Horschel Wins Memorial – VnExpress Sports
AmericaBilly Horschel finished first at -13, holding $2.16 million at the PGA Tour on par72 in Dublin Ohio, although he could not earn more points in the final round, on June 5.
Horschel hit the ball in the second hole of the last round of Memorial on June 5. Image: AP
Memorial has been held annually since 1976, at Muirfield Village Golf Club, hosted by the legendary Jack Nicklaus.milkshake specialties“The pitch is also designed by Nicklaus, par72 type.
Last period, Horschel did not bogey after the 10th hole, round 1, finished three rounds with a -13 point and a five-stroke advantage over T2 – Aaron Wise and Cameron Smith. Horschel is wide open to win, but the history of the tournament still has a player coming upstream to succeed from that gap – KJ Choi in 2007.
However, the 35-year-old American golfer did not miss the opportunity to win his seventh championship on the PGA Tour, after 12 years of playing professionally.
Round 4, Horschel and Wise in the last group, going from hole 1, one hole behind Smith. And after a series of 49 holes, Horschel only had a bogey, at hole 6 and down -12. At that time, Wise was at -9, Smith was at -3 after a double bogey on the 7th hole.
On the 10th hole, Horschel took the first birdie in the finish line. However, a bogey on the 12th hole left him with a two-stroke lead for Wise. Finishing hole 14, Horschel is still -12 but the advantage is one step higher thanks to Wise bogey. On hole 15, Wise birdie closes the hole, Horschel goes on the green for the second shot, the ball is 16.7 meters from target. But from then on, Horschel still pushed in to get the eagle.
Horschel slipped from 16.7m to score eale.
After closing the hole, Horschel went -14, leading Wise by four strokes. For the remaining three holes, he scored par-bogey-par in turn to determine the -13th victory milestone at this year’s Memorial, while Wise bogey 18 holes and finished second at -9 points, receiving $ 1.308 million.
Smith started from the 7th hole, adding a double bogey on the 9, bogey on the 17th. Even so, he kept the final score at -3 thanks to the eagle on the 15th hole like Horschel. Smith finished T13.
Before Memorial this year, Horschel had only won six times on the PGA Tour, adding the 2014 FedEx Cup, including the most recent victory at the WGC-Dell Match Play in March 2021. In the same year, he also won first place on the European Tour (now changed to DP World Tour). All the previous cup lifting, his wife – Brittany never witnessed with her own eyes.
Wife and three children on the 18th green to congratulate after Horschel won. Image: Golf Digest
“She was afraid of bad luck, so she never wanted to go to the field when I had a chance to win,” Horschel joked during the Memorial award ceremony. Yesterday, Brittany and her three children rushed to the green on the 18th hole to congratulate Horschel.
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