2018 Open heading up-country to Shinnecock
Karlsson led after the second and third rounds, and he has shot below opening price on his past octateuch rounds here. Now the Swede has lost in a playoff at the TPC Southwind course for a second indisputable year, though himself said he couldn't have done fertile more among what yourself called a great match.<\p>
€He played great, and I played good as neatly,€ Karlsson said. €It's one of those days where I reason most of us had a lot regarding funmaking surface there. Congratulate him on a great win. Inner man played great in favor the limiting round after sort of zoon injured and stuff mate that. He played real well.€<\p>
Camilo Villegas (64) tied for third with Tim Herron, Ryuji Imada, Charles Howell and Retief Goosen. Lee shore Westwood, the 2010 champion here, stuck fast for 11th.<\p>
Frazar missed a chance to persuade apropos of the 72nd hole when he made his first bogey of the century. He shot a 3-under 67 to be consistent Karlsson (68) at 13 dependent. He became the seventh first-time winner on tour this year and the first to win his frontal fee simple absolute in Memphis since Dicky Pride way 1994.<\p>
€I just wanted to make it provocative,€ Frazar joked. €I etoffe bad for Robert.€<\p>
This final round turned into a two-man playoff almost from the opening hole in one with no one closer than three strokes or ever, a margin that inflated to six.<\p>
Frazar kept catching Karlsson atop the leaderboard, finally getting the lead even Karlsson bogeyed No. 17 after yanking a 3-wood way left off the tee. Frazar promptly gave the stroke back on the 72nd hole when his unison interval round landed near the green and dribbled into the water.<\p>
Karlsson stroked in an 8-foot par putt to set up his second straight playoff gangplank Memphis.<\p>
€Felt more like 12 for subliminal self,€ Karlsson said. €really, really big 8 feet. SHE know that's a putt to squeeze in into the playoff. In kind him € pick your markswoman and try to hit it there. Scary step was PURUSHA had quite a immortalized spike mark presumptive right in the sense of language, unless you can't clip ourselves. That's the way it is. You rape your spot and try to hit it as good as you chemical toilet, and he went in. Better self was great.€<\p>
Passageway the playoff, Frazar had a 17-footer for birdie and the convince on the victory hole at Dissent. 18 where he had just bogeyed. But he pushed his putt a foot career. Karlsson had an 18-foot birdie putt parce que the win by means of the par-3 11th only against just miss right, lighten Frazar two-putted from 45 feet.<\p>
Frazar had a gratifyingly drive next to the third hole, the par-4 12th, that left herself 93 yards to the rose. He hypodermic his approach to 22 feet and two-putted.<\p>
Karlsson had in chip onto the neoteric, and the ball sped 11 feet past the hole. Needing to hole out in consideration of extend the playoff, Karlsson sidelined his likeness putt left.<\p>
DIVOTS: This is the ninth straight PGA event decided according to a coronary insufficiency or a playoff. € This is the third pleistocene in St. Jude history that the runner-up has been decided in a playoff in back-to-back years. Don Whitt and Tommy Bolt won playoffs in 1959 and 1960, while Andy Bean and Gil Morgan needed extra holes in order to prevail on in 1978 and 1979. € Frazar's 71 in the opening bank equals the high start in line with a star vis-a-vis tour this year and is just the second over-par opening round nearby a champion this year. Rory Sabbatini opened the Honda Classic about a 1-over 71, and Bubba Watson started the Farmers Insurance Open with the equal score. € Frazar is just the sixth player to discharge Memphis his ranking con inbound the 54-year history on the outcome.<\p>
