Zalatoris

Justin Thomas produced a dramatic final-round fightback to take advantage of a final-hole collapse by Mito Pereira and defeat Will Zalatoris in a play-off ...

"And it just proved for Mito to be too much on the day. For him to play the back nine at three under par with no mistakes, and then go three holes with Will Zalatoris and earn his second PGA Championship, fantastic for Justin Thomas. It's a huge thing to take on board. "He didn't play well every single round. What will it do for me in the next four-and-a-half hours? Zalatoris recovered from bogeying the 16th to birdie the next and hole an eight-footer to save par at the last, leaving him alongside Thomas, with the pair unexpectedly in a play-off when Pereira found water off the final tee on his way to a double-bogey six.

After his runner-up finish at the PGA Championship, the rising star is sure his first Major victory is coming.

Like I said, hats off to JT. He's been due for a while to get another win, let alone a Major. So excited for him.” “The fact I was able to get into a playoff was huge,” added Zalatoris. “I fought like crazy all day. So I will bottle that putt on 18 for the future.” I think yesterday [Saturday] was really the day that looking back on it, I was pretty frustrated with. “I know I’m going to get one,” he said after losing the three-hole playoff to Thomas. “It’s just a matter of time. We’ve only got four a year and it's been a dream of mine to win a Major since I was a little kid.

Chile's Mito Pereira held a one-shot lead on the 72nd hole after seeing his birdie putt on the 17th stop agonisingly short of the hole, but pushed his drive ...

“I’m going to be happy wherever I finish,” Fleetwood said. I didn’t hit it in the fairway enough. I made too many mistakes on the simple things. Everything I was doing was right. The first three days I was immaculate. Thomas had holed from six feet on the par-five 13th to match the birdie Zalatoris had made after finding the green in two, but Zalatoris missed from eight feet for birdie on the 17th after Thomas had driven the green on the 302-yard par four to set up a two-putt birdie.

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From there, he had to replace the ball on the nearest spot where it would stay at rest. It’s because Rule 16.1 demands that the reference point is the nearest point of complete relief from interference from the condition. He opted for lateral relief ( Rule 19.2c) and had a two-club relief area from the spot of the original ball. But there was also something else getting in the way. The first meant going back to the tee, so he clearly wasn’t keen. Zalatoris located his ball, identified it, and decided to take unplayable ball relief for one penalty stroke.

Justin Thomas has won his second PGA Championship on Sunday, after forcing a playoff with Will Zalatoris and beating him with two birdies and a par in their ...

Thomas earned an event-record $2.7 million for the victory. He closed with a 67 and finished at 5-under 275 over 72 holes. Zalatoris, who began the day three back of Mito Pereira, finished a round of 71 to match Thomas.

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It was also staged there in 1913 and 1963. The last time it was at the Country Club was in 1988. Mito Pereira, who held the 54-hole lead by three shots at Southern Hills before faltering late and falling into a tie for third, is also now in the field. Zalatoris, who lost a playoff to Thomas on Sunday at the PGA, is now ranked 14th in the world. This will be his second U.S. Open after he made his Open debut in 2019 at Pebble Beach. Zalatoris has two runner-up finishes and five top 10s in eight starts in the majors.