SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Raging wind at Port Royal Golf Course caused unplayable conditions that led to cancellation of the final round Sunday at the PGA Tour’s Bermuda Championship, and Seamus Power and Austin Smotherman were set to return Monday morning for a sudden-death playoff.
Gusts topped 40 mph in the morning, and none of the 72 players who made the cut was able to start the final round. Officials decided a few hours later to cancel play Sunday, and with a forecast just as dire for Monday, made it a 54-hole tournament.
Power and Smotherman were tied for the 54-hole lead at 16-under-par 197, and the plan was for them to return at 9 a.m. local time (8 a.m. Eastern) for the playoff at the par-3 16th hole, weather permitting. Smotherman shot a second straight 5-under 66 on Saturday in what turned out to be not only the third round but the final one, while Power had a 67.
The most recent Monday finish on the PGA Tour was at the Travelers Championship in June, when Viktor Hovland defeated Scottie Scheffler at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut. The last time a PGA Tour event was reduced to 54 holes was the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which ended on a Saturday with Wyndham Clark holding a one-stroke lead.
Power and Smotherman are entered in the Mexico Open that tees off Thursday in Vallarta, Mexico, and a charter plane was due to take other players in the field.
Power is just outside the top 100 in the FedEx Cup Fall standings, and a victory would not only lock up his PGA Tour card through 2028 but put him in the elite Championship Series in the new schedule that debuts that year.
Power won the 2022 Bermuda Championship for his second and most recent PGA Tour victory, with his breakthrough coming at the 2021 Barbasol Championship.
Smotherman earned his first PGA Tour victory in Utah earlier this month. Another win would earn him a spot in the 2027 U.S. Open.
Seamus Power is seeking a second Bermuda Championship victory and third PGA Tour career triumph overall. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Transformative success
CHEONAN, South Korea — Japanese golfer Yuto Katsuragawa delivered under pressure for a two-shot victory at the Genesis Championship to secure his second win on the Europe-based DP World Tour, a first prize of nearly $670,000 and his card for the 2027 season.
A day after a bogey-free 8-under 63 in the third round to tie the course record at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club, Katsuragawa closed with a 71 that included 16 pars as he maintained his advantage on the final holes despite a tap-in bogey at the end.
The 28-year-old Katsuragawa finished the 72-hole tournament at 13-under 271, two shots ahead of French players Frederic Lacroix (68) and Martin Couvra (69), for his first victory since the ISPS HANDA Championship in April 2024.
Katsuragawa entered the event No. 106 in the season-long Race to Dubai standings and in danger of losing his card for being outside the top 100. The win shot him up to No. 28, guaranteeing his spot in the final two events of the season, in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
“After the first win, I had such a hard time, but having the second win, this is definitely the greatest moment of my life,” he said. “Yes, I was nervous, not just for the victory but also about (status on) the DP World Tour, so it was double nervous for me, but I think I got through.”
The Race to Dubai title will be determined over those two weeks, and South African golfer Casey Jarvis missed a chance to get close to the top three in the standings — Spain’s Eugenio Chacarra, American player Patrick Reed and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy — by falling back to a tie for fourth place in South Korea with a closing 72. He was alongside British Open champion Ryan Fox (70) at 10 under.
Jarvis led after the first round, shared the lead after the second, and was in second place going into Sunday as he sought a third win of the 2026 season, after the Kenya Open and South African Open in February,
Reed and McIlroy did not compete this week. Chacarra, who is No. 1 in the standings after winning in India last weekend, finished seven shots back and tied for 22nd.
American player Sean Crocker reached the back nine at 3 over for his final round and was on the brink of losing his playing privileges on the DP World Tour He responded by making six birdies in his back-nine 29, including four straight to finish, to post s 68 and keep his card.
“That was probably one of the better back nines I’ve ever played,” Crocker said, “with circumstances and everything going on there.”
Sabbatini blitzes back nine
ST. LOUIS — Rory Sabbatini made up a four-shot deficit on the back nine by closing with an eagle and three straight birdies for a 9-under 62 to win the Stifel Classic, his first PGA Tour Champions victory.
Sabbatini played his final six holes at 6 under, which included his 25-foot eagle putt from the fringe on the par-5 15th hole. His final birdie was from 40 feet up the hill on the 18th at Norwood Hills Country Club, and he wound up winning by one shot over Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke (65).
Sabbatini, the South African-born Slovakian who turned 50 in April, moved to No. 7 in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup standings as the leading 54 players on the points list advanced to the next tournament in Arkansas.
Clarke and Sweden’s Henrik Stenson appeared to be in a two-man race, with American player Mario Tiziani lurking, until none could keep with Sabbatini and his explosive final round. It was similar to when he won the silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 with a 61 on the final day.
“Just one of those days when you’re trying to stay out of your own way,” he said.
Sabbatini finished the 54-hole tournament at 14-under 199.
Stenson, who turned 50 in April and couldn’t join the PGA Tour Champions until he was one year removed from competition in the LIV Golf League, shot a bogey-free 68 on a day when he needed more than three birdies. He twice missed birdie chances inside five feet on the back nine and closed with 12 straight pars.
He still managed to advance to the second week of the Schwab Cup playoffs despite playing in only eight tournaments. Stenson tied for third with Steven Alker (66) and Tiziani (68).
Stenson and Tim Petrovic moved into the top 54 to advance to next week, knocking out J.J. Henry and Chad Campbell, who bogeyed three of his last five holes to miss out the 54th spot by $402.
Yoshida holds off pair of challengers
HAENAM, South Korea — Yuri Yoshida won the BMW Ladies Championship by holding off Hye-Jin Choi and Haeran Ryu in a close finish at Pine Beach Golf Links.
It was Yoshida’s first LPGA Tour victory and came in a dramatic finale as both overnight leader Ryu and Yoshida bogeyed the final hole, leaving the Japanese player ahead by one stroke at 17-under 271 in the 72-hole tournament.
Yoshida was four shots off the pace going into Sunday’s final round but lit up the front nine with an eagle at the par-5 second hole, followed by three consecutive birdies to be a 5-under 31 at the turn. Bogeysat the 15th and 18th holes were offset by a crucial birdie at the 17th, which gave the 26-year-old the buffer she needed.
Ryu led by four strokes going into the final round, but she couldn’t find the same rhythm Sunday as she shot a 73.
The South Korean player made 15 consecutive pars before dropping a crucial shot at the par-4 16th, which handed back Yoshida’s one-shot advantage.
Both players made birdies at the 17th, but a costly miss for Ryu at the 18th allowed Yoshida to clinch it, despite the Japanese golfer also making a bogey.
Hye-Jin Choi, who was tied for second entering the final round, stayed in contention throughout Sunday and mixed four birdies with a lone bogey.
Choi is still looking for her first victory in 125 career LPGA Tour starts as a member. She has held or shared a 54-hole lead five times in her career on the tour without converting it into a win.
Last week in Shanghai, Choi was the runner-up by one stroke to China’s Ruoning Yin after the South Korean golfer led after each of the first three rounds.