SPORTS
Jordan Spieth will go into the U.S. PGA Championship next month looking to join an elite club and complete a career Grand Slam after his memorable British Open triumph, Sunday.
— Grayson Murray, a 23-year-old American rookie, fired a three-under par 68 Sunday to win the Barbasol Championship, edging compatriot Chad Collins by a stroke for his first U.S. PGA title.
Murray, who missed the cut in nine of his prior 23 tour starts, sank a tap-in birdie at the par-5 16th hole for his margin of victory at the Robert Trent Jones Grand National layout in Auburn, Alabama.
“I was in control. I didn’t get out of my game plan once,” Murray said, calling his tee shots “the best I’ve ever driven it in my life.”
Murray took the $630,000 top prize after finishing 72 holes on 21-under par 263 with Collins second on 264 and Brian Gay, Tag Ridings and Scott Stallings next in an all-U.S. top 10 on 265.
The event, played opposite the British Open at Royal Birkdale, featured players largely fighting to reach the U.S. PGA points list top 125 and qualify for the season-ending playoffs that begin next month.