Thursday, January 12, 2017

Thompson wins 2017 Web.com opener in  Bahamas, Jimmy Gunn finishes T39
  • After battling the weather again during the final round of the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic, Kyle Thompson emerges victorious. He finished 2-under, the only player under par for the tournament.
     
    After battling the weather again during the final round of the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals, Emerald Bay, Kyle Thompson emerges victorious. He finished 2-under, the only player under par for the tournament, winning the first cash prize of $108,000.       

  • It was his fifth career Web.com Tour title, clinched with his third consecutive round of 2-under 70. The 37-year-old finished as the runner-up at the Web.com Tour season opener a year ago in Panama, but edged out Andrew Yun and Nicholas Thompson by two shots this year with a 2-under 286 in the Tour’s first ever Sunday – Wednesday tournament format.
    “I didn’t see it coming,” Thompson said. “We had some bad weather at home, so I practised a lot on my golf swing but I didn’t practise my putting at all. I come here and probably had the best putting week of my life. I just stayed very patient and persistent and worked really hard this offseason on my mental game and I think it paid off. Hopefully I can keep that sort of mindset going in the future.”
    At a tournament where the 11-over 155 cutline was the highest in Web.com Tour history, patience was key, and Thompson showed plenty of it after battling back from being 6-over-par through his first six holes of the first round. Over his last 66 holes, the former South Carolina Gamecock finished in 8-under to secure his first victory since the 2015 Rex Hospital Open.
    “[The first round] was just brutal. I can’t even describe how hard it was,” Thompson said. “Even today it was so hard. I felt like I was the guy in Caddyshack who is having the round of his life walking straight into the breeze.
    " I never gave up. I didn’t quit even though I had a rough start. Turned it around. That was definitely one of the top three hardest rounds of my life, and I shot a score that kept me in the ball game. I just kept grinding and grinding.”
    Entering the final round with a three-shot lead, Thompson cruised through the front nine with birdies at Nos. 1, 4, 5 and 9. He holed six-foot testers for par at both No. 10 and 11, and even made par at the par-4 12th, which played as the toughest hole in Web.com Tour history with a scoring average of 5.008.
    Dornoch exile Jimmy Gunn finished T39 on 302 with rounds of 79, 72,76 and 75.
    Englishman David Skinns, the only other Brit to make the final rounds,finished T44 on 303 with scores of 76,75, 76 and 76.
    Two players from England, Ben Taylor (85-81 for 166) and Greg Eason (91-95 for 186) missed the cut which eliminated players with 36-hole tallies of 156 and over.

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