Venezuela’s Jhonattan Vegas, making a comeback from injury, buried a three-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to win for the first time in seven years to beat rookie Max Greyserman by a stroke to collect his fourth career victory.
While Lee Hodges had seemingly sucked most of the drama out of the last few holes of the 3M Open, his playing partner J.T. Poston provided plenty at the last possible moment.
It has probably been difficult for PGA Tour tournament directors to deny Aaron Baddeley a sponsor exemption this year. His letters had to have scored points for originality. And perhaps pulling at heartstrings. Especially considering he hasn’t been writing them.
Oosthuizen spoke to reporters at a press conference ahead of this week’s 3M Open, where he’s getting right back to competition. And he explained why he didn’t talk to any media after The Open’s final round.
Thompson won the old-school way with bag full of old and new Ping clubs, including a putter that he picked up at a municipal course when he was 16 nearly two decades ago.