Two weeks after coming from behind to win the U.S. Open, Dustin Johnson did it again in another big event.
Johnson closed with a 4-under-par 66 to edge Scott Piercy by one shot and win the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Classic on Sunday in Akron, Ohio. Johnson completed the tournament in 6-under 274 at Firestone Country Club.
Piercy, the co-leader after the third round, finished with an even-par 70 for a 275. He tied for second behind Johnson in the U.S. Open at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club.
The other third-round co-leader, top-ranked Jason Day of Australia, stumbled down the stretch Sunday and fell into a tie for third place at 277 after a 72. He ended his day, in order, with a bogey, a double bogey, a par and a bogey.
Jordan Spieth (final-round 67), Matt Kuchar (66) and Kevin Chappell (67) also wound up at 277.
Johnson earned his 11th career PGA Tour win and second of the year, both in his past two events.
“I feel like my game is where it has been all year,” he said. “I felt like I’ve been playing really solid all year. I’ve been driving it great and wedging it good, I just haven’t been putting as well as I’d like to. But the last couple of weeks I’ve just putted a little bit better.”
Tied for seventh were William McGirt (70), South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel (70) and Sweden’s David Lingmerth (72).
Zach Johnson (65), Rickie Fowler (67), Australia’s Adam Scott (67) and Branden Grace (68) shared 10th place.
Henderson, 18, wins in Portland again
PORTLAND, Oregon— A year ago, Brooke Henderson could do no wrong in the Cambia Portland Classic.
On Sunday, she did just enough right to hold off playing partner Mariajo Uribe and Stacy Lewis and win the event for the second year in a row.
Henderson, an 18-year-old Canadian, sputtered on and off but shot a final-round, 1-under-par 71 at Columbia Edgewater Country Club for a 14-under 274 and a four-stroke victory.
Lewis, 31, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., fired a 69 to take second.
Uribe, a 26-year-old Colombian, gave Henderson a run before faltering on the back nine. Her closing 75 was good for a tie for fourth with 2014 Portland winner Austin Ernst (73), both at 280. Uribe played the last seven holes in 6 over.
Henderson, ranked No. 2 in the world, won $195,000 from the purse of $1.3 million in the 45th consecutive year the LPGA has played in Portland.
Henderson won her first LPGA title on the same course last year, blitzing the field by eight shots with a 21-under total.
This year, she looked more human, especially over the weekend, as she shot 70 on Saturday — the first time she failed to be in the 60s on the 6,476-yard, tree-lined layout.
“I didn’t putt very well — kind of a weird day of golf,” Henderson said.
All three of Henderson’s LPGA wins have come in the Pacific Northwest. She beat world No. 1 Lydia Ko in a playoff in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship three weeks ago at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash.
Henderson began Sunday’s final round with a two-shot lead on Norway’s Suzann Pettersen and a three-stroke edge on Uribe. At the turn, Henderson was two ahead of Pettersen and Uribe. Then things got interesting, at least briefly.
Uribe pulled even with an 18-foot birdie putt on the 14th; she and Henderson were 14 under at that point.
Uribe bogeyed the par-5 12th, however, while Henderson got up and down from a greenside bunker for a birdie.
Henderson gave one back when she failed to make a sand save on the next hole.
However, Uribe missed the fairway on the par-5 15th and bogeyed to slip two shots behind again.
The clincher for Henderson came on the par-4 17th. She and Uribe both drove into a bunker, then flew their approach shots over the green. Henderson rammed in a par putt from the fringe, while Uribe took 6 — and Henderson walked to the 18th tee three ahead of Lewis and four better than Uribe.
Pettersen took herself out of it with a double bogey 6 on No. 11. She finished with a 72 and was third at 279.