WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Bryson DeChambeau became the fourth player on a top-level tour to shoot 58 on Sunday, making birdie on his last four holes to finally capture his first LIV Golf title at the rain-softened Greenbrier.
DeChambeau holed a 35-foot putt on the par-3 18th and leapt in the air with both arms extended to celebrate his lowest score ever.
Jim Furyk had a 58 in the Travelers Championship on the PGA Tour in 2016, while Ryo Ishikawa at The Crowns in 2010 and S.H. Kim at the 2021 Golf Partner Pro-Am each shot 58 on the Japan Golf Tour.
“Oh my God. Do you believe that?” DeChambeau said after his long putt as a steady rain fell on the Old White course at Greenbrier Resort.
DeChambeau finished at 23-under 187 for a six-shot victory over Mito Pereira, earning a $4 million payoff.
The Greenbrier previously hosted a PGA Tour event for nine years. In the inaugural Greenbrier Classic in 2010, Stuart Appleby shot 59 in the fourth round to win.
DeChambeau opened with six birdies in seven holes, and then saved his best for the end when he ran off four straight birdies, two of them on par 3s. The former U.S. Open champion has said he was getting close with his equipment and his swing, and it paid off in a big way.
DeChambeau had a chance at a sub-60 round on the PGA Tour two years ago at Caves Valley in the BMW Championship until missing birdie putts from 15 feet and 6 feet on the last two holes, settling for a 60.
PGA: Lucas Glover won the Wyndham Championship with a 2-under 68 in Greensboro, North Carolina, to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs.
After a two-hour rain delay, Glover took advantage of a faltering Russell Henley to win for the first time in more than two years and earn an unlikely spot in the lucrative postseason.
Glover now has five PGA Tour wins separated by 18 years, and there might not have been another except for deciding to switch to a long putter, a move inspired by Adam Scott. He had been battling the yips, but he made every important putt at Sedgefield Country Club.
This was the final tournament before the top 70 qualify for the playoffs that start next week in Memphis, Tennessee. Glover was at No. 112, a long shot who needed nothing short of a runner-up finish.
He did one better, pulling away after the rain delay with plenty of help from Henley.
It was the second time in three years that Henley let one get away at Sedgefield. When play resumed, he took the lead with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 15th, and then everything went wrong in a bogey-bogey-bogey finish.
Henley tied for second with Byeong Hun An (67). Billy Horschel, who shared the 54-hole lead with Glover, didn’t make a birdie until the final hole and shot 72, finishing alone in fourth.
Justin Thomas, needing a birdie on the 18th hole to qualify for the playoffs, nearly pitched in from 100 feet short of the hole, but his ball smacked off the base of the pin and settled inches away as Thomas fell to the ground in disbelief. Now he has to wait three weeks to see if his worst season as a pro will cost him a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team.
LPGA: Celine Boutier won the Women’s Scottish Open by two strokes in Irvine, Scotland, backing up her first major victory last week at the Evian Championship.
The No. 4-ranked French player shot 2-under 70 in her final round to clinch back-to-back wins, and will head into the upcoming Women’s British Open at Walton Heath in southern England with plenty of confidence.
Boutier led by three shots after the third round and also had that advantage heading down the stretch before making bogey at Nos. 14 and 16. When Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea birdied the last hole to post 65 and finish 13 under overall, Boutier’s lead was down to one stroke.
However, Boutier curled in a long right-to-left putt on No. 17 and tapped in for par on the final hole to finish at 15-under 273 and win for the third time in 2023, having also captured the LPGA Drive On Championship in March.
Kim was second, while Ruoning Yin of China (66) was three shots back in third.
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