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Poston fires 8-under 62 to steal Wyndham Championship title

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J.T. Poston fired an 8-under 62 on Sunday to come from behind and win the Wyndham Championship for his first career PGA Tour title.

The 26-year-old North Carolina native entered the day three shots behind 54-hole leader Byeong Hun An but quickly erased the deficit by playing his first eight holes at 5-under, helped by an eagle on No. 5. He added three more birdies on the back nine to post a 22-under for the tournament.

Poston went bogey-free for the week at Sedgefield Country Club - a course located less than 100 miles from his hometown of Hickory, N.C. - to become the first player since Lee Trevino in 1974 to win a 72-hole PGA Tour event without bogeying, according to the 15th Club's Justin Ray.

An held a share of the lead after each round at Wyndham Championship but relinquished his spot at the top of the leaderboard with a 3-under 67 on Sunday. He bogeyed his final hole to drop into third place.

Webb Simpson birdied his final hole of the week to jump into a solo second-place finish. He's now been the runner-up in back-to-back years at the Wyndham Championship.

Here's how the top of the leaderboard finished:

Place Player To Par R4 Score
1 J.T. Poston -22 62
2 Webb Simpson -21 65
3 Byeong Hun An -20 67
4 Viktor Hovland -19 65
5 Si Woo Kim -17 64
T6 Josh Teater -16 64
T6 Billy Horschel -16 64
T6 Sungjae Im -16 65
T6 Brian Harman -16 66
T6 Rory Sabbatini -16 67
T6 Jason Kokrak -16 66
T6 Brice Garnett -16 70

Notables Paul Casey (15-under), Matthew Wolff (14-under), and Patrick Reed (13-under) finished outside of the top 10.

The Wyndham Championship marks the end of the PGA Tour's 2018-19 regular season. The Northern Trust kicks off the FedEx Cup Playoffs starting Aug. 8 at Liberty National in New Jersey.

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