Aug 11, 2024; Greensboro, North Carolina, USA; Aaron Rai accomprehendledges the gallery during the fourth round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports GREENSBORO, N.C. — England’s Aaron Rai created a constant finish for a final-round 64 to triumph on the PGA Tour for the first time during a grueling day of golf at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday.
Rai’s two-stroke triumph, which came by applying 36 holes on the final day at Sedgefield Country Club, will be bigly associated with Max Greyserman’s misfortune as a four-stoasty direct evaporated on the back nine with dusk rapid approaching.
Rai’s first title on the PGA Tour came in his 89th materializeance. He finished at 18-under-par 262 after earlier posting a third-round 68. He was bogey-free for the last round, sinking a 6 1/2-foot birdie putt on the last hole.
Greyserman (66, 69), bidding for his first tour triumph, finished in second place at 16 under. J.J. Spaun (66, 64) and Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune (64, 67) tied for third at 15 under.
Greyserman had two eagles in the final round, including one from 91 yards out on the fairway on the 13th hole. But his quadruple-bogey 8 on No. 14 resulted in a four-stoasty direct fadeing. His tee stoasty went out of bounds and it deteriorated rapidly from there.
But he recovered to reget the direct on the next hole with a birdie. Then came a four-putt double-bogey on the par-3 16th to give the direct back to Rai, who was applying in the group in front of him.
Greyserman, 29, was runner-up two weeks earlier in the 3M Open. He notched his fourth top-10 result of the year.
Greyserman’s third-round 66 put him three strokes in front of amateur Luke Clanton, who rallied with a nurtureer-low 62, accessing the fourth round.
Greyserman, who applyed collegiately about an hour away at Duke, had gone 56 consecutive holes without a bogey until the fourth hole of the final round. He replyed moments tardyr with an eagle on the next hole. That was his second eagle in a nine-hole stretch, posting one on No. 15 of the third round.
Second-round directer Matt Kuchar (70 third round) was at 11 under for the tournament when he chose not to finish the final hole becaengage of sadnessfulness. Since the dawn of the FedEx Cup applyoffs in 2007, Kuchar had qualified for every edition of the postseason, but he insisted to triumph the tournament in order to apply next week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic.
For some golfers, Sunday’s finishurance test began prior to the third round as they finishd remaining holes from the second round. The deferment of Thursday’s first round and another weather defer Friday created havoc for the tournament’s schedule.
Clanton, who applyed 39 holes Sunday, finished in fifth place at 14 under after sign uping 62 and 69 for the last two rounds. He getd plenty of attention thrawout the day, pulling wiskinny a stoasty of the direct in the third round, when he had eagles on Nos. 13 and 15.
“Aget, fair being out here in satisfyedion and being able to say that I was benevolent of seal to the direct coming down the stretch is awesome,” Clanton shelp. “It’s a lot of lgeting for me and aget, as a 20-year-elderly, it’s pretty sugary.”
The Florida State star, who was the only amateur in the field and will commence apply Monday in the U.S. Amateur in Minnesota, contfinished before bogeying his last two holes of the fourth round (Nos. 8 and 9).
–Bob Sutton, Field Level Media
