New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1 ><\/a><\/p>\nChris Gotterup and Vijay Singh.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Gotterup\u2019s win follows his victory at last year\u2019s Scottish Open when he held off Rory McIlroy for a two-shot victory, an experience he said helped him on Sunday. <\/p>\n
Speaking after the win, Gotterup couldn\u2019t hide his emotion, breaking into tears in an interview when asked about his last nine months.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been crazy, it\u2019s been a lot of fun but I have a great team,\u201d he said, before bringing his hand to his face, choking back tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone at home… I can\u2019t get through this part every time, but I just have a great team and everyone believes in me.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on whether his win over McIlroy helped his latest victory, he said: \u201cI felt like when I\u2019ve been in control of my game, when I\u2019ve had a chance to win, I\u2019ve done it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you get in contention, you\u2019re able to hit shots under the gun, you just believe in yourself that you can do it again.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes there is blind luck involved, and I\u2019ll take as much as I can get. I played pretty good this week.\u201d <\/p>\n
Singh, meanwhile, is playing in his first non-Masters event since 2021, cashing in a career money earnings exemption to win a full-time position on the Tour this year.<\/p>\n
McIlroy lands in the water in Dubai | 01:12<\/p>\n
The rule allows any former Tour player who is among the top 50 all-time earners to regain full membership for one year.<\/p>\n
Singh was criticised for his decision, with many believing he was taking the Tour card of a young player more deserving, having not made a Tour cut since 2020.<\/p>\n
However, he made the cut at the Sony Open, firin off scores of 68 and 70 to finish the second round at -2, seven shots behind the leaders.<\/p>\n
He finished the event tied 40th, five under after shooting one under in the fourth round.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Patrick Rodgers finished third on 13 under, three off the lead, while Scotland\u2019s Robert MacIntyre was a shot back on 12 under alongside Jacob Bridgeman. <\/p>\n
MacIntyre was the day\u2019s big mover, vaulting 16 places up the leaderboard after a bogey-free seven-under-par 63.<\/p>\n
But there was disappointment for third-round leader Davis Riley, who fell out of contention despite a bright start that included two birdies in his opening five holes to get to 14-under. <\/p>\n
Riley\u2019s challenge faltered after back-to-back bogeys on the sixth and seventh holes and a double-bogey on the eighth saw himcard a 71 for a share of sixth on 11-under. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Gotterup fired a six-under-par 64 to surge to victory in the PGA Tour\u2019s season-opening Sony Open, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-422722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422722","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=422722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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