JT has made a new jacket. (Photo / mike stewart)
(Associated Press)
Welcome to the Monday ranking, where we drop the best stories of the weekend in the wonderful world of golf. Take an Arnold Palmer, pull a chair and look at a big winner enjoy a long late victory … again.
Justin Thomas Capture RBC, first victory since 2022
In most recent years, Justin Thomas has patrolled the PGA Tour as a player more famous for his vibrations than his performance. Yes, he is a double major champion, with a few PGA championships in his name. But his most recent pretension to glory was as an ignition candle for the Ryder Cup, which seems to work well in the United States but not so much in Europe. During the last nine majors, he missed five cups and recorded a single TOP -10 – A T8 in 2024 in, yes, the PGA championship. He was not yet in the territory of what was going on – it is far too visible for that – but the questions were simmering.
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And now, finally, another breakthrough. Thomas defeated Andrew Novak in the playoffs to win the RBC Heritage, a signature event of the tour, marking his first victory since the PGA 2022 championship. The victory of Walkoff occurred on a 21 -foot sipst.
In one of these statistics so carefully drawn that it is ridiculous, Thomas is now only the seventh man since 1960 to win 16 tournaments, including two majors, before being 32 years old. (You know everything else.) Then on the major list: yes, the PGA championship. More good times could be ahead of JT.
The Nelly Korda Champions dinner is a match for Scottie Scheffler's
The Chevron championship, the first of the five annual LPGA majors, the T-shirts this week. The defending champion Nelly Korda has the honor of creating a menu for the champions of the week, and Korda brought a match.
The meal will start with the Hybrid Régiis Ova caviar and tuna tartare with large eyes, with mushroom soup cream to follow. Then, the main dish: roasted net with American Wagyu beef herbs from the Ferms of the Snake river, with sides of the Greek cold meats, white asparagus of Sacramento Delta, Arou gratin and glass mushrooms. The dessert is ovocne Knedlícky, who, of course, know, the traditional Czech fruit dumplings with vanilla sauce. A more worldly touch than Scottie Scheffler Chilis on the theme of Texas, Ribeyes and cookies of cast iron chocolate in cast iron in cast iron.
Garrick Higgo captures the Corals after the late collapse of Joel Dahmen
The South African Garrick Higgo won the Coral Puntacana championship, a wellness victory after losing his PGA Tour card last year … and a feeling defeat for Joel Dahmen, who had the victory in his hands but touched with three consecutive fence boges. Dahmen established the course record with a 62 Thursday, said that the 36 -hole record, had a share of the 54 -hole record … But a 76 on Sunday cost him a chance of wire victory for wire. He would have been the first thread victory on tour from Lee Hodges at the Open 3m in July 2023. “Suddenly, I wake up,” said Dahmen after the Tour, “and I lost the golf tournament.”
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Higgo has struggled in recent years, losing his tour card in 2024. But this victory gives him a two -year exemption … and that could also give him a new hat agreement. After losing his previous agreement, he was seen by wearing Boston Red Sox hats and New Orleans on the course all week. Everything that works, right?
Ben Crane Dqs himself on the violation of the rules
It was a Bon-News weekend, bad new for Ben Crane. In Corals, the veterinarian made his first season cup … then quickly disqualified during a violation of the Saturday rules. At the eighth hole, he led his tee shot in a penalty surface and hit a second blow. But when he went to this second ball in the fairway, that's it, there was his first too; Apparently, he had launched a rock and rushing into play. Crane, by his own subsequent admission, did not pay attention to the ball who played the first by accident. He could have escaped just a penalty if he had addressed the question before starting the ninth hole, but he did not do it, and was done after the 11th. A difficult way of going out, but it was the right golf movement.
In a slightly better news, it gives us a chance to bring the famous golf golf video in the early 2010s again, and we are never lucky for that. Here is Crane, Bubba Watson, Hunter Mahan and Rickie Fowler in all their glory:
Where do the masters of Rory McILroy win in the history of golf?
With a little distance, we thought of the place where the spectacular masters of Rory McILroy is part last week in all the masters – or even in the history of golf. This is certainly there with the victory of Tiger Woods in 2019 and the breakthrough of Phil Mickelson in 2004 for most emotions of the 21st century. But while Phil's was a long -awaited first adult, and Tiger's was the modern equivalent of the 1986 Jacklaus curtain, there was something more captivating and more spectacular about McILroy.
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The fact that he was in the running for so many tournaments before this one, the fact that he combined both the brilliance and self-sabotage not only in the same career, but on the same whores of holes, the fact that this resulted in the sixth Grand Slam in career … everything adds. Yes, you no longer get biased rence for that, but it is already certain that it is one of the best masters of all. And the story could be even nicer, with a little more distance on this subject. It was a good, and McILroy is not nearby.
Shooting of the week: beauty assisted by the trees of Ingrid Lindblad
We are big on the theme “Better to Be Hucky Than Good” here, and Ingrid Lindblad was both on Sunday at the JM Eagle LPGA championship. During her third career start, the recruit won the tournament with a stroke when Akie Iwai in Japan missed an 18th holes putt that would have forced qualifying series. Lindblad's good fortune was helped by this lucky rebound on the 13th:
It is a sign that everything happens in your sense.
To come this week: Rory returns to the Zurich Classic of the PGA Tour (Avondale, la.); The LPGA (The Woodlands, Tex.) chevron championship; PGA Tour Champions' Mitsubishi Electric Classic (Duluth, Ga.); Liv Golf Mexico.
