JACKSON, Mich. — Stephen Fisk mentioned he is not going to get in the way in which of his first PGA Tour victory and closed at an 8-under 64 to win the Sanderson Farms Championship on Sunday’s last three holes.
South Africa’s Fisk and Garrick Higggo lastly separated themselves within the closure gap of the nation membership in Jackson, and so they held fairly a present.
They had been tied up when Fisk missed a 5-foot birdie putt on the reachable par 4 on the fifteenth. It turned out to be his final mistake.
He stopped a 40-foot birdie putt on the sixteenth, and Higugo mentioned he heard somebody within the crowd say, “Take it, Higugo.” South Africa responded along with his personal 12-foot birdie (fourth consecutive within the again 9), and playfully positioned his fingers on his lips with a smile.
Fisk danced across the cup and hit a relaxed wedge 17 ft away. Higugo replied once more with a wedge simply exterior three ft. It regarded prefer it was descending onto the wire, besides Higugo’s brief birdie putt caught her left lip.
Fisk pulled one first with a birdie and there was little question in his 4-foot strategy to win the ultimate birdie with two pictures at Higugo.
“I got here out at the moment with the angle that there is nothing to cease me,” Fisk mentioned in an interview with Golf Channel on the 18th Inexperienced. “I felt like I used to be standing right here proper now earlier than the spherical started. I do know it is ok. I believed I may do this.”
And he completed 24 beneath 264, bringing the nice advantages of the 28-year-old, taking part in faculty golf at Georgia Southern and taking part in for Royal Liverpool’s staff within the 2019 Walker Cup staff.
Fisk was ranked one hundred and thirty fifth within the FedEx Cup and was as a result of return on the Korn Ferry Tour except he constructed the bottom for the remaining two months of the Fall Collection. Solely the highest 100 on the finish of the season holds the complete card.
He’s at the moment providing a two-year exemption till 2027.
“Having work security is fairly nice,” Fisk mentioned. “It was an extended and troublesome 12 months.”
Higugo appeared to have come out of the combination with a bogey bogey begin to the again 9. However then he ran via 4 straight birdies to catch Fisk, able to make it 5 in a row till a short mistake on the seventeenth was sacrificed to him.
“My thought was to birdie each gap,” Higugo mentioned. “I nearly did that. Stephen did the identical and I put a hat on him.”
Danny Walker took the lead early within the again 9, however he hit it within the water in the direction of the inexperienced on the par 5 eleventh, making a bogey and ran left to the hazard that led to a different bogey on the seventeenth. He shot 69 and was tied to 3rd place with Vince Whaley (67) and Rasmus Hojgaard of Ryder Cup Participant.
All three of those gamers gained a small comfort award. Hojgaard was in 87th place within the FedEx Cup, so he left the Ryder Cup celebration in New York, Mississippi. He moved 12 spots to seventy fifth.
The opposite two moved up 18 spots.
“If potential, that 100 quantity will not be too irritating,” mentioned Walker, who missed the lower within the eight straight tournaments which can be getting into the Sanderson Farms Championship. “You may truly play to win, and that makes you are feeling a lot better.”
Hojgaard, Whaley and Walker had been amongst these heading to Japan for Baycurrent Traditional, the one PGA tour cease in Asia this 12 months.
