AMERICAN Ryan Moore continued to put on a peerless display of ball striking to triumph by two shots in the John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in IL. Moore birdied four of his first ten holes on Sunday to take command and finished at 22-under-par to claim his fifth PGA Tour win.
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Pinckney made five straight birdies and six in a seven-hole stretch on his final nine. “Then all of a sudden you’ve got 10 guys thinking, ‘All right, I can go get this today'”.
He birdied five of seven holes to finish his front nine, then added another on his 11th hole to go to 11-under and move atop the leaderboard. The former OR player won a PGA Tour Canada event two weeks ago in Edmonton, Alberta.
One of four former Buckeyes in the field at Scioto Country Club in suburban Columbus, the 58-year-old Sindelar had five birdies Friday, including two in a row after a bogey on No. 5.
“Not many mistakes, and if I did get in trouble, I kind of got myself out of it in pretty, I’d say, consistent, in a good way”, Johnson said. “I don’t think he ever really sniffed a bogey”.
Runner-up Ben Martin tried to make a run with three consecutive birdies on the back nine but fell short with a 68 in the fourth round.
“I never got a whole lot going”, Martin said.
“It’s just one of those courses I like a lot”, the 33-year-old said. “I’ve done that really well the last two days”.
Defending champion and world number three Jordan Spieth is skipping the event this year in light of his decision to sit out the Rio Olympics golf tournament that also started on Thursday.
Geoff Ogilvy was the best of the Australians, finishing in a tie for 16th at 12-under for the tournament after closing with a final round three-under 68. On the par-3 third hole, however, his tee shot ended up on the backside of the green and his second shot out of the rough made it only halfway to the green.
Joining him in FedEx Cup action are fellow Aussies Jason Day, Adam Scott, Aaron Baddeley, Marc Leishman and John Senden. The 49-year-old Stricker, a former University of IL player from Wisconsin, won the event in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Bryan didn’t make a bogey on a course softened by rain, and a lift, clean and place rule in the fairway. Barnes has now finished in the top 5 in two of his last three events.
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But Danielson, a four-time All-American out of the University of IL, can enhance his chances of qualifying for next month’s Web.com Tour Finals, and the biggest check of his life may be waiting to be cashed.
