Hatton bags first PGA Tour win
2018: Tiger Woods took the outright lead of a golf tournament for the first time since August 2015 as the former world No1 briefly topped the leaderboard during the second round of the Valspar Championship.
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The Steve Prescott Man of Steel was last week overlooked for Shaun Wane’s first England squad despite starting every game of Great Britain’s autumn tour.
But he continues to grow into his role in Lam’s side and, with Liam Farrell and Sam Powell excellent alongside him, the Warriors eventually battled past gutsy Hull KR.
Lam said: “It was always going to take time for Jackson and the rest of the spine of Tommy Leuluai, Sam Powell and Bevan French. They’ve still got so much improvement in them as well and they’re aware of that.
“I said in the dressing room that I was proud of our resilience – sometimes you’ve got to win those ugly games and this time last year we’d have lost.”
Rovers had to contend with losing Joe Keyes, Will Maher and Matty Storton to injury, with the latter suffering an ankle issue from a Ben Flower tackle that was placed on report.
Coach Tony Smith wouldn’t be drawn on that incident but said:
TYRRELL HATTON won the first PGA Tour title of his career with a one-shot win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational last night.
In blustery conditions at Bay Hill, the Buckinghamshirebased star battled to a two-over 74 to beat playing partner Marc Leishman and bank £1.28million.
Hatton, right, is the first English winner of
WIGAN – Tries: Hastings Marshall. Goals: Hardaker (3). HULL – Tries: Ryan, Minikin, Brierley (2). the event a just month before the Masters.
He also landed the biggest victory of his career a week after former
US Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger questioned the ability of Europeans to win on the PGA Tour. World
(2),
Farrell,
Brierley.
Powell,
Goals:
No32 Hatton started the final round with a two-shot lead and led by three after playing the first 10 in level par. But he pulled his tee shot on the 11th into water on his way to a double bogey before parring his way home. On the last, Hatton kept cool to get home in two putts to finish on four under.