The PGA Tour playoffs got off to a rousing start in Memphis this week. The U.S. Women’s Amateur was captured once more by an effulgent golfer from Stanford, this time called Megha Ganne. A young Demon Deacon made a name for himself on the PGA Tour Americas. It was a week that Golf August desperately needed. Winners dispatched touts of all shapes and sizes in Tennessee, Ontario, Illinois, Oregon, Scotland, Nebraska, and Washington state. That’s quite a number of triumphs to address, so let’s crack on with this week’s Tour Rundown.

PGA Tour @ FedEx St. Jude Championship: Playoff decides first leg of FEC Playoffs

Justin Rose was not the Englishman anticipated to win in Memphis this week. All signs pointed to Tommy Fleetwood finally exorcising the demons of the U.S. PGA Tour. Instead, those demons got Fleetwood once more, relegating him to a tie for third, one soul-crushing stroke out of the playoff.

Justin Rose and J.J. Spaun found their way to 16-under par totals at TPC Southwind. Tied with Fleetwood, one shot behind, was world number one Scottie Scheffler. Last week’s winner, Cameron Young, rode a final-round 64 to solo fifth. After Fleetwood reclaimed the lead with four to play, only to lose it one last time with a par-bogey run on the 16th and 17th holes (16 a par 5), the stage was left to two U.S. Open champions.

We’ve seen a lot of Justin Rose in this Ryder Cup year. We’ve come to know a good deal about J.J. Spaun in his breakout season. In the overtime session, the pair traipsed three additional times to the watery 18th at Southwind. The first go-round was halved in pars, while the second saw both make birdie. On the third attempt at separating the tie, Rose approached to 12 feet, while Spaun sat at seven. Inconceivably, the Englishman made while the California kid missed. The victory made an even dozen for Rose on the PGA Tour, and was his first since the 2024 AT&T at Pebble Beach.

DP World Tour @ Nexo Championship: See the Forrest through no trees

If there’s one thing to be said for links golf, it’s usually treeless. For a golfer named Grant Forrest to triumph in Aberdeenshire, on a treeless modern links, is ironic. For much of Sunday, things were quite risible. Forrest was the class of the week, reaching 10 under par before closing with a clumsy double at the 72nd hole, to win by four shots over England’s Joe Dean. The previous 71 holes, however, were the thread of dreams.

Forrest posted but one round in the 60s on the week, but it was a stylish 66 on day two. The remaining three rounds, however, featured 71s and a 72. Nothing posh, mind you, but better than the 74s and 75s that weakened the campaigns of the competition. Each time someone proposed a challenge to the eventual winner, he fell back with a score of 3 or 4 over par. Forrest eschewed such mediocrity and earned a second DP World Tour title in three years.

Korn Ferry Tour @ Pinnacle Bank: Shelton’s loss is Christo’s gain

Tommy Fleetwood wasn’t the only journeyman to suffer an agonizing loss on Sunday. Alabama’s (both the state and the U) Robby Shelton, a four-time winner on the KFT, finished bogey-bogey at the Pinnacle Bank Championship. A member of the 2011 USA side in the Walker Cup, Shelton has yet to uncover the magic serum required to stick on the PGA Tour. Sunday’s finish didn’t help.

Shelton appeared to all the world to have matters in his hands after turning in 5-under 31 on day four. In the blink of an eye, the fingers loosened, and the sands of victory slid away. Shelton closed with a plus-three 39 on the inward half, opening wide the barn door for a hungry challenge. A hard-to-miss Christo Lamprecht took advantage, holing from a greenside bunker for a final-hole birdie, to reach 19-under par.

Lamprecht tips out at six feet eight inches tall. The South African champion is impossible to overlook. He also had a fine outward half on Sunday, turning in minus-three. Unlike Shelton, Lamprecht was able to close in 1-under 35 and make up four shots on Shelton on the second nine. Professional golf is sometimes about heroic acts, and sometimes about opportunistic acquisitions. Sunday in Omaha gave us the latter resolution.

Chip-in for the win ?

Christo Lamprecht gets it done in style @pinnbankgolf. pic.twitter.com/RgOF0X5WeZ

— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) August 10, 2025

PGA Tour Americas @ Windsor: Brennan is made of BioSteel

Michael Brennan was a program leader during four years at Wake Forest. He always found himself a level below the Walker Cup-calibre players, so it’s safe to say that he has entered the professional ranks with something to prove. Throughout the entirety of the PGA Tour Amerique (we are in Canada, after all) Brennan has moved his way up the rungs of the Fortinet Cup.

This week in Windsor, the Virginia native opened with a shiny 61, and held the lead the entirety of the western Ontario run. Brennan followed his nine-under opener with two 65s and a 64. While the Ambassador Golf Club offered little resistance to the talented field, it’s asking quite a lot to go lower than 25-under par for four rounds. Despite a coalition of 62s and 63s this week, no challenger could parlay more than one to offer resistance to Brennan’s march to victory.

Job Finished ?

Michael Brennan walks it off in style for his first career victory at the BioSteel Championship. pic.twitter.com/jWdC6Dylt3

— PGA TOUR Americas (@PGATOURAmericas) August 10, 2025

PGA Tour Champions @ Boeing Classic: Allan wrenches victory from Els

There was no room for error in Washington State on Sunday, with Steve Allan playing perfect golf. The Australian posted seven birdies and eleven pars for 65. He reached fifteen-under on the week, and set a target for all comers. For a time, Ernie Els seized the lead, but a stretch-run bogey on par-five fifteenth did the big man in. Stewart Cink also had his eyes on a victory in timber country, but he fell victim to a mid-round malaise. Late birdies at 15 and 16 moved him ahead of Els, but he could not entice one final stroke from the Snoqualmie Ridge layout to solicit a playoff. The victory was Allan’s third of the season, and moved him inside the top five in the Schwab Cup season-long race.

Making it look easy ?

Steve Allan makes birdie after this bunker shot to take the solo lead on No. 18 @BoeingClassic. pic.twitter.com/MthDy93rNG

— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) August 10, 2025

LIV @ Chicago: Burmester wins in playoff

Dean Burmester made a six-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to win his second career LIV title. Burmester overcame the Iberian duo of Jon Rahm and Josele Ballester, after the three had tied at 9 under par. It wasn’t quite the upset that took place at 1987 Masters, when Larry Mize defeated Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman in extra holes, but it was close. Rahm being Rahm, and Ballester with a bright future, Burmester was an afterthought, until he wasn’t.