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TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola

East Lake Golf Club

Atlanta, Georgia • USA

Sep 24 - 27, 2015

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The Tour Championship 2015: Spieth wins the FedEx Cup – as it happened

An astonishing display of putting won the Tour Championship for the amazing Jordan Spieth, who as a result adds the $10m FedEx Cup to his 2015 Masters and US Open titles.

So that’s that. What a year of golf it’s been. It’s all about Jordan Spieth , of course: the Masters, US Open and FedEx Cup champion. With special mention to Jason Day as well. What a pair of players! And just think, 2016 is going to be frightening if Rory McIlroy gets his mojo back. But we can’t go a whole live golf blog without a reader email, so just in time, here’s Simon McMahon: “Been a great year. What with the emergence of Spieth as a genuine superstar, and the potential for a rivalry for the ages with McIlroy, Day finally making a major breakthrough, DJ and Bubba doing their thing, rookie of the year Berger, the amateurs at the Open, Fowler, Rose, Reed all winning, not forgetting Lowry at the Bridgestone, it’s been a blast. It’s not all about titles and prize money though, is it? We need the journeymen too. But if you could see to it that a certain Spaniard wins at least one major next year, that’d be great. Ta.” OK, sounds like a plan to me! Everyone on for Augusta National, here, next April? Great stuff. See you all then, and thanks so much for reading our hole-by-hole reports.

That’s a sensational victory by Spieth. It was a match-play battering in stroke-play form, Spieth hitting Stenson with those sucker-punch birdie putts at 9 and 11, and an astonishingly delicate greenside chip when in bother at 15. The winner’s getting his two trophies now: first the crystal Tour Championship prize, and then the silver FedEx Cup. Plus of course a few pennies. “Thank you. This is incredible. We approach this like a major championship. Mentally we stayed in it, even if I didn’t have my best ball striking, and boy that putter sure paid off!” And then he’s asked how he achieved yet another famous victory. “I got frustrated. I missed two cuts in a row, which I’d never done before. I lost the number one ranking. I was watching Jason Day just dominate golf. And I was frustrated. So I got to work!” All of which speaks volumes. As does his fulsome praise for Stenson, who he describes as a great friend, and thanks him for the fist-bump he gave him after that putt on 11.

So here’s how the Tour Championship finished ...

-9: Spieth -5: Lee, Rose, Stenson -4: D Johnson, Watson, Casey -3: Holmes, Z Johnson -2: Kuchar, Day E: Bowditch, Matsuyama, Berger, Fowler +1: Na, McIlroy +4: Streb, Walker, Bae, Koepka +5: English, Snedeker, Hoffman +10: Piercy +13: Haas +14: Reed +18: Kisner

... and these are the final 2014/15 FedEx Cup standings:

1. Spieth 2. Stenson 3. Day 4. Fowler 5. Watson 6. Z Johnson 7. D Johnson 8. Rose 9. Lee 10. Hoffman

JORDAN SPIETH IS THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER ... AND THE $10m FEDEX CUP WINNER! He hits an awful putt from 40 feet, the ball staying miles left of the hole. But he’s not the type to finish without a flourish, and rattles in the ten-foot par saver! He signs for a 69, and once he’s shaken the defeated Stenson’s hand warmly, gives his little sister a cuddle. Then his mum and dad. A very proud family. And you sense this highly impressive and modest young man is equally proud of them. It’s part of his charm. That, and being the best golfer in the world, of course. What a star.

The beauty of golf, right here! Henrik Stenson, ground into the dirt on 17, shanking into the crowd, has just raked in a 70-footer from the back of the green for a closing birdie! Stenson can’t even manage a wry smile, but he will do later on once the pain has subsided. That’s wonderful to see, after the indignities he’s suffered on the rest of the back nine. A birdie that’ll give him a share of second place!

Spieth finds the heart of 18. Then the rain starts coming down on Stenson’s sorry head. No more indignities, please! Hasn’t the poor man suffered enough. His tee shot isn’t all that, but finds the green. Just. He looks disgusted with his effort. That opening-day 63 seems an awfully long time ago now. The players make their way to the green. The gallery goes daft for Jordan Spieth , this young sensation, the new Nicklaus, the best golfer in the world. He’s not going to stop, is he.

