Finau wins Northern Trust

Finau and Smith both scored -20 after 72 standard holes, on Liberty National, par71. Therefore, the two brothers had to play a playoff (sub-hole) to determine the final title, at hole 18, par4.

Here, Finau plays down the middle of the fairway while Smith goes out of bounds (OB).

At this point, the competition is considered over because Smith is penalized a stroke that must be replayed – the third.

Finau hits the green on his second shot and two putts hold par. After the shot, he looked up to the sky, constantly puffing his puffy cheeks as if he was releasing a psychological burden.

“I used all my skills with the spirit of fighting to the end to win this victory,” Finau said on the radio CBS.

Smith finished second, receiving $ 1,035 million.

In the last round, Finau was one hole ahead of Smith. Smith started the last round with world number one golfer Jon Rahm. At the start, Smith and Rahm were at T1 at -16, two strokes from Finau.

Finau went into the game to -16 with a birdie on the 12th hole and then broke through with an eagle-birdie-par-birdie in the 13-16. After holding par on both last holes, Finau finished first with a score of -20.

Rahm reached this level after hole 13. But from then to the end of the round, he lost two points by bogey holes 15 and 18. Both holes, Rahm hit the fairway bunker. Rahm finished third with a score of -18, receiving $655,500.

Smith “break even” in the first half of the course because two birdies offset a double bogey. Nine holes later, the Australian player scored four birdies and no bogey. He hit the -20 point when he finished the 17th hole. On the last green on the second shot, but the ball was seven meters away, so Smith couldn’t score the crowned birdie.

The tournament was one day behind schedule because of storm Henri making landfall on the morning of August 22, New York time, 11 hours after Hanoi.

Finau was born in 1989, played professionally since the age of 18. With the recent Northern Trust, the American golfer won the championship for the second time, and ended five years of thirst for the PGA Tour title and lifted the “Coco Beach curse” on his career. This event has been on the PGA Tour calendar since 2008, but by the beginning of 2020, there has been no record of a champion holding a PGA Tour trophy.

Finau won first place on the PGA Tour for the first time at the Puerto Rico Open at Coco Beach & Country Club in 2016. After this victory, he finished second eight times, including three play-off losses and 11 occasions to finish in the top three through 142 events. . With a bonus at the Northern Trust, Finau surpassed the $ 25 million mark in income from the US first-class golf arena.

Quoc Huy