FRENCH LICK, Ind. — Braden Thornberry birdied the ultimate gap for a 6-under 66 and his first Korn Ferry Tour title at the most effective time. The victory Sunday within the Tour Championship made him one in all 30 gamers who earned PGA Tour playing cards for subsequent yr.
Thornberry was No. 51 on the factors record going into the ultimate occasion of the season, and he needed to choke again tears when it was clear nobody would catch him.
He received by one shot over Brian Campbell, Alistair Docherty and Doc Redman. Campbell already was assured of being within the prime 30. The opposite two narrowly missed out.
Redman was main the Korn Ferry Tour Championship till it took three photographs from a greenside bunker to get onto the placing floor, resulting in double bogey. Two holes later, he bladed a chip on the seventeenth and made one other bogey, costing him his card.
Redman wanted eagle to drive a playoff on the 661-yard closing gap on the Pete Dye course at French Lick Golf Resort. He holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the final gap for a 72 to tie for second. Campbell made a 5-foot par putt for a 70.
These putts created a three-way tie for second — Docherty completed earlier with a 68 — and took sufficient factors away from Docherty that he moved exterior the highest 30.
Noah Goodwin completed at No. 30 to get the final card as a substitute.
Zach Bachou additionally had a tough end. He was one shot behind and projected inside the highest 30 when he hit his tee shot into the water on the sixteenth for a bogey, missed the green into excessive grass on the seventeenth for bogey after which bogeyed the closing gap.
Goodwin earned the thirtieth spot over Sam Bennett, the previous U.S. Novice champion who began the week at No. 30 and tied for sixty fifth.
Gamers who completed out of the highest 30 on the factors record can nonetheless go to Q-school, the place 5 PGA Tour playing cards will likely be on supply.
