In my world of sports radio we are always looking for the top stories, the informative and compelling stories, and the entertaining stories.
Monday mornings don't take much searching, and this weekend was certainly no different. Every village, town and city has their own priorities.
In Toronto this weekend the Leafs hammered the Habs 6-0 in Montreal to the DELIGHT of what is called the Leaf Nation these days, and in a wintery gale at BMO field down by the lakeshore a titanic defensive struggle ended with an offensive flourish and on the third last play of the game the hometown Argonauts beat the Saskatchewan Roughriders 25-21 to clinch their spot in next week's Grey Cup vs Calgary in Ottawa.
To top it off Santa arrived right on time at Christie Pitts to send the children in a crowd of over a million people on the parade route home happy with Christmas right around the corner.
In golf terrific rookie Ben Silverman earned another top 10 finish, his second this wrap around season, T8 with a -4 66, -13 total at the RSM Classic at Sea Island in Georgia. David Hearn had a good week as well T17 after a final -5 65 -11 total.
PGA Tour RSM Classic final leaderboard https://www.pgatour.com/competition/2018/the-rsm-classic/leaderboard.html
Brooke Henderson finished off a terrific 30 tournament season with final round E 72 T25th at the CME Group Tour Championship while her fellow Canuck Alena Sharp shot 69 to finish T46.
Drama unfolded on the final hole. Lexi Thompson was all set to win the CME Group Tour Championship and LPGA player of the year with a gimme par putt from less that 2 feet on the final hole.
Ala' Doug Sanders at the 1970 Open at St Andrews, she missed it !!! That opened the door for Ariya Jutanugarn, who birdied her last two holes for a -5 67 and an improbable one-shot victory.
Thompson did however have enough points to win the $1m bonus with the Race to CME Globe and the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average.
The points-based LPGA Player of the Year was a tie between a pair of major champions from South Korea, So Yeon Ryu and LPGA rookie Sung Hyun Park. It was the first time the award was shared since it began in 1966.
LPGA Tour CME Group Tour Championship final leaderboard http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/cme-group-tour-championship/results
Finally as I mentioned in yesterday's post in the Race to Dubai, Jon Rahm won the DP World Tour Championship and Tommy Fleetwood had enough points to hang on to win the Race to Dubai.
If you thought golf is over, forget that as the Australasian Tour is in it's summer and for example this weekend in Japan, American star, Brooks Koepka, the defending champion, shot a final-round -4 67 -20 264, nine shots clear of second place to win the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament worth $350,000.
What a weekend and I didn't even mention our all action Raptors beating Washington to continue their winning ways !!
Winners galore !!
Bryan Angus
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