PGA Tour: Spieth beats Cantlay in playoff
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. —
Jordan Spieth hit a 56-foot shot from a greenside bunker to 7 inches and beat Patrick Cantlay with the tap-in par putt on the primary gap of a playoff Sunday within the RBC Heritage.
Taking part in 4 teams forward of Cantlay, Spieth birdied Harbour City’s par-4 18th lighthouse gap in regulation, holing a 10-footer for a 5-under 66 and 13-under 271 whole. Cantlay parred the 18th in regulation for a 68.
When Spieth completed, he was a stroke behind Shane Lowry. However Lowry’s chip on the par-3 14th raced throughout the inexperienced and into the water, resulting in double bogey. He completed a stroke again after a 69.
Within the playoff, Cantlay additionally hit into the entrance bunker, together with his lie trying like a fried egg. He blasted 35 ft previous the cup and missed the par putt.
Three strokes behind Harold Varner III getting into the spherical, Spieth eagled each front-nine par 5s to get into the combo.
Spieth gained his thirteenth PGA Tour title and second straight on Easter Sunday after taking the Valero Texas Open a yr in the past to finish a four-year drought.
Subsequent Easter Sunday? The ultimate spherical of the Masters.
“That is good vibes,” mentioned Spieth, a three-time Masters champion.
Cam Davis (63) additionally was a stroke again with Varner (70), J.T. Poston (64), Cameron Younger (66), Sepp Straka (68), Matt Kuchar (68).
Spieth has gained from the bunker earlier than. He beat Daniel Berger with greenside bunker shot on first further gap on the 2017 Vacationers Championship.
Others apart from Cantlay, who missed a 15-footer for birdie on his 72nd gap, had an opportunity to catch Spieth. Straka tied Spieth at 13 underneath with a birdie on the seventeenth, then bogeyed the ultimate gap after his strategy discovered some gnarly lengthy grass in entrance of the inexperienced. Varner had birdie possibilities on every of his final 4 holes, but couldn’t convert any of them.
Spieth took off with the early eagles. On the second gap, he holed out from a greenside bunker. On the fifth gap, he reached the inexperienced in two and rolled in a 24-footer because the gallery erupted in cheers.
Spieth reached 13 underneath with a birdie on the eighth earlier than falling again to 11 underneath with bogeys on the ninth and eleventh. He moved into hanging place with a birdie on the thirteenth, then struck his strategy to the drama-filled lighthouse gap to 10 ft and posted at 13 underneath.
