Birdie at 18th earns Docherty a one-stroke victory

Alistair Docherty birdied the 72nd hole of regulation to earn a one-stroke victory over Chris Korte and Noh Seung-yul for his first Korn Ferry Tour title at the Argentina Open golf tournament.

The win was worth USD 180,00 as well as qualification to the The Open Championship for Docherty.

He made a two-putt birdie on the 354-yard par-4 18th to close with final-round 5-under 65, highlighted by bogey-free 3-under 33 on the back nine. He finished the week on a 22-under 258.

The co-leader in the previous three rounds, follows Ian Holt (The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club) and James Nicholas (Astara Golf Championship) as the third first-time winner this season.

The win also see him rise to No. 2 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List off the strength of Sunday’s victory and a T2 finish at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic, his only other made cut in five starts this season.

Korte closed in at 9-under 61, the low round of this week’s tournament, for his first top-10 in five career starts.

Seung-yul recorded his his first top-three finish on the Tour since his victory at the 2013 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship.

Taylor Montgomery finished T4 at 18-under with Shad Tuten, It was Montgomery’s second consecutive top-10, having finished tied-seventh at the The Panama Championship.

Tuten, meanwhile, recorded his highest finish on the Ferry Tour since a T3 at the Tulum Championship last year.

Argentinian amateur Segundo Oliva Pinto (T7/-16) recorded the first top-10 by an amateur in a Korn Ferry Tour event since Cole Anderson finished T3 at the 2022 Live and Work in Maine Open.

Ian Gilligan (T9/-15) and Hunter Eichhorn (T9/-15) each recorded their Tour-leading third top-10 of the season

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