As players rushed to praise the new course, which was shoehorned into the FedEx Cup Fall schedule, Laurie Weiskopf fought through tears while talking with Golfweek about how the 1973 British Open champion would have enjoyed the rave reviews the course received.

McCarty, a 26-year-old from Scottsdale, Arizona, won his fourth golf tournament in the past three months by outlasting several PGA Tour veterans to win the inaugural Black Desert Championship Sunday afternoon in southern Utah.

Ivins • Two days before the PGA Tour was set to return to his home state, Zac Blair huddled with doctors worried about his shoulder. The same shoulder that had kept him out of golf for over a year was flaring up again.