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SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda (AP) — Brendon Todd ran away with the Bermuda Championship on Sunday for his second PGA TOUR title, shooting a 9-under 62 after flirting with a sub-60 round at calm Port Royal Golf Club. RELATED: Winner’s Bag | Final leaderboard Needing to birdie the final two holes to shoot 59, Todd missed a 20-foot birdie try on the par-5 17th and closed with a bogey after taking three shots to reach the green on the par-4 18th. He finished at 24-under 260 for a four-stroke victory over Harry Higgs in the first-year event. Two strokes behind Higgs entering the final round, Todd opened with a par, then birdied the next seven. The 34-year-old former University of Georgia player also birdied Nos. 10, 11 and 15. Two months after regaining his TOUR card in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, Todd earned a two-year exemption, $540,000 and entry into several high-profile events, including THE PLAYERS Championship. He won the 2014 AT&T Byron Nelson for first PGA TOUR title. Higgs closed with a 68. The former SMU player made the sixth start of his rookie season after winning on the Korn Ferry Tour and finishing fifth on the points list to earn a PGA TOUR card. Brian Gay (67), Hank Lebioda (63), Scottie Scheffler (66) and Aaron Wise (65) tied for third at 18 under.

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The Club at Nine Bridges, site of this week’s THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, was the fourth-toughest venue on TOUR last season. High winds played a large part in the course’s difficulty, but so did its large, sloping greens and deep bunkers. According to several metrics, this week’s venue was the TOUR’s toughest on and around the greens. Players got up-and-down less than half the time at last year’s CJ CUP. The scrambling percentage at Nine Bridges (48.2 percent) was the lowest on TOUR last season. Nine Bridges also had the TOUR’s third-lowest sand-save percentage (39.3). “The ball, it has a tendency to not sit in great spots around the greens. You know, it always seems to kind of fall away or seems to go down into a bunker,â€� said last year’s champion, Justin Thomas. Nine Bridges also had last season’s highest average putts per round (31.3) – that’s almost 0.5 putts more than second-place Monterey Peninsula Country Club — as well as the lowest one-putt percentage (31 percent) and highest three-putt percentage (6.9 percent). The locals speak of the “Halla Mountain break,â€� a reference to the large mountain at the center of Jeju Island that influences the flow of the greens. “The whole golf course is on this side of the big mountain. Sometimes it can look flat but really everything is still going down the mountain,â€� said Adam Scott. Nine Bridges’ 73.2 scoring average was the second-toughest at a non-major last season (only PGA National, the site of The Honda Classic, was harder). Thomas also won The Honda, giving him victories at last season’s two toughest non-major venues. He opened last year’s CJ CUP with a 9-under 63. Then the winds, and harder hole locations, came and Thomas won by shooting even par over the final 54 holes (74-70-72). “Putting is so hard in this wind. You can have a 2- or 3-footer and if the wind picks up, you’re not going to make it and that’s just the fact of the matter,â€� Thomas said. “So that also goes into the statistics because you’re not making as many putts, percentages aren’t going to be as high. A lot goes into it, but the wind is definitely a huge factor, but the design of the golf course and the greens are also very influential.â€� Nine Bridges gets harder the closer a player gets to the hole. Many South Korean courses are claustrophobic, but Nine Bridges’ wide fairways were the third-easiest to hit last season (72.4 percent). Players hit nearly 70 percent of the greens last year, as well. Only 12 courses had a higher greens-in-regulation-percentage. The high winds and large greens impact the putting statistics because players who don’t hit it close are left with long, difficult birdie putts instead of chips and pitches from off the green. The rough is lower this year but the greens are firmer. And it’s going to be cool and windy once again. The temperature isn’t expected to exceed 62, and the winds could blow over 20 mph in the first two rounds. “It’s always windy here. It’s just a matter of how windy,â€� Thomas said. That means players will need to be precise with their ball-striking if they want to win this week. Saving par is no easy task at Nine Bridges.

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The PGA TOUR continues Saturday in Round 3 of the Workday Charity Open at Muirfield Village. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action. Round 3 leaderboard Round 3 tee times HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday 6:45 a.m.-6 p.m. (featured groups), Saturday-Sunday 7:00 a.m.-3 p.m. (featured groups). Saturday-Sunday 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (featured holes). Radio: Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio). FEATURED GROUPS (ALL TIMES ET) Russell Henley, Jason Day, Corey Conners Saturday: 11:32 a.m. Phil Mickelson, Patrick Cantlay, Sungjae Im Saturday: 11:43 a.m. MUST READS Morikawa builds on lead at Muirfield Village Burns trending up after second-round 66 Koepka charge likely not enough at Workday Charity Open Win probabilities: Workday Charity Open Frittelli ‘super happy’ to return after quarantine Canadian duo starts strong How to give Muirfield a second identity CALL OF THE DAY

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