In his 11-year professional career, Harold Varner III has won individual trophies in Australia and Saudi Arabia. He also celebrated a LIV Golf League team trophy earlier this year in Singapore. But the 32-year-old resident of North Carolina had never won on American soil until Sunday, when he captured the LIV Golf DC trophy with a final-round 4-under 68 for a one-stroke victory.
Justin Thomas staged a record-equalling comeback before beating fellow American Will Zalatoris in a playoff to win the US PGA Championship at Southern Hills. Thomas started the final round seven shots behind the overnight leader Mito Pereira and took the clubhouse lead on five-under-par after an excellent round of 67.
Mito Pereira of Chile is the surprise leader of the US PGA Championship heading into the final round. The world number one hundred leads England's Matt Fitzpatrick and overnight leader Will Zalatoris of America.
