Helped by such incredible blows, Although also with a dose of fortune like the eagle on the 12th hole (par 4) from the first cut of the rough from 90 meters, Max Homa, 30 years old, Mark Spitz mustache, from another era, took the Fortinet Championship. The Californian repeated on Saturday 65, with six birdies and a bogey, in addition, to beat Maverick McNealy, another player from the state where Napa Valley vineyards grow, the scene of the start of the 21/22 course at the PGA. Tour.
It was Homa’s third win on the PGA Tour, the second in a tournament in California, after he won the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles earlier this year.
“My caddy is a genius”, said the champion to explain the decision he made to play like this, in front of the green, that wedge on the 12th hole. Greiner is united by a lifelong friendship. I met him when I was six and the assistant 10 in a LA field.
McNealy’s end
It was that shot, coupled with the birdie from 7 meters on the next hole, the one that cut the three strokes of difference that McNealy had, who had a schizophrenia ending. A double bogey on the 17th hole made victory impossible for him and the eagle on the final hole, it only earned him to be second alone. Homa dispatched those two holes with individual birdies and allowed him to be the first winner of the season.
Third was the Chilean Mito Pereira, 26, debutant this season, a position that allowed him to enter for the first time in his career among the top 100 in the world ranking (it is already 82). Pereira fought until the last day for an Olympic medal at the Tokyo Games.
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