His five-shot disadvantage with 18 holes to go made him and his enthusiastic and numerous fans hope to taste the sweetness of victory again, but in the end Tiger came up against the harsh reality and could not even disturb the players among whom he decided, in a playoff, the triumph. In the end it was Bryson DeChambeau, the player who makes his own peculiar clubs, who won over his two playoff rivals: the Korean Byeong Hu Han and the American Kyle Stanley. DeChambeau, of 24 years old, thus added its second victory professional a year after his debut at the 201 John Deere Classic.
Tiger not only did not come close to the top spots but, with a round of 72 strokes, he dropped sixteen places in the standings and finished twenty-third.
The performance of the Chilean Joaquin Niemann, who until three months ago was the world’s number one amateur, was remarkable, as he started Sunday second by one stroke, although he finished sixth. In spite of this, he added his third Top 10 of the season and received the glowing praise of Tiger Woods.
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