Aaron Rai wins Wyndham Championship; Stephen Ames successfully defends Boeing Classic title

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Aaron Rai took advantage of Max Greyserman’s late meltdown to win the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title.

Rai closed with a 6-under 64, with the 29-year-old Englishman making a 6 1/2-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th to post at 18-under 262 in the regular-season finale at Sedgefield Country Club.

Greyserman, the 29-year-old former Duke player, shot 69 to finish two strokes back on a day when everyone played 36 holes and some a few more in the event washed out by rain Thursday and delayed Friday and Saturday.

Rai was four strokes back after Greyserman holed out from 91 yards for eagle on the par-4 13th, then had an unexpected share of the lead a hole later when Greyserman drove out-of-bounds and made a quadruple-bogey 8 on 14.

Greyserman — who shot 60 in the second round — birdied the par-5 15th to pull a shot ahead, then four-putted the par-3 16th for a double bogey and parred the last two holes.

J.J. Spaun (64) and Ryo Hisatsune (67) tied for third at 15 under.

The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings qualified for the playoff opener next week in Tennessee.

SNOQUALMIE, Wash. (AP) — Stephen Ames successfully defended his Boeing Classic title, birdieing the par-5 18th for a 5-under 67 and one-stroke victory over Ernie Els, Steven Alker and Robert Karlsson

The 60-year-old Ames, a naturalized Canadian from Trinidad and Tobago, won has third PGA Tour Champions title of the season and ninth overall. He won four times on the PGA Tour.

Ames finished at 11-under 205 at The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge.

Els and Alker played alongside Ames, each shooting 68. Els also has three victories this season. Second-round leader Karlsson shot 75 in the final group.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Matt McCarty won the Pinnicale Bank Champions for his second victory in his last four stars to take the Korn Ferry Tour season points lead, closing with a 4-under 67 to beat Danny Walker by a stoke.

McCarty finished at 14-uder 270 at The Club at Indian Creek. Already assured a PGA Tour card next season, he jumped from second to first in the standings with two events left in the regular season.

The 26-year-old McCarty won the Price Cutter Charity Championship four weeks ago for his first career victory and tied for second last week in the Utah Championship.

Danny Walker shot 72. T.J. Vogel (70) and Brandon Crick (70) were 12 under.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Rianne Malixi beat Asterisk Talley 3 and 2 to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills, three weeks after routing Talley in the U.S. Girls’ Junior final.

Last month in the U.S. Girls’ Junior, the 17-year-old Malixi — from the Philippines — beat Talley 8 and 7 at El Caballero in Tarzana, California, the largest championship-match blowout in tournament history.

Malixi is the second player to win both events in the same year, joining Eun Jeong Seong in 2016. She has verbally committed to play at Duke, with plans to begin play in 2025.

The 15-year-old Talley, from Chowchilla, California, led 1 up Saturday after the first 18 holes of the 36-hole championship match were moved up a day because of expected rain Sunday.

Malixi was 3 up after 26, and Talley took the next three holes to it. They halved the 30th, Malixi won the next three with birdies and closed it out with par halve on the par-5 34th.

Peter Uihlein won the International Series England for his first Asian Tour victory. The American closed with an 8-under 63 for a seven-stroke victory at Foxhills in Surrey, England. He finished at 20 under, shooting a course-record 61 in the second round. .. Ren Yonezawa closed with a 7-under 64 for a three-stroke victory in the Japan Golf Tour's Yokohama Minato Championship. He finished at 2-under 262. ... Brandon Robinson-Thompson of England ran away with the Farmfoods Scottish Challenge for his second Challenge Tour title. He won by eight strokes, shooting a 5-under 66 to reach 22 under. ... Yui Kawamoto closed with a 1-over 73 for a one-stroke victory in the Japan LPGA’s NEC Karuizawa 72. She finished at 11 under.

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Aaron Rai, of England, reacts to his putt on the ninth hole during the final round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Aaron Rai, of England, poses with the trophy after winning the Wyndham Championship golf tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy, rather than in person.

Trump’s position, articulated to reporters on Air Force One on Thursday, put him at odds with House Speaker Mike Johnson, who mounted an aggressive push to kill that effort this week but was foiled by nine of his own members, along with all Democrats.

Though the president said he would defer to Johnson on the operations of the House, he also said, “I don’t know why it’s controversial.” Trump said he had spoken to Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, the leading Republican proponent of the effort.

“If you’re having a baby, I think you should be able to call in and vote,” Trump told reporters Thursday as he traveled to Florida. “I’m in favor of that.”

In a post late Thursday on X, Luna said Johnson called her after Trump's remarks “and we discussed limiting the vote to just new moms who cannot physically travel in event of emergency etc. This is smart.”

Luna and Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado have led an effort that would allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy for 12 weeks as they care for their newborns. It has the support of the majority of the House, with 218 lawmakers signing on to a so-called discharge petition that would force the measure on the House floor for consideration.

But Johnson is an adamant opponent of casting votes by proxy, saying that doing so is an affront to the Constitution and invoked similar efforts instituted by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

“It was quickly abused. Republicans put an end to it then, and we cannot allow it again,” Johnson said in a lengthy social media post this week. The speaker says he is working on “every possible accommodation” aside from being able to vote by proxy to aid new mothers in Congress.

Johnson attempted to squash the proxy effort in a dramatic floor vote earlier this week, but nine of his own Republicans joined all Democrats in rejecting his plan, 206-222. The speaker canceled House votes for the rest of the week while supporters of the proxy voting plan were undeterred and vowed to continue to push for it.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

President Donald Trump waves as he arrives on Air Force One at Miami International Airport, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)