5 gamers completed atop the leaderboard at 18-under on the Sanderson Farms Championship Sunday. However, it solely took one additional gap to declare a winner.
Within the playoff, Ludvig Aberg gave Luke Checklist a wonderful learn by lacking his prolonged birdie putt. The 38-year-old Checklist then sunk his 43-foot birdie putt in miraculous style, sending followers and his household into euphoria. This victory gave him his second PGA Tour victory.
Checklist had his ups and downs on Sunday. He made the flip at even par with two bogeys and two birdies. On the again 9, he made two extra birdies to enter the clubhouse at 18-under.
The 2-time PGA Tour winner probably didn’t suppose it might be sufficient as he gave away his hat to a fan on the occasion.
Nonetheless, Ben Griffin bogeyed two of his final three holes, prompting a five-man playoff to determine the winner.
It was the primary playoff of this measurement since 2017. The officers thought it might go for much longer than it did, which might have pressured the event into Monday. As a substitute, Checklist made an unbelievably putt when it mattered most.
Griffin was in charge of the event all through till the ultimate few holes.
“It’s simply emotional. They [His support system] wished me to win in all probability greater than I wished to,” Griffin stated as he teared up. “But it surely’s only a bummer. However I’m so pleased to have all of them in my life. They’ve my again, and I do know I’m going to be again.”
His late blowup allowed Checklist, Aberg, Scott Stallings and Henrik Norlander to affix him in a 5-man playoff.
Aberg was coming off his Ryder Cup journey, the place he performed fantastically. He posted 4 rounds within the 60s on the Sanderson Farms Championship, going 67-69-66-68. The rookie made an eagle on the par-5 eleventh and birdie on the par-4 fifteenth to get to that 18-under quantity.
He had an analogous putt for birdie on the primary playoff gap as Checklist however didn’t hit the appropriate line. The ball didn’t break prefer it wanted to. Checklist noticed that and took benefit of the chance.
Griffin, Stallings and Norlander all had appears, however none of them may get the ball to drop into the opening.
The second occasion of the FedEx Cup Fall sequence is over as Checklist shoots as much as No. 61 within the factors. In the meantime, Griffin moved as much as No. 51 and into the Subsequent 10.
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