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Lucas Glover defeated Patrick Cantlay in a playoff to win for the second straight week, claiming the FedEx St. Jude Championship title on Sunday in Memphis, Tenn.
Glover, 43, received final week’s regular-season finale, the Wyndham Championship, to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs on the final attainable second. Now he is gotten sizzling on the proper time — and projected to leap from No. 49 to No. 4 within the FedEx Cup factors standings.
Glover and Cantlay went again to replay the par-4 18th gap at TPC Southwind to start the playoff. Cantlay’s tee shot dribbled down right into a water hazard, leaving Glover to play for par. Cantlay barely missed a 22-foot par try to power a second playoff gap.
Glover shot a 1-under 69 on Sunday, whereas Cantlay fired a bogey-free, 6-under 64 to get into the clubhouse at 15-under 265. Tommy Fleetwood of England missed a birdie putt that may have tied him with Cantlay, and he settled for a spherical of 68 and a tie for third at 14 below with Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland (65 on Sunday).
A mid-afternoon climate delay suspended play for 97 minutes earlier than Glover, the 54-hole chief, teed off within the last pairing with Taylor Moore.
Glover made one birdie and all pars for his first 13 holes, however his tee shot on the par-3 14th gap discovered the water hazard and led him to bogey and drop to 14 below, behind Cantlay.
Glover received that stroke again by birdieing the par-5 sixteenth gap. He made a important par save at No. 17 and could not sink a 22 1/2-foot birdie attempt at No. 18 for the outright win.
Only the highest 50 gamers within the FedEx Cup factors standings will advance to subsequent week’s BMW Championship, the second leg of the three-week playoffs. Two gamers who began exterior the highest 50 performed their manner in.
Cam Davis of Australia shot a final-round 67 to tie for sixth at 11 below and bounce from No. 62 to No. 45. Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama completed birdie-eagle-birdie-par to card a 65 and tie for sixteenth at 9 below — leaping from No. 57 to No. 47.
–Field Level Media