American Jordan Spieth, 20th in the world ranking, beat his compatriot Patrick Cantlay in the tiebreaker at the PGA Tour RBC Heritage golf tournament, played at the Harbor Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina (USA).
Spieth (69 68 68 66), reached the tiebreaker after finishing the last round with 66 hits, 271 accumulated, by presenting a card with two eagles (holes 2 and 5, both par five) and three birdies for two bogeys, to end up winning the tournament in the hole 18 in which he achieved par to break the tables with Cantlay, sixth in the world ranking (66 67 70 68), which needed one more hit.
One stroke behind the champion, in third position, seven golfers qualified, including the Australian Cam Davis (69 73 67 63) who left the course with 8 accumulated birdies and no errors, which earned him the best card of the round and access to the podium.
A double bogey on the 14th hole prevented Irishman Shane Lowry (66 72 65 69) from playing the tiebreaker and stay in that third position in which the Americans JT Poston (68 72 68 64), Cameron Young (63 73 70 66), Matt Kuchar (68 69 67 68) and Harold Varner III (67 72 63 70) also finished, in addition to the Viennese Josef Straka (66 71 67 68).
The Chilean Joaquín Neimann (65 72 69 69), with 275 hits, four hits from the head, was finally classified in twelfth placewhile his compatriot Mito Pereira (66 71 69), with 277 accumulated, finished twenty-sixth.
The tournament has distributed 8 million dollars in prizes, 1,278,000 for the winner and 500 FedExCup points.
