Thoughts from the weekend..including Hinako Shibuno and the top 125 list.. final scoreboards

For most who have moved on from following golf now that the majors are over, enjoy, however as devotees know, there is an awful lot happening all year round and this weekend was no different.

Here are some highlights for me.

* Taylor Pendrith ("Pendy") from Richmond Hill is another good guy Canadian, playing on the MacKenzie Tour (PGA Tour Canada), and after two straight top 3 finishes, he broke through at the 1932byBateman Open in Edmonton, and he did it in style with a final round, course record 62, -17 total for his first victory on tour.
Final scoreboard https://www.pgatour.com/canada/en_us/tournaments/1932bybateman-open/leaderboard.html

* Corey Connors (67) and Mac Hughes (69) finished T22 -13 at the regular season ending Wyndham Championship, in Greensboro. So they will begin the Fed Ex Cup playoffs next week at the Northern Trust Open in New Jersey with Adam Hadwin, Roger Sloan and Nick Taylor.
Here are the top 125 who made the playoffs : https://www.pgatour.com/fedexcup/official-standings.html

* while Brooke Henderson shot (69 71 74 72 -2) T41 at the Woburn GC in the AIG Women's British Open the story, probably of the weekend was a cute little 20 year old Japanese girl, playing her first LPGA Tour event, Hinako Shibuno ( 66 69 67 68 -18) who birdied 5 of her last 9 holes to catch Lizette Salas, and pass her with a 25 foot birdie putt at the last to win, and change her life forever. She will be a huge star in Japan, likely on the world stage as well.

She put the icing on the cake by reading the traditional thank you to sponsors, volunteers and ground crew in broken English to the rapturous applause of all who were watching.
Final scoreboard https://www.lpga.com/leaderboard

* Lee Trevino was the last player to win a 72 hole PGA Tour event without making a bogey until Sunday when a Carolinian, JT Poston shot -8 62 on a very easy Sedgefield CC at the Wyndham Championship, to win his first PGA Tour title, and he did it bogey free with a par saving 8 footer at the last.
Final leaderboard https://www.pgatour.com/competition/2019/wyndham-championship/leaderboard.html

* Jim Nelford was the last Canadian to win the prestigious Western Amateur until Saturday when NHL referee, Garrett Rank beat an American called Daniel Wetterich from Cincinnati 3 and 2 at the Point O' Woods G&CC, in Benton Harbour, Michigan.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are amongst the illustrious list of past champions.



Bryan Angus