Berger gets 1st Tour win at FedEx St. Jude

You know it’s true; there’s an uncanny facial resemblance between Sergio Garcia and Daniel Berger. On Sunday, Berger joined Garcia as a PGA Tour winner with a veteran-like performance at TPC Southwind. On the course where more balls find the water than any other, Berger watched as Dustin Johnson posted a score of 9-under par early, then watched some more as rain drops kept falling on his head … for three hours. Finally, back out on the fairways, Berger signed for 67, including birdies on Nos. 12, 14 and 15, to outdistance by three a trio of trailing tour winners like Brooks Koepka, Steve Stricker, Phil Mickelson…you get the idea.

Related: See the clubs Berger used to win

It was quite a win and a shot of confidence for Berger, as the world’s best head to Pittsburgh next week for the U.S. Open.

KPMG Women’s PGA goes to Brooke Henderson

So this PR gal tells Mike Whan, LPGA Tour Commish, “Listen, we’re going to play your marquee event at a really narrow, uber-treed Pacific Northwest course. Your three-time defending champion (who is going into your Hall of Fame that week, bee-tee-dubs) will be injured and not at her best. But your three most exciting players will battle it out down the stretch, with two having a shot at their first major titles, while the other is in search of her third consecutive one.” WHOOOO, now exhale!

And that’s exactly how it shook out at Sahalee Country Club in Washington state. Brooke Henderson and Lydia Ko tied for first place at 6-under after Henderson birdied the penultimate hole to forge that standoff. Ko had won the last two majors, while Henderson was in search of her first. And a shot behind them, just a shimmee away from a three-way playoff? Ariya Jutanugarn, three-time winner on the LPGA Tour IN MAY! Combined age of the three golfers? 57 years. We’ll save you the math (19 year average) and the details (Henderson made birdie from 3 feet on the first playoff hole) and say, welcome to the majors, Brooke, and welcome to a new Golden Age, LPGA!

Langer wins third-consecutive Senior Players

Brooke Henderson wasn’t the only walk-off putt on Sunday. The Champions Tour’s energizer bunny, aka Bernhard Langer, let everyone else back in the race with a Sunday  73 (ouch!), but said talk to the hand with a 12-foot putt for par on the final hole at Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wiassahickon (say that three times fast) course. Dismissed were the world’s most interesting golfer, Miguel Angel Jimenez, and Joe Durant, one 12-foot putt shy of a tie and a playoff.

Langer made precisely zero birdies on Sunday, after making 10 the previous three days. Meanwhile, Jimenez and Durant made eight birdies between them to put serious pressure on the man who now has three wins and two majors in 2016. Langer was up to the challenge, though. As is his forte, he ground out par after par, gave himself a chance to win on No. 18, and closed the door on his 28th Champions Tour win (and 7th senior major).

Web.com Tour: Homa wins at Ivanhoe Club

Max Homa’s score kept dropping all week, from 71 to 69, to 68 then 67. That 5-under tally on Day 4 was Sunday’s low round, and got him thinking that he might have a shot, might make a playoff, might even win.

Homa trailed Josh Teater by seven after three rounds, but the leader stumbled hard on Sunday and gave the 2013 NCAA individual champ and Walker Cup team member a chance at his second Web.com Tour victory. When Teater’s attempt at par on the 72nd hole slid by, Homa had his win by one over Teater and John Mallinger. Mallinger had gone birdie-eagle on Nos. 14 and 15 to insert himself into the conversation. A wayward drive found a hazard on the last, but Mallinger was able to scramble for par to secure the runner-up spot.

News from the European Desk

Irish and British and Welsh and Scottish eyes were shining as eight young ladies took back the Curtis Cup from the U.S. on home Irish soil. Up 8-4 heading into Sunday’s singles match, the Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup side turned back a charge from Team USA to win by 11.5 to 8.5 at Dun Laoghaire (Celtic for Wissahickon) golf club in Dublin. Leona Maguire, the No. 2-ranked amateur golfer who was somehow left off the GBI side in 2014 after playing in 2010 and 2012, won 4 of 5 matches on the week to wrest the cup from the U.S.

On the European Tour, Ashun Wu began his final nine at Austria’s Lyoness Open double-bogey, bogey, but was still able to win by a stroke over Spain’s Adrian Otaegui (say it with me, oh-tah-AY-gey). Wu also won the Volvo China Open 14 months ago for his first European Tour win.