{"id":797808,"date":"2026-07-12T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:20:12","slug":"zach-johnson-wins-at-firestone-for-first-senior-major-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797808\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Johnson wins at Firestone for first senior major title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AKRON, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Zach Johnson won his first PGA Tour Champions major in the final event at Firestone Country Club, closing with a 2-under 68 for a six-shot victory Sunday in the Kaulig Companies Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson had a 63 in the third round that staked him to a four-shot lead entering the final round, and even with a pair of bogeys in his opening four holes, no one came particularly close. Johnson chipped in from 20 feet on his last hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was Johnson\u2019s third win in his rookie season on the 50-and-older PGA Tour Champions, allowing him to close the gap on Stewart Cink in the Charles Schwab Cup. The victory makes Johnson eligible for The Players Championship next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson finished at 15-under 265.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Boo Weekley closed with a 66 to finish alone in second at 9-under 271, followed by Rory Sabbatini, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist from Slovakia, who had a 66-66 weekend. Cink finished fourth with a closing round of 68.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson\u2019s previous best finish at Firestone was runner-up by five shots to Hideki Matsuyama in 2017 when it was a World Golf Championships event. That WGC moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in 2019 and became a PGA Tour Champions site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Kaulig Companies sponsorship is ending, and the tour is leaving Firestone \u2014 tournament golf dates to 1954 \u2014 for Newport Beach, California, next year to play its fifth major.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AKRON, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Zach Johnson won his first PGA Tour Champions major in the final event at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-797808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}