The 51-year-old South African had to Monday qualify three times this year to get into PGA Tour Champions events and came up big Sunday at the Simmons Bank Championship by making an eagle on the final hole at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Little Rock, Ark., to clip Zach Johnson by one shot. He shot 69-61-64 for a 22-under total. It was the first senior victory for the five-time winner on the European Tour. It also propelled Fichardt into the Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Phoenix in two weeks and assured him a full tour card for 2027. Michael Block tied for 10th place, but his season is done as he finished 43rd in season-long points, with only the top 36 advancing to the finale.

She’s going to be higher on Monday when the new rankings come out. The 27-year-old from Johannesburg shot a final-round 64 Sunday to win the Ladies European Tour’s Wistron Ladies Open at Sunrise Golf and Country Club in Taiwan. It’s significant because it’s her third LET victory in her last five starts and she locked up the tour’s Order of Merit title with two events remaining in the season. Alexander won the Women’s Irish Open in late August and followed that with another victory at the Ladies Italian Open in late September.

but she’s been on a podcast tour which, without question, has given her more exposure than if she was playing. Two weeks ago, she appeared on the Jonas Brothers’ podcast. On Sunday, she appeared on Caleb Pressley’s “Sundae Conversation.” Pressley, who gained fame while he was at Barstool, has 1.8 million followers on Instagram and 1.26 million on YouTube. The interview with Korda, which is supposed to be awkward and lighthearted, was both.

In one part of the convo they started talking about binoculars, which led Korda to admit that she used them when she lived in a condo. “I used to spy down at the people,” she said. “You watched strangers with your binoculars,” Pressley asked. “In the public, walking the streets. Nothing else. Not looking into any other apartments.”

Watch below. Good fun.

Yet here we are with this graphic of the two Monday morning playoff combatants in the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. The final round was cancelled Sunday at Port Royal because of winds that reached 40 mph. The PGA Tour announced later Sunday that it would only be a 54-hole event. But the problem was, there was a tie at the top of the leaderboard between Austin Smotherman and Seamus Power. Smotherman won the Bank of Utah Championship earlier this month for his lone tour title. Power has two but hasn't won in four years. Here are some numbers regarding both men, noting that neither is favored over the other according to the odds. They are scheduled to begin the playoff at 8 a.m. ET and it will be aired on Golf Channel.

The 35-year-old Californian, who also has a base in Thailand, shot a final-round 64 at Hong Kong Golf Club to win easily by five shots. The highest score he shot all week was a second-round 66. This will be his first appearance at Augusta National. In four previous Open appearances, he has missed the cut three times, but he tied for 16th place in 2024 at Royal Troon. "Hard to put it into words," he said.

which means opportunities are dwindling to make moves in the FedEx Cup Fall standings. Those finishing inside the top 100 will earn exempt status for next year. There was minimal movement following the Baycurrent Classic, but still, it’s significant for those who moved. Christiaan Bezuidenhout moved from 99 to 95 with a T-17 finish and lee Hodges moved from 103 to 100 with a T-33 finish, but he bogeyed each of the last two holes. Max Greyserman dropped from 98 to 99 and bogeyed two of the last three holes in Japan and shot 74 in the third round. Billy Horschel entered the week 94th after a T-13 last week in Utah and tied for 21st place at the Baycurrent to jump up to No. 90. Brooks Koepka dropped from 100 to 102 but he’s exempt through 2028 because of his 2023 PGA Championship victory. He played last week at the Dunhill Links in Scotland and it’s believed that’s his last start of the year.

with the Baycurrent Classic in Japan and ending with the RSM Classic just before Thanksgiving. That still leaves players time to jockey for position in the FedEx Cup Fall standings, where anyone inside the top 100 will earn exempt status on tour next year. Those finishing Nos. 51-60 will earn a spot into the first two signature events of the year.

Only one player moved inside the top 100 after the Bank of Utah Championship, where Austin Smotherman won to collect his first tour title. That was Billy Horschel, the eight-time PGA Tour winner who tied for 13th place to move from No. 101 to No. 94. He opened Sunday in Utah with four birdies in the first six holes, then played the next 10 in even par. But birdies on the last two holes had him sign for a 65 and he's now several spots inside the magic number. He had been one of the biggest American supporters of the BMW PGA Championship on the DP World Tour the past few years and skipped the flagship event this year, saying he was “devastated” but needed to remain in the U.S. to improve his status.

Now sitting right on the bubble is Seamus Power, who moved from 104th to 101st after making birdie on the last in Utah to tie for 21st place.

but again, he fell short in his bid for a victory. It came at the hands of Steven Alker, who win the Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic for his third senior title in his last four starts. Block, the Southern California club pro, entered the final round at Lehigh Country Club in Allentown, Pa., with a one-shot advantage, but he played his first 10 holes in one over par and never had any momentum. He birdied 16 and 17 to give himself a chance but bogeyed the last to end two shots behind Alker, who made six birdies to shoot 66. Block now has four top-10 finishes in seven senior starts this season and is eligible to play in the tour's three-event playoff series.

“A little bit surprised,” Alker said. “I just crushed it the last six weeks, the scoring got better, my putting got better, driving it better, doing everything better. So I didn't have my A-game today, but just good to get it done. Made some big putts there at the end.”

during the opening round of the Bank of Utah Championship. Forty minutes later he was tied for the lead. The 33-year-old Englishman had made three birdies in 15 holes at Black Desert Resort then closed with birdie, birdie, albatross, holing his second shot on the par-5 ninth hole (his last) with a 6-iron from 238 yards after a 350-yard drive. Yes, he played the last three holes in five under par, jumped to eight-under 63 total and was tied for lead with four others. It was the fifth albatross of the year on the PGA Tour. "We could see it," Smith said. "It took a nice favorable bounce on the green and it sort of shot it towards the hole, but then it goes over a bit of a crest and we couldn't see it, and then everyone was cheering, putting their arms up, so then we knew. Yeah, pretty special."