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Good Monday morning, golf fans, as Sahith Theegala enjoyed a breakthrough victory on Sunday at the Fortinet Championship.

1. No fairways, no problem for Theegala

Paul Hodowanic for PGATour.com…”It’s not that Theegala doesn’t try to play from the fairway. It’s just not essential. He has sprayed it off the tee from the moment he picked up a club, and he’s under no assumption it will stop anytime soon. It’s a feature, not a bug. One he is comfortable embracing.”

• ”It’s fitting that his maiden victory on TOUR embodied Theegala’s ethos. It wasn’t an out-of-body week with the driver, that uncharacteristically found every fairway and wound up with him in the winner’s circle. No, this was the epitome of Theegala Golf – a wildly thrilling, sometimes off-the-rails display of shot-making. A creative and unrelenting short game. And a putter that was bound to get hot on the Poa annua greens he grew up playing in Chino Hills, six hours down the California coast.”

• “It feels like such a team win. It doesn’t feel like a win just for myself, it’s for everyone that’s supporting me and kind of got me where I am today, ” said Theegala, who shot a final-round 68 in front of over 40 family and friends to win the Fortinet Championship. He finished 21 under, two shots clear of S.H. Kim. Theegala hit just 47% of his fairways, never more than seven in a round.”

2. BMW PGA: Ryan Fox wins in the rain

AP report…”Ryan Fox overcame a three-shot deficit and a triple bogey early in the final round Sunday with six birdies on the back nine — the last one from 6 feet on the 18th hole — for a 5-under 67 and a one-shot victory over Aaron Rai and Tyrrell Hatton in the BMW PGA Championship.”

• “Fox started shaking his right fist as the final birdie putt was inches from going in, the final stroke of a masterpiece over his last 15 holes that carried the Kiwi to his fourth European tour title, and by far the biggest of his career.”

• “I played great,” Fox said. “Pretty much didn’t miss a shot from the third hole onwards and saw a couple of putts go in and it was pretty cool feeling on the last to know I had one to win and actually make it.”

3. Rory: “Not far away”

Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine…”McIlroy ended up higher on the BMW PGA Championship leaderboard, tying for seventh by the time the last putt was holed Sunday evening at Wentworth following a brief weather delay.”

• “McIlroy began the week 72-71, 1 under after 36 holes, but he kicked things into gear by finding more fairways, and a few more holed putts led to a 67-65 weekend. McIlroy’s Sunday round featured a 4-over-through-four-holes start and just one bogey. He did par each of the back-to-back closing par-5s, showing some frustration after failing to make birdie form the fairway at No. 17, but overall, he was encouraged by the result.”

• “It’s something nice to build off,” McIlroy told reporters Sunday evening. “If I had went home on Friday night here, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to feel better about my game.”

4. Grayson Murray wins on KFT

Mike Organ for Nashville Tennessean…”Grayson Murray claimed the third Korn Ferry Tour title of his career Sunday when he won the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation at The Grove.”

• “Murray, 29, of Raleigh, North Carolina, posted a 17-under 271 for a three-stroke victory over Mason Andersen, Jamie Lovemark and his high school golf teammate Carter Jenkins. Murray earned $270,000.”

5. Jimmy Walker: Fall setup is BS

Adam Schupak for Golfweek…”PGA Tour veteran Jimmy Walker won this event when it was played at CordeValle a decade ago for his first Tour title. On Saturday, the 44-year-old Walker shot 69, which had him projected to improve from No. 124 to No. 118, but Walker was none too happy that he’s still battling to finish in the top 125 for the better part of the next three months.”

• “They changed the rules. It’s been 125 forever. Then it’s like, no, it’s 50, or is it 70? It’s definitely not 125. It’s total bulls–t, that’s what I think of it,” Walker said. “I’ve been working for 11 months to finish 124 and it’s like, nope, keep playing. So, I’m going to give it all I’ve got. That’s all I can do.”

• “A year ago, Walker shut down his season after the Valero Texas Open, his hometown event, and at age 43 the former PGA Championship winner contemplated calling it a career. But then enough players jumped ship to LIV that Walker climbed to No. 50 in career earning on the Tour, which gave him access to a one-time exemption for the 2022-23 season.”

6. Daly finds some form

Todd Kelly for Golfweek…”The big hitter and fan favorite had his best week of golf in more than a year at the 2023 Sanford International, breaking 70 for just the fourth and fifth time all season during the first and second rounds. He finished with an even-par 70 and a tie for eighth.”

• “Daly’s previous best finish in 2023 was a tie for 38th in July at the Galleri Classic at Mission Hills Country Club. Daly’s average finish this season is 65th and he has WD’d from two events.”

• “This week, he opened 66-64 at Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He finished 10 under.”

7. Winning WITB: Sahith Theegala

Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees @9.5)

Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Black Gen 4 60 TX

5-wood: Ping G430 Max (18 degrees @16.5)

Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 TX

Irons: Ping i210 (3), Ping iBlade (4-7), Ping Blueprint (8-PW)

Shafts: Graphite Design Tour AD DI Hybrid 85 X (3), Project X 6.5 (4-W)

Wedges: Ping Glide 4.0 (50-12S, 54-12S), Ping Glide 2.0 (58-06)

Shafts: Project X 6.5 (50), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (54, 58)

Putter: Ping TR 1966 Anser 2 prototype

Grip: SuperStroke Traxion Flatso 1.0

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

Grips: Ping ID-8