WGC HSBC Champions final leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/competition/2017/wgc-hsbc-champions/leaderboard.html
24-year-old Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama closed with a -6 66 for a seven-shot victory the first time an Asian has won a WGC tournament and it wasn't even close.
If you didn't see this performance, consider he made 29 birdies and lapped a world class field finishing at -23 265, one short of the Dustin Johnson's tournament record. He won by seven over Open champion Henrik Stenson (65) and last years PGA Tour rookie of the year,Daniel Berger (69).
He will move up to #6 in the world just a week after becoming the first Japanese player since Jumbo Ozaki in 1998 to reach the top 10.
It was the largest margin of victory in a WGC event since Tiger Woods won by seven in the 2013 Bridgestone Invitational.
It was the 10th win in his career, and his third PGA Tour-sanctioned victory tied him with Shigeki Maruyama for most by a Japanese player. Remember he won the Memorial in 2014, and he won the Phoenix Open in February in a playoff over Rickie Fowler.
He is the real deal...
Bryan Angus
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