That left Lee with a straightforward putt for par and the 24-year-old made no mistake to claim his maiden PGA Tour victory.
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Lee earned his first PGA Tour win Sunday at the Greenbrier Classic by defeating three others in on the second hole of a playoff.
Meanwhile, Auckland’s Ryan Fox, who recently qualified for next week’s Open Championship in Scotland, finished in a share of 47th at the Aegean Airlines Challenge Tour event on the second-tier Challenge Tour in Europe. The tour is in Illinois next week for the John Deere Classic, where Brian Harman will defend his title. Lee and Hearn made birdie putts on the first playoff hole, also eliminating Kisner.
Hearn landed his tee shot in the tree-lined rough and couldn’t recover while Lee — who was born in South Korea but grew up in Rotorua — reached the green in three.
Hearn was unlucky when his approach shot sailed off the green and into the bunker and he could only bogey to hand his opponent the initiative.
He did well to get a half-clean shot at the ball, but only advanced it 82 yards. Lee completed the hole in a regulation five and the victory was his. After coming up just short on his birdie putt at 18, Kisner tapped in for par a a 64 tying his career low and taking the clubhouse lead at 13-under.
“I hit a bad tee shot”.
“I was so nervous”, Lee said before the playoff began. Lee laid up into the fairway, then hit his third to about 60 feet.
“I missed my putt on 9 and meant to lightly land it next to the bag, and it didn’t make it quite far enough”, Streb said.
“I’m very excited to play in another major”, he said after taking a battering at this year’s USA Open at Chambers Bay.
He three-putted No. 17 for bogey, but got in the playoff with a 6-foot birdie at No. 18.
Chad Collins was 13 under after 16 holes, but bogeyed the 17th and 18th. The former University of Oklahoma player tied for second in the Brazil Champions in March.
Russell Henley shot 63 and finished fifth at 12 under.
Bubba Watson has decided to paint over the Confederate flag on the General Lee, the car he purchased in 2012 made famous by the popular television show, the Dukes of Hazzard.
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In unrelated-but-related news, Tiger Woods also played in The Greenbrier Classic and shot a three-under 67 on Sunday. Under the Rules of Golf, Streb wasn’t able to replace his putter mid-round because the damage didn’t happen in the normal course of play.
