Austin Smotherman claimed his second PGA Tour title with a Monday play-off victory over Seamus Power at the weather-hit Bermuda Championship. <\/p>\n
The 32-year-old American parred the third extra hole to fend off the Irishman and seal his second tournament win in as many starts after a breakthrough victory in Utah earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Smotherman and Power contested the sudden-death play-off on Monday after inclement weather forced organisers to cancel Sunday’s scheduled final round. <\/p>\n
With more bad weather forecast on Monday, officials decided to scrap the final round and proceed with a play-off between the 54-hole leaders.<\/p>\n
Smotherman carded 65, 66 and 66 to reach 16 under through three rounds, with 2022 champion Power matching his 197 total with rounds of 66, 64 and 67. <\/p>\n
On the first play-off hole – the par-three 16th at Port Royal Golf Course – Power missed a 20-footer for his third PGA Tour win before getting up and down from the bunker to force a third extra hole. <\/p>\n
With the hole location having been changed, Smotherman two-putted from 15 feet for the win after Power failed to get up and down for par from the rough.<\/p>\n
“We’re out here playing an incredible sport in a beautiful spot,” said Smotherman.<\/p>\n
“Whatever things are going to be thrown at us, Zak [Williamson, caddie] and I were going to be on top of our game. <\/p>\n
“Yesterday I felt like we handled everything pretty well and the tour has been great at communicating what’s going to happen today for us. <\/p>\n
“Once we got that news, it was nice to know what’s going on. To come out on top is a cherry on top, so it’s pretty awesome.”<\/p>\n
While Power missed out on the trophy, the runner-up finish effectively guarantees his PGA Tour card for 2027 after playing with conditional status this year.<\/p>\n
Having entered the week 103rd in the FedEx Cup Fall standings, the 39-year-old is projected to climb to 53rd, with the top 100 earning PGA Tour cards for next year.<\/p>\n
“Had a chance this morning, wasn’t able to do it, which is disappointing, but overall great week, can’t complain too much,” said Power. <\/p>\n
“Hit some good shots in the playoff, just didn’t quite judge the wind right, but that’s golf sometimes. I’ll move onwards.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Smotherman claimed his second PGA Tour title with a Monday play-off victory over Seamus Power at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815987","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=815987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}