South Korea’s Kim Si-woo outplayed Luke Donald by five strokes to win the Wyndham Championship and with it his first PGA Tour title.
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Kim, a 21-year-old South Korean, wasn’t quite as crisp as a day earlier when he shot a course-record 60, but he held or shared the lead the entire third round. He drove into the left rough, costing himself a clean shot at the front pin position.
Just two week’s removed from Jim Furyk’s PGA Tour-record low score of 12-under 58, Kim flirted with a score in the 50s for much of his round.
“Furyk kind of made 59 obsolete!” he told golfchannel.com, before outlining his plans for Saturday. He sank a 5-yard birdie putt on the 10th to kick-start his back-nine surge.
His last birdie attempt came on the par-four ninth hole after his tee shot with a driver sailed left and he had a hard approach shot. Kim played his opening nine in 6-under 29, and also birdied the par-4 second making another 10-footer.
Before the day was done, Lucas Glover had a bid for 59 with a birdie putt on number 18. “They’re not following the trajectory I’m looking for, and there were only one or two good shots today if I have to choose”.
The South Korean’s nearest rival is Rafa Cabrera Bello.
“I knew I had to come in here and have a good week”, Stefani said.
Last year’s victor, Davis Love III, is not the in the 2016 field.
The top 125 in the FedEx Cup standings will qualify for The Barclays next week at Bethpage Black.
Donald had his best round of the tournament to move up the leaderboard. Some people, like Donald and Rickie Fowler – were trying to earn Ryder Cup bids. Love will make his first three captain’s picks September 11 after the BMW Championship. Unfortunately for the current Australian Open Champion he dropped two places and now sits outside the fully exempt status for the PGA Tour in 2017.
Luck built a commanding lead with that eight-hole run shortly after the midway point of Sunday’s final match, and he went on to beat Brad Dalke 6 and 4 to become the U.S. Amateur’s third global champion in four years.
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Carlson will face 20-year-old Australian Curtis Luck, a 2-up victor over Pepperdine sophomore Sahith Theegala of Chino Hills, California. In the other quarterfinals, Oklahoma sophomore Brad Dalke of Norman, Okla., beat former Stanford player David Boote of Wales 3 and 2, and USC junior Jonah Texeira of Porter Ranch, Calif., topped LSU sophomore Luis Gagne of Orlando 3 and 2.
