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<\/p>\nChris Gotterup came up on the rails to win the Phoenix Open after beating Hideki Matsuyama in a play-off.<\/p>\n
Gotterup, who won in Hawaii earlier this year, produced a brilliant fourth-round 64, which included five birdies in the last six holes, to put himself in contention on 16 under in Arizona.<\/p>\n
But the tournament was in Matsuyama’s hands as he had a putt on the 18th to win it. However, he did not make it and was soon in a watery grave on the extra hole.<\/p>\n
That allowed Gotterup to seal victory in style, sinking a lengthy putt to card a birdie.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t think this would happen, especially after Friday and Saturday. But here we are,” Gotterup said after the win.<\/p>\n
Gotterup could not put his finger on where his purple patch has come from, saying: “God, I don’t know. I really have no idea. I’m just having such a good time playing right now.<\/p>\n
“You make me cry every time. My girlfriend is here. She’s like, you’ve won three times without me here, and she got to see it, and I know everyone at home is watching. Just so awesome.”<\/p>\n
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\n Scottie Scheffler finished in a tie for third<\/p>\n
Scottie Scheffler also stormed up the leaderboard with a final round of 64 to finish in a tie for third, while England’s Matt Fitzpatrick carded three birdies in his concluding five holes to end the tournament in ninth, three shots back.<\/p>\n
“I put myself in a tough position after the first round, but three really solid days,” Scheffler said. “Today was another really good round. I’m going to fall a few shots short it looks like, but overall proud of the fight this week and did some good stuff.<\/p>\n
“I played pretty well,” he added. “Only one round where I didn’t have my best stuff. If I get in the house the first day a couple under par, it’s a little different story today. Overall, proud of the way I fought the last three days to give myself a chance.”<\/p>\n
Watch the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am live on Sky Sports Golf from 3.45pm on Thursday, with coverage also on Sky Sports Main Event from 5pm. Get Sky Sports<\/a> or stream with no contract on NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Gotterup came up on the rails to win the Phoenix Open after beating Hideki Matsuyama in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-415673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}