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Team Clarke\/Crane makes birdie on No. 18 at American Family Insurance Championship<\/p>\n
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Written by Staff Format: The American Family Insurance Championship is played in a two-man team format. Competing for a $3 million purse, the winning team will share $600,000 ($300,000 per player).Round 1: Best ballRound 2: ScrambleRound 3: Best ball<\/p>\n
Darren Clarke\/Ben Crane, 62-54 \u2013 116 (-29)<\/p>\n
Partnering up for the first time, Clarke and Crane carded the low 18-hole score in American Family Insurance Championship history (17-under 54). The pair birdied 17 of the 18 holes (all except No. 10) in the Scramble format.Previous record: 56 (Steve Stricker<\/a>\/Mario Tiziani<\/a>, 2025\/R2\/Scramble)Clarke, the 57-year-old American Family Insurance Championship defending co-champion, seeks his sixth win on PGA TOUR Champions (160th start).Last win: 2025 American Family Insurance Championship with partner Thomas Bj\u00f8rn<\/a> (Bj\u00f8rn is recovering from spinal surgery and not in the 2026 field).Clarke is making his fifth event appearance in Madison and his second as a team event.Clarke looks to become the second two-time winner of the American Family Insurance Championship, joining Jerry Kelly<\/a> (2019, 2021).Note: The American Family Insurance Championship was an individual event from 2016 to 2024.Making his 10th start of the 2026 season, the Northern Ireland native has two top-10 finishes.Best finish: T3 (Insperity Invitational) This is Clarke\u2019s second time leading after the second-round scramble format since the American Family Insurance Championship\u2019s team format debut (2025).Bettered his own 36-hole record score at this event by one stroke after carding 117 in 2025 alongside Bj\u00f8rn.This marks Clarke\u2019s seventh time leading\/co-leading entering the final round on PGA TOUR Champions (4-for-6).Is 3-for-5 in 54-hole events, including last year\u2019s American Family Insurance Championship (won)Fifty-year-old rookie Crane seeks his first win on PGA TOUR Champions since turning 50 on March 6 (eighth start).Best finish: second (Senior PGA Championship)This is Crane\u2019s first time leading\/co-leading heading into the final round on PGA TOUR Champions. With a win, Crane would snap a winless streak of 11 years, 11 months and 29 days.The Australian duo of Cameron Percy<\/a>\/Greg Chalmers<\/a> (second) shot 27 on the back nine on their way to 13-under 58, heading into the final round three strokes behind the leaders at 23-under par. The pair teamed up at last year\u2019s American Family Insurance Championship, finishing T12. Fifty-six-year-old Chalmers (55th start) and 52-year-old Percy (48th start) seek their respective first wins on PGA TOUR Champions. Brian Gay<\/a>\/Rory Sabbatini<\/a> are T3 after shooting 11-under 60, heading back into the Best ball format at 22 under.A win would mark both Sabbatini’s and Gay\u2019s first PGA TOUR Champions titles. Tournament host Steve Stricker and his partner Mario Tiziani sit T25 at 16-under 126. Eighteen-hole leaders Freddie Jacobson<\/a>\/S\u00f8ren Kjeldsen<\/a> are T6 at 21-under after posting 62 in Saturday\u2019s Scramble format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14H AGO 1 Min Read Daily Wrap Up *:not(style){overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;height:100%;}.css-17ygvlf>img,.css-17ygvlf>video{object-fit:cover;}.css-17ygvlf::before{height:0px;content:””;display:block;padding-bottom:56.25%;}]]> Team Clarke\/Crane makes birdie on No. 18 at American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}