JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Tommy Gainey took the lead by stopping an extended Eagle putt from the Inexperienced on the thirteenth of the par 5, and he closed at 6 beneath 66 for a two-shot victory on the constellation Furic & Pals.
Gainey, 50, needed to move the qualifying spherical simply to enter the sphere at Tim Kuana Nation Membership. He began his closing spherical 4 shot behind Matt Gogel, then pulled away in the midst of the again 9 to cease Australia’s Cameron Percy.
Percy was one shot when he was tricked right into a 15-foot birdie probability on the par seventeenth. He missed one other birdie probability from 15 ft on the ultimate gap, with Gainey rolling on a 6 ft birdie putt to complete at 202 beneath.
Gainey has had 4 qualifying rounds this yr on Monday. He’s at the moment exempt and has moved to thirty seventh within the Charles Schwab Cup standings.
“I crushed it for a very long time, and ultimately I can say that my crushing and arduous work paid off,” Gainey mentioned. “Man, your weight has been lifted off my shoulders.”
Gogel shot 75 and completed third within the group that included European vice captains Vijay Singh and Thomas Bjorn in final week’s Ryder Cup victory.
This was his closing yr at Tim Cuana, the favored Donald Ross design. The event will journey to Ocean Hammock 60 miles south subsequent yr.
