Corey Conners learned Monday that he would play San Antonio. He discovered Sunday that he would play in Augusta, Georgia.
Conners won the Texas Open Valero Sunday, which earned him the last available spot in next week's Masters.
Conners became the first player qualified Monday to win the PGA Tour in nine years.
He made three birdies in the last five holes, scoring 66 under par. He was 20 under the tournament total, winning two shots on Charley Hoffman.
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Hoffman, the winner of the 2016 Texas Open, shot 67 times for under 18s the week.
Ryan Moore closed with a record under 64, a course record, and finished third at 17.
While Woo Kim led the first three rounds, but was tied for fourth place with Brian Stuard (15 under) after a 72 tie.
Conners, finalist of the US Amateur 2014, will play his second Masters.
Two of the top three last year in Augusta missed the top 10 this week. Rickie Fowler was tied for 17th place at 10 under with a 69 final, and Jordan Spieth (72) had 7 under.
"I really think I've done a good job before next week," Fowler said. "I feel good."
Stuard finished with 66 to reach 15 under. Kevin Streelman finished with a under 64 and 14 under. He missed his course record when, after four consecutive birdies, he hit his approach from fairway 18 to the gallery and made a bogey.
It was a tough race for the Canadian, who had not won on any of the PGA Tour's affiliated circuits – he had finished second and third earlier this season. He made 10 birdies and four pairs that took four consecutive bogeys out of the top nine.
"After the middle of the nine, I thought," It's going to be my tournament to win, "Hoffman said," He came in and made a ball, I love him. "
Conners had a one – shot lead when he hit a 34 – foot birdie throw in 12th place and stayed a shot with a 14th – seeded birdie.
Moore joined Conners atop the standings with an 8-foot putt at 16th, his fourth five-hole avatar.
Moore missed a birdie opportunity at the next hole when he could not convert to a putt of less than 10 feet. A few minutes later, Conners sank 10 feet to save the normal in 15th place, then reached a height of 4 feet to set up a birdie in 16th place 175 yards.
His avatar at No. 17 gave him a three-stroke lead up the last hole.
LPGA – Jin Young Ko won ANA Inspiration in Rancho Mirage, California, for his first major title and second win in three weeks.
Ko concluded with a three-two-run win over Mi Hyang Lee with a double under 70 in warm and relatively calm conditions. She celebrated with the traditional jump of the winner in Poppie's Pond.
"It's a great honor," said Ko on the 18th green.
After the 13th and 15th bogeys cut their lead in the attack, Ko made a 6-foot birdie throw on the 16th of normal 4 and finished with a 15-foot putt of the 18th of the normal.
Ko finished less than 278 years old. The 23-year-old South Korean won for the fourth time on the LPGA Tour.
She is five of the top three in six events this year.
Ko also gave his younger brother David Brooker his third victory in the competition. The Englishman also made a leap into Poppie's Pond with Grace Park in 2004 and Lorena Ochoa in 2008.
Lee missed the last six holes in a 70.
"It's really a good momentum for me," said Lee, also from South Korea. "I'm so happy this week."
A step ahead of his playmate, In-Kyung Kim, entering the round, Ko had a three-stroke lead on the turn and was facing little pressure before stumbling with the bogeys on 13 and 15. and jumped into the rough straight thickness, and its long approach has ended running short of green in the rough left. After missing a 12-foot shot in the 14th-3 game, she made her way through the bunker at the green on the 15th tee-4 and missed a 12-foot test.
Lexi Thompson was third at 6 after a 67.
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Officials at the Sanya China Championship have declared that 28-year-old Malaysian golfer Arie Irawan has died in his hotel room of "apparent natural causes" and that the PGA Tour Series-China has canceled the final tournament of the tournament.
The tour said in a statement that Irawan had missed the 36-hole Cup Friday in the tournament at Sanya Yalong Bay Golf Club.
The official coroner's report has not been completed.
"The PGA Tour and the China Golf Association are saddened by the loss of one of our members and express their heartfelt condolences to Arie's wife, Marina, and her parents, Ahmad and Jeny, "said the visit. "When something of this magnitude happens in the world of golf, we all cry at the same time.
"Out of respect for the family, the officials canceled the final of the Sanya Championship, which is a tragedy of what happened, but sometimes something more important than an event happens in life. athletic. "
The PGA Tour in China had a photo of 'In Memoriam' from Irawan prominently on his website on Sunday.
American Trevor Sluman led after 54 holes with 198 out of a total of under 18 and was declared winner of the tournament. Three Americans – Matt Gilchrest, Max McGreevy and Michael Perras – were tied for second place, two strokes behind.