Spieth races his putt, from 25 feet, six or seven feet past the hole. Let’s say seven, because it’s still his turn. He rolls the par putt into the heart of the cup, and a huge smile spreads across his face. He knows the job’s done. Stenson pushes his bogey putt wide right of the hole. He’s been a complete mess since 11. An utter shambles. A golfing nervous breakdown.

-9: Spieth (17) -5: Lee (F), Rose (F) -4: D Johnson (F), Watson (F), Casey (F), Stenson (17)

Stenson bumps a can’t-be-bothered chip from high on the right of 17 and onto the green. His long putt trickles a good six feet past the hole. Up on 18, it’s a miserable finish for Rickie Fowler , who bogeyed 16, doubled 17, and missed a birdie chance on the last. A 74, and he ends up at level par. His partner Casey pars and seems pretty pleased with his 70, guaranteed a top-five finish at -4.

Stenson’s misery is complete. Spieth finds the front of 17 with his second. Stenson has no option but to get aggressive - but in going for broke, shanks the ball into the crowd down the right. That’s right out of the hosel. He’s a broken man. That putt of Spieth’s on 11 stole the sun from his heart!

This is almost certainly all over now, because Spieth has avoided the water down the left of 17 with his tee shot. Stenson follows him down the fairway. Up on the green, having been a bit wild with his drive, Casey can’t make par. He’s back to -4. And on 18, McIlroy nearly guides a ten-footer into the hole for birdie, but it’s a par, and he signs for a dismal 74. He finishes at +1, and will be singing Auld Lang Syne with added gusto come the end of December.

Spieth finds the bunker front right of 16. A chance for Stenson to put a little pressure on, but he doesn’t take it, sending his second shot in the same direction. It doesn’t quite make the bunker, snagging in the long grass. He chips to five feet. Spieth can only splash out to ten, but once again sinks a putt that’ll hurt his partner. Stenson makes his par, but would have been hoping to close in on Spieth there. Nope! Meanwhile Bubba Watson finishes his season with par at the last, and signs for a 67. He’ll end the week at -4.

Rory McIlroy had been going nicely on the way back, with birdies at 12 and 16 bringing him back to -2. But he’s just pulled a short iron from the centre of the fairway at 17 into the drink down the left! A triple-bogey 7, the result of some half-arsed chipping up the waterbank, and he’s +1. That just about sums up his 2015. His playing partner Zach Johnson had flayed his tee shot into the drink, but scrambles a bogey. He’s -3. Coming up behind, it’s Paul Casey, who nearly follows Justin Rose into the drinker on the right. With the season nearly over, a few of these lads are getting demob happy now.

Spieth’s third into 15 finds deep rough at the back of the green. He’s struggling to make par here. Stenson meanwhile has found the bunker to the left of the green. Shortsided, he does well to get his ball to 30 feet. His birdie putt stops one dimple short, and he remains at -6. A rueful smile. Especially as Spieth didn’t have any green to work with either, but somehow manufactured a delicate flop from thick grass to eight feet, before knocking in the par saver. That chip was out of this world! He’s like no other, this young man. And the gap is still three strokes, with holes are now running out if Stenson is to stop Spieth.

-9: Spieth (15) -6: Stenson (15) -5: Lee (F), Rose (F), Casey (16)

Casey wings his drive at 16 into trouble down the left. He ends up wedging four into the green, but works it to a couple of feet and drops just the one. He’s back to -5. On 18, Rose chips up to five feet, and knocks in the par putt. Great to see him finish with a par: his 66 sees him tied for the clubhouse lead at -5 with Danny Lee. A fine, nearly brilliant, performance.

