Brooks Koepka celebrates after winning at TPC Scottsdale

Scottsdale, Arizona - Brooks Koepka started Super Bowl Sunday five

shots off the 54 hole lead held by Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffelle

at 18 under par. After missing his last three cuts, he was in a better place

mentally, but could he make up that much ground with a stacked leaderboard?

When Spieth and Xander both struggled on the front nine, Koepka kept

moving up the board. By the time he reached the 17th tee, he was one

shot back of the lead. He blocked his 3 wood tee shot short right of the

green - and faced a 32 yard short sided pitch to a back right flag. An up

and down birdie would get him a share of the lead, but instead the 31

year old former No.1 chipped in for eagle (his second of the day) and

nabbing the outright lead at 19 under par. His challengers all failed to

match him, his final round 65 defeated Xander Schauffelle and K.H Lee

by a single shot. Jordan Spieth (who vaulted up the leaderboard on

Saturday with an electric 61), Carlos Ortiz and Steve Stricker all finished

tied for 4th at 17 under par.

Afterward Koepka reflected on overcoming his injuries, "I went through it

mentally," Koepka said. "I think that's probably the toughest thing, where

you don't know if you're ever going to be the same competitor that you were.

You go through some real dark places, and it's not a fun place to be."

The win was Brooks Koepka's 8th career PGA Tour victory and moves

him to 12th in the Fedex Cup standings.

Scores: https://www.pgatour.com/leaderboard.html?cid=USAT_top5LB_FTW

Patrick Reed celebrates after his five stroke victory at Torrey Pines South

La Jolla, California - Patrick Reed shot a final round 68 Sunday to overcome

another rules controversy and win the Farmers Insurance Open by five

strokes at Torrey Pines.

Reed and Carlos Ortiz shared a two-stroke lead over Jon Rahm

and Viktor Hovland thru 54 holes.

Ortiz bogeyed the first and never recovered - stumbling to 6-over-par

78, falling into a tie for 29th at 4-under-par. Hovland briefly made a

run, tying the lead after birdies on the seventh and ninth, but Reed

took command when he drained a 45ft eagle putt on the par-5 sixth

(the same hole where he sank a 40 ft bomb for eagle in rd 3 Saturday).

Reed ran a string of 8 straight pars on the back nine before finishing

off the field with an exclamation point birdie at the last to finish at 14

under par total of 274.

Reed's victory was overshadowed by the embedded ball controversy

that took place during Saturday's third round. The PGA Tour rules

officials declared on Sunday that Reed followed the proper procedure,

but many tour players past and present felt that Reed manipulated

the rules by picking up and moving his ball away from the it's original

location prior to the rules official arriving on the scene. Perhaps the

biggest part of the drama that infuriated so many, was the fact that

the ball bounced prior to supposedly becoming embedded - and lack

of transparency while he removed the ball from the ground were issues

cited by many that felt Reed's reputation from past violations removes

any benefit of the doubt that many other PGA tour players would seem

to receive in similar circumstances.

Reed declined to speak about the matter after the win, staying positive.

“I knew coming into today was going to be a grind, especially with that

leaderboard and seeing how many big names were right around there

at the top." Hovland, Finau, Schauffelle, Norlander and Palmer finished

tied for second at 9 under par.

Scores: https://www.pgatour.com/leaderboard.html

Tyrrell Hatton celebrates after winning the HSBC Championship

Abu Dhabi - Tyrrell Hatton notched his sixth European Tour title in

winning the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Sunday. Hatton

began the day a stroke behind 54 hole-leader Rory McIlroy, which

set the stage for an eventful final round clash. Hatton started fast,

making three birdies on the outward nine to gain momentum over

the Ulsterman.

The back nine failed to deliver the highly anticipated drama, as

McIlroy faltered bogeying the 16th, Hatton surged - making 3

more birdies on the inward side to seize command of the HSBC

Championship.

The Englishman carded a bogey-free six-under-par 66 for a total

score of 18 under par, four-shots ahead of the Aussie Jason Scrivener,

who finished solo second, while McIlroy finished a further stroke back

with his final-round 72.

Scores: https://www.europeantour.com/european-tour/abu-dhabi-hsbc-championship-2021/results?round=4