Michael Brennan closed with a five-under spherical to go from a sponsor exemption to PGA Tour winner with a four-shot victory within the Financial institution of Utah Championship.
In his first PGA Tour begin as an expert, Brennan turned the primary sponsor exemption to win since Nick Dunlap took The American Specific in January 2024 as an novice.
The victory means Brennan, a 23-year-old who starred at Wake Forest, will get to skip the Korn Ferry Tour subsequent yr and go straight to the massive leagues. He earned a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour, together with a spot within the PGA Championship and the $20million RBC Heritage.
Brennan was No. 451 on this planet when he left the South America portion of the PGA Tour Americas. However he was dominant in Canada (with one win in Minnesota), profitable 3 times in a four-tournament stretch and posting eight prime 10s in 10 begins.
Profitable the Fortinet Cup season factors race gave him a totally exempt Korn Ferry Tour card. Now he is going straight to the PGA Tour to compete alongside Scottie Scheffler and the remainder of golf’s finest.
“It’s an amazing feeling,” Brennan mentioned. “Winning golf tournaments is one of the better feelings in the world. It takes a lot to play professional golf, and I have such a great team behind me.”
It wasn’t the proper end to an in any other case excellent week. He put his second shot right into a deep pit with lava rocks, well took a penalty shot for an unplayable lie and closed with a bogey. He completed at 22-under, 4 pictures away from Rico Hoey.
Beginning the ultimate spherical with a three-shot lead, Brennan ran off three birdies in his opening 5 holes to stretch his result in 5 pictures and he was by no means significantly challenged.
Hoey received inside three pictures after a two-shot swing on the tenth – a uncommon bogey by Brennan and Hoey making birdie. However then Brennan hammered a drive that rolled out 411 yards on the twelfth gap down by the inexperienced, establishing a pitch-and-putt birdie.
And he drove the par-four 14th inexperienced with a three-wood to arrange a two-putt birdie to maintain everybody at bay.
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