Poston fires 8-under 62 to steal Wyndham Championship title
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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