Davis Thompson made the John Deere Basic his first PGA Tour win.
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Through the remaining spherical of the John Deere Basic on Sunday, 2018 winner and PGA Tour Twitter king Michael Kim, as he does so typically throughout occasions, took to Twitter.
However this time, it was a private plea.
“Settle down Davis, no want to interrupt the event scoring file of something,” Kim wrote.
Again in 2018, for his first and solely PGA Tour title, Kim set the John Deere Basic scoring file with a 27-under 257 whole for 4 days.
Davis Thompson didn’t take Kim’s needs under consideration.
Beginning the day up by two after a glowing 62 Saturday, Thompson saved his foot on the gasoline, making birdie on 5 of his first six holes, together with making a 44-footer on the 1st, after which including yet one more to show in 29. He tallied two extra birdies on the again 9 to succeed in 28 below, besting Kim’s file at taking the John Deere Basic for his first PGA Tour victory.
“I’ve been working laborious this 12 months,” Thompson stated. “It was okay for some time then I sort of received going this final month and performed nicely final week. Simply tried to maintain it rolling this week; was in a position to get the win.”
The 25-year-old will get his breakthrough win in simply his second season on Tour and simply after his second profession runner-up only a week in the past in Detroit. Thompson’s recreation had been trending upward because the U.S. Open the place he earned his first top-10 and first made lower in a significant.
He credited the development to a brand new set of irons inserted only a few weeks earlier than on the CJ Cup.
However his total recreation was dialed within the Quad Cities as he performed the primary 27 holes of the weekend in 15 below par to grab a seven-shot lead as he began his again 9 Sunday.
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He birdied the tenth gap to briefly convey within the potential of a second 59 this week at TPC Deere Run, however a hiccup and a missed inexperienced on the par-3 twelfth led to a bogey and shortly put that concept to relaxation.
Then celebrity rookie Michael Thorbjornsen, making simply his third PGA Tour begin as a professional, completed off a run of six straight birdies to tug inside three pictures.
However immediately, Thorbjornsen bogeyed his subsequent gap, the drivable par-4 14th and two teams later, Thompson got here to the tee and blocked it subsequent to the cart path proper of the inexperienced. Dealing with a troublesome downhill pitch shot, Thompson had a deft contact as he flew his ball onto the inexperienced and rolled it to inside three ft of the outlet. Any doubt was ended.
“After which the pitch shot on 14 actually sort of — nonetheless attempt not to consider the golf event, however, yeah, the pitch shot on 14 actually helped issues,” he stated.
In his typical style, he didn’t crack a smile.
From there, Thompson parred in his final 4 holes for a 64, the win and the file.
His win additionally continues a enjoyable development of the winner of the John Deere Basic coming from the identical rental home shared by six professionals for the week of the event. Thompson even stayed in the identical room defending champion Sepp Straka was in final 12 months. It’s now three wins in a row for the John Deere Basic’s “Champion Home.”
As is custom, Thompson now has to pay for the home for everybody who stayed there this week.
“I’ll gladly write the examine for that,” Thompson joked afterward.
As an added bonus for the week, Thompson’s win will get him into the Open Championship as the highest two gamers this week earned a spot at Royal Troon. He’ll make his first begin in that occasion in two weeks. The opposite spot went to C.T. Pan because the highest-ranked participant tied for second.
