Norrman tops Barbasol in playoff for 1st Tour win

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Vincent Norrman lipped in an 8-footer for bogey on the 72nd gap to get right into a playoff, then scrambled for par on the identical gap in sudden demise on Sunday to beat Nathan Nobody and win the Barbasol Championship, his first PGA Tour victory.

The 25-year-old Norrman, a tour rookie who performed one 12 months at Florida State after 4 years at Division II Georgia Southwestern, gained in his twenty third profession begin. The Swede closed with a 66 at Keene Hint to complete at 22-under 266.

“I do not assume I can course of this for some time. I am misplaced for phrases,” Norrman mentioned.

Kimsey, a 30-year-old European tour participant from England who made his PGA Tour debut on this co-sanctioned occasion, shot 64 to submit 22 underneath and waited to see if it might be ok. It did not look promising with Norrman and Trevor Cone at 23 underneath.

However Cone yanked his tee shot into tall grass effectively left of the inexperienced on the par-3 sixteenth, resulting in double bogey. That opened the door for Norrman, who hit fairway wooden off the 18th tee and went effectively left into an ungainly lie. He nonetheless had 57 yards for his third shot, missed the inexperienced from there after which chipped effectively previous the outlet. His bogey putt caught the lip on the correct aspect and dropped.

Within the playoff, Norrman once more went left off the tee, missed the inexperienced to the correct and chipped to 2 ft.

“I hit a extremely good tee shot, I assumed,” Norrman mentioned. “I had a fairly robust lie, downhill left to proper normally comes out left on me and that type of flared proper. That was a fairly difficult chip as effectively and I simply put a superb strike on it and hit it up there shut.”

Kimsey hit his tee shot into thick tough on the correct, simply lacking the water, and didn’t get up-and-down from a bunker effectively in need of the inexperienced.

“I really feel like I barely missed a shot all day,” Kimsey mentioned. “Holed a couple of good putts and simply type of did a extremely good job of executing type of the entire again 9 and maintain pushing actually. Yeah, like I am unable to complain with something I did right this moment.”

Cone shot 68 and completed one shot shy of the playoff alongside Adrian Saddier (66), a European tour participant from France.

Veteran Lucas Gloverwho led after the primary and second rounds, completed alone in fifth at 20 underneath, his third consecutive high 10. The 43-year-old Glover shot 68 and prolonged his streak of rounds within the 60s to 12, all since switching to a protracted putter.

Cone led by one shot coming into the ultimate spherical however was quickly chasing Norrman, who made six birdies on the entrance 9 to show in 6-under 30. Norrman’s even-par inward 9 was ok. He shot 66-67-67-66 over 4 days.