Emiliano Grillo she became the protagonist of Monday highest rise in the world’s top 100 golf rankings. The Argentine, who started last week in 80th place, has moved up to 42nd in the standings, after winning the Charles Schwab Challenge on the coveted PGA Tour.
For Grillo it was the second conquest in the most important circuit of professional golf. It has arrived after more than seven years of waiting and a playoff after an incredible finish at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, where he squandered a two-stroke lead on the 18th hole, where his tee off went nonstop into a drainpipe.
The top 5 in the world ranking remains with the American Scottie Scheffler -who finished third in the tournament won by Grillo- in first place, followed by the Spaniard Jon RahmNorthern Irish Rory McIlroy and the Americans patrick cantley AND xander schauffele.
Even the American Max Homa he gained one position to be sixth, at the expense of the Norwegian Victor Hovlandwhile the British matte fitzpatricknow eighth, and the Australian Cameron Smith, ninth, they also switch places. The American Will Zalatori maintains the tenth position.
The Chilean Joaquin nieman He is still the best Latin American and is in 31st place, while the Mexican is behind Grillo abraham ancerThat drops to 49° and also the Chilean Myth Pereirawhich drops to 54°.
Grillo’s great victory
Emiliano Grillo captured his second PGA Tour golf title this Sunday by winning the Charles Schwab Challenge. The victory allowed the Resistencia native to pocket $1,566,000 and climb to 18th place in the FedEx Cup, the annual ranking of the American circuit.
Grillo, 30, had his baptism as a winner on the world’s main circuit on October 18, 2015 at the Frys.com Open, where he beat American Kevin Na in a tie-break. However, he had to wait seven years, seven months and eleven days or 2,780 days to lift a trophy again, this time also suffering sudden death.
The golfer from Chaco triumphed after two extra holes in the tiebreaker against Adam Schenk, after playing a top-level tournament and delivering a 68-shot card this Sunday.
His victory was jeopardized on the last hole, where he experienced an unusual situation: his tee shot went into a gutter through which the ball sailed for several metres.
When the ball stops, hitting a stone, Grillo has to drop with a penalty and leave it on a parallel trajectory to shoot the third shot. He completed the hole with a double bogey and his two-stroke lead was gone.
On the second extra hole of the tiebreak, however, on the par 3 of the 16th, Grillo, from the tee, obtained a favorable spike which ended up with the ball in an excellent position, less than two meters from the hole.
He did not spare that opportunity and did not fail with the putt to be crowned champion in Fort Worth, the same tournament that the legendary Roberto De Vicenzo won 66 years ago. A detail: the prize that the Master received was just 5,000 dollars. 0.3 percent of the check Grillo received.
Source: AFP
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