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PGA TOUR

Gary Woodland used four birdies over the first nine holes to turn a one-stroke lead into seven before cruising to a five-shot win at the Texas Children’s Houston Open. It is his fifth career PGA Tour win and first since the 2019 U.S. Open. The win comes 30 months after Woodland underwent brain surgery to remove a lesion. Since then, he has had three top 10 finishes in 56 starts. The victory also makes him eligible to play in the Masters next month. Nicolai Hojgaard finished second for the fourth time in his career, but also got an invite to Augusta as he further secured his spot inside the top 50 in the World Rankings. PGA Tour rookie and last year’s Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year Johnny Keefer finished tied for third for his best career result alongside defending champion Min Woo Lee. Michael Thorbjornsen looked poised to move into the top 50 as well and get into the Masters until he made three bogeys in a four-hole stretch on the back nine, which left him in a tie for 14th. …Sudarshan Yellamaraju notched his second straight top-10 finish. He extended his streak of rounds in the 60s to six, going back to his top-5 finish at THE PLAYERS Championship. He’s also eighth in the AON Next 10 standings, which sees the top 10 FedExCup points earners through the Masters earn a spot in the next signature event, the RBC Heritage.

NEXT EVENT: Valero Texas Open (Apr 2)

CANADIANS ENTERED: A.J. Ewart, Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Svensson, Nick Taylor, Sudarshan Yellamaraju

KORN FERRY TOUR

Davis Lamb made two birdies over the final five holes as his nearest challengers faltered on the back nine to win the Club Car Championship by two strokes. It is his first career Korn Ferry Tour title, and he is the fifth first-time winner this season. John Pak, the co-leader to start the final round, stumbled with bogeys on three of four holes at the turn. He missed a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole to give him a shot at a possible tie. Teenager Blades Brown, who started the day tied with Pak, finished third. He was one shot back of Lamb until consecutive bogeys on Nos. 15 and 16 ended his chances of becoming the youngest winner in tour history. …Matthew Anderson recorded his second top-15 result of the season.

NEXT EVENT: LECOM Suncoast Classic (Apr 2)

CANADIANS ENTERED: Matthew Anderson, Wil Bateman, Myles Creighton, Adam Hadwin, Stuart Macdonald, Drew Nesbitt, Ben Silverman, Roger Sloan

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS

Stewart Cink birdied three of his last five holes for a four-shot victory in the Hoag Classic. It is his second win this season and third in his last five starts on the Champions Tour. He has not finished lower than sixth in his last six starts, dating back to last season. Cink becomes the first multi-winner of the season in just the fifth event of the year. Two-time tournament winner Ernie Els finished in a tie for second with Zach Johnson. It is the 18th runner-up finish for Els and the third top-3 finish for Johnson, who made his tour debut earlier this year with a win. Bernhard Langer, who finished tied for seventh, carded a final round 66. It’s the third straight day the 68-year-old shot his age or better and the 42nd time overall that he’s done it. …Mike Weir notched his second top-20 result of the year and fourth in his last seven tour starts. That is his best start after three events since 2023.

NEXT EVENT: Senior PGA Championship (Apr 16)

LPGA TOUR

For the second straight week, the same two players were battling for the win on the LPGA Tour and for the second straight week, Hyo Joo Kim bested Nelly Korda to successfully defend her title at the Ford Championship. It is only the second time in LPGA history that the same two players finished 1-2 in back-to-back weeks, the last time being in 2001. It is Kim’s ninth LPGA victory and first win in back-to-back weeks. She is also the first player in tour history to shoot 61 or better twice in the same tournament. Her winning score of 28-under 260 was just three strokes shy of the LPGA scoring record. Korda got to within one shot of Kim, but back-to-back bogeys at the turn left her four strokes behind. It’s the first time in her career that she’s finished runner-up in back-to-back weeks. …This is the first time Brooke Henderson has finished outside the top-50 at an LPGA event since October 2024.

NEXT EVENT: Aramco Championship (Apr 2)

CANADIANS ENTERED:  Brooke Henderson, Anna Huang,  Maude-Aimee Leblanc (Reserve #49)

EUROPEAN TOUR

Alex Fitzpatrick overcame a six-stroke deficit with seven birdies over a 10-hole stretch to win the Hero Indian Open by two shots. It is the first career European Tour win for Fitzpatrick, whose brother, Matt, is a 10-time tour winner and captured last week’s PGA event in Florida. It marks the first time brothers have won in consecutive weeks on both tours. Eugenio Chacarra was still within striking distance of the lead with four holes to play before three straight bogeys knocked him out of contention. …Aaron Cockerill retired midway through the second round after carding seven bogeys over his first nine holes. It’s the fourth time in his career he has opened with a score of 80 or higher on the European Tour.

NEXT EVENT: Volvo China Open (Apr 23)