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Despite Will Zalatoris totaling six top-10 finishes in his first nine major championships as a professional, he still had yet to win on the PGA Tour — until Sunday. The 25-year-old won the FedEx St. Jude Championship in a playoff, emphatically yelling "What are they going to say now?" after the clinching putt dropped. Well, for starters they're going to say he's the No. 9-ranked player in the world. They will also say he is just the second player to win a FedEx Cup Playoffs event in his first playoff appearance; the first player to make the FedEx St. Jude Championship his first PGA Tour win in the FedEx Cup-era; and he is recording a top-10 finish in 30.4% of his 56 career starts.
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Announced: By Blue Tees Golf, that SkyMax Sport, distributor of sports and golf equipment in the United Kingdom and Ireland, will represent the Blue Tees Golf brand of accessories and rangefinders in these respective markets.
Announced: By PGA National Resort, that its Champion Course will reopen on Sept. 2 following an extensive bunker renovation on the Jack Nicklaus-designed layout. Bunkers, which account for nearly 2 acres of the course that hosts the PGA Tour's Honda Classic, are now equipped with new subsurface drainage, Better Billy Bunker liners and G-Angle sand.
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LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan is open to the idea of working with the upstart league. Readers of The First Call offer their opinions of such a possibility
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