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Canada’s Nick Taylor knocked in a birdie putt from lower than 3 toes away on the second playoff gap to win the Sony Open in Hawaii on Sunday at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu.
Taylor, who had a dramatic eagle to conclude the ultimate spherical, secured his fifth PGA Tour victory after matching Colombia’s Nico Echavarria with 16-under-par 264s. They each turned in 5-under 65s within the ultimate spherical.
Taylor and Echavarria have been pressured to repeat the par-5 No. 18 after they each birdied it on the primary further gap. Taylor made a 10-foot putt and Echavarria adopted by draining a 5 1/2-footer. On the second playthrough, Echavarria missed an 8 1/2-footer for birdie to arrange Taylor for the win.
Three of Taylor’s victories on tour have are available playoffs.
Echavarria, 30, was attempting to publish a PGA Tour victory for the third consecutive 12 months.
Taylor’s chip-in from the perimeter for an eagle 3 on No. 18 catapulted him into rivalry earlier than ready for others to complete to see if it held up.
That put him 6 below for the ultimate 11 holes of regulation. It additionally was redemption after he missed back-to-back birdie putts for lower than 5 toes away on the again facet.
Echavarria recovered after bogeys on his first two holes. He had birdies on Nos. 16 and 18.
Third-round chief J.J. Spaun (68) and Germany’s Stephan Jaeger (67) shared third place at 15 below. They have been within the ultimate grouping and had possibilities to hitch the leaders, however each completed with pars.
Spaun, in search of his second victory on the PGA Tour, went to the par-3 seventeenth gap with the lead, however he bogeyed there. By the time he reached the 18th tee, he had fallen behind Taylor and Echavarria.
Spaun performed the primary eight holes in 3 below after which recorded eight consecutive pars earlier than the misstep on No. 17.
Jaeger stayed in rivalry regardless of a misplaced tee shot on No. 16. He pulled off a bogey on the opening.
Eric Cole (68) birdied the ultimate gap to complete alone in fifth place at 14 below. There was a four-way tie for sixth place at 13 below with Jackson Suber (65), Adam Schenk (65), Patrick Fishburn (69) and Keegan Bradley (68).
–Field Level Media