DP World Tour participant Jordan Gumberg hit the shot of a lifetime, holing out for eagle to retain his tour card on the Genesis Championship on the Woo Jeong Hills Nation Membership in Korea.
The 30-year-old American got here into the occasion needing to complete 14th or higher to leap from 127th on the Race to Dubai rankings inside the highest 115, who maintain their card for subsequent season.
Issues had been getting tight for Gumberg coming down the stretch within the closing spherical, after making a sole birdie and 16 pars for the day, he wanted one thing particular on the par 5 18th and delivered.
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With a wedge in hand, 53 metres away from the pin, Gumberg landed his ball on the sting of the inexperienced, and it trickled down in the direction of the opening, breaking each methods at completely different factors, earlier than dropping into the cup.
The group surrounding the final inexperienced was shocked, whereas the golfer himself was in shock, however nonetheless managed to throw his arms within the air in celebration, and provides his caddie a giant hug.
Commentator Alison Whitaker known as it “the most effective shot we’ve seen all season”.
“I’m puzzled,” Gumberg mentioned post-round.
“I noticed the ball land on the inexperienced and trickle over the hill, you couldn’t see something, and the group went nuts, we went nuts. It was the most effective shot I’ve hit in my profession up to now.
“I didn’t suppose we would have liked to gap it, however we had been seeking to get another and clearly it’s an added plus when it went in so I’m ecstatic.”
Nobody performed extra tournaments on the DP World Tour this season than Gumberg, as he made 34 begins.
He missed only one occasion that he held an exemption for.
Having to undertake the weekly grind has been made harder by lacking 16 cuts, together with in 11 of his final 13 occasions coming into the Genesis Championship.
Gumberg revealed post-round what went via his head following the hole-out: “Oh my god, what simply occurred.
“A lot adrenaline and emotion and every part, it’s related feelings to Q-College. Coming down the final or final couple of holes, there may be a lot stress and you already know one dangerous swing can take you out of it.
“So to have that stress from this morning once I woke to this point, it was an enormous launch.
“And a ‘oh my god, we simply did this, we expect we simply did this, hopefully we did this’ and I checked out my fiancee on the high and mentioned ‘are we good?’ and he or she goes ‘we’re good’. It was simply lots of emotion dumping out of me.
“We’ve made so many pals on this sport, individuals throughout the globe that we’re nice, nice pals with now. It’s unhappy while you suppose you’re not going to be right here subsequent 12 months to not see these faces once more.
“It’s a brotherhood out right here. It’s not even that, it’s the wives and everybody that will get alongside. It’s nice now to know that I’ll see them once more.”
South Korea’s Lee Jung-hwan got here from behind with a seven-under-par 64 within the closing spherical to win the match by three strokes on house soil for his first DP World Tour title.
The 451st-ranked Lee, who began the final day 4 pictures off the lead, triumphed forward of England’s Laurie Canter and Spain’s Nacho Elvira.
Lee, who will now take up membership on the DP World Tour, mentioned he felt like he was “in a dream” after successful in entrance of his house followers.
“I actually, actually wished to go to the DP World Tour and I used to be truly working actually laborious in the direction of that purpose, however by some means I used to be arising brief a bit of bit,” mentioned the 34-year-old.
“I used to be actually making the trouble and now I’ve this actually nice alternative. I’m simply actually grateful.”
Lee appeared out of the working when he carded a bogey on the second gap however he adopted that up with 5 straight birdies.
That despatched him rocketing into competition and two extra birdies noticed him be part of Elvira on the high of the leaderboard.
Lee then birdied the final gap as Elvira completed with two bogeys to finish a shocking turnaround.
“I believe general I performed very nicely however on 12 I had a tee-miss shot and I believed I used to be performed there,” mentioned Lee.
“I used to be capable of save that ball and that’s once I thought the tables are turning and the gods are wanting down on me.”
Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, who started the ultimate day three pictures off the lead, completed in a tie for seventh, 5 strokes behind the champion.
Australia’s Adam Scott completed tied for thirtieth to maintain his DP World Tour card.