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It’s been a long time coming, but Lucas Glover is once again a PGA TOUR Champion. Glover finished two shots ahead of the field at the John Deere Classic, ending a winless drought that stretched more than 10 years since his last TOUR victory at the 2011 Wells Fargo Championship).

It took 80 holes, but Harris English is a PGA TOUR champion for the second time in 2021. After nailing an electrifying putt on the 72nd hole, English went head-to-head with Texan Kramer Hickok in an eight-hole sudden-death playoff, before finally sinking a 16-foot birdie to claim the Travelers Championship title and his fourth career PGA TOUR victory.

Phil Mickelson is no stranger to setting records. Most Ryder Cup appearances, most Ryder Cup fourball victories – in fact, he still holds the record as the last amateur to win on TOUR, dating back to his 1991 victory in Tucson as a then-Arizona State student.

Despite a two-hour weather delay that left rivers running down the fairways at TPC Craig Ranch, nothing was going to rain on K.H. Lee’s parade, as the South Korean native picked up his first PGA TOUR victory at the AT&T Byron Nelson.

The year is 2010. Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy has just won the Wells Fargo Championship, shooting a final-round 62 to set a new course record at Quail Hollow and pick up his first PGA TOUR victory.

Louisiana native Sam Burns picked up his inaugural PGA TOUR victory at this week’s Valspar Championship, becoming the second-youngest winner in tournament history, at age 24. The win catapults Burns from 37th to 24th in the U.S.

Team golf returned to the PGA TOUR this week for the first time since 2019, as the Zurich Classic of New Orleans crowned champions Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman in true Big Easy style, following a year off due to the COVID-19 crisis. The Aussies survived a one-hole playoff against South African duo Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen to claim the win, Smith's second at the event, having previously won in 2017 with teammate Jonas Blixt.

In a week that saw a number of familiar faces return to the golf spotlight, five-time U.S. Ryder Cup team member Stewart Cink stepped back into the PGA TOUR winner’s circle at the age of 47 with a victory at the RBC Heritage.

Shouldering the hopes of a nation, Hideki Matsuyama took home the Green Jacket at the 85th Masters Tournament, making history as the first men’s major Champion from Japan. Matsuyama entered Sunday’s final round four strokes ahead of the field and never truly looked back, finishing at 10-under 278 and earning his second visit to Butler Cabin just ten years after accepting low amateur honors at his first Masters.