Camilo Villegas ends nine year drought

Butterfield Bermuda Championship R4

Camilo Villegas closed with a bogey-free 65 on Sunday to win the Butterfield Bermuda Championship at 24-under, his fifth PGA Tour victory in his 388th start but the first since the 2014 Wyndham Championship 9 years, 2 months, 26 days (or 3,374 days) ago.

“Wow, it’s unbelievable to be honest. It feels unbelievable. Nine years, nine years where you kind of stop believing at times, but I never stopped waking up early and putting in the work.

“Life is interesting, it goes up and down both on the personal side and on the professional side. Just got to keep a path and you’ve got to keep your mind where it needs to be. Like I said, I’m a hard worker, I love working, I love having a purpose every morning and that’s kind of what I did.

“At the beginning of the year things were not going great, it was time to do a little swing change. I’ve never been too excited about big swing changes, but I trusted the guy I started working with, Jose Campra, and he told me he needed a year. I’m glad it took less than that, here we are.

“I was signing up for second stage of Q-School next week after a tough year. With my play last week finishing second in Mexico, I didn’t have to play second stage, but I was probably going to go play finals and here we are, fifth win on Tour.”

His 260 total ties the 72-hole tournament scoring record and his win earns him a two-year exemption and returns to the Masters and PGA Championship for the first time since 2015.

“I never felt so comfortable being in contention like I did the last couple weeks, to be honest. It’s kind of weird, it’s kind of strange. Even when I was in contention back in the day, yeah, a few years ago, 10 or more, I didn’t have this calmness. I’ve got to really analyze what happened the last couple weeks, try to replicate more often.

“I had a great time with my caddie and we tried to save a lot of energy, and how did we try to save energy was by not being so focused the whole time, just getting in and out and really going through my routine very, very specific and then coming out and just kind of relaxing and having a good time: I was really good at reacting to the missed putts or the lip-outs or anything, which I’m not used to being like that.

“Yeah, there was a calmness in me that I need to analyze and I need to try to keep, try to do it more often because obviously you saw the results and they were pretty good.

He is the second player from Colombia to win on TOUR this season, joining Nico Echavarria at the Puerto Rico Open.

Sweden’s Alex Noren who had led after all three first rounds shot a 68 featuring five birdies and two bogeys to finish second at 22-under.

Germany’s Matti Schmid carded a 67 to finish third at 21-under, his career-best finish in his 35th start on Tour.

China’s Carl Yuan finished fifth at 19-under after closing with a 67.

