Jacob Bridgeman held his nerve to win his first PGA Tour title regardless of late prices from Australia’s Adam Scott and Masters champion Rory McIlroy on the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Nation Membership in Los Angeles.
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McIlroy drained a ridiculous birdie putt on the final from the perimeter to pile the stress on as Bridgeman, however he stored his cool to comfortably two-putt for a one shot victory within the US$20 million signature occasion hosted by Tiger Woods. Bridgeman took residence $4 million ($5.6 million AUD) for the win.
The 26-year-old left his first putt three toes and 5 inches wanting the cup, and whereas that putt is the stuff of nightmares to your common weekend hacker, it introduced no drawback for Bridgeman.
“I believe getting the trophy from Tiger goes to be the good factor in my life,” he stated.
“I’m know he’s made 1,000,000 of these little three footers, however that was my first one.
“I’m going to want some tricks to make these simpler as a result of that was exhausting.”
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The American completed 18-under for the event and closed out the title with a one over par closing spherical 72 after beginning the final day with a six-shot buffer.
“I felt like I used to be taking part in the identical approach I’ve been taking part in all week. For no matter purpose at this time, the putts, they have been bumping out and I wasn’t making those I used to be the previous couple of days,” he stated.
“Not having that early begin of being 4, 5, six below par was a bit bit completely different and new.
“And it obtained actually exhausting on the finish. I used to be considering ‘man, this lead is getting shut’.
“I needed to be main by 4 going into the final gap and I used to be up on the final tee main by one.
“It obtained actually exhausting.”
McIlroy and Kurt Kitayama completed one shot again, whereas Scott was two pictures behind Bridgeman.
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Scott’s surge into the highest 4 got here off the again of his bogey free effort to assert low spherical of the day honours.
It was the Queenslander’s second eight-under par 63 of the week, having additionally produced a second spherical clinic on the venue the place he final received on the PGA Tour again in 2020.
“It felt actually completely different, to be sincere,” Scott stated when requested how his closing spherical in comparison with his second.
“I didn’t really feel like I had my swing in an ideal spot at this time. The opposite day it felt actually good besides the final two tee pictures have been a bit squirrely after which that’s type of been the route for the remainder of the week really.
“So the tender situations helped me at this time loads. I used to be out of place a few occasions and with the ability to plunk it on the inexperienced undoubtedly saved some Riviera stress. I took benefit of it. Very nice to make a number of putts as a result of it’s been fairly dry for fairly some time with the putter in order that felt good.”
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Scott’s efficiency marks a wonderful return to kind after not registering a high ten end on the PGA Tour in any respect final 12 months.
The 45-year-old actually welcomed being within the combine for the primary time in America since taking part in within the closing group finally 12 months’s US Open.
“I really feel actually good that I nearly made essentially the most of it this week,” he stated.
“I’m going to have a great end. It’s not a win, which I actually type of refocused on attempting to get again to the winner’s circle this 12 months, however a end result feels good as a result of it’s been some time since I’ve simply had a great end result as properly.”
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Bridgeman’s rivals have been hoping that he would replicate his again 9 collapse of every week in the past.
The American led at one level within the closing spherical at Pebble Seashore, however ended up on the seaside beside the 18th inexperienced and thinned his shot from the sand and pebbles into the ocean wall and his ball ricocheted again into the ocean.
The prolonged delay that was prompted by that slip up and his determination to return to the green to take a drop triggered Collin Morikawa to attend roughly 20 minutes to play his second shot on his option to victory.
Australia’s Min Woo Lee fired a six-under par 65 to leap to 11-under total alongside world No.1 Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth in a share of twelfth.
That end ended Scheffler’s streak of 18 straight high tens.
Lee made seven birdies within the closing spherical as he placed on a stripe present.
The West Australian hit 11 of 14 fairways and gained extra strokes than anybody else within the area off the tee.
He led that statistic throughout the 4 rounds mixed, however struggled together with his irons or wedges in hand to stop himself from contending like he did at Pebble Seashore final week with a runner-up end.