Cardinals crush Cubs to claim NL Central title
Championship in a tie for 26th place despite a 15 under par total.
birdies on his last six holes but was still seven shots behind champion Victor Perez of France.
“I’m honestly sick of coming back over to the European Tour, shooting 15 under
winner McIlroy was quoted by Sky Sports.
“I don’t think the courses are set up hard enough. There are no penalties for bad shots, and it’s tough when you come back when it’s like that. I don’t feel like good golf is regarded as well as it could be.
“I think if the European Tour want to put forth a really good product, the golf courses and setups need to be tougher.”
In his other recent European Tour starts, the Northern Irishman carded a 14 under at the European Masters only to lose to Sebastian Soderberg in a play-off.
week’s PGA Championship at Wentworth but was still nine shots off the pace of champion Danny Willett.
Jack Flaherty threw seven solid innings as the St. Louis Cardinals claimed the National League Central title with a tionals in the wild-card game Tuesday, with the winner to meet the Los Angeles Dodgers in another NL division series matchup.
the season and everybody knew that,” said Cards pitcher Adam Wainwright. “I
because we had good players.
got to go out and perform.”
The third-place Cubs ended a disappointing season with a one-sided loss for manager Joe Maddon, whose was let go by the team
Cardinals manager Mike Shildt hoped to save Flaherty of the playoffs, but elected to start him Sunday with the division title up in the air.
with an 0.91 earned-run average, Flaherty is expected to start game two against the Braves.
Elsewhere, pitcher Gerrit Cole earned his career-high 20th win to cap a dominant season for the Houston Astros, who beat the Los Angeles Angels 8-5.
Cole, who improved to 20-5 on the
the top ERA in the American League.
Cole posted his franchise-record 16th straight win as the Astros wound up with
post-season.
Quarterback Russell Wilson (No. 3) of the Seattle Seahawks runs with the ball against middle linebacker Jordan Hicks (No. 58) and free safety D.J. Swearinger (No. 36) of the Arizona Cardinals in the second half of the NFL game at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.