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R.W. Eaks was the runaway winner at the 3M Championship on Sunday, posting the lowest score in the tournament’s 16-year history.
Richard S. Johnson won the U. S. Bank Championship by a stroke Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory.
Ji Young Oh won the LPGA State Farm Classic Sunday, making a birdie on the first playoff hole to beat Yani Tseng.
Harrington wasn't
afraid to work
Jack Newman won three consecutive holes midway through the afternoon session Saturday en route to winning the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, 5 and 3, over John Chin at Murphy Creek Golf Course.
Kyle Stanley sank a 45-foot putt for birdie on the first playoff hole of the Southern Amateur to win the event for the second time in three years. Stanley, a junior at Clemson, birdied his final hole in regulation to reach the playoff.
Final scores with earnings and relation to par from the Price Cutter Charity Championship, played July 17-20 at the par-72, 7,060-yard Highland Springs Country Club in Springfield, Mo.:
Padraig Harrington joined elite company Sunday when he became the 16th player to win consecutive British Opens. The Irishman held off a storybook run from 53-year-old Greg Norman and repelled a last-minute charge from Ian Poulter to win.
Ian Poulter strolled quickly toward the parking lot at Royal Birkdale, his wife and their two young kids tailing along. Off in the distance, they were still cheering for Padraig Harrington as he posed with the Claret Jug on the 18th green under a slowly setting sun.
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