Episode 5: 5/1/24 Bonus Catches
Brendan Steele wins LIV Golf Adelaide posting a 54-hole total of -18. It is Steele’s first LIV win, and his first anywhere in 6 years. Steele’s HyFlyers, captained by Phil Mickelson, earn their second ever podium finishing in solo third.
Cameron Smith bogeys his final hole and Louis Oosthuizen pars his last hole to force the first ever team playoff in LIV’s history between Smith’s all Australian team Ripper GC and Oosthuizen’s all South African team Stinger GC. Both teams score of -53 was the best team total in LIV’s history. The playoff involved two players from each team repeating the 18th hole with the lowest aggregate score winning. After all 4 players (Smith and Marc Leishman for Ripper, Oosthuizen and Dean Burmester for Stinger) parred the first playoff hole, Ripper were victorious in front of the home crowd when Oosthuizen and Burmester bogeyed the second playoff hole and Leishman tapped in for par.
Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry teamed up to win the alternate shot Zurich Classic in New Orleans. The Irish pair were victorious in a playoff over Chad Ramey and Martin Trainer. It was McIlroy’s 25th career PGA Tour victory in his first time ever playing this tournament.
On Sunday the Mets’ Harrison Bader hit the game-tying single in the 11th and Mark Vientos hit a walk-off 2-run homer later in the inning to give New York the victory of the Cardinals in the battle of Keith Hernandez.
In a matchup between the teams with the best records in the majors Austin Riley hit a walk-off single in the 10th as the Braves downed the Guardians Sunday.
The Edmonton Oilers’ Adam Henrique scored his first NHL playoff goal in 4,333 days against the Kings earlier this week. Henrique’s last playoff goal was also against the Kings in the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals while playing for the Devils.
Coming into the week NHL teams leading a series 3-1 win that series 90.5 percent of the time.
Nikola Jokic had 80 points, 40 rebounds, and 20 assists through the first three games of the Nuggets’ series against the Lakers. He is the first to produce that stat line through a team’s first three games of a series since Wilt Chamberlain some 60 years ago.