Abraham Ancer of Mexico won the FedEx St. Jude Invitational on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama and Sam Burns with a 6-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole of a playoff.
Ancer won the World Golf Championships occasion at TPC Southland after Burns’ 5 1/2-foot putt — on a similar line as Ancer — lipped out.
Ancer, the 30-year-old former University of Oklahoma player who was brought into the world in McAllen, Texas, shut with a 2-under 68 to coordinate with Matsuyama and Burns at 16-under 264. Matsuyama shot a 63, and Burns had a 64.
Ancer turned into the fourth Mexican winner on the PGA Tour, following Victor Regalado, Cesar Sanudo and Carlos Ortiz, and the seventh player to win a WGC event for his first tour victory. He’s projected to leap to tenth on the world ranking.
Harris English, the 2013 champion at TPC Southwind, was a stroke back after a 73 in the wake of driving get-togethers of the initial three days.
On the principal additional opening, Ancer, Burns and Matsuyama, coming off a bronze-medal playoff loss in the Tokyo Olympics, made fair runs at birdies. Matsuyama had the most brief endeavor — from 20 feet — and it almost went in the cup prior to lipping out.
Bryson DeChambeau, two strokes behind English get-togethers third-round 63, had a 74 to tie for eighth at 12 under. He missed the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19.
PGA TOUR
Erik van Rooyen won the Barracuda Championship for his first PGA Tour title, getting done with 50 focuses in the changed Stableford scoring system.
Van Rooyen, the 31-year-old previous University of Minnesota player from South Africa, eagled the standard 4 eighth and shut with a birdie on the standard 4 eighteenth for a five-point triumph over Andrew Putnam at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood Course.
Players get eight focuses for a gooney bird, five for falcon, two for birdie and zero for standard. A point is deducted for an intruder, and three focuses are removed for a twofold intruder or more terrible.
Van Rooyen had a 16-point final round, making the falcon, six birdies and an bogey.
Van Rooyen hopped from 139th to 78th in the FedEx Cup standings, with the main 125 get-togethers Wyndham Championship one week from now procuring spots in the season finisher opener at Liberty National. He procured a spot in the PGA Championship one year from now yet not the Masters in light of the fact that the occasion is being played inverse a World Golf Championship — the FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis, Tennessee.
Putnam won the 2018 occasion for his solitary PGA Tour title.
US GOLF ASSOCIATION
Kentucky junior Jensen Castle won the U.S. Ladies’ Amateur, beating Arizona junior Hou Yu-chiang of Taiwan 2 and 1 in the 36-opening last at Westchester Country Club.
Palace, from West Columbia, South Carolina, won in the wake of opening with a 7-more than 79 on Monday in the first round of stroke play and enduring a 12-for-2 season finisher late Tuesday to get into the 64-player field for match play. She’s the third No. 63 seed to win a USGA title, following Clay Ogden in the 2005 U.S. Beginner Public Links and Steven Fox in the 2012 U.S. Beginner.
After Hou won the 30th and 31st with birdies to pull inside one, Castle took the standard 4 33rd with a standard, lost the standard 3 34th to Hou’s birdie and finished off the match with a birdie on the standard 4 35th.
Positioned 248th on the world amateur ranking, Castle wrapped up a automatic spot on the U.S. Curtis Cup group this month in Wales. She likewise procured spots in the Women’s British Open at Carnoustie in about fourteen days, and the 2022 ANA Inspiration, U.S. Ladies’ Open, Evian Championship and Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
EUROPEAN TOUR
Scotland’s Grant Forrest held off England’s James Morrison in the Hero Open for his first European Tour title.
Forrest birdied the last two openings at Fairmont St Andrews for a 6-under 66 and 24-under 264 aggregate. Morrison was a stroke back after a 63.
The 28-year-old Forrest is the principal home victor in Scotland on the European Tour since Paul Lawrie in the 2012 Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles.
Spain’s Santiago Tarrio was third at 21 under after a 68.
KORN FERRY TOUR
Joshua Creel won the Utah Championship for his first Korn Ferry Tour title.
Creel made a 30-foot birdie putt on the standard 4 eighteenth for a 7-under 64 and 24-under 260 absolute at Oakridge Country Club. He hopped from 64th to 32nd in the season standings with the best 25 get-togethers ordinary season finale one week from now in Omaha, Nebraska, procuring PGA Tour cards.
Hayden Buckley (61), Taylor Montgomery (67) and Peter Uihlein (67) tied for second, two strokes back.
Different TOURS
Mexico’s Fernanda Lira won the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship in Battle Creek, Michigan, for her first Symetra Tour title. She birdied five of the last six openings for a 10-under 62 and a six-stroke triumph. She completed at 19-under 197. … Denmark’s Marcus Helligkilde won the Vierumaki Finnish Challenge, driving wire-to-wire for his first European Challenge Tour title. He shut with a 71 for a 23-under 265 aggregate. He shot a 61 in the first round. Sweden’s Jesper Svensson was two strokes back after a 68.