Rose needs one more club at 18. His tee shot is short of the green. Just short: symbolic of his chances, then, which were in truth scuppered after that OB drive at 10, though to his immense credit he refused to buckle. Three bounce-back birdies showed amazing character, even if it’s all coming undone again on the final holes. Henrik Stenson take note: he’s just pulled his approach into trouble down the left of 15 from the centre of the fairway. And he still looks thoroughly unhappy and frustrated, his shoulders slumped. He really needs to get both shoulders and chin up, because Spieth drove into thick rough down the left of the hole and has been forced to take his medicine and chip out.

Spieth very nearly drains his 40-footer on 14 for another remarkable birdie. But it stops on the left lip and that’s a par. Good enough. Stenson finally regroups mentally, and nearly chips in from down the back. Par. Still a three-shot gap, but this might not be over quite yet. Bubba sees a 12-foot birdie effort on 16 slide by the hole. He’ll stay at -4. Rose misses his par putt on 17, squirting it off to the right. He’s back down to -5, passed by Casey who converts his birdie chance at 15 to move into a share of second.

-9: Spieth (14) -6: Casey (15), Stenson (14) -5: Lee (F), Rose (17)

Paul Casey is certainly on a roll. His third into the par-five 15th is a stunning wedge which does a little handbrake turn a couple of feet from the hole. He’ll have a tap-in for a third birdie in a row, and will move to -6. Rose meanwhile clips a wedge at 17 to five feet, and will have a great chance to save his par. Meanwhile Danny Lee nearly rolls in a 40-foot birdie effort from the back of 18. A par will have to do, though, and he’s signing for a wondrous final-day 65. He ends the championship at -5.

Rose gets a free drop from the boozer down the right of 17. His ball snags in knotted nonsense, so he can only lay up with a whipped iron. Back on 14, Spieth pulls his tee shot into the trees down the left. He might have got a friendly break off a couple of punters, though, as his ball dropped from the trees. To be fair, this brilliant young man has earned all the luck he gets. That putt on 11 was one of the most sensational birdies you’re likely to see, effectively a match-play haymaker. He slaps his iron from the rough into the heart of the green. Stenson, from the middle of the fairway, steps away from his ball, the old Monty-style rabbit ears hearing something in the gallery. He shoots the crowd daggers, then whistles his second through the back of the green and down the back at the back. His head’s gone.

Pars for Spieth and Stenson on 13. Stenson still has a face on. He’s still three behind his playing partner. He needs to pick himself up and quickly. Things can change in the blink of an eye. Up on 18, Jason Day signs for a 68. Not quite enough to win the FedEx Cup, then, but what a season he’s had: five wins on Tour, including that famous victory at the PGA. The crowd give this popular Australian a huge ovation. He smiles warmly, despite hobbling around with a bad back.

Another birdie for Paul Casey, who sends his second at 114 straight at the flag, ten feet below, and rolls in the putt. He’s -5, and will be ruing that nonsense in the mud at the back of 5. More trouble off the tee for Rose, currently tied for second at -6, who wings his drive at 17 into the hospitality stand down the right of the hole. He really didn’t want to dice with the water down the left.

Stenson is the picture of defeat. His tee shot at 13 finds the fairway, but he didn’t connect properly and wanders off biting his lip, his limbs flopping around all over the place, swinging his club around in frustration. He’s mentally gone right now, and making no attempt to hide it. You can hardly blame him, after the way Spieth worked him over back on 11. Spieth finds the semi-rough down the right, and seems happy enough with that. Elsewhere, Bubba Watson makes back-to-back birdies at 14 and 15, and suddenly he’s -4. Casey birdies 13 to move to -4 too.

That putt of Spieth’s. Oh me oh my. It looks like the killer blow, because Stenson has that thousand-yard stare going on. From the middle of 12, he’s slamdunked his wedge into the bunker, and not gone particularly close with the splash out. He pushes his putt wide right, and that’s a shot gone. Spieth meanwhile wedges to 15 feet, and pushes his right too. The difference is, Spieth was putting for birdie, not par. The Tour Championship, and the FedEx Cup, are now Jordan Spieth’s to lose.

