Hatton, Kang share lead at Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard

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David Skinns became the first player to Monday qualify for multiple events this season, while the season’s most successful qualifier narrowly missed another opportunity to tee it up in a PGA TOUR event. Skinns, 35, was one of three players to shoot 64 on Monday at Brunswick (Ga.) Country Club and earn a spot in this week’s RSM Classic. He shared medalist honors in the four-spot qualifier with T.J. Vogel and Dan McCarthy. Andrew Novak shot 65 and grabbed the final berth into the RSM in a three-man playoff with Sebastian Vazquez and Curtis Thompson. Scott Strohmeyer, who finished T4 after qualifying for last month’s Sanderson Farms Championship, shot a bogey-free 67 but missed the playoff by two shots. Strohmeyer failed to advance past the first stage of Q-School and has no status on any major tour. He must rely on Monday qualifiers and sponsor exemptions for starts. Skinns also qualified for the Sanderson Farms Championship, where he finished T53. He finished runner-up in the final event of the Web.com Tour’s Regular Season, the WinCo Foods Portland Open, just to qualify for the Web.com Tour Finals, then withdrew from the second Finals event to be with his wife as she gave birth to the couple’s second child. He was T9, five shots off the lead, when he withdrew after the second round. Skinns, 35, has never held a PGA TOUR card. This is the fifth PGA TOUR start of his career, and his first time making multiple starts in a single season. Vogel, of Hollywood, Florida, finished 10th on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Order of Merit thanks to two top-10s in 12 starts, including a runner-up in the Bayview Place Cardtronics Open. Vogel, 26, won the 2012 U.S. Amateur Public Links. He has missed the cut in five previous PGA TOUR starts, including the 2013 Masters (77-75). McCarthy, 32, won four times on Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada in 2016 to win the Order of Merit and earn his Web.com Tour card for 2017. He finished 109th on the Web.com Tour’s Regular Season money list despite finishing fourth in his first start of the season. He didn’t post another top-25 finish in his remaining 11 starts of the year and missed nearly five months because of a wrist injury. He has missed the cut in two previous PGA TOUR starts (2010 U.S. Open, 2016 RBC Canadian Open). Novak, 22, finished his college career at Wofford College earlier this year. He played on Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada this summer, making the cut in five of 11 starts. Novak, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, had a best finish of T19. This will be his PGA TOUR debut. OHL Classic at Mayakoba qualifiers T55. Tim Wilkinson, 70-71-70-71 T68. Ken Duke, 68-68-77-71 MC. Sean Jacklin, 71-74 MC. Jordan Niebrugge, 76-71 2017-18 Monday qualifiers Qualifiers: 16 Made cut: 7 Top-10s: 1 (Scott Strohmeyer, T4 at Sanderson Farms) Top-25s: 1 Average qualifying: 66.13 Qualifiers’ average tournament score: 71.95

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DETROIT — Tony Finau ran away with the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday at Detroit Golf Club to become the first PGA TOUR player in three years to win consecutive regular-season events. RELATED: Leaderboard | Inside the Field: Wyndham Championship Finau closed with a 5-under 67 for a five-shot victory and a tournament-record 26-under 262 total. Taylor Pendrith (72), Patrick Cantlay (66) and rookie of the year front-runner Cameron Young (68) tied for second. Finau coasted to his fourth career victory, a third title in 11-plus months. He was the 3M Open winner last week in Minnesota, where he rallied from five strokes back to win by three. Brendon Todd was the last to win two straight in the regular season, doing it in 2019. Finau, the Salt Lake City native with Tongan-Samoan heritage, began his stretch of success last August at THE NORTHERN TRUST, where he had his first victory in five years and 142 PGA TOUR starts. Finau stopped another drought in Detroit, winning for the first time in six attempts when he had or shared the 54-hole lead in a PGA TOUR event. With his sixth birdie at No. 17 and a closing par, he broke Nate Lashley’s tournament record of 25 under set in 2019 during the inaugural PGA TOUR event. The PGA TOUR will close the regular season at the Wyndham Championship, with the North Carolina event opening Thursday. Players on the bubble will have one last shot to finish in the top 125 of the FedExCup standings to earn a spot in the Playoffs and a full card next season. Finau and Pendrith started Sunday tied and their potential duel in Detroit turned out to be a dud. Pendrith had his first lackluster round of the tournament after he shared the first-round lead with Finau, led him by one shot after the second and matched his 21-under total through three rounds. The 31-year-old PGA TOUR rookie from Canada hit an errant tee shot on the second hole to the right in the rough behind tree branches and later pulled a 9-foot putt to lose the lead for good. Cantlay, the defending FedExCup champion, had his third straight round in the mid-60s after opening with a 70. Young bounced back from a first-round 71 to finish second for the fifth time. Pendrith struggled in the final round just as he did the only other time he had a 54-hole lead. He led the Bermuda Championship last October by three shots before a 76 dropped him into fifth place, which was his best finish before his showing in the Motor City. Pendrith played in his third tournament after missing nearly four months with a broken rib. Finau began to pull away from Pendrith with an 11-foot birdie putt at No. 4 and a tap-in for birdie at No. 7. He made a 21-foot putt for birdie at No. 10 for his third birdie. After his first bogey in the tournament at No. 11, Finau made a 31-foot putt with a break from right to left at No. 12 and Pendrith missed an 11-foot putt on the same hole to fall four shots back. Cantlay surged within three shots of the lead with a 5-foot eagle putt at the par-5 14th. On the same hole, Finau made his fifth birdie of the final round to lead by four shots.

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