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Welcome to the Dew Sweeper, your one-stop shop to catch up on the weekend action from the golf world. From the professional tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here’s every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of Sept. 23. Danny Willett’s rise from the dead continues At the end

7:33 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Sebastian Munoz of Colombia made a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to force a playoff, and then beat Sung-jae Im with a par on the first extra hole to win the Sanderson Farms Championship for his first PGA Tour victory. Munoz, who closed with a

Sebastian Munoz needed to work a little overtime for his first PGA Tour win at the Sanderson Farms Championship, but it was his play over the 72 holes before downing Sungjae Im on the first hole of a playoff that made it all possible. Munoz played the 72 holes in 18 under par—a number that

For the first time in tournament history—which dates back to 1968 and the inaugural Magnolia State Classic—the Sanderson Farms Championship has its own date on the PGA Tour calendar, and with that all the spoils of a full-status regular-season event. A full 500 FedEx Cup points go to the winner, along with an invitation to

7:43 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Kirk Triplett birdied the final hole Saturday for a 2-under 68 and a share of the lead with Ken Duke going into the final round of the PGA Tour Champions’ Sanford International. Duke shot 65. This is the first time Duke has started the final round

In the 64-year history of the BMW PGA Championship, only one American has won the title, Arnold Palmer in 1975 (when it was the Penfold PGA). And that 44-year run of futility is likely to be extended. By close of play on day three at Wentworth, three of Uncle Sam’s more adventurous nephews are in

8:01 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Sebastian Munoz of Colombia made a 15-foot birdie on the 17th hole and saved par at the end Saturday afternoon for a 9-under 63, giving him a one-shot lead in the Sanderson Farms Championship as he tries to give South America back-to-back winners on the PGA Tour.

VIRGINIA WATER, England — It was a case of “as you were” at the top of the leader board after the third round of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. The names at the summit — Jon Rahm and Danny Willett — remain the same after both shot four-under par 68s to reach 15-under par

Thorbjorn Olesen won’t be playing on the European Tour anytime soon. In late August, Olesen plead not guilty to sexual assault, being drunk on an aircraft, and common assault at Uxbridge Magistrates Court outside London. The Ryder Cupper, who has been granted unconditional bail, appeared again in court on Wednesday—the day before the European Tour’s

9:35 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Byeong Hun An was making so many birdies in the Sanderson Farms Championship he worried the storms would cost him momentum. Even waking up at 4 a.m. CT to play 25 holes Friday didn’t slow him. An finished off a 6-under 66 in the morning and then

VIRGINIA WATER, England — Never mind those 17 sub-70 rounds in succession on the PGA Tour. Even more impressively during his admittedly still brief professional career, Viktor Hovland has never failed to shoot in the 60s on the European Tour. Not even once. Of course, the three-under-par 69 with which the 22-year-old Norwegian began the

7:28 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Kirk Triplett shot a 4-under 66 in windy conditions Friday to take a one-shot lead in the opening round of the Sanford International. Triplett, a winner in March at the Hoag Classic for his seventh PGA Tour Champions title, entered 10th in the Charles Schwab Cup

As ever where Rory McIlroy is concerned, there was a lot going on. But after adding a second round of three-under par 69 to his opening 76, the four-time major champion will be around for the weekend at Wentworth and the second half of the BMW PGA Championship. Only just though. At one-over par, McIIroy

Tony Romo playing in a PGA Tour event is nothing new. But for the first time, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback will tee it up in a tournament during the NFL season. In other words, he could wind up skipping his day job for a chance at his dream job. Romo will compete in next

12:49 AM ET Associated Press PARKER, Colo. — Lukas Michel of Australia twice came back from 3-hole deficits Thursday and won the U.S. Mid-Amateur, becoming the first international winner in the event’s 39-year history and earning a spot in the Masters. Michel had a 1-up lead over Joseph Deraney after four holes in the 36-hole

It hasn’t been an Aussie invasion, precisely, maybe more of an intrusion, but those from Down Under have left an indelible mark on USGA championships this summer, including a historic U.S. Mid-Amateur victory from Lukas Michel on Thursday. Michel, 25, became the first foreign-born player in its 39-year history to win the U.S. Mid-Am, defeating

