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Martin Laird made up for a boogie to win the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on the 18th hole by nailing a 20-foot birdie putt to clinch it in the playoff.

Ernie Els took a 1-stroke victory over Colin Montgomerie in the SAS Championship, where Jim Furyk's bid to become the first player to win his first three PGA Tour Champions events ended with a T-9.

After 10 tour wins, Sei Young Kim finally was victorious in a major, capturing the KPMG Women's PGA Championship by shooting a final-round 63.

Home favourite Tyrrell Hatton came through a final-round battle with France's Victor Perez to secure a four-stroke victory at the BMW PGA Championship in Surrey on Sunday.

Bryson DeChambeau has faded at this year’s Shriner’s Hospital For Children in Las Vegas, but another bomber moved to within striking distance of the lead.

Matthew Wolff posted a 61 Saturday and yet, it was slightly underwhelming if you dive deeper in this stats. As GolfDigest.com’s Christopher Powers notes, Wolff’s 61 came on the back of three eagles in five holes, including a hole-out form 115 yards.

But…

The only problem, if we had to nitpick, was his putter, a common theme in this early portion of his career. Incredibly, he shot 61 despite gaining only 0.2 strokes on the greens. He missed eight birdie putts of 16 feet or less, including on his final two holes, lipping out both times and watching 59 slip away. In reality, he could have shot 56 or 57.

Not that there is anything wrong with that!

Patrick Cantlay and Martin Laird, both previous winners at TPC Summerlin, share the third-round lead at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas. Bryson DeChambeau struggled and fell seven shots off the lead.

Aronimink has produced an elite leaderboard topped by some of the LPGA’s finest, but there is a Cinderella lurking four back in Bianca Pagdanganan. The world No. 712 is making just her sixth career LPGA start and has never finished better than T28 in an LPGA event. She’s using power to differentiate herself at the Ross-classic where leaders will be teeing off early.

Mercer Baggs at GolfChannel.com with Pagdanganan’s story.

“I got back to the car [on Thursday], and my dad picked me up, and he basically just told me – he just looked at me and said, ‘Welcome to the majors.’ I was like, ‘Thanks, Dad, it's a great welcome,’” Pagdanganan said.

“My dad knows my game pretty well. He's with me in like every tournament, so he basically just told me, 'You've just got to stop thinking,' which I agree, because I do play better when I don't think. I'm not the most mechanical, technical person, I'm all about feel, so that's all he told me: 'You've just got to trust your swing – look at your target and just get it there.'

"That's basically what I've been doing the past two rounds, and it's been working really well.”

Recent LPGA majors have been filled with upsets and surprises, from this event last year, which was won by world No. 114 Hannah Green, to this year’s Women’s Open, which was won by No. 304 Sophia Popov.

England's Tyrrell Hatton took control of the BMW PGA Championship on Saturday as overnight leaders Shane Lowry and Matthew Fitzpatrick both failed to impress on day three at Wentworth Club in Surrey.

Sei Young Kim shot a 3-under 67 Saturday to hold the lead of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

BMW PGA 36-hole leader Matthew Fitzpatrick declared Bryson DeChambeau’s approach to Winged Foot a mockery of the game after he studied some of the tracker data. From Ryan Lavner’s GolfChannel.com story:

“I just looked at Shot Tracker (Thursday), some of the places he hit it and how he’s cutting corners,” Fitzpatrick told reporters. “When he’s on, there’s no point. It doesn’t matter if I play my best; he’s going to be 50 yards in front of me off the tee. The only thing I can compete with him is putting. Which is just ridiculous.”

Fitzpatrick also lamented the idea of length overtaking the game.

“I really hope they do,” Fitzpatrick told reporters. “It’s not a skill to hit the ball a long way, in my opinion. I could put on 40 pounds. I could go and see a bio-mechanist and I could gain 40 yards; that’s actually a fact. I could put another two inches on my driver. I could gain that, but the skill in my opinion is to hit the ball straight. That’s the skill. He’s just taking the skill out of it, in my opinion. I’m sure lots will disagree. It’s just daft.”

Daft!

Patrick Cantlay, Martin Laird, Peter Malnati, Brian Harman and Austin Cook share the lead entering the weekend at the PGA Tour's Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Klara Spilkova missed the cut at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship on Friday after she was assessed a 2-stroke penalty for slow play as she walked off the 15th hole at Aronimink Golf Club.

Five birdies over the final six holes lifted Sei Young Kim to a one-shot lead after the second round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship on Friday.

British Open champion Shane Lowry and local favourite Matthew Fitzpatrick both fired seven-under-par 65s in the second round of the BMW PGA Championship to share the lead at the halfway stage on Friday.

Brittany Lincicome and Kelly Tan each shot 3-under 67 on Thursday in windy conditions at challenging Aronimink Golf Club to share the lead in the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

World No. 2 Nelly Korda, who was four strokes off the lead after the first round, has withdrawn from the KPMG Women's PGA Championship with a back injury.

When Titleist launched the TS series of drivers two years ago, it was a significant departure from the several-generations-deep 9-series. Suddenly, PGA TOUR players were talking about ball speed and Average Joes were seeing less spin. Sales increased.

Will the momentum continue?

A few weeks back, the new TSi series launched on Tour and several were in play at the U.S. Open. As Tour validation goes, that’s not half bad.

What’s new and improved with the TSi?  There are obvious changes to the weight configuration and, apparently, a new face design story as well. Those details will come soon enough.

Plenty of perspectives from Michael Bamberger at the KPMG Women’s PGA where he chats with a nice range of players about chasing distance.

Check it out here at Golf.com. And this:

The rejuvenated Lydia Ko is No. 54 on the LPGA driving distance list, with a 256-yard average. She’s 5-5 in extra-long spikes. She shot a first-round 68 here in this grand women’s major, run by the PGA of America.      

This has been said 999,999 times and here comes the millionth: women’s professional golf is, by far, a better example for nearly any of us — man, woman or child; 105-shooter or 68-shooter — who are looking for swing models. Lewis noted on Thursday that she plays in pro-ams every week with men who it the same distance that she does, yet she’s a plus-five and her gentlemen playing partners will typically break 90 only when Jupiter aligns with Mars.   

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England's Tyrrell Hatton, South Africa's Justin Harding and Spain's Adri Arnaus share the lead in the BMW PGA Championship.