It was a week of doubles on the world’s professional golf tours, along with a first for the Auburn Tigers in the USGA Women’s Amateur. Playoff season began on the PGA Tour, while major championship season ended for the LPGA and LET. The Korn Ferry and Tour Champions marched on toward their fall conclusions, while the USGA crowned its top amateur in the women’s game. Congratulations to Megan Schofill, the first Auburn Tiger to claim the USGA Women’s Amateur title.

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An emotional family moment for @AleTostiOK. ?

No one in his family ever played golf, but that didn't them from supporting Tosti's golf dreams that sparked when he was six years old.

Today, he is the PGA TOUR's newest member with his family watching from back home in Argentina.… pic.twitter.com/Xk1AHDA4xZ

— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) August 13, 2023

LPGA/LET @ Women’s Open: Vu wins Walton Heath with stellar conclusion

Lilia Vu was a star on the USA side, at the 2018 Curtis Cup. She paid her dues over the next five years, then jumped on stage in February of 2023, with a victory at the LPGA Thailand event. Little did anyone know that she was merely revving the engine. Vu went to Houston in April, where she gritted out a win at the Chevron Championship, the year’s first major. Her playoff triumph was a step way up from a non-major win. This week at Walton Heath, Vu added a second major to her summer collection, closing 67-67 in Surrey to sideline home-country favorite Charley Hull by six.

Sunday was match play between Vu and Hull. The Englishwoman got off to a rough start, with two bogeys and zero birdies over her first ten holes. Vu saw the opening and posted three birdies against zero mistakes. In the space of 150 minutes, the match had gone from even to five shots up for the American. Hull gave the home fans a chance to roar with eagle at the eleventh, but Vu made birdie of her own to hush the gallery a bit. From the point on the play was a bit erratic. Each player made some bogeys and some birdies, but none of it figured in the end.

With the win, Vu became just about the only active player to have more major titles than regular ones. That should change, as ratio indicates that Vu will win with more frequency, at non-major stops. Currently, the California lass finds herself second in the Race to CME Globe championship. She’ll need another win or two to overtake Celine Boutier. With three wins thus far, four and five don’t seem like such a reach.

????? ?? with a grandstand finish @AIGWomensOpen ?#RaiseOurGame | #AIGWO pic.twitter.com/4SM5dpyAvb

— Ladies European Tour (@LETgolf) August 13, 2023

PGA Tour @ FedEx St. Jude: Glover keeps hot glove hand with playoff win

Right about now, we suspect that Zach Johnson is interviewing the top six golfers on the Ryder Cup USA side, asking them if they can partner Lucas Glover. The South Carolina native and Clemson alum has burst like a nova into the playoff and Ryder Cup races. Wins each of the past two weeks have brought him to 16th on the Ryder Cup points list, and 4th in the tour playoff race. He’s the man to beat as the tour heads west to Chicago and Olympia Fields, for stage two of the extra-season stretch. It’s worth a look at what he did, and how he did it.

Before last week’s win in Greensboro, Glover was not even a blip on the radar circle. His win moved him into the top 70, but he needed a solid finish in Memphis to keep his newly-found, top-fifty rating. He took care of that and more at TPC Southwind. Glover was in comfortable shape after round one, three shots back of Jordan Spieth’s 63. Round two saw the 2009 US Open champion move to the top of the board, one ahead of Spieth. Round three was more of the same, as Glover posted another 66, to preserve a one-shot lead over unheralded Taylor Moore. Moore would falter a bit in round four, but would earn a top-five finish and a spot in the remaining two, playoff events.

Back to Glover. Round four was not the walk in the mid-sixties that he needed. He played his first thirteen holes in one-under, thanks to a birdie and a dozen pars. 14 saw him wobble with bogey, but he gathered himself and posted birdie at 16, tor each 15-under par on the week. Ahead of him, certain Ryder Cup participant Patrick Cantlay had played flawless golf, to reach 64 on the day, and that same, fifteen-deep total. The pair returned to the 18th tee, where one shot determined the outcome. Glover found the fairway with his tee ball, while Cantlay leaned left and found the water. After a drop by Cantlay, each golfer reached the putting surface, some twenty feet from the hole. From there, it was two putts each, and a huge win for Glover.

Back on top.@Lucas_Glover_ birdies No. 16 to join the lead at 15-under @FedExChamp. pic.twitter.com/vRQKiIekxm

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 13, 2023

Korn Ferry Tour @ Pinnacle Bank: Tosti earns victory and PGA Tour card

When a golfer opens with 63 and closes with 62, an awful lot of bad has to be served at the drive-through window, for him to not figure in the outcome. That’s not Alejandro Tosti’s tale for his week in Omaha. The Argentine posted 29 for his first nine holes on Thursday, surviving a solitary bogey coming home, for 63. On Sunday, he went one better. Seven birdies and an eagle allowed him add up just 62 strokes, overtake third-round leader John VanDerLaan, win his first KFT event, and lock down a PGA Tour card for 2023-2024. That’s a big order.

VanDerLaan’s play over the final 18 holes bore little resemblance to the consistency he displayed over the prior 54. He totaled four bogies on the day, and was fortunate to hold on to a second-place tie with Max Greyserman, at 16-under par. As for Tosti, his rags-to-riches story closed another chapter and opened the next, with a glorious win in the heartland of America.

AN EAGLE HOLE OUT TO TAKE THE SOLO LEAD ?@AleTostiOK has two shot lead at 17-under with three left to play. pic.twitter.com/sBH7fSFVml

— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) August 13, 2023

PGA Tour Champions @ Boeing Classic: Ames aces exam with 63

We know that 63 usually doesn’t ace a classroom exam, unless everyone else scores 62 and lower. This was not school classroom, however, but there was much learning at the hands of the Trinidadian-turner-Canadian Ames. The tall, wavy-haired golfer put on a clinic on Sunday in Washington state. Despite eagle at the first and birdie at the sixth, Ames had not put much distance between himself and Miguel Ángel Jiménez. That all changed as the denouement of the tournament arrived.

Beginning at the 14th hole, with the outcome still in doubt, Ames tallied birdie-birdie-birdie-birdie, then capped his day with a closing eagle. He left Jiménez in the dust, although the Canarian claimed solo second by two shots, over K. J. Choi and Steven Alker. The win moved Ames into third position in the Charles Schwab Cup race, although he and the other will need a turbo boost to catch leader Steve Stricker. No matter, as the Vancouver native Ames will celebrate for a bit on his sixth Tour Champions victory, then  recharge and begin the chase to catch Stricker.

'The closer'?????@StephenAmesPGA's incredible second shot from 224 yards out on the par-5 18th @BoeingClassic. https://t.co/GsMvae4c1C pic.twitter.com/1izF0tER2C

— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) August 14, 2023