🏌🏻 $10 Million Without A Win

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ALBATROSS
Malnati Wins Ticket To Masters; Korda Wins LPGA In Dramatic Playoff

Peter Malnati can breathe easier now. With his nerve-racking, hard-fought victory on Sunday at the Valspar Championship, where he found four birdies on his final nine to shoot 4-under 67 and win by two at Innisbrook’s demanding Copperhead Course – he now will have access to playing his favorite major of the season.

He collects 500 FedExCup points and $1,512,000. The 36-year-old was +25000 to prevail pre-tournament at BetMGM.

Justin Thomas tumbled from a tie for first place after an opening birdie at the Valspar Championship all the way to a tie for 66th.

Cameron Young finished alone in second place and as the only golfer in the field with four sub-70s. At +2200 to win, he was shortest among all PGA TOUR non-winners and tied for sixth-shortest overall. This is the seventh career runner-up finish for the 2021-22 Rookie of the Year.

Tournament favorite Xander Schauffele (+750) carded a field-low-tying 65 on Sunday to finish T5.

🚀 LPGA: Nelly Korda took seven weeks off and nothing changed. She won again on the LPGA Tour and made it far more exciting than it needed to be.

Korda made bogey on her last two holes Sunday at Palos Verdes Golf Club to fall into a playoff in the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship, and then ended it quickly with a 12-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to beat Ryann O’Toole and return to No. 1 in the women’s world ranking.

Nelly Korda takes home $300,000 from the $2 million overall purse.

Jiyai Shin, a former world No. 1 who has been the top player on four worldwide tours, shared the lead going into the final round but fell back for good with a three-putt double bogey on the 12th. She closed with a 73 and tied for fifth.

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Cameron Young Sets A New Record

The 26-year-old third-year PGA Tour member recorded yet another second-place finish, this time falling two shots short of Peter Malnati Sunday at the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida.

After shooting 69-69-68-68 to a 10-under-par 274 total, Young now has seven such finishes. That’s the most second-place finishes in the last 40 years without a victory.

Young was the PGA Tour’s 2022 Rooke of the Year. That year he finished second at the Open Championship, a shot behind Cameron Smith.

He also finished second by two shots that year at the Genesis Invitational and the Wells Fargo Championship.

Young's other runner-ups include the 2021 Sanderson Farms Championship, 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic and the 2023 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play.

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What else is making news

John Daly got off to an inauspicious start, topping his opening tee shot during the first round of the 2024 Hoag Classic

Joe Biden mocks Trump for boasting about winning two golf awards at his own club hours before bond deadline.

Padraig Harrington won the Hoag Classic on Sunday at windy Newport Beach Country Club for his seventh PGA Tour Champions victory, rebounding from a double bogey with birdies on the final two holes.

Robby Shelton scored an albatross from 258 yards on the final round at Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course, jumping from 2-over to 1-under with a single swing, marking the 139th albatross of the PGA TOUR's modern era since 1983, and concluded with a 1-over 72 for a 2-under 282 tournament total.

And finally, here's everyone who has qualified for The Masters so far.

BIRDIE
The Best Single Length Irons

Single-length irons or one-length irons are among the rarest golf clubs that you’ll come across. Made popular by Bryson DeChambeau, single length or one length irons sets are slowly starting to gain popularity among golfers.

Most of you might know that irons have varying lengths, that is why, we have long irons, mid irons and short irons.

So how do the best single length irons work, if they do at all? And do best single length iron sets offer something extra that variable-length irons simply do not have?

As it turns out, they have some unique benefits and they can be of tremendous help if you struggle with consistency.

Here’s our review of the 6 best single length iron sets.

DRIVING RANGE
The Warm Up That Helps You Gain Swing Power

One way to hit the ball farther is to increase your length of swing. In order to safely do so, you need to make sure your body is warmed up properly. PGA Coach Thor Parrish put together a 5-stretch warm up for golfers before they hit the course or range.

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