PGA Tour RBC Heritage final leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/rbc-heritage/leaderboard.html
For those of you who listen to me on the radio or follow me here, you know I am a devotee of golf worldwide, not just the PGA tour, and for years I have been bestowing the virtues of Branden Grace, another young South African who until Sunday has been flying under the radar in North America..
Consider these numbers..He has won 10 times, finished in the top five last year in the U.S. Open and PGA Championship, and went 5-0 for the International team at the Presidents Cup.
Yesterday he made 5 birdies on a blistering front nine of 32 on his way to a -5 66 to catch and overtake poor Luke Donald who he trailed by 3 shots, for his first title on the PGA Tour.
He finished at -9 275, two shots ahead of Donald and Russell Knox. Donald shot a 71, and Knox had a 67.
Donald has finished second four times and third twice in the past eight tournaments at Harbour Town. Before his final round began, Donald said he’d need to be aggressive and make birdies. That did not happen. He settled for pars on the opening six holes, while Grace moved in front with four birdies on the same stretch.
He simply could not keep up with Grace.
Meanwhile the much ballyhooed Bryson DeChambeau, the former SMU star who won the NCAA and U.S. Amateur last year, T4 in his first event since turning pro, four shots behind Grace after a 68. He already has new lucrative contracts with Puma, Cobra and Bridgestone and if you want all the technical details on his single length shafted golf clubs read this fine article from Golf Digest by Mike Stachura http://www.golfdigest.com/story/do-bryson-dechambeaus-single-length-irons-make-sense-for-your-game
Graham DeLaet was the top Canadian, finishing T14 at -2 282 with a final round 71. Adam Hadwin T30 with a closing -4 67.
Bryan Angus
(notes from pgatour.com)
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