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Brandt Snedeker Wins at Wyndham
Brandt Snedeker won his first PGA Tour event in Greensboro, North Carolina after shooting 63 to win the Wyndham Championship.
Although the field wasn’t as strong as the previous two weeks, the finish at Wyndham was just as entertaining as any tournaments, ending in a birdie barrage among the leaders that finally saw Snedeker outlast the competition. Snedeker and Tim Petrovic were tied as Snedeker stepped onto the 17th tee, and that would prove to be the turning point of the round when Snedeker hit a three iron to thirty feet on the long par 3 and sunk the long putt. With that birdie, Snedeker took the lead and never looked back. Adding up his round at the end was more strenuous than any of the day’s golf, "Me and my caddie went over 15 times making sure we didn’t mess this one up. If this is my chance to win I really do not want to mess up these numbers. I’m not a great numbers guy which is not good because I went to Vanderbilt, that doesn’t say a whole lot, but numbers are not my specialty so we went over about five, six times."
With this being Snedeker’s first year on Tour, the nerves of being in contention on a Sunday were definitely present and understandably so. Snedeker said, "I was doing everything I could to quit thinking about what was going on… Because, you know, I didn’t want to think about what’s going on. I was going to get nervous and I had that situation happen a couple times this year I got really nervous and an hit some bad shots." Yet when the pressure was on at 17, Snedeker made, "the best swing of my life," on 17 which gave him the lead. Tim Petrovic was the only player with a realistic opportunity to catch Petrovic, but a wayward drive into the trees on 18 foiled any chances of catching Snedeker. "I knew what I had to do. Everybody was out here making birdies today, so I wasn’t mad, I wasn’t shocked, I was just kind of ready to go and do my own thing. A guy shoots 63, you’ve got to take your hat off to him – he won it, I didn’t lose it," Petrovic said.
Snedeker’s $900,000 paycheck not only vaulted him up the money list, but also put him in the ninth spot on the FedEx Cup points list. Giving him some breathing room for next week’s tournament and making the $10 million annuity a tangible goal, "You try to want to get as high as you can so you have something to fall back on where you finish throughout the year. That’s my thought process. I know my game can leave me tomorrow and I can have the shanks. I wanted to go as high as I could," said Snedeker. However Snedeker was not the only big mover among the FedEx Cup race. Although third round leader Jeff Overton struggled on Sunday, he jumped into the playoff race moving from 160 to 109, safely in the field for Barclay’s next week.
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Photos from the 2024 RBC Heritage
GolfWRX is on site this week at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island for the RBC Heritage. Plenty of golfers who competed in the Masters last week will be making the quick turnaround in the Lowcountry of South Carolina as the Heritage is again one of the Tour’s Signature Events.
We have general albums for you to check out, as well as plenty of WITBs — including Justin Thomas and Justin Rose.
We’ll continue to update as more photos flow in from SC.
Check out links to all our photos, below.
General Albums
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #1
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #2
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #1
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #2
WITB Albums
- Justin Thomas – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Rose – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Chandler Phillips – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Nick Dunlap – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Thomas Detry – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Austin Eckroat – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Jason Day – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Will Zalatoris – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Patrick Cantlay – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Ludvig Aberg – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Collin Morikawa – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Sam Burns – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Stephen Jaeger – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
Pullout Albums
- Wyndham Clark’s Odyssey putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- JT’s new Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Thomas testing new Titleist 2 wood – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Cameron putters – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Odyssey putter with triple track alignment aid – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Scotty Cameron The Blk Box putting alignment aid/training aid – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Odyssey Ai One Eleven T putters – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Christian Bezuidenhout – testing new Callaway Ti 340 mini driver – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Rory McIlroy testing the new TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver Copper – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele testing the Callaway Ti 340 mini driver & the DUW – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Byeong Hun An, two new L.A.B. Golf putter builds with “T” alignment – 2024 RBC Heritage
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