Winner after 3 years and 7 months, Spies tied for 3rd place… Kang Seong-hoon, 63
Daniel Burger (USA) won the US Professional Golf (PGA) Tour AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am ($7.8 million in total prize money) and won 4 victories on the tour.
On the last day of the tournament held at Pebble Beach Golf Links (par 72, 7,51 yards), California, USA on the 15th (Korean time), Burger tied 2 Eagles, 4 Birdies, and 1 Bogie, hitting 7 under par 65. .
Burger, with a final total of 18 under par 270 strokes, beat second place Maverick McNealy (16 under par 272 strokes) by two strokes to win.
The winning prize is $1.44,000 (about 1.55 billion won).
Burger’s PGA tour was interrupted due to a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and reached the top of the Charles Schwab Challenge in June last year, which resumed after three months, and added a multiplier in eight months and achieved a total of 4 wins on the tour. .
The other two wins were recorded at the 2016 and 2017 FedEx St. Jude Classics.
While Jordan Spice (USA), who was the lead until the third round, could not reduce the number of strokes in the first half of the day, Burger and Nate Lashley (USA), who started in a tie for second place by two strokes, competed in the lead until the middle.
Lashley pulled out only four buddies in the first half to lead the 15-under-par alone, and Burger tied for the lead with the 10th hole (par 4) buddy.
Lascheley took another step ahead of adding a birdie thanks to the exact second shot that almost entered the hole from hole 11 (par 4), but Burger put the third shot on hole 14 (par 5) about 1 meter away Reduced the stroke and balanced again.
Here, McNealy, who started the fourth round with a tie for 7th, thinned out 4 birdies from holes 11-15 and followed them by one stroke, and the battle continued.
But at the last minute, the atmosphere changed dramatically.
It was decisive that Lascheley, whose shot was shaking, dropped a triple bogie with 4 putts on the 16th hole (par 4).
Around that time, McNealy finished the game first with a joint lead with Burger as a birdie on the 18th hole (par 5), but after that, Burger, who played on the 18th hole, calmly succeeded in two-on and succeeded in putting an eagle over 9m and hitting the wedge Done.
McNealy, the son of Scott McNeally, co-founder of IT company Sun Microsystems, and also known as Daniel Kang’s boyfriend, a Korean-American who plays an active part in the LPGA tour, missed the chance to win the first PGA tour, but made his debut. .
Spice, who aimed to win the championship after 3 years and 7 months after the opening in July 2017, reduced two shots in the second half to reach third place (15 under par 273) with Patrick Cantley (USA).
Lashley, who lost his composure by hitting a putter on the green after a triple bogie on the 16th hole, finished the 18th hole as a birdie, and was tied for fifth place (14 under par 274) with Paul Casey (England).
Kang Sung-hoon (34), the only Korean player to pass the cut, ended the tournament with a tie for 63rd place (2 over par 290), losing one stroke with two final round buddies and three bogies.
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