Memphis [US], August 15 (ANI): American Lucas Glover (69) triumphed for the second straight week after prevailing in a playoff within the FedEx St. Jude Championship towards Patrick Cantlay (64) at TPC Southwind. Both gamers completed up on 15-under 265, one forward of Rory McIlroy (65) and Tommy Fleetwood (68).
Glover, who gained ultimately week’s Wyndham Championship, earned his sixth PGA TOUR title with a par within the first additional gap after Cantlay made bogey, and moved as much as fourth place within the FedExCup standings.
While 5 Asians made the second occasion, Hideki Matsuyama performed his final three holes in 3-under to squeeze in, Korea’s Sungjae Im was the highest Asian as he completed tied sixth after a bogey-free 68. He rose from thirty second to twenty eighth on the FedExCup standings. It was the 25-year-old’s eighth top-10 of the season and places him within the hunt to qualify for the TOUR Championship, restricted to the Top-30 gamers, for a fifthstraight 12 months.
Si Woo Kim, winner of the Sony Open in Hawaii in January, completed tied sixteenth after a 68 and moved one rung as much as seventeenth place within the FedExCup race whereas Tom Kim settled for tied twenty fourth after a closing 72, dropping 4 positions to 18th place. The fourth Korean within the Playoffs, Byeong Hun An, settled for a share of the thirty seventh place in Memphis and enters the penultimate Playoffs occasion in thirty eighth place as he appears to be like to qualify for the TOUR Championship for the primary time in his profession.
A fifth Asian within the second of the three Play-off occasions is Hideki Matsuyama, bidding to qualify for the Tour Championships for a tenth time. He carded 65 to complete T-16 and rose to forty seventh and inside 50, which is the factors for the following occasion.
Glover made three huge putts simply to remain within the sport after which hit a very powerful shot to beat Patrick Cantlay on the primary additional gap for his second straight victory.
The 43-year-old Glover was No. 112 within the FedExCup two weeks in the past and making ready for an early finish to his season. Now he is assured the TOUR Championship at East Lake and maybe the Ryder Cup.
Glover made a 20-foot par putt, a 30-foot bogey putt and a 12-foot par putt over the ultimate six holes to shut with a 1-under 69 and power a playoff with Cantlay, who surged into competition with a 64.
The playoff successfully ended with one shot. Cantlay hit a 3-wood that was a few foot from being good, nevertheless it rolled down the financial institution and into the water. Glover discovered the golf green and two-putted for par. Cantlay took a penalty drop and his 20-foot par putt simply slid by the proper edge.
Glover turns into solely the third participant in his 40s to win back-to-back weeks on the PGA TOUR during the last 25 years, becoming a member of Kenny Perry (2003) and Vijay Singh, who did it 3 times.
Hideki Matsuyama knew what he wanted to do to increase his marketing campaign within the FedExCup Playoffs and keep within the struggle to maintain alive a proud streak in his illustrious profession.
Being compelled to attend for an hour and 37 minutes to finish the remaining three holes throughout a climate suspension within the last spherical on the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday solely heightened the pressure-packed second. Once play resumed, the 31-year-old duly delivered, and in type too.
Upon his return to the par-5 sixteenth gap, he striped a drive down the golf green earlier than rifling a six iron to simply exterior of 9 toes and buried the eagle putt. At the following, he calmly rolled in an 11-footer for his fourth birdie of the day to maneuver contained in the Top-50 projections of the FedExCup to advance into the BMW Championship.
An errant drive, nonetheless, on the demanding 18th gap, adopted by an method that landed past the ultimate inexperienced offered a nervy end however Matsuyama calmly produced a fragile flop shot that noticed his ball land inside 19 inches for a tap-in par, thus sealing his place within the second of three Playoffs occasions. (ANI)