Talion, Ungco win at Junior PH Golf Tour

LEVONNE Talion turned a losing stand into a winning run while Roman Ungco dominated as they topped their respective divisions with 42 and 53 points, respectively, in Round 3 of the ICTSI Junior PGT Series’ 18hole stroke play tournament at the Valley Golf Club’s North course in Antipolo last Sunday.

Talion birdied the 18th for an 84 in medal play to complete a clutch two-shot swing as Rafa Anciano bogeyed the closing par-4 hole in an earlier flight, enabling the former to score a repeat of her feat in the girls’ 13-14 division at Mt. Malarayat in Batangas where she nipped the latter by one point last month.

Anciano dropped four strokes in the last three holes, including a double-bogey on No. 16, and finished with an 85 worth 41 points, while Talion charged back with a bogey-bogey-birdie finish to spike her fightback from three strokes down for the victory in the one-day tournament played under the Molave scoring system.

Chloe Lim actually made it a three-way battle as she tied Talion at 11-over with three holes left. But she post- ed a bogey-bogey-triple bogey windup for third with an 88 for 38 points in the Pilipinas Golf Tournaments, Inc.organized event, which drew a huge field of 45 players in three age-group classes (boys’ and girls’ 9-10, boys’ and girls’ 11-12 and girls’ 13-14).

While Talion won in a cliffhanger, Ungco ran away with the boys’ 11-12 trophy as he bucked a double bogey-bogey start with a birdie-eagle-par-birdie feat from No. 6. He made the turn at one-under 35 and closed out with a 38 that included two more birdies for an impressive one-over 73 for 53 points.

Ungco beat Jacobo Gomez by 12 points as the latter scored 41 points on a gross 85, while Aenzo Sulaik ended up third as he lost to Gomez in the countback after also carding 41 points.

In the boys; 9-10 side, Ryuji Suzuki fired 53 points from a gross 73 for a six-point victory over Jacob Casuga, who shot 47 points from a 79 while Mt. Malarayat leg winner Vito Sarines ended up third with 45 points from a gross 81.

Maurysse Abalos took the girls’ 9-10 diadem with 37 points from an 89, one-point better than Quincy Pilac, who had 36 points from a gross 91, while Margaux Namoco edged Kelsey Bernardino in the countback for third with 33 points after both finished with 93s.

HOYLAKE, United Kingdom—British Open champion

Brian Harman says he will celebrate his fi rst major win at Hoylake by jumping on his new tractor, joking that he is a man of many layers “like an onion”.

The 36-year-old American returned a score of one under par in his final round on Sunday for a 13-under total, finishing six strokes clear of the chasing pack.

As the rain lashed the Royal Liverpool course, Harman, a passionate bow-and-arrow hunter, plotted some down time back in the United States.

“I had a nice week a couple weeks ago and I bought a new tractor for my hunting place, so I’ll get home and I’ll be on the tractor mowing grass in the next few weeks, so I’m excited about that,” he said.

“Just put my phone away and go get on the tractor.”

Harman said he had not yet told his wife how much his new orange Kubota machine cost -- but he certainly has his work cut out.

“We’ve got about 25 acres of food plots that need, and, gosh, I don’t know how many miles of roads, but I’d call it probably 40 acres total that needs to get mowed,” he said.

A reporter said he had never known an Open champion celebrate by mowing grass on a tractor.

“I’ve got a lot of layers, man,” he replied. “I’m like an onion.”

Harman, ranked 26th in the world, has previously won just two events on the PGA Tour, though he finished tied for second at the 2017 US Open.

He described the soaking wet conditions at the course on England’s northwest coast on Sunday as “Armageddon”.

“It was bad, it was really tough,”