-9: Spieth (12) -6: Rose (15), Stenson (12) -5: Lee (16)

Matt Kuchar is on quite a roll. Birdies at 11, 13, 14 and 15, and he’s suddenly -3 for the tournament through 16 holes. Rose meanwhile on the par-five 15th creams a 3-wood straight at the flag. He’s left with a 12-footer for eagle. He can’t make the putt, and the resulting birdie will probably not suffice. Because there are astonishing scenes back on 11. Spieth’s tee shot is bang average, on the green but 50 feet shy of the flag. Stenson smacks his tee shot to three feet. But Spieth really is made of the special stuff. He rolls a huge left-to-right breaker up and over a ridge, and into the cup! The moment that wins the tournament? Perhaps. Stenson manages a wry half-smile, despite taking that hammer blow in the guts. Under the circumstances, he does rather well to convert his own birdie, but wow! What a putt! Spieth is phenomenal!

-9: Spieth (11) -7: Stenson (11) -6: Rose (15)

A brilliant wedge into 10 by Stenson, pin high to eight feet. A fine chance to scramble his par, but his putt horseshoes out. It was a poor effort, never going in, but he has the chutzpah to look genuinely affronted. Spieth however lets him off the hook. His little chip from the side of the green is left a good six feet short, and he leaves the putt up on the high side. It’s hard to know whose bogey was more hapless: Stenson’s bookended by poor strokes, Spieth’s made from the centre of the fairway. Meanwhile Lee, who had birdied 12 and then dropped a stroke at 13, registers back to back birdies at 14 and now 15. This leaderboard is looking rather interesting now:

-8: Spieth (10) -6: Stenson (10) -5: Lee (15), Rose (14) -4: D Johnson (F), Z Johnson (12)

Dustin signs for a 64. He had a chance for birdie at the last, pin high with a fairly straight 30-footer across the green. But he leaves it short. He doesn’t look particularly happy, another season gone without one of the big prizes he desperately desires. But he’s ended the campaign well, and ends the tournament at -4. He’s the clubhouse leader.

Stenson manages to lash the ball out of the thick stuff, to within 50 yards of the green. From where he was, that’s a decent result. But he needs more than this, because look at this stat: he’s played the front nine in a cumulative score of -7 this week. The back nine: level par. Spieth, meanwhile, is -5 coming back. Well, that’s going to need to change if he’s to win the big prizes on offer here. Spieth offers him a little hope by slamdunking his second into the rough to the right of the green. He’s not too far from the hole, though, so an up and down isn’t exactly a pipe dream.

Stenson’s been spooked a little by the events on 9. A wide fairway at 10, and he pulls his 3-wood into thick nonsense down the left. He might get a free relief from a nearby drain cover, but you can’t be relying on fortune like that when you’re playing for ten million bucks. Spieth, naturally, finds the fairway. He’s a superstar. Meanwhile 2014’s Rory McIlroy pings his second at 12 to four feet, and knocks in a birdie putt. He’s back to -1. His partner Zach Johnson birdies the hole too, and moves to -4. He’s wonderfully steady, is Zach Johnson. Which may not be that sexy, but he knows how to get the job done. His painstaking journey back down the 18th at St Andrews, giving high fives to every single punter who wanted one, was one of the great moments of the sporting year. He left nobody hanging. David Puddy would have been proud.

Spieth knocks in his birdie putt! A quite brilliant effort caressed in from 15 feet, a gentle left to right break, always dropping from the second it left his putter! He’s out in 34, and Stenson must wonder what he has to do. He’s played this hole perfectly for his birdie - he taps in to convert - while Spieth was all over the shop. But the result’s the same. Spieth really is a force of nature. Speaking of which, there’s been another birdie for Dustin Johnson, this time at 17. That’s five on the back nine, and seven in ten holes! He’s -4. He is box office. In a different way to young Jordan, but it takes all kinds.

