Viktor Hovland rallies to win Valspar Championship

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Palm Harbor, Fla. – Viktor Hovland found a swing at Innisbrook’s tough closing ceremony Sunday, sending the three late birdies assembled 67s under Justin Thomas to a win in the Valspar Championship.

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Hovland has changed his coach five more times since he won the 2023 FedEx Cup at East Lake. His seventh victory on the PGA Tour.

Hovland and Thomas were finally separated from the team in the final round, so that nine players had at least a portion at some point.

Hovland started his amazing run when he got a 12-foot birdie putt on Thomas 14. He hit seven irons in the 16th to 5th feet birdie and then hit a 12-foot birdie putt on the lead of 17th on the 3rd.

Thomas took the lead of four birdies in five holes, bogeyed in two of the last three holes and shot 66.

Asian tour

Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz defeated the Under-64 64 early birdie in the Macau in International Series Macau in China and won with a three-shot victory, his second Asian Tour since joining Liv Golf.

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Ortiz, Reed and Jason Kokrak and Liv Golf are all top three players and won a seat at the British Open this summer. This will be Ortiz’s first major in two years.

Sergio Garcia is fourth, just one shot from the qualifying waiver for the international final of the British Open.

Ortiz won the Liv Golf, who also won the Oman International Series a year ago. He made $360,000 with less than 258 scores at the Macau Golf and Country Club.

PGA Tour Champion

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Miguel Angel Jimenez became the first champion of the PGA Tour title this year when he beat Birdie with 18 of 5 shots to a score of 67 and a win in Hoag Classic.

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Jimenez, 61, also won the trophy Hassan II in Morocco in February.

This is a wire. Jimenez and Freddie Jacobsen tied for under par, and Stewart Cink just birded the 18th hole ahead of them, making them 65 years old.

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Jacobsen missed a good miss on the right and couldn’t beat the birds up and down. Jimenez wasn’t far from the green, leaving him a simple bargaining chip that he executed perfectly. Jacobsen missed his 25-foot birdie putt and shared second with Cink with 67.

The Fred Couples started the final round, tied for Jimenez, who managed only one birdie and finished eighth with 71 hits, four shots behind.

Journey to Europe

Singapore – England’s Richard Mansell won his first European title on Sunday when he beat 100 feet on the 18th hole to 66 under 66 and a win in the Porsche Singapore Classic.

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Mansell started his final round of shooting, leading the way with five consecutive birdies in the first nine games. His last bird gave him the title of the Japanese Keita Nakajima who ended at 65.

The game was reduced to 54 holes due to Thursday’s rain.

Northern Ireland’s Tom McKibbin gave up on the PGA Tour to join Liv Golf this year, where he scored 68 shots and tied for third with France’s Adrien Saddier, who also shot 68 from the field.

Other trips

Spain’s Quim Vidal finished with a 1-shot under 71 and birdied Joshua Berry on the third playoff hole to win his fifth title in the European Challenge. …England’s Mimi Rhodes won her first Women’s European Tour title by defeating Australia’s Kirsten Rudgeley with two shots at the Ford Women’s NSW Ford Women’s Open. …James Conran finished with a low 7 with 65 and won a victory in a Legacy Classic on the PGA Tour in Greater Australia. … George Coetzee beat Daniel Van Tonder with 3 shots on a Sunshine Tour in South Africa to win the Serengeti playoffs and win the Serengeti playoffs.

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