IVINS, Utah — Matt McCarty began the yr on the Korn Ferry Tour and now’s headed to the Masters, profitable his first PGA Tour title Sunday on the Black Desert Championship with a 4-under 67 and one swing that each one however sealed it.
McCarty gained 3 times on the Korn Ferry Tour to earn an on the spot promotion in August. In his third begin on the PGA Tour, he made profitable look simply as straightforward. Staked to a two-shot lead going into the ultimate spherical, he by no means trailed at Black Desert Resort and gained by three photographs.
Stephan Jaeger closed inside one shot with birdies on the 14th and fifteenth. McCarty successfully ended any risk with a 3-wood on the 310-yard 14th that was near excellent, bounding onto the inexperienced and settling 3 1/2 toes from the cup for an eagle.
The victory means the 26-year-old left-hander from Arizona is assured of being in three of the majors subsequent yr. He will get into the Masters and PGA Championship along with his PGA Tour title, and McCarty already earned a spot within the U.S. Open by main the Korn Ferry Tour factors record.
McCarty turns into the primary participant since Jason Gore to win 3 times on the developmental tour to earn an on the spot promotion after which win on the PGA Tour in the identical season. He completed at 23-under 261 and earned $1.35 million.
“I do not know how one can anticipate this,” McCarty stated. “It is simply a number of enjoyable. I have been working actually exhausting. This yr was nice for me. To get out right here a little bit early, to get some expertise was nice and clearly this now.
“It is simply been a loopy previous few months for me.”
McCarty did not face a lot stress — he can attribute that to some lovely lag placing — apart from that one temporary second when Jaeger made a late transfer.
All of the potential challengers went the opposite course for a lot of the sunny day in southwestern Utah, the Beehive State’s first time internet hosting a PGA Tour occasion in 61 years.
Joe Highsmith, taking part in within the last group, made double bogey on the opening gap. Harris English had three bogeys on the entrance 9 that offset three birdies and saved him from making a transfer. Jaeger, who went toe-to-toe with Scottie Scheffler to win the Houston Open in March, managed just one birdie on the entrance 9.
McCarty motored alongside, main by three, not dropping a shot till a three-putt from 55 toes from under a ridge on the twelfth gap. After which when Jaeger holed a 5-foot birdie putt on the thirteenth and drove the 14th inexperienced for a two-putt birdie to shut inside one, McCarty answered.
He hit a draw along with his 3-wood, stared it down and stated, “Flip!” That it did, touchdown wanting the inexperienced and slowing into the grain to just about tap-in vary. Jaeger, two teams forward of him, had three straight birdie putts burn the sting of the cup.
Jaeger closed with a birdie on the par-5 18th for a 68 to complete alone in second.
“I do not know how one can anticipate this. It is simply a number of enjoyable. I have been working actually exhausting. This yr was nice for me. To get out right here a little bit early, to get some expertise was nice and clearly this now. It is simply been a loopy previous few months for me.”
Matt McCarty
“I gave myself a shot,” Jaeger stated. “I did not drive it nicely sufficient to offer myself shorter golf equipment in and ample alternative for birdie. However typically you’ve gotten that. I made some good putts coming in, so I am proud of that.”
Lucas Glover shot 62 and tied for third with Kevin Streelman, who had an enormous alternative even with out having a severe likelihood to win. The FedEx Cup Fall is basically about gamers ending within the high 125 to maintain full PGA Tour playing cards for 2025.
Streelman got here in at No. 177, and each shot mattered. He angrily slapped his thigh when he missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the sixteenth gap, after which he watched his wedge hit the pin on the par-3 seventeenth and certain off the inexperienced. He managed to avoid wasting par, and he birdied the 18th for a 69.
That moved him to No. 138, getting him a little bit nearer to one hundred and twenty fifth with at the least 4 extra tournaments left within the fall.
