The PGA Tour heads back home for the final two-week push for the top 70 players to make the postseason. Everyone else seems to have stayed behind.

Chris Gotterup gave himself one hell of a 26th birthday present Sunday: a third-place finish in the British Open.

Chris Gotterup had one heck of a two-week trip across the pond. Before he left, he had career earnings of $2,768,333 but made $2,703,000 in the U.K.

After shooting a 1-over 72 on Thursday at the British Open, Gotterup rebounded to back up his win perfectly. He made two eagles on Friday to get right back under par, and then he kept himself in it with a third-round 68. While it wasn't enough to catch Scheffler — nobody could — Gotterup never wavered.

Chris Gotterup won the Scottish Open last weekend and is currently inside the top 10 at the 36-hole mark in the Open Championship at Royal Portrush. It's quite the stretch of golf, and life. And yet,

American Chris Gotterup did think about winning the British Open on Sunday when Scottie Scheffler made a double-bogey in the last round but it did not last long.

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — It was shortly after 2 in the afternoon Tuesday at Royal Portrush when Chris Gotterup emerged from a walkway and appeared at the first tee.

From afar it’s the profile of Brooks Koepka, not just because of the swoosh across his apparel and violent swing and brooding physique in a sport that has few of them, but that he’s contending at a major championship.

Harris English arrived in Britain two weeks ago without his caddie. Chris Gotterup flew over without a plane ticket for Ireland. They’ll return to the United States as the second and third-placed finishers at the British Open at Royal Portrush,

Lee Westwood is, as a former world No. 1 and a player who’s finished in the top five of 12 major championships, a pretty good judge of talent.

Harris English arrived in Britain two weeks ago without his caddie while Chris Gotterup flew over without a plane ticket for Ireland.