Clutch birdie gives Grille Web.com title
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo made a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday to win the Web.com Tour Finals-ending Web.com Tour Championship.
The 23-year-old Grillo beat Chez Reavie by a stroke in the last of the four events that replaced PGA Tour qualifying school, finishing with a 1-under 69 for a 14-under 266 total on TPC Sawgrass’ Dye’s Valley Course. Reavie had a chance to force a playoff, but missed a 15-foot birdie putt. He shot a 68.
The series featured the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings and nonmembers such as Grillo who earned enough money to have placed in the top 200 had they been eligible. The top 25 players on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list earned PGA Tour cards. They were competing against each other for tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals. The other players were competing for 25 cards based on series earnings.
Grillo earned $180,000 for the victory to finish second on the series money list with $283,667. He lost a playoff in March in the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open.
Reavie, the winner of the second event in the series, made $108,000 to top the list with $323,067. The 2008 Canadian Open winner finished 166th in the FedEx Cup.
Reavie and Patton Kizzire, the Web.com Tour’s combined money leader with $518,241, earned full tour exemptions and spots in the Players Championship. Kizzire closed with a 67 to tie for fifth at 10 under.
Sam Saunders was third at 12 under after a 67. Saunders, Arnold Palmer’s grandson, was sixth on the series list with $114,950 after finishing 137th in the FedEx Cup.
Olesen wins Dunhill: Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, closing with a 1-under 71 for a two-stroke victory.
Olesen had a double bogey on the second hole and a bogey on the third but recovered to finish at 18-under 270. He has three European Tour titles.
American Brooks Koepka and Chris Stroud tied for second. Koepka had a 67, and Stroud shot 68.