Deliver the designation of the competition and how Nine Youtube golf content creators came to dip him in the back of the Players Stadium Race at TPC Sawgrass On the eve of the flagship event of the PGA Tour on March 12, and Grant Horvat will always have one thing.
He made a putt Birdie on Green Island to win a tournament, four days before a player on the tour could not have this chance in The players’ championship.
“The closest thing that I will arrive at the PGA Tour or a victory on tour?” Perhaps, “said former Palm Beach Atlantic player who, like his competitors, found a niche YouTube And other social media platforms with its popular golf videos. “It was special … A great feeling.”
With the setting sun on the stands surrounding the hole and an almost full moon rising on the other side, Horvat dropped an 18 feet putt in par-3 17th Hole to beat Chris “sol” Solomon de Jacksonville Beach and the former PGA Tour Americas George Bryan player to win the first Classic content creator at TPC Sawgrass.
The nine players fought more than eight holes to reach the first three finishers, with Horvat and Bryan finishing at 1-Over and Salomon, the co-founder of the Podcast No Laying, displaying a score of 2 with seven consecutive pars after having opened with a double-bogey in par-4 10 10th hole.
Roger Steele with three strokes n ° 17 of 48 feet so that Bogey ends 3 and a shot of possible playoffs to reach the last three.
Soly has done a good race for her Birdie attempt
In the death elimination series, Horvat and Solomon both found green but Bryan hit the water. He went to the fall area and hit his third shot at 20 feet but missed and erased the island for Solomon and Horvat.
Solomon, slightly far, burned the right edge with his attempted Birdie and Horvat made his own. It was his second Putt Clutch Bird of the day on a hole in 3 on the back of the stadium route, after a 60-foot monster in Par-3 13th hole.
“That of n ° 13 was crazy,” said Horvat. “But the last one was the pressure. I felt it.
Solomon was satisfied with his game after a difficult start. He hid that his tee shot on n ° 10, the ballooning a tree and bouncing in Rough, but leaving him a long approach, leading to his double.
It was the last hole he lost for the rest of the tournament.
“I saw a little stars there,” he said about his first hole. “Pete Dye (the stadium course architect) had me in a mixer for about 20 minutes there. But we fought and I had a good time. I never thought I would arrive in the final. I do not play enough golf to justify this, but it was so fun … The time of my life. “”
Solomon said he couldn’t complain about losing against Horvat on a birdie.
“I was going to be more upset if I made three loss strokes but I hit a good putt,” he said. “Grant is an incredible player and I was not surprised to see him roll.”
Part of the golf was ugly
While Horvat, Salomon and George Bryan played the commendable golf of t-shirts to reach the playoffs, it was not quite pretty.
Kyle Berkshire, the long-standing world champion of Long Berkshire, sparked a few moon strokes but fired on the playoffs with a double bogey at Par-5 16th Hole and a wet tee pulled at n ° 17. Tisha Alyn was in good shape until she made a quadruple Bogey at n ° 15. And in front of the winner of the PGA Tour, Wesley Bryan, cut her first six holes, playing them at 7-Over with the double Bogeys at n ° 13 and 15.
Then where was Trent Ryan, Barstool Sports blogger. He finished last at 29, with a 10 at Par-5 16th hole then an 11 in par-3 17thAfter hit four starting strokes in the water.
When he landed his ninth blow on green, he and his shopping cart celebrated wildly, with the gallery behind the 17thth Tee joining the pleasure. Ryan then two shots for an 11.
“He’s one of us,” cried a fan.
Good photos led by Birdie de Horvat at n ° 13
The long Birdie of Horvat Putt at 13th caused the strongest roaring in the competition and was one of the seven birdies that the nine players combined to do during the regulations. Another was a 51 feet birdie at n ° 17 by Nick “Fat Perez” Stubbe, the only Birdie on Green Island before the playoffs.
Gabby “Golf Girl” Degasperis struck five of the six fairways and was closest to the pin at n ° 17 throughout the competition, hitting his TEE shot at 8-7.
Alyn struck a wonderful approach at n ° 16, after his TEE shot rolled in the pine straw on the left, but was against the edge of the rough. She used an iron at 5 for Gouger Le Ballon on green.
And throughout the competition, their faithful Youtube fans were vocal and followed the action until the end. They bordered all 10th Tee Box and filled the bank on the right and the players were welcomed with more fans when they arrived at n ° 16 and 17.
“We are here for Grant Horvat,” said Jake Murgo, member of the Fletcher High golf team. “He has one of the best swings I have ever seen and did a lot of funny things on Youtube.
AJ Bettencourt, another High Fletcher Golfer, favored Wesley and George Bryan, who form Bryan Bryan Golf.
“They are a good golfer and they motivate me to play more golf course,” said Bettencourt.
Laura Mullins of villages and her friend Brittany Tackett of Kentucky followed Gabby Golf Girl after watching her interact with children before the competition.
“She’s so sweet … She spent time with little girls and you can say that she was an inspiration for them,” said Mullins. “I just wanted to hug her.”
Two other classic creators planned
The first classic creator was played at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta last year the day before the Fedex Cup championship. There will be another May 7 at the Philadelphia Cricket Club the day before the first round of the Truist Classic, and he will return to East Lake on August 20.
The event at TPC Sawgrass was broadcast on the YouTube of PGA Tour Channel, Golf Channel, ESPN + and the PGA Tour channels on Pluto TV, Roku, Samsung Plus, Prime Video, Fire TV, Tubi, Xumo Play and LG Channel.
PGA Tour Entertainment and Pro Shop Studios, which produces the Netflix series “Full Swing”, shared the production of the event.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Classic content creator at TPC Sawgrass: Grant Horvat wins with late Birdie
