LIV: Danny Lee wins in overtime in Tucson
LIV circuit fans were treated to extending it to four golfers finally allowing New Zealander Danny Lee to win the event in Tucson, AZ on Sunday.
The tournament was presented on TVA Sports 2. Watch the day’s highlights in the video above.
After three regulation rounds, Lee tied with Mexican Carlos Ortiz, American Brendan Steele and South African Luis Oosthuizen. All golfers had a cumulative 204 (-9) before going into overtime. Lee finally prevailed with a very long putt on the third hole of overtime. Ortiz was second, Steele was third and Osthuizen fourth.
To join the group of leaders, the winner of the day remarkably managed two birds on the final two holes.
“I haven’t won anything since 2015 and I felt like winning just wasn’t my cup of tea. Today [dimanche]Lee said, in a video posted to the Circuit LIV Twitter account: “I finished this novel.
After the first two rounds, Australian Mark Leishman was in the lead. But the latter had a difficult day and made a card of 77 (+6). He finished the competition with four other golfers for eleventh place in the individual standings.
Lee’s team, The Iron Heads (-19), finished third in the team standings. Fireballs (-25) won ahead of 4 Aces (-21).
The champion club consisted of Ortiz, Spaniards Sergio Garcia and Eugenio Chakara, as well as Mexican Abraham Unser.
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