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Lee Westwood held on for about as long as he could at PGA National's Champion course, one of the most demanding tracks on the PGA TOUR. But on Friday, his stellar Florida run came to a close at PGA National. He'll have the weekend free after shooting 78 and missing the cut. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Affect of water balls on Florida Swing Westwood's last few weeks on the PGA TOUR may have failed to deliver a trophy, but they did earn the veteran player plenty of new admirers. A month shy of his 48th birthday, he went toe-to-toe with mighty Bryson DeChambeau at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, forcing DeChambeau to make a clutch 5-footer for the trophy. He then stepped in against the strongest field of the season at THE PLAYERS Championship and jumped right back into the fray, taking another lead into Sunday. Westwood ran in one last birdie on the 72nd hole and was a runner-up once more, this time to another young gun - Justin Thomas. Westwood did the right thing by playing the Honda, even if he knew he was stretching himself by playing a fourth consecutive week. The tournament has been good to him in the past, and the Englishman has established his U.S. base close by in South Florida. ("It's just not right to withdraw at such a late date," he said.) On Thursday, he birdied his last two holes to shoot a solid 70. He was in a good spot. Friday, he just didn't have it. A lone birdie on his 17th hole of the day (the eighth) wasn't nearly enough to offset three double bogeys on a tough track. Did he simply run out of gas? "Yeah," Westwood said wryly, "about four days ago." Westwood hadn't missed out on playing on the weekend anywhere around the globe since The RSM Classic in Georgia in November. Having risen to 19th in the World Ranking, Westwood will be back on the tee in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday for the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. There were far too many positives from the last couple of weeks to be too concerned about a missed cut. He earned a huge payday (more than $2.6 million) over the last two weeks, and the 645 FedExCup points earned vaulted him to 22nd in the points standings. Plus, he got to spend the early part of this week playing Augusta National Golf Club with his son, Sam, who was on dad's bag at The Honda. His body was telling him it was time for a brief respite before he gets back at it in Texas. "My body was telling me last Sunday (at PLAYERS)," Westwood said. "I didn't swing it as well Sunday last week. I was starting to get tired. Three weeks in a row with not really a day off. So yeah, I am 48 in a month, and I can't keep doing it like the 20-year-olds do it." Even if the last two weeks at Bay Hill and TPC Sawgrass, he did. Westwood left PGA National quite confident, already looking forward to the Match Play and to the Masters. Most of all, he looked forward to a little rest.

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SAN ANTONIO – Trey Mullinax didn’t make the FedExCup Playoffs last season, so he’s not fully exempt on the PGA TOUR. His conditional status – he finished 137th on the points list – limits his playing opportunities, as he’s made just two starts in the last nine weeks. That means lots of practice time back home in Birmingham, Alabama. Also lots of time to hang out with his family. “It’s been nice, to be honest,â€� he said. “Obviously I would like to play a little more, but the tournaments I get in, I’m really excited, I’m excited about playing golf.â€� Excited enough Saturday to set a course record at TPC San Antonio. Mullinax’s 10-under 62 on Saturday not only put him in the record books, it put him in position to chase his first PGA TOUR win. Having started the day tied for 25th, Mullinax is now in solo third at 12 under entering the final round of the Valero Texas Open. He’ll be in the final threesome with co-leaders Zach Johnson and Andrew Landry, one stroke ahead. Until Saturday, the lowest round since the tournament moved to TPC San Antonio in 2010 has been the 63s by Matt Every in 2012 and Martin Laird, who shot his in the final round to win in 2013. Mullinax set the record by setting another record, shooting 29 on the back nine – two eagles, four birdies and a bogey – for a new nine-hole mark. Mulinax wasn’t exactly sure what the course record was before rolling in his final putt, a 16-footer for eagle at the par-5 18th. After the ball dropped, he turned to caddie David Flynn and said, “I think that might be the course record.â€� Flynn wasn’t sure either. “No matter what,â€� he replied, “you still played pretty good.â€� Mullinax has played pretty well in his limited starts, a tie for sixth at the Valspar Championship, and a tie for 22nd his last start at Corales Puntacana. That was just about a month ago. He opened Thursday with a 2-over 74, doing well to prevent the round from getting away from him. He improved on Friday as his putter heated up, shooting a 4-under 68 to make the cut. That got him to Saturday. “Obviously I don’t think you ever walk onto a tee and think 62,â€� he said, “but I thought I had some low rounds in me. I thought I was rolling the ball well and felt really good with my irons on the range this morning, so got some stuff to happen.â€� He opened with birdie in three of his first four holes, then sandwiched two more birdies around his lone bogey on the 11th after the turn. At the par-5 14th, he chipped in from 95 feet for eagle. That’s when the round ceased looking good and started looking historic. “I knew I was kind of playing pretty well,â€� he said. Consider that an understatement. Mullinax chipped in again from 40 feet just off the green for birdie at the 16th, drilled his approach inside 6 feet at the 17th, and finished with that eagle putt after a terrific second shot from 257 yards with the ball above his feet. He aimed at the left greenside bunker and cut a 3-iron, letting it bounce toward the pin. Johnson, who shares the course record of 60 at the previous Valero venue at La Cantera, wasn’t surprised to hear about the new mark. Neither was he surprised to hear it was Mullinax who shot it. The two became friends when Mullinax used to live in St. Simons Island, Georgia. “I could see a guy that hits it hard, which he does,â€� Johnson said. “He hits it really, really hard. I could see that because the par 5s kind of become par 4s to some degree with this south wind. And you’ve got to putt, you’ve still got to hit good shots and putt. “62’s ridiculous but you can see it.â€� Despite the limited opportunities to showcase his skills, Mullinax has never worried about getting rusty or losing his competitive edge. “You never really lose how to play golf,â€� he said. “It’s just tournament golf, right? So you just go out and get back in the swing of things. Just another day on the golf course.â€� Saturday, though, was a day no golfer had previously experience at TPC San Antonio. And if Mullinax wins Sunday, his playing schedule will become a lot busier with the two-year exemption awarded to the champion.

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