Spaun wins in Texas while Gandon clinches Suncoast on the last hole

Defending US Open champion J.J. Spaun came out of the shadows to claim his third PGA Tour victory and his second Texas Open golf championships title.

While all eyes where on overnight leader Robert MacIntyre and second placed Ludvig Åberg, Spaun carded a 5-under 67, which included an eagle in the final round, to move up the leaderboard. He started the round two strokes behind MacIntyre.

He pushed up the leaderboard with birdies at Nos. 2, 10, 14 and 16. He eagled the short and vulnerable par-4 17th to reach 17 under par — a stroke ahead of Matt Wallace, who had finished more than an hour before with a 68.

A par on the last hole eliminated the Englishman and meant Spaun, the 2022 champion of the Texas Open, would get to wait to see if anyone would match him.

In the end he finished a stroke ahead of the trio of Matt Wallace, Michael Kim and MacIntyre. The victory is expected to propel him from 13th to sixth in the world rankings.

Wallace picked up his second top-3 finish in four starts at the Texas Open. It was also the 2023 Corales Puntacana Championship winner his first runner-up finish of his career.

For Kim, the 2018 John Deere Classic winner, it was second runner-up finish of his career after the Phoenix Open last year.

MacIntyre, who led after the second and third rounds, picked up his fourth runner-up finish of his career.

World No 4, Tommy Fleetwood, the highest ranked player in the field finished tied-10th at 11-under.

Defending champion Brian Harman finished T39 at five-under while 13-time PGA TOUR winner and 2021 Texas Open champion Jordan Spieth finished a distant T63 on equal par.

Birdie spree sees Gandon claim Suncoast Classic

Jeremy Gandon birdied the final three holes (par-4 16th, par-3 17th, par-4 18th) to earn his second Korn Ferry Tour title at the Suncoast Classic.

Jeremy Gandon drained a dramatic 10-foot birdie putt on the 72nd and final hole on Sunday at Lakewood National Golf Club to avoid a three-way playoff and capture the crown at the LECOM Suncoast Classic.

Down by two strokes with just three holes left to play, Gandon, birdied all three to finish with a 22-under par total of 262. He closed the tournament with his third consecutive round of 6-under 65 to tie the 72-hole tournament scoring record set by Mark Hubbard in 2019.

Gandon snatched the title away from Mitchell Meissner and Jay Card III, both of whom were already in the clubhouse at 21-under for the tournament and expecting to be part of at least a two-man playoff before the Frenchman’s late-round heroics.

Final Leaderboard (Texas Open)

Final Leaderboard (Suncoast Classic)