![]() Yeah, this is golf and sometimes you’ll get your good rewards, sometimes it’s not great, but I’m just happy with the way I played.”ĭavis missed from six feet for the win at 18, the first of his five attempts to claim his debut victory. ![]() Then I couldn’t make a putt on 17 and 18. “I know that I could have closed the tournament pretty early on the par 5, on 14. “It’s hard to be standing here knowing that there is a playoff going on right now,” said Niemann, who had been 17-for-17 in scrambling until failing to get up and down from over the green. Niemann, who played 72 holes bogey-free, made a bogey from the fairway when the trio returned to 18 for the first playoff hole. But Niemann birdied two of the last three hole to shoot 68 and join Davis and Merritt, who birdied four of the last six in regulation at 18-under 270. The 26-year-old Sydney native followed up his dramatic eagle at 17 with an approach that danced to a stop six feet from the hole and drilled the putt to shoot 5-under 67 and grab the clubhouse lead at 18-under 270.įor much of the final round, it seemed as if any of a dozen players could win as Niemann and Merritt, the 54-hole co-leaders were stuck in neutral most of the day. Rocket Mortgage Classic: Leaderboard | PhotosĬLUTCH. 2) and Stephanie Kyriacou (the Big Green Open in the Netherlands on the Ladies European Tour). On a hot and hazy Independence Day in the Motor City, Davis made a par on the fifth extra hole to outlast Troy Merritt and Joaquin Niemann to earn his first PGA Tour title.ĭavis capped off a remarkable day for Australian golf, joining victorious fellow countrymen Lucas Herbert (Irish Open on the European Tour), Louis Dobelaar (North & South Amateur at Pinehurst No. I’ve hit a lot of good ones this week and that one just came off pretty nicely.” “To be honest, in my head there wasn’t a thought of trying to hole it, I was just trying to pick my spot and just hit another good bunker shot. “It’s the only reason I’m sitting here now,” he said in his winner’s press conference of the 60-degree wedge shot that hopped once, hit the flag flush and dropped.
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