Sage Bradshaw of Bluffton, South Carolina, birdied the final hole to force a playoff and went on to win The Carolinas PGA Junior Boys’ championship Tuesday at Colonial Country Club.

Bradshaw and John Santospago of Charlotte each shot 7-under-par 64 in the final round after opening with 67 to finish at 11-under 131 in the 36-hole event. Both earned spots in the PGA National Junior Championship later this summer at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland.

Bradshaw and Santospago each made eagles in the final round. Bradshaw eagled the par-4 opening hole. Santospago eagled the par-5 ninth to pull within one stroke at the turn. Santospago made birdies at 12, 13 and 14, taking a one-shot lead.

Both qualifiers passed four players in advancing to the playoff. Will Cherry of Wilmington, who shot 65 Tuesday, and Preston Hate of Raleigh tied for third at 133. Griffin Huckabee of Winston-Salem shot 67 Tuesday and was the Triad’s top finisher in a tie for eighth at 140.

Michael Riebe of Vanderbilt University knocked off medalist Kelly Chinn of Pinehurst, who plays at Duke, 3 and 1 Thursday at Pinehurst No. 2 in the first round of match play in the North and South Amateur.

Another Pinehurst native, Jackson Van Paris, a teammate of Riebe at Vanderbilt, also advanced with a 3 and 2 victory over Hunter Swanson.

Garrett Risner of Holly Springs, who plays at Elon, advanced with a 1-up victory over Anthony Delisante of Valparaiso University. Wake Forest’s Marshall Meisel and University of North Carolina recruit Carson Bartagnole of Pinehurst lost first-round matches.

Charlie Parks of Asheboro beat Evan Long of Charlotte on the first playoff hole to win the 70-and-older 16th Carolinas Golf Association Super Senior Championship on Wednesday at Cutter Creek Golf Club in Snow Hill.

Parks and Long had finished the 36-hole tournament at 6-under-par 138.

In the 65-and-older bracket, Pat Thompson of Asheville beat Robert Shoaf of Concord in a playoff after they tied at 137.

Bryson DeChambeau, formerly known almost as much for his eccentricity as his championship abilities, is atop the golf world after his remarkable victory Sunday in the 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2.

DeChambeau’s decisive, spectacular blast from 55 yards to within 4 feet of the cup on the 72nd hole will no doubt go down as one of the greatest shots in golf history.

Few today would bet against the charismatic Californian to win more major championships. Despite continuing to put himself in trouble in No. 2’s waste areas, he bravely kept finding ways to make crucial par saves.

Everybody knows the 30-year-old DeChambeau can play even better.

But what about the flip side. Can Rory McIlroy, who left the course silently and dejectedly without congratulating DeChambeau then pulled out of this week’s PGA Tour event, recover to win another major title?

Many of golf’s best-known commentators aren’t sure. Yeah, Mcilroy is a fantastic talent with four major titles to his name. So he’s had plenty of success. But though he’s only 35, none of his major titles have come in the last decade.

Plus, it seems obvious that the Northern Irishman wilted under the intense pressure resulting from his major drought. Perfect on short putts for 69 holes, McIlroy missed two shorties in the final three holes.

McIlroy opened the door with an astounding, terrible miss from 2 feet on No. 16. At 18, with what looked like a chance to sew up a victory with a putt inside 4 feet, he offered a tentative effort that started above the hole then slipped below it.

Television cameras captured McIlroy’s dejected departure from the scorer’s room after DeChambeau sank the winning putt.

So how will McIlroy respond to the meltdown on a major stage?

“That’s going to haunt Rory for the rest of his life, those two misses,” said Nick Faldo on Sky Sports.

When asked Monday on GolfChannel, Notah Begay refused to dismiss the possibility that McIlroy’s career won’t be fully repaired.

As painful as it is to list, Arnold Palmer never added to his collection of seven major titles after Billy Casper rallied from a seven-shot deficit on the back nine at Olympic Club on Sunday to tie The King then win a playoff the next day at the 1966 U.S. Open.

