Jake Knapp and Patty Tavatanakit made an eagle a the par-3 1st hole and remained bogey-free for a final-round 65 in modified four-ball format to win the Grant Thornton Invitational.<\/p>\n
“Great way to end the year before Christmas,” said Knapp. “I feel like in an event like this you never really know what your partner’s going to be like when you haven’t met ’em before and I feel like I couldn’t have gotten a better partner. I feel like we just got along perfectly energy was the same. It was a really, really fun week.<\/p>\n
“Kind of an inside joke between my caddie and I is like not really out there to have fun in my opinion. I treat it very much like a job and it’s like winning is fun. So I try to go out there and play the best I can. It’s not that I’m not trying to enjoy myself by any means, but I take golf very seriously and I expect a lot of myself.<\/p>\n
“So a week like this felt a little bit on the opposite end of the spectrum, like let’s just make sure we enjoy it. Don’t get to do this very often. It’s the first time meeting each other. You also just don’t want to give off that bad energy for your teammate. If you hit a bad shot, whatever it is.<\/p>\n
“Even when I hit a bad one, she was the first one patting me on the back. So it just made it very, very easy even when you’re making some mistakes and whatnot, just carry on and go about your business.”<\/p>\n