And then Finau went birdie-eagle-birdie to get in the mix and capped off his 63 with a birdie to make it a four-way tie. Kitayama, playing in the final group with Rahm, got up-and-down from right of the green on the par-5 12th to tie. Well ahead of him, Wu holed a 25-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole to join him at 16 under. Rahm’s had a one-shot lead after his lone bogey of the round on the tough par-4 10th. Staked to a two-shot lead going into the final round, he never trailed. It was a pretty stressful weekend, all the way to the end.” “Fortunately, I got my seventh PGA Tour win. “I like to think every time I tee it up I’m a favorite. 2 was the only player from the top 15 in the world - the Spaniard was a heavy favorite and he played that way from his opening 64.
And it got a popular winner.Īgainst one of the weaker fields of the year - Rahm at No. Now the Mexico Open, which has a history dating to 1944, is a regular PGA Tour event for the first time. Rahm had a couple of close calls in Mexico City when it was a World Golf Championship at Chapultepec. Tony Finau and Brandon Wu each closed with a 63, while Kurt Kitayama birdied the final hole from a back bunker for a 68.