgers posted rounds of 61-62 on the weekend to get into a playoff with Charles Howell III at […]
NAPLES, Fla. – Ariya Jutanugarn finished a remarkable year with an exclamation point. She completed an unprecedented LPGA sweep burying an 18-foot birdie putt Sunday to end her season at the CME Group Tour Championship. It was, by the way, her 470th birdie of the season, a tour record. Jutanugarn wrapped up the Vare Trophy […]
Charles Howell III beat Patrick Rodgers on the second playoff hole to win the RSM Classic on Sunday. It’s his first victory since 2007. The post The 30-second guide to the RSM Classic: CH3 ends his drought appeared first on Golf.
NAPLES, Fla. – Lexi Thompson was the best this week, and Ariya Jutanugarn was the best all season. Neither left any doubt about that Sunday. Thompson shot a final-round 70 to finish at 18-under 270 and win the LPGA’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship by four strokes over Nelly Korda. The win makes this the sixth consecutive year that […]
A year full of drought-breaking victories on the PGA Tour ended on a similar note at the RSM Classic. Here’s how things ended up at Sea Island, where Charles Howell III edged Patrick Rodgers for his first win since 2007: Leaderboard: Charles Howell III (-19), Patrick Rodgers (-19), Webb Simpson (-18), Ryan Blaum (-17), Luke […]
Lexi Thompson closed with a two-under 70 to cruise to a victory in the CME Group Tour Championship on Sunday in Naples, Fla., capping a… The post Lexi Thompson, with brother on her bag, caps tumultuous season with victory at CME Group Tour Championship appeared first on Golf.