RICHMOND, Va. — Harrison Frazar received his first PGA Tour Champions title Sunday when he birdied the 18th gap for a 3-under 69 to power a playoff with Richard Inexperienced, after which made an 8-foot birdie on the primary additional gap on the Dominion Vitality Charity Traditional.
Frazar wasn’t the one winner. Steve Stricker clinched his first Charles Schwab Cup title with two postseason occasions nonetheless to be performed, though he skipped the event.
Inexperienced additionally closed with a 69, helped by a 10-foot par putt on the fifteenth and an 8-foot birdie putt on the sixteenth gap. However he did not birdie the 516-yard closing gap on the Nation Membership of Richmond, opening the door for Frazar and Brett Quigley within the remaining group.
Quigley birdied the sixteenth and seventeenth, and he had a 10-foot birdie putt on the ultimate gap that he left inches brief for a 71 to complete alone in third, one shot behind.
Frazar did not make his first birdie till the eleventh gap, however he hit an excellent wedge from 75 yards to brief vary for birdie on the sixteenth, and he two-putted for birdie from 40 ft on the 18th.
Frazar and Inexperienced completed at 11-under 205.
Returning to the 18th for the playoff, each gamers missed the green. Inexperienced whiffed on his fairway steel, but it surely caromed out of the bushes into the green and he hit his third to 30 ft. Frazar cleared the cross bunkers, and his lengthy pitch spun again to eight ft beneath the outlet.
He clenched his fist when he noticed it drop for birdie. His first PGA Tour Champions victory got here 12 years after his lone win on the PGA Tour on the St. Jude Traditional.
“Feelings are all-time excessive proper now,” Frazar mentioned. “I am so blissful and so proud at what I’ve accomplished. This implies a bunch. You surprise for those who can actually do it. You surprise for those who’ve nonetheless received it. To see that putt go within the gap, gosh, what a sense.”
Stricker has been so dominant on the PGA Tour Champions, successful six instances and three majors, that he constructed a lead of just below $2 million going into the Charles Schwab Cup playoffs.
With just one,756,000 factors accessible during the last two occasions, Stricker leads Steven Alker by 1,909,065. Stricker plans to play no less than one of many subsequent two occasions.
The highest 54 gamers within the Schwab Cup standings advance to the subsequent playoff occasion in two weeks. 4 gamers moved into the highest 54 on Sunday – Shane Bertsch, John Huston, Rocco Mediate and Charlie Wi.
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