Winner, Winner, Happy Birthday Winner

After firing a third round 66 on Friday to craft a four shot lead at the Fort Worth Invitational Justin Rose shot out of the gate on Sunday. He started by birdying his first two holes and finished his front nine with six birds and one bogey for a sizzling 30 that rivaled the scorching Texas heat.

Rose had it in cruise control the rest of the way for his three shot win over Brooks Koepka and finished with a stunning six under par 64. But, oh what might have been. He was putting lights out but had a few chances to go even lower. He missed a five footer on ten, an eleven foot birdie on the twelfth and a short seven foot birdie on the thirteenth. And a drive into the rough on eighteen had him scrambling for a bogey on a hole he had parred all week. That’s four strokes that cost him a shot at a possible 62. Oh well, I guess he’ll just have to make do with his ninth PGA Tour win at Hogan’s historic Colonial.

“Really, really proud of this one, “ he said. “This is a special victory for me. I think obviously just winning here at this venue I think is really what means so much. A tournament that I pick up the trophy and the first thing I saw was Ben Hogan’s name twice. It sort of says a lot.”

Major championship golf is tough on any level and playing in back to back majors has to be a bit tougher. But Paul Broadhurst showed no signs of wear as he literally putted his way to his second senior major at the KitchenAid PGA Senior Championship.

Broadhurst backed up his third round 64 with a bogey free 63 to finish at nineteen under and four shots ahead of Tim Petrovic. His week with the flat stick was nothing short of miraculous. He actually one putted 36 of the 72 greens. That’s as hot as a putter can get.

Of all the birthday presents a golfer could wish for a win has to be tops on the list. And that’s just what Minjee Lee ordered up for herself at the LPGA Volvik Championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Lee shot a final round 68 to win her fourth LPGA title on her twenty-second birthday. Lee battled I.K. Kim all afternoon and when Lee made bogey on seventeen a playoff looked possible. But a birdie at the par five eighteenth gave her the one shot victory and the happiest of happy birthdays.