Australian golf prodigy Karl Vilips has put himself in the box seat to win his first PGA Tour event after taking the 54-hole lead at the Puerto Rico Open in just his fourth career start.
For Garnett, 40, with little PGA Tour status and playing in his first tour event of the year, the victory was the second of his career, six years after his first.
Chalmers was already exempt into the Puerto Rico Open on the PGA Tour but, in typical Chalmers style, is instead embracing his new status as a rookie on tour.
A two-time winner on the Korn Ferry Tour, Brehm’s best previous finish on the PGA Tour happened to come at last year’s Puerto Rico Open, where he tied for 11th.
Branden Grace won his second PGA Tour title and first in nearly five years with a remarkable eagle-birdie finish courtesy of a pair of bunker shots the South African will long remember to capture the 2021 Puerto Rico Open.
It was an improbable victory, as they generally are for Martin Trainer, who has developed a pattern of playing along in virtual obscurity until someone hands him a trophy.
Only one World Golf Championship had eluded Dustin Johnson to this point in his career, but he erased that omission in his CV with a 1-up victory over a gallant Jon Rahm to claim the WGC–Dell Technologies Match Play in Texas.