6:54 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Tom Hoge felt relieved to make his way back to the PGA Tour. He is starting the new season with a clear head, no stress and great scores. One week after he was runner-up at the Greenbrier for the best finish of his PGA Tour career, Hoge

With her victory at the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship on Thursday, Ina Kim-Schaad, 35, becomes an immediate contender for the unofficial title of USGA champion with the most unconventional resume. How many national champions can say they took 11 years off from the competitive game? Kim-Schaad, who defeated Talia Campbell, 3 and 2, in the

Last Friday at The Greenbrier, on his final hole, Kevin Chappell had an 11-foot birdie putt to shoot the second 58 in PGA Tour history. The first came from Jim Furyk, at the 2016 Travelers Championship, and that round put him in extremely rare professional company—only Ryo Ishikawa, on the Japan Golf Tour, and Stephen

11:25 PM ET Associated Press Tiger Woods is playing another skins game with two big differences. This one is in Japan and will be broadcast live around the world by Discovery-owned GOLFTV. The exhibition is called “The Challenge: Japan Skins,” and it will be played Oct. 21 leading into the PGA Tour’s first official event

Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama are set to square off in a globally-televised skins game, the first in a series of annual competitions staged by GOLFTV. “The Challenge: Japan Skins” will take place Oct. 21 ahead of the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship at Accordia Golf Narashino C.C. in Chiba, Japan. The

12:19 PM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — European captain Padraig Harrington has selected Robert Karlsson as his first vice captain for the 2020 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Karlsson performed the same role under Thomas Bjorn when the European team regained the trophy at Le Golf National in Paris last year.

VIRGINIA WATER, England — One month after announcing a four-point plan—regulation, education, innovation and (reduction of) field sizes—to counter the cancer that is slow play in professional golf, the European Tour is proving as good as its word. At this week’s BMW PGA Championship, two of those four building blocks will be in play. Because

Editor’s Note: Three weeks after an Irishman won the first Open Championship played on the island in almost seven decades, Shane Lowry sat down with Golf Digest having had time to savor the enormity of his accomplishment. Lowry, 32, was interviewed by Contributing Editor John Huggan before the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship at Medinah, and

9:30 AM ET LPGA Tour hopeful Celia Barquín Arozamena was murdered at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa, on Sept. 17, 2018. Collin Richards pled guilty to first-degree murder on June 14, 2019, and was sentenced to life in prison last month. On the one-year anniversary of Barquín Arozamena’s death, South Carolina senior golfer Ana

Upgraded for the 2019-’20 PGA Tour season, the Sanderson Farms Championship has a standalone date for the first time in its history. That means this week’s tournament comes with all of the benefits of a standard, regular-season tour event. The overall purse will be $6.6 million with a $1,188,000 payday for the winner, which is

10:12 AM ET Tiger Woods‘ girlfriend is no longer named in a wrongful death lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant that bears the golfer’s name. According to court records from state court in Palm Beach County, Florida, Erica Herman, Woods’ girlfriend and general manager of The Woods Jupiter, was voluntarily removed as a defendant in

Akshay Bhatia, the 17-year-old prodigy from Wake Forest, N.C., is making his professional debut at this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship. Bhatia’s amateur degree is not in doubt, becoming the first golfer still in high school to compete for the United States in Walker Cup history just two weeks ago. However, while Bhatia submitted promising starts

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. — The “official” testing of drivers on the PGA Tour does not begin until early next year, but the first of two informational meetings on the implementation of the new rule was held at last week’s season-opening event, A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. For now, most players weren’t getting

5:15 PM ET GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Redemption. Validation. Closure. The 2019 Solheim Cup was all of these things and more for Suzann Pettersen, who holed the decisive putt for Europe, securing the narrowest of wins (14 1/2-13 1/2) amid scenes of delirium on the 18th green. Pettersen was a left-field captain’s pick when Catriona Matthew