PGA TOUR: Canada’s Adam Svensson Wins RSM Classic

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Adam Svensson always had a knack for winning golf tournaments, but not on the PGA Tour.

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The 28-year-old Canadian changed that on Sunday.

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Svensson made crucial birdies on two of his final three holes to pull himself off a crowded leaderboard and become the ‘Winner of the PGA Tour’ after winning the RSM Classic at Sea Island Golf Club in Georgia. can now be added to his long list of achievements.

“It’s amazing,” Svensson said after the win. “To hit the overshot[on Thursday]and play like Friday, Saturday and Sunday is the best golf I’ve ever played.”

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After an 8-under 62 in the third round, Svensson finished the final round of 64 at 19-under, finishing two strokes ahead of a group of three at 17-under.

Svensson is the second Canadian to win the RSM Classic. Mackenzie Hughes won the tournament in 2016 in his fifth appearance as a member of the PGA Tour. The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup his season heads into a month-long break before resuming in Hawaii in January.

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“Have some fun for a few days and then go back to work,” he said.

Svensson won $1.4 million, joining Hughes, Corey Conners, Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor as an active member of the PGA Tour. The Surrey, British Columbia native is thrilled to have the freedom to choose his schedule going forward and is very excited to be playing in his first major championship next April at the Masters. Told.

“There is no greater feeling than putting in the work and slowly seeing the results.”It feels better than winning a million dollars.”

Svensson said his goal for the week, especially Sunday, is not to bogey.

“I was chatting with my caddy last week and he made a lot of stupid mistakes in Texas,” Svensson said after the win. “This week, I decided to aim for the middle of the green and get the putter to work.”

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The strategy and Svensson’s putter worked like magic, finishing the tournament in first place with no bogey putting on the final 34 holes. Avoiding a bogey was all but necessary in the final round, given that 16 players started Sunday within three shots of him in the lead.

Svensson spent the day with a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-4 fourth hole and a 20-foot birdie putt on the eighth hole. After all, Svensson’s putter was just warming up, and on his 10th he threw in a 36-footer, and on the 11th he threw in a 17-footer, making his best last save.

Svensson, who shared the lead with Bryan Herman and Callum Talan and pushed in the second half by Sahith Siegara, took the lead at the 16th hole, this time with another long birdie putt from 18 feet. The Canadian closed out the tournament one hole later with his final birdie on the par-3 17th hole.

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It was mentioned in the Golf Channel broadcast that Svensson was not a child prodigy, but made his way into the winner’s circle.

He certainly got all of Sunday’s wins, but the truth is, Svensson was something of a child prodigy growing up in Canada. It is estimated that he has won the championship twice. And that year the teenage Svensson won almost every competition. BC Junior, BC Amateur, Canadian Junior, World He’s Junior. When his much-anticipated golf scholarship to the UNLV didn’t work out, Svensson went to Division II Barry College, where he led the team to his NCAA championship in 2013, finishing his last 14 individual tournaments. Of which, he won nine and won the Jack Nicklaus Award and the Phil Mickelson Award. road.

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After gaining and losing PGA Tour qualifications during the 2018-19 season, Svensson refocused himself on the game and began treating it like a job, working harder than ever. He will return to his PGA Tour next season after his two wins on his Tour in his 2019-20 Cone Ferry, his lifetime of spending his day like a Sunday. resumed the dream of

“There were times when I thought it wouldn’t happen, but overall I always felt I could win on the PGA Tour,” he said. “Especially for what I’ve been doing all these years. I kept believing in myself and I kept telling myself every week: This is this week. This week.”

It was this week.