“When you look at mine, two weeks have changed my life. “A week can change your life," Finau said. Brendon Todd was the last PGA Tour player to win two straight in the regular season, pulling off the feat in 2019. 12.įinau was the 3M Open winner last week in Minnesota, where he rallied from five strokes back to win by three. 11, Finau made a 31-foot putt with a break from right to left at No. After his first bogey in the tournament at No. “When that lipped in, that gave me some momentum and then I was in control of the golf tournament," Finau said. “It stings a little bit," said Pendrith, who played in his third tournament after missing nearly four months with a broken rib.įinau began to pull away from Pendrith with an 11-foot birdie putt at No. He led the Bermuda Championship last October by three shots before a 76 dropped him into fifth place, which was his best finish before his showing in the Motor City. Pendrith struggled in the final round just as he did the only other time he had a 54-hole lead. “Obviously, today Tony beat us all by a lot." “I’d be lying if I said it was easy to just watch other people win," Young said. Young bounced back from a first-round 71 to finish second for the fifth time.
4 in the world ranking, had his third straight round in the mid-60s after opening with a 70. The 31-year-old PGA Tour rookie from Canada hit an errant tee shot on the second hole to the right in the rough behind tree branches - after being distracted by a fan running across the fairway - and pulled a 9-foot putt on the hole to lose the lead for good.Ĭantlay, No. Pendrith had his first lackluster round of the tournament after he shared the first-round lead with Finau, led him by one shot after the second and matched his 21-under total through three rounds.
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Players on the bubble will have one last shot to finish in the top 125 of the FedEx Cup standings to earn a spot in the playoffs and a full card next season.įinau and Pendrith started Sunday tied after a third round that seemed like match play, and a potential Detroit duel turned into a dud. The PGA Tour will close the regular season at the Wyndham Championship, with the North Carolina event opening Thursday. 17 and a closing par, he broke Nate Lashley's tournament record of 25 under set in 2019 during the inaugural PGA Tour event. Peter Jacobsen hit 69 greens in regulation at Pebble Beach in 1995 and a year later, Willie Wood hit 67 at the Sanderson Farms Championship. “Tony put on a show."įinau hit 66 of 72 greens in regulation, trailing the accuracy of just two players since 1980 in a PGA Tour 72-hole event.
Taylor Pendrith (72), Patrick Cantlay (66) and rookie of the year front-runner Cameron Young (68) tied for a distant second. “They say a winner is just a loser who kept trying, and that’s me."įinau ended a drought in Detroit, winning for the first time in six attempts when he had or shared the 54-hole lead in a PGA Tour event. His 2019-20 campaign has been solid, with nine made cuts in 12 events, including a T-14 at the Charles Schwab Challenge in the PGA Tour’s return.“I’m proud of the way I’ve fought through adversity in my career," said Finau, a Salt Lake City native with Tongan-Samoan heritage. He has a pair of wins on Tour, the 2019 Safeway Open and 2018 Sanderson Farms Championship. As I said, minimum mistakes, but then took advantage of the opportunities.” “I made a great putt you usually don’t make on 14 for eagle, so that one I just kind of walked off and was obviously happy with it. I still three-putted twice today, but besides that, I took advantage of all my opportunities when they came,” he said. “I was just putting things together, really. Cameron Champ, a 24-year-old from California, surged out of the gates Friday with a front-nine 28 and shot a 7-under 65 to take the lead at the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club. On Sunday, however, Champ learned from his mistakes and eagled the hole, a key piece of Sunday’s round. Champ torched the outward half to the tune of an 8-under 28 that helped him take the tournament lead at 13 under. He pulled the ball out of the hole and flipped it into the adjacent pond in frustration. Consider Cameron Champ a fan of the front nine at Detroit Golf Club. 14, Champ was in the fringe in two, but flubbed a chip and two-putted for par. Hitting the long ball has always been Champs’ specialty, and he was second in strokes gained off the tee by the time he finished his round on Sunday.ĭuring Saturday’s round at the par-5 No.
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