{"id":95254,"date":"2021-07-04T23:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=95254"},"modified":"2021-07-04T23:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T23:58:43","slug":"aussie-wins-first-pga-tour-title-in-playoff-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=95254","title":{"rendered":"Aussie wins first PGA Tour title in playoff thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia's Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic<\/a> on Sunday (Monday AEST) for his first PGA Tour title when Troy Merritt missed a six-foot par putt on the fifth hole of a playoff.<\/p>\n

Davis missed putts to win on each of the playoff holes. The 26-year-old Aussie left six and 18-foot putts high, a 25-foot putt low and a 19-footer high. He misread a break on a 12-foot putt on the fifth playoff hole, then won when Merritt made bogey.<\/p>\n

Davis closed with a five-under 67 to match Merritt (68) and Joaquin Niemann (68) at 18-under 270 at Detroit Golf Club. Niemann dropped out of the playoff with a bogey on the first extra hole, his first bogey of the week.<\/p>\n

Niemann had a chance to win it on the 72nd hole, but left a 17-foot putt high.<\/p>\n

Davis holed a 50-foot sand shot for eagle on the par-5 17th and birdied the par-4 18th to get to 18-under.<\/p>\n

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Niemann followed with two shots that went 569 yards and he two-putted from 14 feet to take the lead at 18-under, but he quickly had company.<\/p>\n

Merritt, who was in the final group with Niemann, made his fourth birdie in a five-hole stretch to share the lead. Davis joined them with the eagle-birdie finish.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Niemann shared the second and third-round lead and was runner-up for the third time, including coming up short in a playoff<\/a> at the Sentry Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n

Last week at the Travelers Championship, Harris English beat Kramer Hickok in an eight-hole playoff<\/a> that tied the second-longest sudden death in PGA Tour history. Hickock stuck around to watch the playoff in Detroit after finishing six-under.<\/p>\n

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Alex Noren (64) had a share of the lead at 17. He got out of the heat and humidity, but planned to leave the comfortable clubhouse as soon someone was a stroke ahead of him and that happened with a trio of competitors. Noren tied for fourth with Hank Lebioda (68).<\/p>\n

Bubba Watson surged up the leaderboard earlier on the hot and steamy afternoon with a 64 to put him at 16-under. That briefly gave him a share of the lead, and he tied for sixth with Brandon Hagy (68).<\/p>\n

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Australia's Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday (Monday AEST) for his first PGA Tour title when Troy Merritt missed a six-foot par […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95256,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95254\/revisions\/95256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}