Pos.PlayerTo ParR1R2R3R4Total
1Camilo Villegas-2467636565260
2Alex Noren-2261666768262
3Matti Schmid-2164676567263
4Carl Yuan-2070636566264
T5Adam Scott-1965676667265
T5Ryan Moore-1965646769265
7Stewart Cink-1864676669266
T8Tyson Alexander-1768676864267
T8Kevin Roy-1764706865267
T8Ryan Palmer-1767686666267
T8Taylor Pendrith-1765686668267
T8Vince Whaley-1763706569267
T13Fred Biondi-1668647165268
T13Austin Cook-1668666866268
T13Doc Redman-1665667067268
T13David Lipsky-1667666768268
T13Satoshi Kodaira-1664656970268
T13Adam Long-1666686569268
T13Kramer Hickok-1667656670268
T20Luke List-1569686666269
T20Brendon Todd-1565667068269
T20Akshay Bhatia-1565667068269
T20Mark Hubbard-1568656868269
T20Justin Lower-1567676768269
T20D.A. Points-1564676969269
T20Ryan Brehm-1564657169269
T27Scott Piercy-1468666868270
T27Robert Garrigus-1463726768270
T27Ben Martin-1465706669270
T30Kyle Stanley-1368696767271
T30Brice Garnett-1369686866271
T30Brandon Wu-1368686669271
T30Kevin Yu-1371637265271
T30Lucas Herbert-1366716470271
T30Alex Smalley-1368696965271
T30Dylan Wu-1363696772271
T37Brian Stuard-1270647068272
T37Kyle Westmoreland-1265696969272
T37Ben Griffin-1271636969272
T37Sean O'Hair-1268686670272
T37Wesley Bryan-1273646867272
T37Brian Gay-1267686770272
T37Peter Malnati-1271666471272
T37Patton Kizzire-1269666671272
T45Charley Hoffman-1165697069273
T45Cody Gribble-1169647169273
T45Andrew Novak-1167706769273
T45Andrew Landry-1166697068273
T45Kevin Chappell-1169667167273
T45Nick Hardy-1168687067273
T45Davis Riley-1164686873273
T45Lucas Glover-1170657365273
T53Kelly Kraft-1065687269274
T53Matthias Schwab-1067677268274
T53Max McGreevy-1070657168274
T53Ryan Armour-1066716968274
T53Lanto Griffin-1070677067274
T53Peter Kuest-1068677366274
T59Martin Laird-967696970275
T59D.J. Trahan-963707270275
T59Austin Smotherman-964686974275
T59William McGirt-970677068275
T63Augusto Núñez-869686871276
T63Greg Koch-866716970276
T65Robert Streb-767706971277
T65Zecheng Dou-769677269277
T65Martin Contini-773647169277
T65Ted Potter, Jr.-770677268277
T69George Bryan, IV-669686972278
T69Richy Werenski-672656972278
T69Ryan Gerard-664727567278
T72S.Y. Noh-569686973279
T72Troy Merritt-569677172279
T72Cameron Percy-572647370279
T72Jim Herman-569687270279
T76Russell Knox-467677175280
T76Kevin Stadler-465726974280
T76Nico Echavarria-466707272280
T76David Lingmerth-468667571280
80Nick Watney-268677473282
81Martin Trainer-170677670283
CUTArjun Atwal-47167--138
CUTHarry Hall-46969--138
CUTRicky Barnes-46969--138
CUTSam Bennett-46870--138
CUTC.T. Pan-46870--138
CUTDoug Ghim-47068--138
CUTFabián Gómez-46870--138
CUTChris Stroud-46870--138
CUTJason Dufner-47167--138
CUTScott Brown-46969--138
CUTBrent Grant-46969--138
CUTPaul Haley II-36772--139
CUTTrevor Cone-37069--139
CUTNick Dunlap(a)-36871--139
CUTAndy Zhang-36871--139
CUTThomas Detry-37267--139
CUTMichael Gligic-37168--139
CUTKyle Wilshire-36871--139
CUTHenrik Norlander-26971--140
CUTSung Kang-27268--140
CUTChase Johnson-26971--140
CUTHarrison Endycott-17170--141
CUTBrian Davis-16972--141
CUTTrevor Werbylo-17071--141
CUTTommy Gainey-16675--141
CUTJonathan Byrd-16972--141
CUTScott Harrington-17071--141
CUTMJ DaffuePar7072--142
CUTChris BakerPar7270--142
CUTKevin TwayPar6973--142
CUTRichard S. JohnsonPar7468--142
CUTHank LebiodaPar6973--142
CUTOmar UrestiPar7369--142
CUTBen CranePar7072--142
CUTDylan FrittelliPar6973--142
CUTGeorge McNeillPar7072--142
CUTTano GoyaPar6874--142
CUTJimmy Walker+17469--143
CUTMichael Sims+17370--143
CUTJeff Overton+16974--143
CUTDavid Hearn+17469--143
CUTDerek Ernst+17370--143
CUTBo Van Pelt+47175--146
CUTHarry Higgs+57572--147
CUTOliver Betschart(a)+67375--148
CUTJonas Blixt+67573--148
CUTGreg Chalmers+67771--148
CUTDerek Lamely+77277--149
CUTScott Roy+117776--153
CUTDanny Guise+116885--153
CUTEric West(a)+157780--157
Updated: November 13, 2023
Butterfield Bermuda Championship 2023
Date: 9th November - 12th November, 2023
Location: Port Royal Golf Course, Southampton, Bermuda
Purse: $6,500,000

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