History is full of great players who rebounded and others (some also great) who didn’t. Here’s a look at some who made major recoveries, and some who didn’t:

The Major Successes

Bernhard Langer — The 5-foot putt Langer missed to allow the United States to escape with a victory in the 1991 Ryder Cup easily could have been devastating to the German’s career.

For those too young to remember (I was there and will never forget the roar from U.S. fans) , the “War at the Shore” at Kiawah’s Ocean Course was probably the most contentious weekend of golf ever played. None other than Jack Nicklaus offered consolation to Langer by saying he didn’t think anybody could have made that putt in that atmosphere.

Langer was 34 at the time. A marvelous ball striker, putting was always his nemesis. The miss of the deciding putt in arguably the most hotly contested Ryder Cup of all time could have ruined him. Though the U.S. won, Mark Calcavecchia never fully recovered from his embarrassing collapse that gave Langer and Europe a chance to retain the Cup.

Langer rebounded to win the Euro Tour’s German Masters the next week. His later highlights went on to include a second Masters victory in 1993 and several other victories throughout the world before dominating the Senior/Champions Tour with 56 victories, including 12 majors.

Phil Mickelson — Leading the U.S. Open by a single stroke, Mickelson hit a driver on the 18th tee Sunday and bounced it off a hospitality tent. Johnny Miller called it “one of the worst collapses in U.S. Open history.” Mickelson has never won the U.S. Open despite six second-place finishes. Remember, he was the victim of Payne Stewart’s 15-foot winner at No. 2 in 1999. But he recovered to win four more major championships, giving him six for his career.

Never the Same

Jean Van de Velde — The obscure French pro needed only a double bogey on the final hole to win the 1999 British Open. But he made triple-bogey 7, with three horrible shots. Van de Verde got his only European Tour victory in 2006 and players in only nine additional major championships, though he managed a tie for 26th in 1999 PGA Championship.

Mark Calcavecchia — The 1989 British Open champion had a commanding 4-up lead with 4 holes to play and a chance to win the deciding points for the U.S. in the 1991 Ryder Cup. Plus, he only needed to find land with his approach on the par-3 17th to close out Collin Montgomerie (he could also be on this list), who hit first into the water. Calcavecchia skulled his 3-iron into the hazard, but still could have clinched the Cup for the U.S. by making a 2-foot putt for par. But he missed then lost 18 with a bogey, leaving the stage for Langer. Calcavecchia went on to add seven PGA Tour titles, but was rarely a factor in majors.

Greg Norman — OK, the Shark is remembered for not fulfilling his remarkable potential And to be fair, he was a victim of terrible luck and remarkable shots by opponents. For these purposes, let’s return to 1996, where he squandered a 6-stroke lead in a head-to-head pairing against Nick Faldo at the Masters. Norman went on to win two PGA Tour events in 1997 and became a business mogul  in apparel and design as well as force behind creation of the LIV Tour. But the Shark lost his most of his bite after the Masters collapse.

Others Who Suffered Devastating Major Losses

Scott Hoch — Much maligned for failing to sink a 2-foot, breaking, downhill putt to win the 1989 Masters, the Wake Forest golfer and Raleigh native had a solid career, but never won a major title.

Mike Donald — Hard to blame Donald for failing to close out Hale Irwin in the 1990 U.S. Open at Medinah. Irwin stole his way into a playoff by sinking a 45-foot putt on the 72nd hole. Donald matched Irwin the next day in an 18-hole playoff, but lost on the 19th hole. A few years later, he was on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Bobby Clampett — Yes, kids. Clampett was a player before his announcing career. He had a seven-shot lead on Saturday in the 1982 British Open at Royal Troon before taking three shots to get out of a pot bunker and falling to a 10th-place showing. He won the PGA Tour’s Southern Open later that year, but never won again or contended in a major tourney.

Gil Morgan — A dominant player on the Senior Tour after turning 50, Morgan became the first player to reach 10-under in a U.S. Open in 1992 at Pebble Beach. But after getting to 12-under, he fell apart. To be fair, only Tom Kite held on during severe winds and the resulting slick greens on Sunday, and he needed a miraculous chip-in birdie at the par-3 seventh hole as a catalyst. He was never in contention at another major.