-9: Spieth (9) -7: Stenson (9) -5: Rose (13) -4: D Johnson (17), Lee (14), Holmes (12)

Spieth and Stenson both find the middle of the 9th fairway with their tee shots. Stenson lays up. Spieth’s second is pushed off to the right, slightly behind a tree. No matter, he whips a wedge over it to 15 feet. He’ll have a look at birdie from there. Stenson meanwhile wedges to a couple of feet. He’s never played the front nine of this course without making birdie. He hasn’t made one yet today, but he’ll keep that record going now. Meanwhile you’ve got to hand it to Justin Rose, who isn’t giving this up despite the double-bogey horror of 10. He’s just followed up his birdie at 12 with another at 13, a 50-footer curled in from the back of the green, right to left, and he’s -5 again! He clenches his fist in determination. He’s still in with a shout.

Fowler needs to do something quickly if he wants to win this tournament and the FedEx Cup. His second into the par-five 9th, a driver off the deck, is hooked well left of the green. He chips to eight feet, but can’t knock in the birdie effort. He stays at -3. His partner Casey makes birdie and he’s -3 too. Rose curls in a left-to-right swinger from 15 feet on 12 to move back to -4. Holmes - who had bogeyed 10 - slides in a gentle right-to-left breaker on 11 for a birdie that takes him to -4 too. And then some crucial action at the 8th green. Stenson splashes from the sand to eight feet. Spieth then guides in a lovely left-to-right slider from 20 feet for a birdie. And the pressure causes Stenson to crumble, as he prods with great uncertainty at his par putt. Bogey, and a two-shot gap opens up at the top again!

-8: Spieth (8) -6: Stenson (8) -4: Rose (12), Lee (12), Holmes (11)

Stenson’s tee shot at 8 finds the rough down the right. In fact he’s just behind a tree. So he squirts the ball out and deliberately flies it into the bunker at the front. Guaranteed control from there. Spieth has an opportunity to apply a bit of pressure, but from the middle of the fairway can only get his ball to within 20 feet. A chance for birdie, but not the sort he was after.

Another birdie for Danny Lee! He gets back the shot he dropped at 10 by rattling in a 30-footer with a big left-to-right swing from the back of 12. He’s -4, in a tie for third! Meanwhile up on 18, Robert Streb misses a short par putt, a slightly sad end to an otherwise superlative final round of 65. He ends the tournament at +4, and must wish he’d hit his weekend form a couple of days earlier: a pair of 75s followed by 69 and now this. A very promising player ends the season with a flourish.

Spieth and Stenson find the 7th in regulation, but their balls aren’t in birdie territory. Two long putts lagged up, and that’s a pair of pars. Meanwhile another birdie for Dustin Johnson, this time at the par-five 15th. This is a quite amazing run of six birdies in eight holes! And he’s tied for fourth! What a player, what a man. It is impossible not to love him.

-7: Spieth (7), Stenson (7) -4: Holmes (9) -3: D Johnson (15), Lee (11), Rose (10), Z Johnson (8), Fowler (8)

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A fine display with his flat stick enabled Jordan Spieth to win the 2015 Tour Championship and with it the FedEx Cup.

This year’s US Masters and US Open champion had a one-shot lead over nearest challenger Henrik Stenson going into the final day. Halfway through his final round he had pulled two shots ahead after bogeys at the 5th and 6th had been outnumbered by birdies on the  2nd, 8th and 9th.

The birdie on 8 was from 20ft and on 9 it was from 18ft. His final birdie of the round came on 11, where he sunk a 45ft putt. Sportingly, Stenson gave him a fist pump after this particular effort.

When Stenson shanked on the 17th fairway and made double bogey he dropped three shots behind Spieth. It also dropped him into a four-way tie for fourth and moved him to third in the FedEx Cup. But he sunk a 60ft birdie putt on the last hole to tie for second and to finish second in the FedEx Cup.

Danny Lee (65) and Justin Rose (66) tied with Stenson in second place in the Tour Championship.

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Four talking points from The Tour Championship:

1. Jason Day had entered the tournament as World No 1 and top of the season-long points list following four wins in his last six starts. Spieth in contrast had missed the cut in two of his last three tournaments. But rounds of 69, 71, 70 & 68 left Day in tenth. His second round 71, was only the second over-par round Day had posted in his past 30 rounds.

