PGA in the final 4th round of the 2nd leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs at the Olympiafields Country Club (par 70/7366 yards) in Olympia Fields, Illinois, USA on August 31st. A beautiful game that will remain in the history of the tour was produced.
World ranking 2nd place Yon Ram (26, Spain) finished the game first with a final total of 4 under par 276, and world ranking No. 1 Dustin Johnson (36, USA) was chasing Ram with 1 stroke. A situation in which Johnson can achieve a dynamic hit only when he succeeds in a birdie putt on the 18th hole (par 4). The distance from the hole was 13m, and it seemed very difficult to make a birdie success, but Johnson tried a bold long putt and the ball was sucked into the hole cup as it was. However, in the overtime game played in the 18th hole, a tremendous scene was produced. Ram showed off a fantastic birdie show of 20m and raised the championship trophy. Even though the distance was very long, it was a highly difficult birdie putt, where the course on which the ball was rolling was bent by almost 90 degrees. With this putt, Lam won the championship prize of $1.71 million (approximately 1.87 billion won) and achieved his second win this year and 5 wins in tour career.
Ram’s buddy putt was selected as the best’highlight scene’ on this year’s PGA tour. On the 27th, the PGA Tour selected and announced’Best 5 Videos Watched Most by Fans of the Year’, and selected Ram’s 20m Buddy Putt as No. 1. Johnson’s 13m Buddy Putt was in third place. The final round of the BMW Championship deserves record as the best match of the year, as it was selected as the best 5 in two scenes in one match.
Tiger Woods (45, USA) took the remaining second, fourth, and fifth places. Woods ranked second in a video collaboration with Rory McIlroy (31, Northern Ireland) at Pro-Am, which was held prior to the opening of the Genesis Invitational in February. At that time, McIlroy shot towards the green with 160 yards left, and Woods, who was playing in the previous group, was holding the flagpole and watching. The ball he hit fell on the green and rolled right in front of Woods, where Woods smiled wide and waved the flagpole and headed for the next hole. In addition, in the PNC Championship, an event that ended on the 21st, the scene where Woods and 11-year-old son Charlie rose to fourth place. At the Farmers’ Insurance Open in January, the shot that Woods struck with 141 yards left on the green bounced twice on the green, then went inside the hole and came back in fifth place.
Senior Reporter Choi Hyun-tae [email protected]
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