The 23-year-old, who became the fourth golfer in history to lead from start-to-finish and the first since Charlie Sifford in 1969, describes the joy of winning his second PGA Tour tournament which featured the top-10 golfers in the world.
A runaway Joaquin Niemann kept a third Genesis Invitational win out of reach but Adam Scott is confident a victory is close after posting another top-five finish at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
The putt didn’t have much in it, at least we thought. Turns out, it had a hair of right to left movement. Homa found this out in the most painful way imaginable:
Rip driver and go for the green? Fly the cross-bunkers that split the fairway and squeeze a 3-wood towards the front-left edge of the putting surface? Or lay right back with a mid-iron and trust your wedge game to make birdie?
It was the first such stoppage on the PGA Tour since the 2015 Open Championship at St Andrews and first in the US for the tour since the third round of the 2014 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
A decade and a half after Adam Scott “won” a truncated (and unofficial) 36-hole tournament here, the Aussie emerged as the last man standing on a frenetic Sunday at an unseasonably fiery Riviera.
The green surrounds and putting surfaces at Riviera are known for confounding tour pros each year at the Genesis Invitational. Perhaps nobody has quite suffered the fate of Ryan Palmer and his adventure in a greenside bunker at Riviera Country Club on Saturday.
Australian Golf Digest
