{"id":759166,"date":"2026-07-12T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759166\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:08:10","slug":"zach-johnson-wins-at-firestone-for-first-senior-major-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759166\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Johnson wins at Firestone for first senior major title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">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=\"text | article-text\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kauligchamp\/status\/2076396375516872839?s=46&amp;t=xJcPKJD-r66iP2kwUm5XTg\" rel=\"nofollow\">chipped in from 20 feet<\/a> on his last hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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=\"text | article-text\">Johnson finished at 15-under 265.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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=\"text | article-text\">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=\"text | article-text\">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>Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/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":759167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,15825,427,93414,13014,983,668,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,18942],"class_list":["post-759166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-cedar-rapids","tag-golf","tag-high-school-golf","tag-iowa","tag-local-news","tag-local-sports","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zach-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}