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Tyrrell Hatton's season began on the PGA Tour, took place primarily on the LIV Golf circuit and will end on the DP World Tour following his victory at the 2024 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Reaching 24 under between rounds at Carnoustie, Kingsbarn Golf Links and two at the Old Course at St. Andrews, the Englishman outlasted Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts for a one-stroke victory at the Home of Golf.

With the win, Hatton becomes the first three-time winner in tournament history, having previously been a back-to-back winner in 2016-17. He also ascends to 16th in the Race to Dubai and secures his place in the season finale while also climbing to 20th in the Official World Golf Rankings. 

The start fulfills the four-start minimum required to maintain DP World Tour membership as Hatton now has eyes on accumulating as many Ryder Cup and OWGR points as possible. The victory pushes him to fifth in the European Ryder Cup team standings with the biennial event now less than a year away.

"I'm so happy that I've got my place booked in Dubai," Hatton said. "When I teed off last week at the Spanish Open, I knew that I needed probably at least a second on my own to have a chance. 

"Actually, I was meant to be going to Fitzy's [Matt Fitzpatrick's] wedding the week in Spain, and I messaged him a few weeks ago and I was like, 'If I don't have enough points, I might not be able to go,' and I felt so bad about that. I guess having a little extra motivation to play well."

After tying the course record at St. Andrews on Saturday with a third-round 61, Hatton had himself a more stressful time around the par 72 on Sunday. Getting off to a blistering start with four birdies in first 11 holes, he was met with a difficult back nine as wind turned towards players' faces on the way in.

Despite dropping three shots in a two-hole stretch from Nos. 12-13, Hatton still had himself a narrow lead. It vanished completely when Colsaerts tacked on a beautiful birdie on the par-4 15th to effectively make it a three-hole match for the title. After exchanging a pair of pars on Nos. 16-17, both Hatton and Colsaerts hit their tee shots just in front of the green of the short par-4 18th.

Wielding a pitching wedge from just outside 30 yards, Hatton's second bounced onto the green and settled 3 feet from the hole. When Colsaerts was unable to two-putt for birdie from off the surface, Hatton brushed his birdie in to secure another title at the tournament. 

"It feels good," Hatton said. "This is the first time I've actually won the tournament with my dad here. So it means a lot. And yeah, to do it on the Home of Golf is really special. Hard to describe to be honest. I'm at a loss for words."

 [Source: cbssports.com]

There may have been times throughout the week when the 2024 President's Cup looked like it was in doubt for the United States, but Sunday was not one of those times. The Americans birdied 15 of their first 31 holes in Sunday singles matches at Royal Montreal Golf Club ultimately cruising to a 10th consecutive victory at the event. The U.S. won 18.5 to 11.5 over the Internationals claiming the most decisive victory for an away team in Presidents Cup history and the largest for either side since 2017.

Xander Schauffele started the wave of red, white and blue with a 4 & 3 rout of Jason Day to win the first point of the day, and the United States' momentum never subsided. Ultimately, it was Keegan Bradley -- yes, 2025 Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley -- who scored the event-clinching point by winning 1 UP over Si Woo Kim to secure the President's Cup.

There was little drama outside of a short, small uprising about halfway through the day in which the International team looked like it could make the competition interesting. It started earning half points instead of full ones, though, as Bradley and Co. just kept rolling.

Let's take a look at the complete scoreboard from Sunday and dive into some of the higher-profile matches.

Xander Schauffele (United States) wins 4 & 3 over Jason Day (International): Schaffuele, the No. 2 player in the world, capped a 4-1-0 week with this crucial early win. He made four birdies through his first 13 holes on Sunday and, at 8.55 strokes gained (per Data Golf), stood as the best player in the field this week. That fits what we saw across all five matches he played as Schauffele, a two-time major champion this year, proved to be the straw that stirred the drink for the Americans.

Sam Burns (United States) halves with Tom Kim (International): This match was electric late as these two were a combined 4 under with five birdies over the final six holes. Both hit it to 4 feet or less on No. 17 and both made birdie before they rounded things out with pars on 18 to halve the match. The problem for the International team is that the Americans could easily halve their way to winning the event while the Internationals needed full points.

Hideki Matsuyama (International) wins 1 UP over Scottie Scheffler (United States): Scheffler, the world No. 1, chipped in on the first hole and birdied the second. It looked as if one Masters champion was going to light up another one. However, Matsuyama birdied seven of the last 12 holes and flipped the match on the 14th before closing out a big point for the International side. 

