51-year-old Davis Love III wins the Wyndham Championship
Score a big one for the old guys.
Davis Love III became the third-oldest PGA Tour winner ever on Sunday, taking the Wyndham Championship for his 21st career victory. Love’s final-round, 6-under 64 was good enough to set up a one-shot win over 54-hole leader Jason Gore with a 17-under 263 total.
Love made his hay on the front nine, playing hole Nos. 2-6 at Sedgefield Country Club in 6 under par, including an eagle at the par-5 fifth. Love’s back nine was quiet — that is, other than another eagle 3, this time at the par-5 15th.
In the house some 45 minutes before the lead group, Love had a long wait to see if one of the seven groups in front of him could catch or pass him. No one did.
With the win, Love becomes the oldest sitting Ryder Cup captain to win on the PGA Tour. He also joins Sam Snead as the second 50-plus man to win in Greensboro. Snead won this event for the eighth and final time in 1965 at nearly 53 years old.
Behind the runner-up Gore were three players tied for third place at 15 under: Charl Schwartzel, Paul Casey and Scott Brown.
Tiger Woods, who entered the final round just two shots behind Gore, shot even-par 70 to finish in a tie for 10th place, undone by a triple-bogey 7 at the 11th hole. Entering the week, Woods, at a minimum, needed a solo second-place finish to have a chance to make the top 125 in FedEx Cup points and get into the playoffs. In the end, he would have needed a win.
However, Love did play his way into the FedEx Cup playoffs, jumping up 110 spots into 76th position, assuring him a spot in the first leg of the playoffs at The Barclays next week and in the second leg at the Deutsche Bank Championship over Labor Day weekend. Gore also catapulted himself into the playoffs, along with three other players (Jonas Blixt, Camilo Villegas, Ryo Ishikawa).
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