"It's been a nice couple two months, four top-10s, now nice finish this week," he said. He has been in contention lately, but has come up just short. Merritt, 35, was shooting for his third PGA Tour win and first since 2018. "I've been in some good positions before, but to play the golf that I played coming down the stretch was just awesome," said Davis, who entered the tournament with four top-10 finishes the past two years. Merritt, who was in the final group with Niemann, made his fourth birdie in a five-hole stretch to share the lead at 17.ĭavis joined the leaders with the eagle-birdie finish. Niemann had two shots that went 569 yards at 17 and he two-putted from 14 feet to take the lead at 18 under, but he quickly had company.
"I'm going to go rest next week and try to do my best for the Open and the Olympics." "I should have won this tournament, but I mean, it is what it is," Niemann said. Niemann had a chance to win it on the 72nd hole, but left a 17-foot putt high. "It's hard to be standing here knowing that there is a playoff going on right now," Niemann told reporters. Niemann dropped out of the playoff with a bogey on the first extra hole, his first bogey of the week. Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Imagesĭavis closed with a 5-under 67 to match Merritt (68) and Niemann (68) at 18-under 270 at Detroit Golf Club. "I guess I didn't make any putts, but I kept on putting it in play, so it worked out all right." Cam Davis made eagle on 17 by holing a 50-foot sand shot, then made birdie on 18 to get into the playoff at Detroit Golf Club. I just kept on putting good swings on it. "As simple as that's said, it's so hard to do when the pressure's on like that.
"I just tried to put as much out of my mind as I could and just hit every shot for what it was worth," Davis said. He misread a break on a 12-foot putt on the fifth playoff hole and settled for a par, then won when Merritt made bogey. The 26-year-old from Australia left 6-foot and 18-foot putts high, a 25-foot putt low and a 19-footer high. "To be honest, in my head there wasn't a thought of trying to hole it."ĭavis ultimately won when Merritt missed a 6-foot par putt on the fifth playoff hole.ĭavis missed putts to win on each of the playoff holes, but maintained his composure because he knew good shots set up the putts he just missed. "It's the only reason I'm sitting here now," Davis said at a news conference alongside the trophy. DETROIT - Cam Davis holed a 50-foot sand shot on the 71st hole of regulation and that propelled him into a five-hole playoff where he outlasted Troy Merritt and Joaquin Niemann to win the Rocket Mortgage Classic for his first PGA Tour victory.
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