Justin Thomas ended his three-year winless run on the PGA Tour with a dramatic play-off victory on the RBC Heritage.
Thomas fired a bogey-free 68 at Harbour City Golf Hyperlinks to complete on 17 underneath alongside Andrew Novak, who combined 5 birdies with two bogeys and missed an eight-foot putt on the 72nd gap to say his maiden PGA Tour title.
The gamers returned to the par-four 18th for the play-off, the place Thomas drained a 20-foot birdie on the primary further gap to say his sixteenth PGA Tour title and first since his 2022 PGA Championship success.
Daniel Berger posted a six-under 65 to leap into tied-third alongside Mackenzie Hughes, Brian Harman, Maverick McNealy, with England’s Tommy Fleetwood an extra shot again in seventh forward of defending champion Scottie Scheffler.
How Thomas edged Hilton Head thriller
Novak, enjoying alongside in a single day chief Si Woo Kim within the closing group, obtained up and down from a greenside bunker to birdie the par-five second however then missed from 4 toes to avoid wasting par on the subsequent.
Kim additionally bogeyed the third to briefly make it a four-way tie on the prime of a congested leaderboard, just for Thomas and McNealy to edge forward by benefiting from the par-five fifteenth.
Thomas began the ultimate spherical a shot behind Si Woo Kim
Novak posted back-to-back birdies from the fifth to edge forward however bogeyed the par-three seventh after discovering sand off the tee, as Thomas produced a outstanding method from the tough on the eighth to arrange a 12-foot birdie to maneuver into the solo lead on 16 underneath.
McNealy missed a five-foot birdie probability on the driveable ninth to drag degree with Thomas, who additionally closed out his entrance 9 with a par, as Novak took benefit of that gap to achieve the flip tied for the lead.
Andrew Novak was enjoying within the closing group for the third time this season on the PGA Tour
Novak recovered from a wayward tee shot on the eleventh to empty a 15-foot putt to avoid wasting par and keep tied with the lead, whereas Scheffler closed inside two till he double-bogeyed the par-five fifteenth and bogeyed the seventeenth.
Harman additionally made a back-nine cost till he additionally discovered the water on the fifteenth, the place Thomas ended a run of pars to by holing a 25-foot birdie to maneuver one forward with three holes to play.
Novak responded with an excellent birdie from 15 toes on the sixteenth and had a wonderful alternative to win the match in regulation, having seen Thomas set the clubhouse goal with three pars, solely to overlook an eight-foot birdie probability for victory on the par-four final.
Each gamers discovered the inexperienced in regulation on the primary play-off gap, the place Novak was unable to make his outdoors birdie probability from 35 toes and watched Thomas drain his effort to spark wild celebrations on the 18th inexperienced.
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