PGA Tour : Sony Open Sunday leaderboard here.
Outside of Canada, many watching today's final round at the Sony Open may never have heard of Adam Svensson. All that could change after the final 18 holes today on the venerable Waialae GC on Oahu where he begins play T3, -14, 4 shots off the lead still held by Russell Henley at -18, with Hideki Matsuyama lurking after a Saturday 63 -16 total.
Corey Connors shot himself in the foot with a bogey, double bogey start, and spent the day trying to recover, finally a birdie at 15 and an eagle at 18 salvaged a -1 69, but noe T18 -10.
Svensson is now 28, from Surrey BC has 3 professional wins all on the Web.com/Korn Ferry Tour including 2 last year where he was one of that tour's stars.
The truth is Adam has been groomed to win since he was a young boy, spending 6 years in the Canadian National Golf program, where he won the 2012 Canadian Boys Junior Championship with a closing 64, and a silver medal along with Corey Connors and Taylor Pendrith at the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy in Japan.
At Barry University in Florida, he won 9 times, with two NCAA First Team All American honours, and the Phil Mickelson Award as Outstanding Freshman in 2013, then one better as the Jack Nicklaus Player of the Year in 2014.
So despite a slow start after he turned pro to play the Canadian Tour in 2015, Adam has proved over and over he knows how to win, how to finish.
He called yesterday's 65 a "scrappy round" after he left the warm up with little feel for his driver, he managed to birdie the1st, but hit it wide left on 2 and 3 but still scrambled with his short game and putter.
"I was nervous, so I expected that to happen, but it was just one of those rounds where all the hard work I've been doing on my short game paid off I guess"
His best PGA Tour finish is T15. He has employed Bryson DeChambeau's old caddie Tim Tucker this week and while all the attention will be on Matsuyama and Henley in the final pairing, I won't be surprised to see Svensson in the mix.
Winning is winning and it wouldn't come as any surprise to him today.
Bryan Angus
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