Blades Brown, 19, wins in Mexico as Los Angeles takes WTGL's opener

Blades Brown, 19, wins his first PGA Tour title Sunday at the World Wide Technology Championship, beating Ben James on the second playoff hole after a closing 63. Indoors, Los Angeles Golf Club beats New York 3-1 in the first WTGL match.

Numbers of the week

1. 7. Brown starts Sunday seven shots off the lead and wins anyway (AP, Golfweek).
2. 19 years, 5 months, 18 days. Brown's age makes him the fourth-youngest winner in PGA Tour history (Golf Channel, David Rumsey).
3. 6. Jon Rahm's Abu Dhabi win is his sixth Rolex Series title, a record (DP World Tour, Sky Sports).
4. 64. Shuri Sakuma closes with an 8-under 64 to win the TOTO Japan Classic by four for her first LPGA title (AP, LPGA results).
5. 285 yards. James hits his second into 20 feet on the 72nd hole and makes the eagle to force a playoff (AP, Golf Channel).

Platforms

WTGL's opener puts the SoFi Center simulator in front of a TV audience for the first time. The league posts launch data from its Stinger hole: Rose Zhang at 2.1 degrees with a 10-foot apex, Michelle Wie West at 2.3 degrees and 33 feet (Zhang, Wie West). Wie West is not happy with how the system reads her 98-yard wedge on the 13th, David Rumsey notes. Afterward she calls the tech "pretty accurate" and adjusting to it a learning curve, Front Office Sports reports.

Build & Gear

GolfWRX's winner's-bag look shows Brown putting with an Odyssey Ai-One Double Wide. In Palm Beach Gardens, Linn Grant plays in Adidas Ghost Spring boots, which retail for $150, per David Rumsey.

Courses & Play

At El Cardonal at Diamante in Los Cabos, Brown makes up the seven shots and posts 23-under 265. James, who started Sunday four ahead, eagles the 18th to match him.

Both players play the par-5 18th twice more. On the second extra hole James pitches to 6 feet and misses, and Brown holes from 3 feet. Michael Kim finishes third, one back, after a 64. The Official World Golf Ranking results confirm the totals and move Brown from No. 95 to No. 62. AP reports the win brings a two-year exemption plus his first Players Championship and PGA Championship starts.

Creators

Internet Invitational Episode 5 drops Monday at 1 p.m. Eastern (Internet Invitational, ForePlay). Good Good's road series reaches Day 42 in Oklahoma.

Swing Lab

4golfonline posts a spare-club drill aimed at straighter, longer tee shots.

The Game

Los Angeles (Wie West, Alison Lee, Gaby Lopez) beats New York (Zhang, Grant, Lydia Ko) 3-1 on Sunday, and the league's match page lists it final. Zhang hits the first tee shot in WTGL history, Wie West nearly aces the seventh, and Los Angeles leads 2-1 after the nine team holes. Lee beats Grant on the 11th, and New York misses putts on the 13th and 14th, Sky Sports reports.

Bryson DeChambeau says he is moving on from LIV Golf and will play the Nedbank Golf Challenge in December. "I'm not going to rewrite the last four years," he says (GOLF.com, NUCLR Golf). Rahm's Abu Dhabi win is in our Sunday story.

Coming up and why it matters

• Tuesday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m. Eastern: Los Angeles plays Motor City in WTGL Match 2 on ION, also streaming on Tubi and Pluto TV. Motor City debuts with Jeeno Thitikul, Lexi Thompson and Ronni Yin, against Wie West, Aki Iwai and Kiara Romero, per the league's viewing guide.
• Nov. 9-15: the PGA Tour moves to the Austin Championship at Omni Barton Creek's Fazio Canyons course, the next FedExCup Fall stop after Brown's win.
• Nov. 12-15: the LPGA plays The ANNIKA at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, its first start since Sakuma's win.