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There’s just one more week to go in the FedEx Cup playoffs and eight days left before U.S. Ryder Cup team captain Zach Johnson announces his six captain’s choices.
On Sunday, four more Americans joined world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler and U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark on the team. Open Championship winner Brian Harman, Patrick Cantlay, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele round out the top six in Ryder Cup points and are automatic qualifiers.
PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka, who left the PGA Tour for the LIV Golf League last year, fell from fifth to seventh in points. The five-time major champion will have to hope that Johnson gives him one of his captain’s choices.
One thing that is certain: Norway’s Viktor Hovland will be competing for the Europeans when they take on the Americans on Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club outside Rome.
Hovland, 25, picked up the biggest victory of his career with a 2-shot win at the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields outside Chicago. He did it with the best round of his career.
Another golf prodigy, Alexa Pano, captured her first LPGA Tour win at the ISPS Handa World Invitational in Northern Ireland.
Here’s what happened in professional golf this weekend:
What happened on the PGA Tour
BMW Championship
Winner: Viktor Hovland
How he won: Hovland made the turn 4 strokes behind the leaders and produced one of the greatest back nines in PGA Tour history. He was 7-under on the back nine, making birdies on all but two holes, and set the Olympia Fields course record with a 9-under 61 to beat Matt Fitzpatrick and Scheffler by 2 strokes.
Hovland’s 61 was the lowest final-round score by a winner of a FedEx Cup playoffs event. Jason Day and Charley Hoffman carded 62s at The Barclays in 2015 and the Deutsche Bank Championship in…
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