‘Golden Boy’ Jordan Spice (USA) has been revived.
Spies scored 6 under par 66 strokes in the final round of the Texas Open (total prize pool of $7.7 million) at the TPC San Antonio Oaks Course (par 72) in San Antonio, Texas on the 5th (Korean time). He won 4 rounds with a total of 18 under par and 270 strokes.
Spice, who had fallen without a championship during 82 competitions in 3 years and 9 months after conquering the Open in 2017, is ready to take off again.
Especially, I was more thrilled with the resurrection in my hometown of Texas.
Spice regains confidence ahead of the Masters, who won one championship and two runners-ups.
Spies climbed to the top of his career with 12 wins.
Three years after their debut, Spice, who successively won the Masters and the US Open in 2015, reached the top of the world rankings at the age of 22. It was chosen as the successor.
However, he has fallen into a slump since 2018.
Spice, whose number of times he entered the competition to win less and less, and a rare prize in the top ranks, was struggling enough to start this season at 92nd in the world rankings.
He recently confessed that his injured wrist was damaged by not treating his injured wrist in time, but he showed signs of resurgence, taking the lead in the final round two times this year.
He raised the world rankings to 53rd with a tie for fourth at the Phoenix Open, a tie for third at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and a tie for fourth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Spice, who tied for the final round with Matt Wallace (England), sprinted in the lead with a five-stroke cut to the 14th hole.
While Wallace walked in place, Charlie Hoffman (USA) picked six birdies up to the 16th hole and pursued with one stroke.
Spies wedges into the game with a 3m birdie on the 17th hole (par 4).
Hoffman, who cut six strokes on this day, drew attention by winning runner-up (16 under par 272 strokes) even after hitting 75 strokes in the first round.
Wallace reduced 2 strokes to reach 3rd place (14 under par 274).
Kim Si-woo (26) finished the tournament with a tie for 23rd place (4 under par, 284 shots) after reducing 4 strokes, and then joins the Masters.
Lee Gyeong-hoon (30), who hit 1 under par 71, also tied for 23rd.
Choi Gyeong-ju (51), who cut two strokes, left a decent grade of tied for 30th (3 under par 285).
Roh Seung-yeol (30) was a tie for 54th place (even par 288 strokes), and Kang Sung-Hoon (34) lost three strokes on the same day and was pushed to a tie for 59th place (1 over par, 289 strokes).
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