2. With Jason Day not finishing within the top 5, Spieth now goes back to World No 1.

3. Spieth has broken the record for most money won in a season - $12,030,465. Plus he gets a $10 million bonus for winning the FedEx Cup.

4. Henrik Stenson started the tournament fourth in the FedEx Cup and would have won it with victory here. He was one of five players who teed it up knowing that taking the Tour Championship would automatically give them the FedEx Cup as well.

He looked on course at the halfway stage after rounds of 63 and 68 took him three clear of the field, with Spieth the closest challenger.

But Stenson shot 72 on Saturday and when Spieth ended his third round with a 20ft birdie that took him into the outright overnight lead by a shot from Stenson. Not that Spieth knew it: "I thought we were tied," he confessed. “I didn't realise I was leading until about 20 minutes after I finished and someone mentioned it."

2015 Tour Championship by Coca-Cola East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia September 24-27, 2015 Purse: $8,250,000, par 70

1  Jordan Spieth 68 66 68 69 271 $1,485,000 T2  Henrik Stenson 63 68 72 72 275 $618,750 T2  Danny Lee 69 72 69 65 275 $618,750 T2  Justin Rose 70 68 71 66 275 $618,750 T5  Dustin Johnson 69 72 71 64 276 $302,500 T5  Bubba Watson 70 71 68 67 276 $302,500 T5  Paul Casey 65 70 71 70 276 $302,500 T8  JB Holmes 68 72 68 69 277 $255,750 T8  Zach Johnson 66 70 71 70 277 $255,750 T10  Matt Kuchar 71 70 69 68 278 $228,525 T10  Jason Day 69 71 70 68 278 $228,525

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2015 TOUR Championship purse: Jordan Spieth is going to break single-season money record

Jordan Spieth already had one of the most lucrative seasons in golf history and now he's about to bank $11.5 million more on Sunday with a FedExCup title.

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Jordan Spieth is about to set another record in this season full of them. Entering the final tournament of the season, Spieth led the PGA Tour with $10,545,465 in earnings. The single-season money record is $10.91 million, set by Vijay Singh during his incredible 2004 season. Unless Spieth completely implodes over his last few holes, that record is going to fall.

Spieth has a three-shot lead heading to the back nine at East Lake. The fourth-place finisher earns $396,000 and that would be enough to set a new single season record. More likely than a fourth-place finish, however, is yet another Spieth win and $1 million-plus payout. This would be Spieth's fifth win of this incredible year and push him juuust over the $12 million mark for the season, blasting past Singh's record.

The purses some 11 years after that record, however, would translate to about a $13.8 million Singh season on today's Tour. Regardless, it's going to be Spieth's record and he will have set it in 24 events. Tiger Woods cashed $10.87 million in just 16 starts in his amazing 2007 season. These money marks are all relative.

If Spieth hangs on, he'd earn $22-million in prize money (including the $10-mil bonus) for year... or more than 4X Nicklaus' career earnings — Bob Harig (@BobHarig) September 27, 2015

Or to put the Spieth money stat ($22-mil this year if he wins) in diff light. That's approx 22X career PGA Tour earnings of Arnold Palmer. — Bob Harig (@BobHarig) September 27, 2015

Spieth's record-breaking money season is obviously helped by the fact that he's winning some of the biggest and most lucrative tournaments. The Masters and U.S. Open both bumped their purses to $10 million, matching the largest in the game and paying the winner around $1.8 million. His near-misses at the last two majors of the year also yielded massive six-figure payouts as well. All four FedExCup tournaments also have some of the bigger purses, with only the majors, Players, and WGCs paying out more.

Oh, and all of this is just the cash he'll earn for winning the instant tournament. The win in Atlanta would deliver him the overall FedExCup and the  biggest cash windfall in the game, that $10 million bonus money check . He's 22 years old and had almost $20 million in career earnings before this Sunday which will probably earn him $11.5 million. There are many reasons it's not bad to be Jordan Spieth.

Here's the full purse breakdown for TOUR Championship:

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The 2015 golfweek amateur national tour championship final results.

