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Midnight and just before sunrise. if you miss it tonight, you will have another chance tomorrow. in sports, jason dufner is more than just an internet sensation right now. yes, mr. dufner is a pga championship winner. he won his first major title yesterday two years after leaving the same tournament on the final day and then losing. this time dufner held onto the win by two strokes. patrick snell is in oak hill in rochester, new york, to tell us more. good morning. reporter: good morning to you, carol. yes, jason dufner can finally be remembered at last for someone who has won a first major championship rather than that old dufnering. very happy for him. a popular winner. he held off the challenge of jim furyk by two shots on sunday playing flawless golf. he really does have a wonderful swing, and he was never really in any trouble. he showed his class, showed his nerve, and duly sealed what he ....
A special treat later this week when i get home with the trophy. reporter: come on, jason, give us some more dufnering. we love it. this is a player that rarely smiles, but at 36 years of age, he really needs to. most players have majors in the bag by this point if they re going to go on and actually win a major. he s been a pro for 13 years now. so i really think it s fair to say he s a popular winner, and this triumph is richly deserved. indeed. but i do enjoy the dufnering. thank you so much. we appreciate it. okay. so this is a strange story out of tennessee this morning. this couple went to court because they were fighting over what their baby s last name should be. so they went to the court so a judge would decide. little did they know the judge would be a whole lot more concerned about the baby s first name. jalisa martin is now appealing that judge s decision after the judge ordered her to change her son s name from messiah to martin. ....
Came here to do. i have to say though, while there were no problems for him on sunday, that wasn t the case earlier this year when he struck a rather unfortunate and unscripted pose. he was caught on camera in a dallas, texas, classroom. that s the phenomenon that became as dufnering. his pga tour buddies, and i use that term loosely, taking full advantage by tweeting and retweeting pictures of the unfortunate post. i m wondering, are we now going to be seeing a whole lot more of this dufnering? maybe. i don t know. i have only done it that s the only time i have done it. actually i did it once with lindsey vonn because she asked me, but, you know, they caught me in a moment of relaxation i guess and then the guys all out here tried to give me a good ribbing on it and get me in trouble and all this stuff. but i kind of ran with it and it turned out to be a good thing and a lot of people have taken to it so maybe i will give them ....
The heart break of that 2011 collapse. it made me hungrier actually. you know, to be so close and then to lose it like i did, and then to learn i was able to learn from all the mistakes that i made, learn from that experience and put it all together this week. so i think unfortunately, when i did lose, i was a little disappointed but i think it did help me out in the long run. from here on out you re going to be known as a major champion. before today, it was possible that you were best known for an internet trend, you had this photo taken of you, i know you ve seen it many times. you were doing a nice thing, visiting a school. everybody wants to know, are you going to be dufnering with the trophy? maybe, i don t know. they caught me in a moment of relaxation, i guess. and then the guys o s all out h tried to give me a good ribbing. ....
Championship, golfer jason dufner was best known not for his golfing, but for starting an internet craze. and yy shoals is here with bleacher report. dufnering. it s the best name we ve seen since tebowing. you just have to sit up against something and basically look as bored as you can. here is the famous pick at an elementary school that started it all. that post took social media by storm earlier this year, but now dufner will be known for more than just that post. he finished at 10 under yesterday to win the pga championship. it s the first major tournament victory of his career. baltimore orioles outfielder adam jones says someone threw a banana at him during sunday s game in san francisco. jones, who is african-american, was not pleased by the possibly racially motivated action. he tweeted after the game i want to thank whatever bleep threw that banana toward my direction. way to show your class you ....