{"id":368116,"date":"2025-12-24T04:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T04:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368116\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T04:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T04:33:15","slug":"matt-kuchar-and-son-cameron-post-an-18-under-54-to-win-the-pnc-championship-by-a-record-seven-strokes-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368116\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Kuchar and son Cameron post an 18-under 54, to win the PNC Championship by a record seven strokes \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Photo: Mike Ehrmann]<\/p>\n

The PNC Championship concluded what frequently is called the silly season, but silliness gave way to seriously impressive, the performance delivered by the winners, Matt Kuchar and his son Cameron.<\/p>\n

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The Kuchars took a two-stroke lead into the second and final round at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, played the first seven holes in eight-under in the two-man scramble format and cruised to a record seven-stroke victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cHit it close, make putts,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cI was lucky today. I just putted really, really well, and when I missed my dad would back me up.\u201d<\/p>\n

They posted an 18-under par 54 for a 36-hole total of 33-under 111, a tournament record. Their round included a tap-in eagle on the par-5 18th hole following a brilliant second shot by Matt, who got emotional walking up the fairway. He was thinking about his father Peter Kuchar, a ubiquitous presence in Matt\u2019s career, who died suddenly last February.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly tough for me,\u201d Matt said. \u201cDad is missed. I definitely got very emotional coming in, thinking about this moment and how much it would mean to dad if he were here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis Love III and his son Dru and John Daly and his son John Daly II tied for second. Steve Stricker and daughter Izzi tied for third, along with Nelly Korda and her father Petr.<\/p>\n

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The Kuchars\u2019 performance was not necessarily surprising. Matt, at 47, remains competitive on the PGA Tour, making the cut in 16 of 18 starts, finishing in the top 20 in five of them, with one top 10.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, son Cameron, 18, has a handicap index of plus-3.5 at the Bear\u2019s Club near their home in Jupiter, Florida. He ranks 24th in the Rolex American Junior Golf Association rankings, and already has committed to playing college golf at Texas Christian University next year.<\/p>\n

When play began on the final day, they led the Dalys by two strokes, then delivered six birdies and an eagle on the first seven holes. After a par on the eighth hole, they birdied three in a row and five of the next six to open a five-stroke lead with four holes left.<\/p>\n

Their total of 33-under shattered the previous scoring record of 28-under, jointly held by Bernhard Langer and son Jason and Tiger Woods and son Charlie. The Langers defeated the Woods in a playoff last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Mike Ehrmann] The PNC Championship concluded what frequently is called the silly season, but silliness gave way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,199573,755,176957,44,1747,196622,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-368116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cameron-kuchar","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-matt-kuchar","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pga-tour","15":"tag-pnc-championship","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}