JACKSON, Miss. — Kevin Yu made a 15-foot birdie on the 18th gap for a 5-under 67, and he birdied it once more from 6 toes in a playoff to beat Beau Hossler and win the Sanderson Farms Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title.
Yu was practically forgotten for many of a remaining spherical that seemed to be a duel between Hossler and Keith Mitchell till the 26-year-old from Taiwan made a birdie to tie them for the lead.
Hossler pulled his drive on the 18th in regulation behind a tree, needed to pitch out and hit his third shot to 4 toes to save lots of par. Mitchell had a 35-foot birdie putt to win it and it grazed the left fringe of the cup. However he missed the 4-foot comebacker for par, shot 70 and missed the playoff.
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Mitchell tied for third with former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover, who performed the final six holes in 5 beneath par — together with pitching in for eagle on the par-4 fifteenth — for a 66.
Hossler once more was left off the tee on the 18th within the playoff. Yu hit first and despatched his method to six toes proper of the opening. Hossler needed to punch beneath the bushes, and it turned an excessive amount of and went right into a entrance bunker. He blasted out to 2 toes to safe par.
Yu hit his successful putt, a victory that sends him to the Masters and the PGA Championship for the primary time. He additionally will begin his season at Kapalua for The Sentry, a gathering of PGA Tour winners in 2024.
“I’ve been dreaming this second since I used to be 5,” Yu mentioned. “That is the dream for all golfers, to win on the PGA Tour. I did it right this moment. I’m grateful for my mother and father. With out them, I couldn’t have finished that.”
Yu and Hossler, who shot a 68, completed at 23-under 265.
Hossler requested 3 times for TIO in his remaining two holes, and regardless of be granted the final, he was upended by Kevin Yu in extras.
This was Hossler’s 2 hundredth begin on the PGA Tour with out ever successful — 4 of them as an beginner — and it was as shut as any. He fell again with a pair of bogeys early on the again 9 as he tried to maintain tempo with Mitchell, and he pulled right into a share of the lead with a 20-foot birdie on the seventeenth gap.
However he by no means gave himself a very good look on the 18th or within the playoff.
“Although I didn’t have my finest stuff on the again 9 I grinded actually arduous,” Hossler mentioned “Hit some actually high quality photographs beneath the gun, and that’s all you are able to do. Clearly, Kevin performed an exquisite gap within the playoff.”
Mitchell may need essentially the most regrets in quest of his first win in 5 years. He was two photographs forward with 5 to play when he did not birdie the par-5 14th or the reachable par-4 fifteenth. He nonetheless had a putt to win, and that’s the place all of it went fallacious with a three-putt bogey.
“The primary putt really appeared good off the face. Proper when it missed, I sort of turned my head and didn’t watch the learn on the best way by,” Mitchell mentioned. “I assumed it was breaking — guess it broke left. It was going to interrupt proper again up the hill.”
He performed the 4-foot par putt contained in the left edge and it stayed out to the left.
“I hate that I completed with a three-putt,” Mitchell mentioned. “Felt like I grinded all the best way to the top and gave the primary putt a very good likelihood.”
