{"id":7782,"date":"2025-06-09T03:49:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/darren-clark-and-thomas-bjorn-win-team-event-on-the-champions-tour\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T03:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:49:37","slug":"darren-clark-and-thomas-bjorn-win-team-event-on-the-champions-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/darren-clark-and-thomas-bjorn-win-team-event-on-the-champions-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Clark and Thomas Bjorn win team event on the Champions Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MADISONS, Wisconsin &#8211; European Ryder Cup captains and teammates Darren Clark and Thomas Bjorn won the American Family Insurance Championship on Sunday, shooting a 7-under 64 in a better ball play with a four-stroke victory over four teams.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, hosted by Steve Stricker, was second tied to his brother-in-law Mario Tigiani, but this year switched to team format and gave the PGA Tour Champions the only team event.<\/p>\n<p>Clark and Bjorn finished at Wisconsin TPC with a 32 under 181. They opened with a better ball 59 and shot 58 in the scramble round on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were focused on not doing stupid things,&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;You can try two putts, two opportunities on yourself, just like we did. Both hits on the fairway and we did that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clark, 56, from Northern Ireland, won his fifth tour. Bjorn, 54, from Denmark, won his first champion title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were both hardworking and always was,&#8221; Bjorn said. &#8220;And obviously Darren and I have known each other for over 30 years, went through tour life together, played the Ryder Cup and did a lot together. Doing this together is pretty special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stricker and Tiziani closed at 65 for the under-28 teams: Alex Cejka-Soren Kjeldsen (59), Doug Barron-Dicky Pride (69) and Steve Flesch-Paul Goydos (64).<\/p>\n<p>Stricker got injured and played.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My body feels so good,&#8221; Stricker said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got something to deal with. Try taking care of it. I&#8217;m still playing and enjoying it, but I don&#8217;t enjoy playing the way I feel today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bernhard Langer and Steven Alker were on another stroke after teaming up with 66 Tim Herons after 63-year-old Arnie Els, the winner of last year&#8217;s individual play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISONS, Wisconsin &#8211; European Ryder Cup captains and teammates Darren Clark and Thomas Bjorn won the American Family Insurance Championship on Sunday, shooting a 7-under 64 in a better ball play with a four-stroke victory over four teams. The tournament, hosted by Steve Stricker, was second tied to his brother-in-law Mario Tigiani, but this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-7782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}