The weekend revealed plenty about the state of various PGA Championship favorites, the latest distance discourse, and even public golf courses under unexpected attack. Judging by Sunday galleries across the tours, pro golf hasn’t convinced mom to spend her day watching logoclads ply their craft.
Heading into the week, the PGA Championship left two spots open in its 156-player field just in case of a surprise winner in Myrtle Beach or Charlotte. Brandt Snedeker made the PGA look pretty shrewd in winning the OneFlight Myrtle Beach Classic by a stroke over Mark Hubbard.
The 2026 Presidents Cup Captain earned his 10th PGA Tour win and a spot at Aronimink. The 45-year-old last played in a PGA in 2020. With his win in the competing PGA Tour event, Snedeker joined Justin Rose and Gary Woodland as players in their 40s winning this season.
“I knew I was playing well,” Snedeker said as he broke into tears following a final round 66 at Dunes Golf and Beach Club. “I just hadn’t been able to put it all together. Hopefully, it shows my family, my kids, something. Just, you know, ten wins out here is an accomplishment. Something I’m very proud of.”
North of Myrtle Beach in sunny Charlotte, Kris Reitan emerged from a wide-open final round shootout to win the Truist Championship. The Norwegian is yet another graduate of 2025’s DP World Tour season-ending 10-card race making a splash thanks to the opportunity. He had never finished better than T10 in an individual Tour event (T10 at the Valero Texas Open). A week later, he made the cut at The Masters to finish T41.
There were few signs of a breakthrough this big, this soon. He agrees.
“Absolutely over the moon,” he said of the win. “Happened way sooner than I would have imagined.”
The Quail Hollow win came against a quality leaderboard and landed Reitan a life-changing check along with “Signature Event” victory perks.
Entering the day a shot behind 54-hole leader Alex Fitzpatrick, Reitan posted a final-round 2-under 69 for the two-stroke victory over Rickie Fowler (65) and Nicolai Højgaard (68). The 28-year-old briefly attended the University of Texas before turning pro and has openly expressed doubts about choosing a career in golf. He is now a PGA Tour winner after his 15th start.
Reitan captured the Nedbank Golf Challenge at the end of 2025 to go with his first DP World Tour win earlier in the year. He played steadily while playing partner Alex Fitzpatrick struggled, then received a nice bit of luck off the par-4 16th tee when his tee shot somehow was spit out by the firmly-packed fairway bunker. That gift was followed by an incredible tee shot at the 17th to essentially seal the win.
“They’re very uncomfortable golf shots even without pressure so, felt like I really needed to step up and give myself a chance to put good swings on it,” Reitan said of the “Green Mile” finish. “Probably when I hit the green on 17, that’s when it sank in a little bit. I was trying to get a feel of where I was at, if I was leading by one, if I was leading at all or if I was leading by two. I told my caddie to make sure we know before we tee off on the 18th.”
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Cameron Young (74) missed four putts from four feet or less Sunday and lost nearly six shots to the field with his putting. Young still looks like a favorite to win at Quail Hollow after posting a third-round 63 at Quail Hollow.
Tommy Fleetwood heads to Aronimink in ideal form following a final round 69 and T5 finish.
After a third round 75, Rory McIlroy closed with a 67 to finish T19. McIlroy ranked first in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (4.192) but 65th out of 72 players in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (-3.475). Yes, that’s the same guy who missed a bunch of Augusta fairways and got up and down like he was Seve to win the Masters.
Matt Fitzpatrick finished T52 in a bid for his third straight win (RBC Heritage, Zurich Classic of New Orleans).
Green Mile (Nos. 16-18) stats show the field was -396 on Nos. 1-15 and +214 on Nos. 16-18.
Unable to make the Truist field on a Returning Members Program visa, three-time PGA Champion Brooks Koepka shot 64-70 in Myrtle Beach to finish (T11/-12).
Lucas Herbert (-24) captured the LIV Golf Virginia stop by four over Sergio Garcia (-20). Bryson DeChambeau (-19) finished third in his tune-up for the PGA. Neither Herbert or Garcia received special invites to the PGA. Jon Rahm made an albatross at the 17th hole Sunday but the shot was not captured by cameras. LIV’s next event is June 4-7 in Spain.
Jeeno Thitikul defended her Mizuhno Americas Open title with a four-stroke win over Ruoning Yin at Mountain Ridge Country Club. Thitikul posted a 13-under-par 275 total for her ninth career victory.
Tiger Woods captured the 2000 U.S. Open by 15 strokes.
What some of us didn’t know: his record runaway finish counts as the largest winning margin in European Tour/DP World Tour history.
With all due respect to Tiger’s epic performance, Yurav Premlall just broke the record for the largest winning margin in the tour’s history after claiming the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship by 14 strokes.
The South African beat the previous record of 13 strokes set by countryman Ernie Els at the 2005 BMW Asian Open.
“I mean, the last eight, nine months have been such a struggle just to build myself onto a platform where I know I could give myself a chance to win and to end up obviously in this position,” the 22-year-old said after starting the day with a five-stroke lead.
A second consecutive 63 earned Premlall a $50,000 bonus from Nexo for setting a new course record.
Coming off a missed cut in the Turkish Airlines Open and ranked 598th in the world, Premlall finished with back-to-back birdies at Real Club de Golf El Prat.
Premlall is not in the PGA Championship field.
The two networks return in almost same setup viewers have come to know since 2020. But this year will see one notable change reported by Sports Business Journal’s Josh Carpenter: ESPN’s announce team will handle all of the Thursday-Friday coverage from noon-7 pm ET, ending the CBS announce team’s daily two-hour cameos. ESPN2 also carries the last hour of each day from 7-8 pm ET.