Talor Gooch saw his double-digit overnight lead almost evaporate but rallied late to win the inaugural LIV Australia tournament Sunday at the Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia.

After two bogey-free 10-under 62 rounds, Gooch shot a 1-over 73 to clinch his maiden LIV Golf tournament victory by three strokes from a fast-moving Anirban Lahiri. Gooch finished with a three-round total of 19-under 197.

As tournament leader, the 31-year-old American began his round on the first hole Sunday in the shotgun-start format and posted a birdie at the par-3 fifth but his bogey-free run finally ended at the par-5 seventh.

He dropped a shot on the eighth and the slide worsened with a double-bogey at the 10th, which saw his lead over a fast-moving Lahiri cut to just two strokes with still eight holes to play.

That was as close as it got as Gooch rallied with birdies at the 11th and 13th and made par at the par 4 18th to clinch the victory and $4 million of the $20 million purse.

“Golf is just really hard,” the one-time PGA Tour winner said. “It’s hard to put back-to-back days together like I did and even harder to do it three times in a row. I actually played fine out there. The golf gods said, ‘We don’t want this win to be easy on you’.

Lahiri shot 65 to finish second at 16-under.

PGA Tour

Nick Hardy and Davis Riley birdied four of their final six holes — highlighted by Riley’s 33-foot birdie putt from the from the fringe on the par-3 17th — to give both players their first PGA Tour victory at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans.

“It was nerve-wracking, honestly,” Riley said. “The first win is always tough.”

They began the final round three shots back and closed with a 7-under 65 in alternate-shot play to finish with a tournament-record total of 30-under 258 at TPC Louisiana, eclipsing the 259 posted by 2022 winners Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele. Hardy and Riley were two shots better than Canadians Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor.

“You’re just rooting for each other as hard as you can to hit a good shot,” Riley added.

Each gets $1.24 million.

LPGA Tour

Lilia Vu birdied the first playoff hole to win her first major at the Chevron Championship in The Woodlannds, Texas after fellow American Angel Yin hit her approach shot into the water.

Yin’s second shot came up short and left and splashed into the pond guarding the par-5 18th hole, and Vu hit her approach just over the green. Vu went with putter from off the green and came up well short, but she converted from about 10 feet for the victory.

The 25-year-old out of Fountain Valley and UCLA, won for the second time on the LPGA Tour and took a celebratory leap into the pond, a tradition borrowed from this tournament’s former venue at Mission Hills in the California desert.

Vu birdied her last two holes for a 4-under 68 and a four-day total of 10-under 278 at Carlton Woods, then waited as other contenders — including Yin — faltered. Yin, after bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes, birdied the 18th to force the playoff.