August 11, 2024; Greensboro, NC, USA; Aaron Rai acknowledges the gallery during the fourth round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports GREENSBORO, N.C. — England’s Aaron Ray shot a solid final-round 64 on Sunday during a grueling day of golf at the Wyndham Championship for the first time on the PGA Tour. win.
Rye’s two-shot victory after playing 36 holes on the final day at Sedgefield Country Club had much to do with Max Greiselman’s misfortune as dusk approached a four-shot lead Disappeared on the back nine.
Ley’s first PGA Tour victory came in his 89th appearance. Earlier, he shot a 68 in the third round to finish at 18-under 262.
Glaserman (66, 69), seeking his first Tour victory, finished second at 16 under. JJ Spaun (66, 64) and Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune (64, 67) tied for third at 15 under.
Glaserman made two eagles in the final round, one of which came 91 yards from the 13th fairway. But he made a quadruple bogey 8 on the 14th hole, causing his four-shot lead to disappear. His kickoff went out of bounds and it quickly deteriorated from there.
But he recovered and birdied the next hole to regain the lead. Then a four-putt double bogey on the par-3 16th gave the lead back to Rye, who was playing in the group ahead of him.
Glaserman, 29, finished second at the 3M Open two weeks ago. He had his fourth top-10 finish of the year.
Glaserman shot a third-round 66 to finish three shots ahead of amateur Luke Clanton, who shot a career-low 62 heading into the fourth round.
Greeseman, who plays college about an hour away from Duke, had gone 56 holes without a bogey until the fourth hole of the final round. Moments later, he responded with an eagle on the next hole. It was his second eagle in the nine-hole tournament, a shot on the 15th hole in the third round.
Second-round leader Matt Kuchar (third-round 70) was 11 under for the tournament when he elected not to play the final hole because of darkness. Kuchar has qualified for every FedEx Cup postseason since it began in 2007, but he needs to win to compete in next week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic.
For some golfers, Sunday’s endurance test begins before the third round as they complete the remaining holes of the second round. The postponement of Thursday’s first round and another weather delay on Friday wreaked havoc on the tournament schedule.
Clanton, who played 39 holes on Sunday, finished fifth at 14 under after shooting 62 and 69 in the final two rounds. He was in the spotlight all day, and in the third round he cut his lead to one shot with eagles on the 13th and 15th holes.
“Again, it’s great to be able to go out there and be able to say I’m close to the lead in the race,” Clanton said. “It’s a lot of learning for me, and as a 20-year-old, it’s It’s so sweet.”
The Florida State University star, the only amateur in the field who will start the U.S. Amateur in Minnesota on Monday, bogeyed the final two holes of his fourth round, Nos. 8 and 9.
——Bob Sutton, Field Level Media