Left to Right: D Champion, Steve Eberly, Orlando, FL; B Champion, Deon Cook, Atlanta, GA; Championship Flight Champion, Hunter Leichner,  Arkansas; A Champion, Ken Carlyle, Central Carolina; C Champion, Nelson Sanchez, Downeast, NC

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Leichner wins Golfweek Amateur Tour Championship

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Hunter Leichner played his final rounds as an amateur golfer this past weekend and enjoyed a glorious exit by winning the Golfweek Amateur Tour Championship.

With a professional career looming on the horizon, Leichner birdied the final hole at Palmetto Dunes Golf Club to make his last event as an amateur a successful one. Next up for the 21-year-old Kansas native is the Adams Tour Winter Series in Houston, then the Web.com Tour, then as far as his game and mental acumen will take him.

The dreams are big, but Leichner is aware of the hardships that await; and for three days in South Carolina he experienced a measure of adversity he’ll need to overcome on a weekly basis as a player trying to earn his keep making birdies. There would be no cakewalk in the final round as Leichner found his patience and temerity tested as if in some right of passage to the pros. Cold morning temperatures plus high winds meant for some trying conditions.

“Playing high school golf in Kansas, we played in 50-degree temperatures and 20 mph winds all the time,” Leichner said. “Every time I heard someone complain about the weather this morning, I knew that was one less player I had to worry about.”

Protecting a one-shot lead on the final nine holes, Leichner put himself in good positions the whole way but twice had mud caked on his ball and on another occasion found himself having to play out of a divot.

“I was able to scrape out pars in those situations,” Leichner said. “I’m really proud of myself for that – I didn’t get upset, I stayed patient. It’s that mental aspect of the game that makes the difference, especially at the next level.”

Leichner knew he held a 1-shot lead over 2-time defending champion Joe Jaspers as he played the 10 th hole. That’s when he overcame the mud balls and divots en route to a string of pars, setting up some drama on the 200-yard par-3 17 th .

Leichner hit his tee shot to 20 feet before Hank Shaheen, who was two shots back, stuck his to a foot from the hole. With Shaheen almost assured of picking up a shot to create a 1-shot margin with one one to play, Leichner drained his putt to take the wind out Shaheen’s sails.

“I knew if I was in (Shaheen’s) situation, that would have hurt,” Leichner said. “Honestly, I felt kind of bad for him so I didn’t really do any fist-pumping or anything when I made the putt.”

With a 2-shot lead, Leichner played the final hole conservatively by hitting 3-wood off the tee, but wound up making birdie anyway. He finished the tournament at 1-under-par 72-72-71—215.

“The first day was a bad 72 and the second day was a good 72,” Leichner said. “I made so many dumb bogeys the first round, that should have been a 67. But overall, I’m pleased with how I played this week – I didn’t have my ‘A’ game or maybe even my ‘B’ game, but I was able to stay patient and calm.

“I had three goals coming into this week: 1. Play with patience, 2. Get into the final group on Sunday, and 3. Win. Well, I made all three.”

Leichner went into the event knowing full well this would be his last as an amateur. He is busy securing sponsors to help pave the way for a professional career he hopes to use as a Christian ministry. Both athleticism and ministry run through his blood, but he’ll be the first in his family to travel the road of pro sports.

Leichner’s cousin, Grant Leabetter, eschewed a signing bonus with the Philadelphia Phillies in order to enter the ministry. His great-grandfather once had the opportunity to sign with the New York Yankees where he would have been teammates with Babe Ruth, but he chose to enter the ministry as well.

“Grant inspired me to turn pro. I thought about entering the ministry, but I see pro golf as my ministry. Whenever I think I might get mad about a bad shot or bad break, I’ll just think how blessed I am to be playing golf for a living.”

Leichner knows he’s taking a huge leap. He doesn’t have the junior titles or big-time college pedigree that others his age are taking with them to the pros – he played at NAIA school Evangel University and even took a year away from the game amid what he termed “family issues.” But his enthusiasm for the game and his pending mission have given him a strong drive.

