Woodland wins 1st PGA TOUR title

Gary Woodland made a clutch 11-foot par save on the 72nd hole to post 15-under-par 202 and then watched Webb Simpson make bogey at No. 18 after a poor chip from the back fringe to win his first PGA TOUR event.  Woodland’s par at the 18th on Sunday was his only par on the back nine in the final round. After falling one stroke behind Simpson when he failed to get up and down from the greenside bunker at the par-4 16th, Woodland rifled a 5-iron shot to within 16 feet at the 215-yard, par-3 17th and converted the putt to move back into a temporary tie with Simpson who was in the group behind him.  It is Woodland’s first PGA TOUR win in his 33rd career start.

Woodland earns 500 FedEx Cup points and vaults jumps up 15 places into third place in the season-long race with 945 total points. Mark Wilson still leads this year’s FedEx Cup with 1,086 points and Nick Watney remains in second place with 960 points.

Scott Stallings, a rookie on the PGA TOUR this year, who was making just his seventh start, finished solo third at the Transitions Championship. It was the best finish ever by a sponsor’s exemption at this event and earned Stallings a spot in the field at the Shell Houston Open in two weeks. Prior to today, Stallings had made just one cut in his TOUR career, a T42 at last week’s Puerto Rico Open.

 

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