Rory Sabbatini won the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida by one stroke margin YE Yang and two shots over Jerry Kelly.
The South African Rory Sabbatini began the final round five strokes ahead of Korean, YE Yang and North American Jerry Kelly.
This week's field of PGA National Champions Golf Club has been a nightmare for most of the best players in the world. This is the second most dangerous country on the PGA Tour.
So Sabbatini had to defend himself with a good final round against Kelly YE Yang and field.
Sabbatini played the holes in 35 strokes and Korean went to four shots off the lead with 34 hits leg. Rory Sabbatini had a comfortable four-stroke lead with nine holes to play.
Both players scored for the holes 10,11, and 12. Now Sabbatini had the same four-stroke lead but with only six holes to play.
But the situation has started to change. Yang scored birdie on the 13th hole and Sabbatini scored "bogie" in the hole 14. The margin of advantage Sabbatini dropped two strokes with four holes to play.
'Bear Trap'
But these four holes are the stretch called the "Bear Trap." Whose distance, the second most dangerous in the PGA Tour, was designed by the famous "Bear" Jack Nicklaus.
Yang hit the best shot of the tournament a foot from the flag pole in the hole 15 to score the birdie he needed. Now Yang was just a stroke of the pointer.
Sabbatini then took the claw and responded like a champion with his own birdie on the 16th hole to regain a two-stroke advantage. But now with two holes to play.
Sabbatini and Yang scored par on the penultimate hole.
Now South Africa could play the final hole to secure.
Yang and Kelly scored birdie on the final hole. Which was too little too late.
Rory Sabbatini easily scored a pair on the final hole to secure his seventh career victory and claimed the cash prize of $ 1,026.000.
Rory Sabbatini deserves to be champion
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