“I think I have the talent (for the professional ranks), but it’s more than that I’ll need,” Leichner said. “It’s the mental part of the game that separates the players and that’s what I’ve got to work on – being patient, managing my game.”

If this past week was any measure of where Leichner stands, consider it a good sign.

Joining Leichner as champions this week were Ken Carlyle (A Flight, 80-75-75—230), Deon Cook (B Flight, 81-86-87—254), Nelson Sanchez (C Flight, 87-88-81—256) and Steve Eberly (D Flight, 95-88-91—274).

Golfweek Amateur Tour Championship

Championship Flight

Hunter Leichner  72-72-71—215

Hank Shaheen  74-69-75—218

Joe Jaspers  72-73-75—220

Rich Campbell  74-70-78—222

Ben Hargis  71-72-79—222

David Schmidt  72-75-77—224

Josh Earnest  74-75-76—225

Chad Frank  74-72-79—225

Andrew Tindall  75-72-78—225

Ken Carlyle*  80-75-75—230

Tim Rusk  76-79-75—230

Stephen Kauble  75-82-74—231

Dominque Schildnecht  78-79-76—233

Randy Dees  82-78-75—235

Deon Cook  81-86-87—254

Dave Boger  88-80-87--255

Andres Lopez  92-81-84—257

John Burton  82-89-89—260

Katelin Sloan  86-84-90—260

Nelson Sanchez  87-88-81—256

Badal Arora  83-84-93—260

Elvis Sheahan  84-92-87—263

Skip Calinda  88-84-91—263

Clint Payton  82-88-96—266

Steve Eberly  95-88-91—274

Ken Matzabaugh  92-85-98—275

Victoria Greene  92-93-91—276

Marcus Brown  90-93-93—276

Po Lehman  91-92-94--277

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Miles Russell, 15, makes history again, ties for 20th on Korn Ferry

Two days after he became the youngest player ever to make the cut on the Korn Ferry Tour, Miles Russell notched another pretty cool achievement for a 15-year-old.

He finished tied for 20th in the event.

Russell, the reigning American Junior Golf Association Player of the Year, closed with a 5-under 66 on Sunday at the Lecom Suncoast Classic in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, finishing 6 shots behind winner Tim Widing . He became the youngest player since at least 1983 to finish in the top 25 in a Korn Ferry Tour or PGA Tour event.

An amateur playing on a sponsor's exemption, Russell won't pocket any money for the finish. But he did qualify for next week's Korn Ferry event, the Veritex Bank Championship in Texas, as a result of finishing in the top 25.

What a week for Miles Russell 👏 pic.twitter.com/eWqa8CmQjD — Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) April 21, 2024

"It was an awesome week," he said. "It was a blast."

Russell was outside the top 25 entering Sunday, but he surged 28 spots up the leaderboard thanks to a final round that included seven birdies in a 10-hole stretch.

"You're always nervous," he said of the final round. "So definitely the start of the round [I had nerves], but they kind of relaxed as we got kind of settled in and maybe a little bit more toward the end. But it was good.

"I just kind of try to go with the flow and take it as it comes to me and just try and stay cool."

The closing 66 matched his low round of the event; he posted the same score Friday to make history on the PGA Tour's developmental circuit. At 15 years, 5 months and 17 days, he became the youngest ever to make the cut; Gipper Finau , the younger brother of PGA Tour star Tony Finau , had the previous record, doing so at the 2006 Utah Championship, when he was 16 years, 20 days.

Big achievements on the golf course, though, are nothing new for Russell.

In 2023, the left-hander from Florida won the Junior PGA Championship by 7 shots and became the youngest winner of the Junior Players Championship. He won the AJGA Player of the Year award at a younger age than Tiger Woods .

Last month, he lost out in a playoff in a Monday qualifier for the PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open.

China's Guan Tianlang is the youngest to make the cut in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event. He was 14 when he made the cut in the 2013 Masters, playing as the Asia-Pacific Amateur champion.

Widing became a first-time Korn Ferry winner, beating Steven Fisk and Patrick Cover in a playoff.