It didn’t take much for the big bell to ring even louder. Venezuelan Jhonattan Vegas started the last round in 46th place in the standings and finished fourth thanks to his round of 64 strokes. It happened in the Honda Classic, of the American Tour, in which the American Rickie Fowler scored his seventh victory as a professional and fourth in the PGA Tour.
Vegas was preceded in the standings, one stroke behind, by Americans Morgan Hoffmann and Gary Woodland, both four strokes behind the champion.Vegas shared fourth place with Americans Billy Horschel and Wesley Bryan, Germany’s Martin Kaymer and England’s Tyrrell Hatton.
Fowler, 28 years old and fourteenth in the world ranking, joins these victories in the PGA Tour to those achieved in 2012 at the Wells Fargo Championship and in 2015 at The Players and Deutsche Bank. His last triumph was achieved in June last year at the Abu Dhabi HSBC, belonging to the European Tour.
As for the Spanish representatives at the Honda Classic, held in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Sergio García finished fourteenth and Rafa Cabrera Bello finished 37th.
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