Doug Sanders — The best-dressed golfer of the 1960s and early 1970s, Sanders missed a 3-foot sidehill putt to win the 1970 British Open then lost a playoff to Jack Nicklaus. He bounced back with top 10 finish in the nest two British Opens and added a top 10 in the PGA Championship in 1972. But he never won a major. He had two PGA Tour wins after the British Open disappointment to reach 20 Tour victories in a hampered by injuries,.

THE GOOD:  It’s easy to criticize the randomness of the penalties produced by the waste areas filled with wire grass or the severity of the slopes on the greens that send seemingly good approaches bouncing and rolling off the putting surfaces into ridiculously difficult collection areas.

But take a look at the final leaderboard Sunday at Pinehurst No. 2.

Hard to argue with a layout that produces Bryson DeChambeau as the champion at 6-under-par 274 with Rory McIlroy only one stroke behind, PGA Tour stalwarts Patrick Cantlay and Tony Finau just two off the pace, and Hideki Matsuyama, Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Aberg, and Sergio Garcia in the top 12.

Plus, there was the spectacular finish with DeChambeau becoming the only player all week to make par at 18 from the front right bunker.

THE BAD: Pinehurst couldn’t stop imbeciles in the galleries from making obnoxious and ridiculous shouts — made to generate attention for the offenders — following tee shots.

No reason to dignify the specifics of the shouts. They were out of hand, and totally inappropriate for the U.S. Open. Not that it doesn’t happen every week on the PGA Tour. But you know what, I don’t remember it happening at the British Open. And it’s not appropriate at Pinehurst No. 2. Neither were the “USA, USA” chants shouted in support of DeChambeau, rather than “Bryson, Bryson.” It’s the U.S. Open, not the Ryder Cup.

Maybe offenders could be arrested and placed in stocks where they could be targets for eggs and other debris (use your imagination).

THE GOOD: Nice to see Rory McIlroy play so well on Sunday until missing the two deciding short putts on the final three holes. If the 35-year-old Northern Irishman doesn’t win the British Open, he will complete a decade without a major victory. His two runner-up finishes during the decade were in the last two U.S. Opens.

McIlroy, who had four major titles by age 25, had a tremendous round going, reaching 8-under, 4-under on his round after a birdie at No. 13. On the front nine, NBC reported he had made 45 of 49 putts in the tournament from inside 7 feet.

Also, a strong performance by Cantlay, a top PGA Tour performer with a bad track record at the majors. Though in the background most of Sunday despite playing with McIlroy, Cantlay nearly sneaked into a playoff. But his birdie putt at 18 just missed. If it dropped and DeChambeau failed to save par from the bunker in the final group, Cantlay would have joined DeChambeau and McIlroy in a playoff.

THE BAD: McIlroy (pictured after his par putt missed at 18) bailed quickly from the grounds after the tournament without comment. That’s just not done at major championships. It wasn’t a good luck for McIlroy, who knows better. McIlroy has four major titles. He should be able to handle a few tough questions, even if he didn’t want to talk about his putts at 16 and 18. Together with his drama-filled love life, McIlroy is making it easy for speculation about possible character issues.

THE GOOD: Top amateur Neal Shipley of Ohio State finished 26th at 286. Fellow amateurs making the cut included Luke Clanton, who posted 288, and Gunnar Broin, who carded 296. Finau, Russell Henley and Sam Burns each shot Sunday’s low rounds of 67 to finish in the top 10.

THE BAD: Scottie Scheffler made only four birdies in four rounds, getting the goose egg in Rounds 2 and 4. Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked players, still managed to post 288 and tie for 41st, so his ball striking wasn’t the big problem. Despite the struggles at Pinehurst No. 2, Scheffler retained leadership in two PGA Tour categories with 4.91 birdies per round and a 68.6 stroke average. Byeong Han An is second in birdie average at 4.44. Schauffele is second in stroke average at 69.32.