Buffs add and subtract at receiver
Antonio heads to CU while recent commit Horton gone to WVU
Colorado lost one on Sunday, gained another.
Ten days after committing to CU, Marshall transfer EJ Horton announced Sunday that he is heading to West Virginia instead.
Meanwhile, the Buffaloes got a commitment from former Northwestern State receiver Javon Antonio.
Listed at 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, Antonio will be the biggest receiver on the CU roster. He has one season of eligibility remaining.
Last season, Antonio earned second team Allsouthland Conference honors after catching 68 passes for 684 yards and six touchdowns. He was second on the team in catches and yards and led the Demons in receiving touchdowns.
Antonio was receiver but
also second team All-southland Conference in the Covidshortened spring 2021 season. In five games, he caught 31 passes for 521 yards and four touchdowns, leading the Demons in all three categories. He reshirted in the 2021 fall season.
After starring at East St. John (La.) High School, Antonio played two seasons at Hinds (Miss.) Community College. He caught 22 passes in each of his two seasons at Hinds.
Horton committed
to
CU on May 4 after catching 16 passes in three seasons at Marshall. Instead of CU, he has elected to stay in the Mountain State.
CU has 76 projected scholarship players for next season, including 12 receivers.
Jason Day won his first PGA Tour event in five years Sunday, shooting 9-under 62 for a one-shot victory over Austin Eckroat and Si Woo Kim at the AT&T Byron Nelson.
Day, winless in 105 starts since the 2018 Wells Fargo, took his first outright lead when he broke a tie at 20 under with hometown favorite Scottie Scheffler with a chip-in for birdie at the par-4 12th.
It was the second-toughest hole of the week after being converted from a par-5 from the first two years the Nelson was held at TPC Craig Ranch in Mckinney, about 30 miles north of Dallas.
Playing on Mother’s Day a little more than a year after losing his mom to cancer, Day finished 23 under while ending his victory drought the week before the PGA Championship.
The only major among the 35-year-old Australian’s 13 wins was the 2015 PGA. Day’s first career PGA Tour victory came at the 2010 Nelson.
C.T. Pan finished at 21-under 263 with two eagles on the back nine in a careerlow 62, driving the green on the par-4 14th and making a 24-foot putt. His eagle at the par-5 18th got him within a shot of Day.
Ryan Palmer, the 46-yearold Texan who lives not far from Craig Ranch, shot 68 and finished four strokes back while trying to become the oldest PGA Tour winner since Phil Mickelson won the 2021 PGA at 50.
Ko claims Founders Cup, returns to No. 1
Jin Young Ko regained the No. 1 ranking in women’s golf by overcoming a four-shot deficit to win the Founders Cup on the first playoff hole Sunday when defending champion Minjee Lee three-putted for bogey.
In winning for the 15th time on the LPGA Tour and the second time this year, Ko closed with a 5-under 67 in tough, windy conditions. The 27-year-old South Korean forced the playoff making a clutch downhill birdie from roughly 15 feet on No. 18 to tie for the lead.
The players went back to the par 4 No. 18 at the Upper Montclair Country Club in New Jersey for the playoff. Both players hit the green with their second shots with Lee being about 15 feet away and closer than Ko, who had a winding putt from right to left.
Ko snuggled her birdie attempt to tap-in range and Lee went for the win, but putted it six feet past the hole, missing the par saver to the right.
Johnson takes LIV Tulsa title in playoff
Dustin Johnson overcame a triple bogey on the 10th hole Sunday by making birdie on the 18th hole to join a playoff and another birdie on the 18th to win LIV Golf Tulsa for his first win this year.
This one required some clutch shots on the closing hole at rain-soaked Cedar Ridge for Johnson to take down British Open champion Cameron Smith and Branden Grace.
Johnson, who closed with a 3-under 67, was trailing Smith (61) and Grace (65) by one shot when he hit his drive into the left rough on the 18th, partially blocked by a tree. He hit sand wedge to about 12 feet and made the birdie.
In the playoff, all three players were roughly on the same line. Grace missed to the left, Johnson holed his putt from 15 feet and Smith missed from 12 feet to the right of the hole.