Austin Eckroat has set his sights on difficult for main glory and Ryder Cup qualification subsequent season after claiming his second PGA Tour title of the 12 months on the World Huge Expertise Championship.
Eckroat fired 11 birdies throughout a exceptional nine-under 63 on the ultimate day on the Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal at Diamante in Mexico, seeing the American end on 24 underneath and safe a one-shot victory over Justin Decrease and Carson Younger.
The most recent success follows his breakthrough PGA Tour win on the Cognizant Basic in March and sees him be part of Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama, Nick Dunlap and Robert MacIntyre as multi-time winners in 2024, lifting him contained in the world’s high 40 for the primary time.
“Probably the biggest next step would be to win a major,” Eckroat mentioned in his victory press convention. “Obviously on top of that, making the Ryder Cup next season would be a huge goal of mine.
“I nonetheless have not made it to the Tour Championship on the PGA Tour, so making it to East Lake could be an superior cherry on high to a fantastic season. These are in all probability the three major objectives going into subsequent season.”
Eckroat began the day a shot off the lead and opened his ultimate spherical with back-to-back birdies, then recovered from failing to stand up and down save par on the third by birdieing three of his subsequent 4 holes to achieve the flip in 33.
One other three-birdie burst from the tenth prolonged Eckroat’s benefit, with the 25-year-old selecting up additional pictures on the par-five 14th and par-four seventeenth earlier than a bogey on his ultimate gap was sufficient for the win.
“I think that second win kind of solidifies that you can win on the PGA Tour,” Eckroat added. “You can’t just say it was luck this time; I’ve done it twice. Pretty cool.”
Decrease and Younger each carded final-round 65s to share second, all-but securing their place within the high 125 FedExCup standings and full taking part in privleges for subsequent season, whereas Max Greyserman ended two strokes again in fourth.
Nico Echavarria slipped out of competition on the ultimate day with a one-under 71, whereas England’s Harry Corridor was the main European participant within the discipline and ended the week in tied-14th.
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