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    Alex Fitzpatrick has done in three weeks what some would love

    to do during a career. For starters, he's no longer going to be known as Matt's little brother. Sure, the two won the Zurich Classic two weeks ago to give Alex PGA Tour status, but he's played beautifully during the last two weeks on his own.

    Alex's finishes the last three weeks are a win, T-9, fourth. Paydays for those, respectively, were $1,372,750, $500,000 and $960,000. That's $2,832,750 in less than a month. His play this week at the Truist Championship beat his brother by 13 shots and moved him to No. 22 in FedEx Cup standings, ahead of players like Russell Henley and Hideki Matsuyama. Cameron Young, Scottie Scheffler and brother Matt hold the top three spots.

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    Cameron Young is looking to win in consecutive weeks

    but a four-putt on the second hole provided an early speed bump for which he'll have to recover. On the par-4 hole he hit his approach to 14 feet and had that for birdie to get within a shot of the lead. Minutes later he walked off the green with a double-bogey 6 and was four shots back.

    Young hit his first putt three feet by the hole and missed that. He rammed that three footer three feet by and missed that. After missing a second three footer he still had 22 inches to negotiate, which he did to record a four-putt and a dreaded double bogey.

    Of course, Young is up to No. 3 in the world after victories at the Players and Cadillac Championship. There's a long way to go in this one, but he has some work to do to go back-to-back.

    Yurav Premlall won the DP World Tour’s Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship

    by a whopping 14 shots Sunday, one stroke shy of tying Tiger Woods’ record from his epic 15-shot victory at the 2000 U.S. Open.

    The 22-year-old from South Africa was only competing in his 29th Euro event and was six shots back after shooting 70 in the first round at El Prat Golf Club in Barcelona. But he then shot 64-63-63 to end at 28-under-par total, 14 ahead of Shaun Norris. For the week he made 33 birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey.

    "No words,” Premlall said. “I've worked so hard to get into this position and it's so rewarding to finally see the results of it.”

    All Elite Wrestling held its Fairway to Hell event at TGL's SoFi Center

    Saturday night in South Florida and, well, it went probably how you'd expect an event called Fairway to Hell to go.

    If you always dreamed of seeing a professional wrestler get slammed into a bunker, you're in luck.

    Here, in one of many clips AEW posted on social media, Darby Allin flip-slammed PAC into the greenside bunker in TGL's venue. PAC got out, walked around the green as Allin was chasing him. Once Allin caught PAC, he then performed a running drop-kick, making PAC back-flip into the other greenside bunker. The whole scene was bonkers.

    To save you from searching the final result elsewhere, Allin defeated PAC to regain the AEW World Championship in front of the crazed 1,600 fans.

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    A few years ago, an innocuous question—mostly in jest!—triggered a heated debate about the criteria for “breaking 80.”

    The hypothetical scenario: you play nine holes, the round is interrupted by weather or darkness, and you come back the next day to play the final nine. Would this count? On Saturday, I flirted with another potential thorny scenario. For logistical reasons, the starter sent us off the 12th hole, so we played the final seven holes, then waited around for another hour to tee off No. 1. I ended up blowing it anyway. Still, for a brief moment, my back seven and my opening 11 holes were pointing to a score in the 70s. Would you count it?

    Alex Fitzpatrick has a remarkable opportunity heading into the third round of the Truist Championship.

    His win with older brother Matt in the Zurich Classic earned him PGA Tour membership, and in only his second start with a card Alex has a strong chance to pull off a signature victory worth $3.6 million. He’s only two back of leader Sungjae Im. A win would more than double Alex’s tour career earnings in only 13 starts. Compare that to his one victory in 87 European tour appearances (and $3.3 million earned), and, yeah, with a another triumph, Team Fitzpatrick would take top spot for competitive Story of the Year.

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