Monday 27 October 2014 09:05, UK
Robert Streb clinched his first victory on the PGA Tour after coming out on top in a three-man playoff at the McGladrey Classic.
Streb hit his tee shot to within four feet on the second extra hole and then sank the biridie putt to take the win ahead of Will MacKenzie and Brendon de Jonge at Sea Island in Georgia.
De Jonge and MacKenzie had finished tied with Streb on 14-under par after four rounds and the former narrowly missed his long birdie putt on the decisive playoff hole.
MacKenzie, who was bidding to win his first PGA Tour title in six years, was eliminated at the first extra hole after a trip into a green-side bunker led to him carding a bogey.
Streb signed for a final round of 63 – the lowest of the day – to propel himself to the top of the leaderboard, while de Jonge shot a 65 and MacKenzie closed with a 68.
Streb began the day five shots off the lead and fell even further back when he bogeyed his first hole of the day.
But he recovered to make five biridies on the front nine and then, after dropping another shot at the 13th hole, made four more birdies in a row to shoot up the leaderboard.
Sitting in the clubhouse with a share of the lead, he watched as both de Jonge and MacKenzie failed to improve on their scores over the final six holes. MacKenzie bogeyed the 16th but negated that with a birdie at the next hole.
"The wait was a little nerve-wracking because they had the par five (15th to come)," Streb told the Golf Channel.
"And then obviously those last two short putts I was pretty shaky," he added of the playoff holes.
