GREENSBORO, N.C. — England’s Aaron Rai produced a gradual end for a final-round 64 to win on the PGA Tour for the primary time throughout a grueling day of golf on the Wyndham Championship on Sunday.
Rai’s two-stroke victory, which got here by enjoying 36 holes on the ultimate day at Sedgefield Nation Membership, will probably be largely related to Max Greyserman’s misfortune as a four-shot lead evaporated on the again 9 with nightfall quick approaching.
Rai’s first title on the PGA Tour got here in his 89th look. He completed at 18-under-par 262 after earlier posting a third-round 68. He was bogey-free for the final spherical, sinking a 6 1/2-foot birdie putt on the final gap.
Greyserman (66, 69), bidding for his first tour victory, led to second place at 16 below. J.J. Spaun (66, 64) and Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune (64, 67) tied for third at 15 below.
Greyserman had two eagles within the remaining spherical, together with one from 91 yards out on the golf green on the thirteenth gap. However his quadruple-bogey 8 on No. 14 resulted in a four-shot lead vanishing. His tee shot went out of bounds and it deteriorated shortly from there.
However he recovered to regain the lead on the subsequent gap with a birdie. Then got here a four-putt double-bogey on the par-3 sixteenth to provide the lead again to Rai, who was enjoying within the group in entrance of him.
Greyserman, 29, was runner-up two weeks earlier within the 3M Open. He notched his fourth top-10 results of the yr.
Greyserman’s third-round 66 put him three strokes in entrance of beginner Luke Clanton, who rallied with a career-low 62, coming into the fourth spherical.
Greyserman, who performed collegiately about an hour away at Duke, had gone 56 consecutive holes with out a bogey till the fourth gap of the ultimate spherical. He responded moments later with an eagle on the subsequent gap. That was his second eagle in a nine-hole stretch, posting one on No. 15 of the third spherical.
Second-round chief Matt Kuchar (70 third spherical) was at 11 below for the event when he selected to not end the ultimate gap due to darkness. Because the daybreak of the FedEx Cup playoffs in 2007, Kuchar had certified for each version of the postseason, however he wanted to win the event in an effort to play subsequent week’s FedEx St. Jude Traditional.
For some golfers, Sunday’s endurance take a look at started previous to the third spherical as they accomplished remaining holes from the second spherical. The postponement of Thursday’s first spherical and one other climate delay Friday created havoc for the event’s schedule.
Clanton, who performed 39 holes Sunday, completed in fifth place at 14 below after recording 62 and 69 for the final two rounds. He obtained loads of consideration all through the day, pulling inside a shot of the lead within the third spherical, when he had eagles on Nos. 13 and 15.
“Once more, simply being out right here in rivalry and with the ability to say that I used to be sort of near the lead coming down the stretch is superior,” Clanton mentioned. “It is a variety of studying for me and once more, as a 20-year-old, it is fairly candy.”
The Florida State star, who was the one beginner within the subject and can start play Monday within the U.S. Beginner in Minnesota, contended earlier than bogeying his final two holes of the fourth spherical (Nos. 8 and 9).
–Bob Sutton, Subject Degree Media
