PGA Tour: At the Charles Schwab Challenge, Emiliano Grillo defeated Adam Schenk in a double-hole playoff to win his second PGA Tour championship. On Sunday in Texas, English golfer Harry Hall tied for third place.
At Colonial, the Argentine had a two-stroke lead and appeared to be headed for victory, but the 30-year-old made a dramatic double-bogey on the final hole, giving Schenk the chance to get back into contention and attempt to win his first PGA Tour championship.
On the last hole, Grillo hit his drive into a little stream, sending the ball back about 100 yards before coming to a halt on a boulder.
He chose to play with the penalty and made a two-putt from 20 yards to tie Schenk for the lead at eight under.
English PGA Tour rookie Hall, who had at least a share of the lead after each of the previous three rounds, required a par to qualify for the playoff while Schenk made par on the last hole.
After driving into the water on the last hole, Hall made a bogey to tie for third place with fellow American Scott Scheffler, who had a 67 that included the second ace of his PGA Tour career.
Grillo won the tournament with a five-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole to earn his first tour victory in more than seven years. He finished the tournament on eight-under with a final-day score of 68.
“I made a double on 18 [Sunday] and honestly I didn’t care,” remarked Grillo. Naturally, I would have like to make the putt on the 72nd hole, but I was able to finish with two excellent birdies on 16 and some beautiful swings there on 18.
Grillo started to climb the leaderboard over his eventful front nine, making four birdies and two bogeys. Before his risky double bogey, he scored birdies at holes 12 and 16, the latter with a putt that was about 20 feet long. This brought him to 10 under.
Schenk, who opened the competition with rounds of 66-67-67, recorded three bogeys in his opening 13 holes before recording his first birdie of the day at the par-three 16th.
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