Harry Hall closed with a 69 to reach 22-under and enter a five-way playoff at the ISCO Championship where he chipped in from 45’ 6” for a birdie-2 on the third extra hole (No. 9) to win.
“Before I chipped that, I was thinking Phil Rowe would love for me to win a PGA Tour event by chipping it in. He was my coach in college. Just walking up to that chip I was thinking about him.”
This is the Englishman’s first PGA Tour victory in his 58th start, his previous best finish was T3 at the 2023 Charles Schwab Challenge.
“I’m really happy actually because I turned pro in 2019, played the Walker Cup and got a couple of exemptions over there. I was scheduled to go to the Hero Indian Open and COVID happened and it kept me kind of in the US I had conditional status on the Korn Ferry Tour and I haven’t really been able to play over there since. It’s been a while, but hopefully this gets me into some of the Signature Events back in the UK that I can go and play in front of a home crowd. That would be really nice.”
Americans Matt NeSmith and Zac Blair both closed with 64s and while NeSmith parred the first two extra holes before losing the playoff, Blair bogeyed the first and was eliminated.
Rico Hoey of the Philippines carded a 69 and also bogeyed the first extra hole.
Pierceson Coody finished runner-up after entering the final round attempting to become the first PGA Tour rookie to win wire-to-wire (no ties) since Tim Herron at the 1996 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches.
The American closed with a 70 to enter the playoff where he parred the first two extra holes.
American Neal Shipley, the low amateur at the Masters Tournament and US Open in 2024, picks up his first top-10 in his third professional start by finishing T6 after closing with a 70.
Fellow American Luke Clanton finishes T37 at 13-under in bid to become the first amateur with three consecutive top-10s on Tour since Ken Venturi in 1956.
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