The focus in golf shifts to Ireland and Scotland for the next three weeks, with the Irish Open at Ballyliffin, then the Scottish Open at Gullane then the Open at Carnoustie, and of course through all of that the fortnight at the Wimbledon Championship.
This weekend Brooke Henderson was in contention at the KPMG Women's PGA and Francesco Molinari who has been red hot in Europe with a first and second simply blistered the TPC Potomac to lap the field including the host Tiger..
Here's my Monday morning shag bag.
* http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/kpmgwomenspgachampionship/results
Brooke Henderson shot 74 at the LPGA PGA, to end up T6 -5, the 4th time in 4 starts inside the T10. She couldn't keep up the South Korean pair, after making 3 bogey's on her front nine.
* Sung Hyun Park beat So Yeon Ryu on the second playoff hole for her second major championship, the first was the US Open.
* watch out for 19 year old Japanese teen Nasa Hataoko, who shot an -8 64 to lead in the clubhouse at -10 but dropped out of the playoff with a par on the par-4 18th. She won last week and almost made it two in a row.
* http://www.europeantour.com/
Alex Noren birdied two of his last three holes to be the last man standing at Le Golf National to claim his second Rolex Series title on a dramatic final afternoon at the HNA Open de France.
* He birdied the 12th, 16th and 17th to get in the clubhouse at 67 -7. However Julian Suri put his second on the 18th in the water resulting in a double-bogey to finish at -6 then England's Chris Wood made bogey's at 15 and 17 to finish -6 as well.
* big names like Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas and Sergio Garcia were all in the mix on this difficult course which will host the Ryder Cup in September.
* https://www.pgatour.com/leaderboard.html
Francesco Molinari (Frankie) will be part of the European Ryder Cup team but he chose to skip the French Open to play at the Quicken Loans on the PGA Tour to improve his status in the Fed Ex Cup and it turned out to be a good decision.
*Showing the form he has displayed with a win and a second in his last two events, he shot 67 65 65 62 -21 to lap the field by 8 clear shots to tie the PGA Tour record.
* Tiger hosts the event and he was solid apart from the short putts he missed, finishing T4 70 65 68 66 -11.
*Canadians: David Hearn T41 -2, Corey Connors T41 -2, Adam Hadwin T48 -1.
* http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/championships/2018/u-s--senior-open.html#!Scoring
*There was a time 25 years ago before Tiger when the Senior Tour was more exciting than the PGA Tour with stars like Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Hale Irwin, Tom Watson etal still playing great golf.
*In my opinion it has lost that star appeal these days with a few exceptions. Remember David Toms ?. He's still plugging away occasionally and he went out and shot -66 on a very tough Broadmoor GC to win the Senior US Open with a final total of -3.
* He edged Miguel Jimenez, Jerry Kelly and Tim Petrovic, all at -2.
* Stephen Ames ended up T31 with a final +1 71.
Bryan Angus
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