Morikawa gets second career win on PGA tour
Collin Morikawa never looked like a winner at the Workday Charity Open until he tapped in for par on the third playoff hole, capping off a wild finish Sunday at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio..
Morikawa trailed Justin Thomas by three shots with three holes to play and managed to get into a playoff with a 6-underpar 66. Then, after watching Thomas hole a 50-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole, he had to make a 25-footer just to stay alive. He could only watch as Thomas had a 10-footer to win on the 18th on the second playoff hole.
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No. 10 when Thomas had to lay up from behind a tree and made bogey, and Morikawa took two putts from just inside 10 feet for his second career victory, and first against a strong PGA Tour field. His other victory was the Barracuda Championship last year, the same week as a World Golf Championship.
It was a shocker for Thomas, too. He lost a twoshot lead at the start in three holes. He ran off four straight birdies and had 10 consecutive one-putts to build a three-shot lead through 15 holes. But he bogeyed two of his last three holes for a 69. They finished at 19-under 269.
European Tour: Carrying his own bag, Marc Warren closed with a 2-under 70 for a one-shot victory in the Austrian Open, the first European Tour event since the coronavirus pandemic shut down the tour in March.
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Soccer: Major League Soccer postponed a match between Toronto FC and D.C. United shortly before it was scheduled to begin Sunday morning because of one unconfirmed positive test and one inconclusive test for the coronavirus. … For the first time since the coronavirus shut down sports and chased away spectators, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe were starring in Sunday’s return of fans to elite European soccer. Only 5,000 people were allowed inside Le Havre’s 25,000-seat Stade Oceane to see the French League 2 club take on PSG’s star-studded squad. Upper tiers of seating were empty. … Sevilla beat Mallorca 2-0 in the Spanish league to move within a draw of qualifying for the Champions League next season. … Dominic Solanke scored twice as Bournemouth’s bid for Premier League survival was boosted by a 4-1 win over Champions League-chasing Leicester, which was reduced to 10 men.
Tennis: Tennys Sandgren celebrated a game-clinching point in pandemic-appropriate fashion, retrieving the ball himself in the absence of ball kids, and exchanging an awkward fist-to-elbow bump with a teammate as the World TeamTennis season started before mask-wearing fans in West Virginia. WTT’s nine teams have come together The Greenbrier resort for their three-week season. Matches normally are played at various sites around the country but everyone was brought to one location because of the pandemic.
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