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Jon Rahm fought off Ryder Cup teammates Rory McIlroy and Tyrrell Hatton to win the Abu Dhabi Championship on Sunday for his first European tour title in four years, marking a successful start to the Spaniard’s career rebuild following the demise of LIV Golf.
Shuri Sakuma has won her first LPGA Tour title, taking the Toto Japan Classic on Sunday with a closing round of 8-under 64 for a four-stoke victory over fellow Japanese Aki Iwai.
Ben James made the most of another 36-hole lead with birdies on his opening three holes that propelled him to a 6-under 66 and a four-shot lead Saturday in the World Wide Technology Championship as he closes in on his first PGA Tour title.
Jon Rahm will take a one-shot lead into the final day of the Abu Dhabi Championship after shooting 6-under 66 in the third round Saturday.
Ben James ran off five straight birdies around the turn and finished with an aggressive tee shot for one last birdie and an 8-under 64 on Friday to build a one-shot lead going into the weekend at the World Wide Technology Championship.
Chris Kirk was practically flawless Thursday by hitting each of the wide fairways and missing only one green on his way to a 9-under 63 for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the World Wide Technology Championship.
BC Partners, a private equity firm that offered up $300 million to allow the league to continue, has withdrawn its offer, Bob Weeks writes.
Key developments of LIV Golf from the first threat to the PGA Tour to the launch of the league to the decision Thursday that it will not go forward and began a wind-down of operations.
LIV Golf is shuttering after five years that fractured the sport’s landscape, announcing Thursday in bankruptcy court it plans to wind down operations instead of launching a new version because it didn’t have enough support.
Rory McIlroy fared the best of the three Race to Dubai contenders in a low-scoring first round of the Abu Dhabi Championship. All were far behind Francesco Laporta.
Miyu Yamashita, who won the LPGA’s Maybank Championship in Malaysia over the weekend, was among three players atop the leaderboard after Thursday’s first round of the Toto Japan Classic.
LIV 2.0. appears to be dead. The Financial Times’ Sujeet Indap reports BC Partners Credit has ended its bid to relaunch LIV Golf after its bankruptcy filing in September.
LIV Golf wanted to “destroy” the European tour, the head of the worldwide circuit has said as he prepares to welcome back many of the players who defected to the Saudi-funded breakaway league over the past four years.
Canadian ended the week tied for fourth and pushed himself up 17 spots on the FedEx Cup Fall standings, Bob Weeks writes.
Andrew Novak saw his six-shot lead cut in half until he ran off three straight birdies on the back nine Sunday that sent him to a 2-under 69 and a five-shot victory in the Mexico Open, his first individual title on the PGA Tour.
Miyu Yamashita successfully defended her title at the LPGA Tour’s Maybank Championship on Sunday, beating China’s Yan Liu by two strokes.
