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Webb Simpson was in contention at The RSM Classic but withdrew before Saturday’s round to be with his ailing father. “Thanks to @Love3d for being such a great tourney host. I WD due to my Dad being sick and living his last days. Thanks for all the support,â€� Simpson tweeted after the third round was complete. Simpson started The RSM Classic with rounds of 67-68 to sit in 12th place, seven shots off the lead. He was scheduled to tee off at 10:45 a.m. with Jim Herman and Bubba Watson. “My dad is probably the kindest man I know. He’s always been the guy who knew everyone, everyone knew him, everyone wanted to be around him,â€� Simpson said in a 2015 interview with David Feherty. “But he was highly competitive. He loved sports. He coached my sisters in basketball and coached me in basketball growing up. He taught me the game. He’s always been one of those dads who loved to be active with their kids. “He wanted me to be as competitive as I could be. He did such a great job of pushing me to work hard but reminding me constantly that I didn’t have to play golf. It wasn’t golf that made him proud of me. It was the person I was and my character development, those type of things, which I love about my dad. That’s what made me learn how to win and be competitive in the right way. It wasn’t everything to me, but, hey, if I’m doing it, I’m doing it to win.â€� Sam Simpson would caddie for his son during amateur events while Webb starred at Wake Forest. Webb, the fifth of six children, started playing golf after following his father to the course on family vacations to the North Carolina coast. “He did not inherit any talent,” Sam Simpson said in a 2012 interview. “His hard work is what did it. His hard work did it for him, and his love of the game.â€� Webb Simpson, whose four PGA TOUR wins include the 2012 U.S. Open, is seeking his first PGA TOUR win since October 2013. He’s coming off a resurgent season that saw him qualify for the TOUR Championship for the first time since 2014.
Starting four shots back, Patrick Cantlay closed with an 8-under 64 Sunday to win by two shots over Adam Scott. Martin Kaymer fell back with a 72.
ERIN, Wis. — Sergio Garcia was decked out in green Tuesday, as he set out for his first U.S. Open practice round at Erin Hills. Yes, Garcia wears the title of Masters champion quite well. A weight was lifted when he finally captured the major title that eluded him for all those years. What he’s done in the past does not guarantee success, adulation or even happiness in the future, though. Nobody has learned that lesson in a more public fashion than Garcia himself. Of his dozens of close calls, failures and embarrassments, a few have come at the U.S. Open — the “torture chamber” of a major, as 1993 PGA champion Paul Azinger called it — a tournament that often brings out the worst in people. “It’s tough to win, and majors are even tougher,” Garcia said. “And the U.S. Open, we all know how difficult they are.” Unlike his effervescent introduction to the majors — when he hit the shot from the base of the tree, then ran up the fairway during the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah — Garcia’s first week in genuine contention at a U.S. Open was a sordid, awkward affair. It was 15 years ago, back in the day of the waggle, when the Spaniard’s pre-shot routine involved dozens of hard-to-watch, back-and-forth motions with his hands as he tried to position himself to swing. He was playing in New York, going against Tiger Woods in the final round. He had complained bitterly earlier in the week about how everything always seemed to be set up to benefit Woods, who was then at the peak of his powers. Not surprisingly, the overserved fans at Bethpage Black let Garcia have it, heckling him at almost every turn. On Saturday, after someone shouted out “Waggle Boy” during Garcia’s backswing, he pointed to the crowd and challenged the heckler to “be brave” and say it again. It was neither the first, nor the last time he had exacerbated these showdowns with fans. Garcia wilted in the final round and the showdown with Woods turned out to be something much less. Garcia finished fourth, and though it marked the first of five top-10 finishes he’s had at the U.S. Open, it formed a bad second impression that Garcia had trouble altering, especially in the U.S., over the next decade. Time changes things. Winning does, too. “I felt, and I’ve always said that I felt, like everywhere in the world, and here in the U.S., the fans have always treated me amazingly well,” Garcia said. He was, indeed, the fan favorite as he walked around Augusta National two months ago, dueling with Justin Rose over the final day and eventually coming out on top in a playoff. Once portrayed as the boy who would not become a man, either in golf or in life, Garcia is, at 37, all grown up — handling the pressure better, on the verge of getting married and, yes, now a major champion. Rose, who already had his major, the 2013 U.S. Open, conceded on the day he finished second that if he had to lose, best it be to someone like Garcia, a friend and Ryder Cup teammate for years. He echoed that thought Tuesday. “You think of Sergio Garcia going through his career without a major championship, it would’ve been kind of sad,” Rose said. These days, it’s mostly smiles. Asked if he had two words to describe his strategy for this week, where Erin Hills is expected to play every bit as long and brutal as advertised, Garcia said: “patience” and “commitment.” Pressed to explain the second part, Garcia said, “it’s just a matter of believing.” Much easier for him to do so now, especially with that green jacket hanging back at home.
