Garrick Higgo gained the Palmetto Championship at Congaree for his first PGA Tour victory Sunday when chief Chesson Hadley blew a two-shot lead with bogeys on his last three holes.
The 22-year-old South African shot a 3-under 68 and completed at 11 below in his second profession tour occasion. Get able to see extra of him. The victory, together with $1,314,000, provides him PGA Tour standing via the 2023 season.
“It is wonderful,” Higgo stated. “I simply stayed affected person all week.”
It was a heartbreaking end for Hadley, seemingly in management at 13 below with three holes to play. However he drove right into a waste space on the sixteenth and couldn’t rise up and down after lacking the seventeenth and 18th greens to provide away victory.
“I can solely think about what it seemed like on TV as a result of it seemed freaking terrible from my view,” Hadley stated. “I imply, I might barely hold it on the planet.”
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Hadley completed with a 75 after opening 65-66-68. He fell right into a tie for second at 10 below with England’s Ty—After a good par front-nine, Higgo had an eagle on the par-5 twelfth and birdie on the 14th to get to 11 below — two pictures in again of Hadley.
Higgo additionally saved par from 10 ft away on the 71st gap after lacking the golf green along with his first two pictures.
Higgo took off his sun shades and grinned when informed of his victory, then hugged his caddie to have a good time.
To-ranked Dustin Johnson made a run on the high late within the spherical, coming inside a shot Hadley after birdies on the tenth, twelfth and thirteenth holes. His probabilities ended with a triple bogey on the sixteenth gap and he completed with a 70 to tie for tenth.
Hudson Swafford got here near enjoying subsequent week on the U.S. Open. A win at Congaree Golf Membership would’ve meant a cross-country flight to Torrey Pines. He, too, got here shut and was inside two pictures of the lead earlier than ending tied for fourth.
The match at Congaree crammed in for the RBC Canadian Open, which was canceled for a second straight yr attributable to COVID-19.
The run capped an unprecedented stretch of golf within the Palmetto State.
It started in April with Stewart Cink successful his third RBC Heritage title at Harbour City Golf Hyperlinks and continued final month with 50-year-old Phil Mickelson turning into the oldest main winner on the PGA Championship on Kiawah Island.
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