OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 Frankie Harris made an 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 12-under 59 and won the Pinnacle Bank Championship on Sunday with a par on second playoff hole for his first Korn Ferry Tour title in only his sixth start this year.<\/p>\n
Harris shot 27 on the back nine of The Club at Indian Creek by making just over 153 feet of putts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thought of a 59 never even crossed my mind. Honestly, like 100 per cent honesty, I did not know I shot a 59 when I made that putt on 18,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI knew I was playing well, but I was just trying to keep the pedal on the gas and finish strong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alistair Docherty was coming off a birdie on the 15th when Harris posted at 22-under 262. He birdied the last three holes, starting with a 53-foot putt on the 16th, the last one giving him 64 to force the playoff.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was ready to crack my first beer once I finished the round, but then my caddie and I made a smart choice not do that because Alistair came in real hot,\u201d Harris said. “Ended up going out there when I saw that he birdied 17 because I knew there was a good chance that he would birdie this one as well. Warmed up. He made a birdie, I heard all the cheers from the driving range.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew it was going to come down to a playoff, so figured it was my time.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the 18th for the second playoff hole, Docherty went long of the green, chipped to six feet and missed the par putt.<\/p>\n
Harris became the fourth player in the last six weeks with a 59. He became the ninth player worldwide to have a sub-60 final round and win the tournament.<\/p>\n
Harris, who ended his college career at South Carolina, finished at No. 9 in the PGA Tour University ranking. That gave him conditional status on the Korn Ferry Tour and full status on the PGA Tour Americas.<\/p>\n
The victory moved him to No. 29 on the points list. The top 20 earn PGA Tour cards for 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 Frankie Harris made an 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 12-under 59…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-852498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}