Sunday was a good day for Luke Donald, with Tyrrell Hatton and Sepp Straka winning on the European and PGA Tours respectively, while Rory McIlroy also found form

In golf news, Sepp Straka's impressive mistake-free streak and five PGA Tour tournaments you need to check out.

Welcome to another year of The Grind, where we’re thinking of starting our own meme currency. Grind Coin has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Why are we thinking of this? Because we need some way to offset our golf gambling losses.

Luke Donald had plenty to be happy about on Sunday with a second prospective member of his Ryder Cup team claiming a big victory after Tyrrell Hatton's triumph at the Dubai Desert Classic

Matt Cooper's golf betting debrief for Betfair after Tyrrell Hatton won the Dubai Desert Classic and Sepp Straka claimed The American Express including in-play odds and more

Straka remained aggressive and stayed well in front while hunting down a comfortable two-shot victory over Justin Thomas. The 31-year-old from Austria finished the 54-hole tourney at 25-under-par 263 with a final round of 2-under 70 on the Pete Dye Stadium Course at PGA West.

“Golf is a lot like life, man," Mouw told PGATour.com the next day. "It’s not about dwelling on adversity. It’s how can you turn your adversity into positivity and use that to fuel you to get better and look at the bigger picture.” Anyway, he followed up Friday's debacle with a Saturday 67 ... but still missed the cut.

Site: San Diego. Course: Torrey Pines GC South (Yardage: 7,765. Par: 72) and North (Yardage: 7,258. Par: 72). Prize money: $9.3 million. Winner’s share: $1.674 million.

Because of a screwy part of the European rankings, Austrian did not earn any points toward making the team for the 2025 event at Bethpage.

Over the weekend, 5.5 hour rounds were a familiarity and, having watched all of the action from Dubai and California, I am begging that something has got to be done

St Andrews to host 155th edition of The Open Championship in 2027; The Old Course at St Andrews first hosted The Open in 1873 and since then it has hosted the major 30 times