Feb 6th, 2017 Article
Hideki Matsuyama wins the Phoenix Open
What a final day at the Waste Management Phoenix Open! And the winner is defending champion, Japan's Hideki Matsuyama on the fourth hole of a sudden–death play off.
What a final day at the Waste Management Phoenix Open! And the winner is defending champion, Japan's Hideki Matsuyama on the fourth hole of a sudden–death play off.
Hideki Matsuyama is poised to become the first Japanese player to win a WGC championship. At 17 under par, he is three clear of Russell Knox and four ahead of Daniel Berger.
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YE Yang may have won a major but, to date, no Asian player has won a Word Golf Championship. Yet all that could change this week as Japan’s 24-year-old Hideki Matsuyama goes into the halfway stage of the WGC-HSBC Champions at Sheshan with a three-shot lead over Bill Haas and Russell Knox, the defending champion.
Hideki Matsuyama took advantage of a damped down Augusta to fire a bogey-free third round seven-under 75 to take a four-shot lead into Sunday. Following a rain delay of over an hour, the man from Japan produced an eagle and four birdies to cover the back nine in 30.
This one went down to the wire, and then some. This was thrilling stuff. But Rickie could not quite hang on in there, and with a miss left on the fourth extra hole it was all over.
It's a win for Justin Thomas at the SBS Tournament in Hawaii, as he beats Hideki Matsuyama by three shots to bag the first PGA Tour event of the year. And there were some suprising performances as well.
World number four Hideki Matsuyama will be teeing it at Portstewart in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.