Bra-less Charley Hull Rebounds Big as Cameron Shines, Rory Rests!
Charley Hull bounces back strong, Cameron Young triumphs, and Rory McIlroy steps back—Power Nine roundup delivers surprises!
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Every Tuesday, SI Golf will rank nine news makers from the golf world. Sometimes we’ll cast a wide net. Tell us what you think on the SI Golfax account. One Cameron Yan, it finally happened. After seven career runner-ups, the most by any player on tour without a win since 1983, Young won the Windom Championship by six strokes for his maiden victory. and being the 1,000th unique winner in tour history as the cherry on top of his triumph. Now he’s a likely selection for the US RDER Cup team. Two, Mia Mashida. A day after her 24th birthday, the LPGA rookie captured her first major and LPGA win at the AIG Women’s Open, finishing to strokes ahead of runners up Charlie Hull and Minami Katsu. Four of the last nine major champions have been from Japan and none are repeats. Speaking of duplicates, all five of women’s golf’s annual majors are now completed and the LPGA has no two-time winners this season through 20 tournaments. Three, Rory Malo, he’s one of the few players who can spark a controversy by not playing. The FedEx St. Ju the first of three playoff events will be without the world’s second ranked player. Already safely in next week’s BMW Championship, Malro will begin the end of his season there. It raises the question, is the Tur Championship’s new stroke play format going to yield more players skipping the playoff opener? Now with the staggered strokes format gone at East Lake, everyone begins the week on equal footing. Therefore, accumulating points for a strong standing after the BMW championship is vital to a player’s hopes of becoming the FedEx Cup champion. Not having all the top players to begin the postseason isn’t ideal for the tour or NBC’s ratings, but think of it like a first round buy. Changes might be coming. Though four Chris Kirk, the PGA Tour regular season is now over and the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings have advanced to the playoff opener in Memphis. Kirk made the most notable move to extend his season. At the Windham, he finished T5 to leap from 73rd in points to 61st, knocking out Benan. After missing the cut at the memorial, Kirk was ranked 130th in the FedEx sc. Since then, Hayes posted results of T1 to P26 for MCT1 for T5 to make the postseason. Five. Charlie Hull. The English woman nearly broke through for a major just a few weeks after collapsing and withdrawing from the Avon Championship. She was one stroke back with for holes left at Roll Porto but bogied 16 and 17 in the final round. It’s her second runner up in that championship in the last three
