Golf review: Min Woo Lee wins Scottish Open, Glover ends 10-year drought
Dramatic play-off win in Scotland for Australia’s Lee over Detry and Fitzpatrick
EUROPEAN TOUR
Min Woo Lee of Australia made a 10-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to win a three-way play-off against Matt Fitzpatrick and Thomas Detry at the Scottish Open on Sunday for his second European Tour title.
Lee closed with a seven-under 64 and was the first to finish at 18-under 268 at The Renaissance Club, which featured a 90-minute weather delay late in the final round.
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Detry (67) and Fitzpatrick (67) each made par on the 18th to join him in the play-off.
Lee and Detry also secured spots in the British Open next week at Royal St George’s, along with Jack Senior of England, who tied for 10th.
Ian Poulter, Ryan Palmer and Irish Open winner Lucas Herbert finished a shot behind, with US Open champion Jon Rahm another stroke back in seventh. That meant Rahm lost his No. 1 world ranking to Dustin Johnson.
Rahm’s hopes effectively ended when his second into the par-5 16th was a bounce away from being tight, instead rolling off a mound away from the green. He failed to get up-and-down and made par.
Wade Ormsby of Australia narrowly missed out on a spot in the British Open. His consolation prize was winning 204 bottles of whisky for making a hole-in-one on the 12th, one bottle for each yard of the hole.
PGA TOUR
Lucas Glover ended 10 years without a victory when he birdied five of his last seven holes for a seven-under 64 to win the John Deere Classic by two shots.
Glover won for the fourth time in his career, the most recent in 2011 at Quail Hollow.
He was among two dozen players separated by three shots on the rain-softened TPC Deere Run when the former US Open champion went on a tear.
It started with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-3 12th hole. He hit his approach into four feet and seven feet on the next two holes, and then flushed a 7-iron to three feet on the 15th to take the lead.
Glover finished his run with a 12-foot birdie on the par-5 17th, and a 6-foot putt to save par from the bunker on the 18th that he figured would come in handy.
It never got to that. No one could catch him.
Kevin Na tried to make a run with three birdies in four holes until he was slowed by a bogey on the 15th and couldn’t make up enough ground. He shot a 68. Ryan Moore also closed with a 68 for a runner-up finish.
PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS
Jim Furyk recovered from a rough start in the final round of the US Senior Open to hold off Retief Goosen and Mike Weir and win by three strokes.
Making his debut in the event, Furyk closed with a one-over 71 to become the eighth player to win both the US Open and Senior Open, joining the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Billy Casper and Gary Player.
Furyk finished at seven-under 273 at Omaha Country Club.
He won the US Open in 2003 at Olympia Fields south of Chicago, is a 17-time winner on the PGA Tour and won his first two PGA Tour Champions events upon turning 50 last year. The victory makes Furyk exempt into the US Open next year at The Country Club outside Boston, where in 1999 he won a key singles match against Sergio Garcia when the American rallied to win the Ryder Cup.
LPGA TOUR
Nasa Hataoka of Japan was declared the winner of the Marathon LPGA Classic when the final round was washed out by relentless, heavy rain.
Hataoka had a six-shot lead over Elizabeth Szokol and Mina Harigae. She won for the fourth time on the LPGA Tour, and her first LPGA title in two years.