A final spherical of 63 noticed Billy Horschel safe victory within the Corales Puntacana Championship; the 37-year-old’s first win on the PGA Tour for 2 years ensured he will probably be within the discipline for Might’s PGA Championship;
Billy Horschel secured his place in subsequent month’s PGA Championship with victory within the Corales Puntacana Championship.
The 37-year-old ran off 4 straight birdies on the entrance 9 to get within the combine, started to tug away with an eagle on the par-five twelfth gap and closed with a nine-under 63 for a two-shot victory within the Dominican Republic.
Horschel, who began the ultimate spherical three photographs behind, all however sealed his triumph with an 18-foot birdie putt on the sixteenth gap.
“This recreation of golf is so fickle,” Horschel stated. “You possibly can put loads into it and never get the whole lot you need out of it.
“I knew…I had the flexibility, I had the expertise. I needed to proceed to consider the great things was going to return to the forefront.”
Wesley Bryan, making an attempt to go wire-to-wire, was bogey-free with 4 birdies and nonetheless just one shot behind late within the spherical. However proper after Horschel made his remaining birdie, Bryan missed a par putt from simply exterior two ft and fell three behind.
Bryan birdied the 18th for a 68 to complete as runner-up, which is able to get him into the AT&T Byron Nelson in two weeks. He was enjoying on a sponsor exemption. Kevin Tway shot 69 and completed third.
