With the conclusion of the British championship, the major golfing season has ended. For years, the final major, the PGA, was played in August — usually in the burdensome heat, even if the venue was somewhere north such as Brookline or Oak Hill.
Sunday at Royal St. Georges in Sandwich, England, the weather seemed to be akin to what you might expect at Hilton Head in the spring, but it was something of a heat wave over there.
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