Russell Henley (United States) wins 3 & 2 over Sungjae Im (International): Henley touched off a massive week for him with an easy vicotry over Im, who like on Day 1, struggled to find any birdies. This was not the best match on the course as it ended, somewhat fittingly, with an Im bogey on the 16th hole as Henley pushed the U.S. side to 13.5 points, within two of the title.

Corey Conners (International) wins 5 & 3 over Tony Finau (United States): Conners blasted Finau, who was terrible throughout this round. Finau took an early lead with a birdie at the second but made three bogeys in the middle of his round to lose three consecutive holes. He did not make a single birdie the rest of the way. Conners closed him with four birdies in his last six holes to win big over one of America's more consistent team event players.

Patrick Cantlay (United States) wins 3 & 1 over Taylor Pendrith (International): This was a tremendous match between Pendrith and probably America's second-best player this week. Both players birdied the first hole, and there were 12 birdies between the pair over the course of 17 holes. Cantlay narrowly finished second in the field in total strokes gained on the week behind only alternate shot partner Schauffele, of course.

Keegan Bradley (United States) wins 1 UP over Si Woo Kim (International): Bradley said after his round that he thought about how his match was the one that lost the Ryder Cup in 2014, a full 10 years ago. He was proud that he got go clinch a team event this time around. The crazy part is that Bradley is going to be the captain of next year's U.S. Ryder Cup team, which will try and take the trophy back from the European side. It seems unlikely that he'll be on that team as a player as well, and he acknowledged that in an emotional post-round interview.

"The last time I played, I was the point to lose the Ryder Cup," Bradley said. "If this is my last run as a player [in team events] -- maybe it is -- then I'm happy with that."

[source: cbssports.com]

The PGA of America has made LIV players eligible for the PGA Championship and U.S. Ryder Cup team after the organization added LIV to its list of approved tours.

“It’s more of a cleanup,” Kerry Haigh, the association’s chief championships officer and interim CEO, told GolfChannel.com. “We’ve added the LIV tour to the list of tours that are eligible towards A-3 membership, which all [PGA] Tour members are eligible for. The LIV players had previously been [PGA of America] members but had we not done this they would have had to go through more requirements which no other tour members are asked to do.”

Players who had joined LIV Golf had been granted a “grace period” for last year’s Ryder Cup – which allowed Zach Johnson to select Brooks Koepka as one of his captain’s picks – but it had been unclear how the PGA of America would continue to navigate the divide in professional golf.

Although the move stops short of granting Ryder Cup team points for earnings or finishes on LIV Golf, it does pave the way for players like Bryson DeChambeau, who won the U.S. Open in June and is currently third on the U.S. points list, to play for the American side next year at Bethpage Black as well as to continue to play in the PGA Championship.

Historically, the PGA has used the major championships and select PGA Tour events to award points for U.S. Ryder Cup team qualification and when asked if the association has considered adding finishes at LIV events to that criteria Haigh said, “That has not been discussed.”

“I’m going to have the best 12 players, so the PGA of America, they – we’re going to have the 12 best players, so they need to figure that out, if that’s their problem,” U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley said at last month’s BMW Championship. “I know you have to be a PGA member to play in the Ryder Cup. That’s the only stipulation that you need. So we’ll make sure if some of those guys that we think might make the team, we’ll make sure that they are a member.”

LIV players will be offered A-3 membership into the PGA of America, the same granted PGA Tour players as well as players on nine other circuits around the world including the DP World Tour.

“All these players would have still been eligible in the short term but they would have had to do additional requirements [to maintain membership],” said Haigh, who was tabbed as the interim CEO after former chief executive Seth Waugh stepped down in June. “LIV players have always been eligible and this cleanup of the bylaws just makes it more consistent with the other tours and will allow the best players in the world to play the PGA Championship and represent the U.S. team at the Ryder Cup, which has always been the case.”

The European Ryder Cup team had already created a pathway for LIV golfers to play in the biennial matches, albeit a much more expensive option that has been criticized by Jon Rahm. The only stipulation for a European player is that they maintain their membership on the DP World Tour, which means they must play a minimum of four European tour events per year. However, those who joined LIV Golf are required to pay fines for violating the circuit’s policies for conflicting events and media right releases.

Last week, LIV Golf’s Rahm appealed those fines and said he planned to play the DP World Tour minimum, which counts his start at the Paris Olympics, that would make him eligible for next year’s matches.

“I’m not a big fan of the fines,” Rahm said last week. “I think I’ve been outspoken about that. I don’t intend to pay the fines, and we keep trying to have a discussion with them about how we can make this happen.”

[source: nbcsports.com]