{"id":10038,"date":"2026-03-02T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:00:15","slug":"birdie-at-18th-earns-docherty-a-one-stroke-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/birdie-at-18th-earns-docherty-a-one-stroke-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdie at 18th earns Docherty a one-stroke victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win was worth USD 180,00 as well as qualification to the The Open Championship for Docherty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win also see him rise to No. 2 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List off the strength of Sunday\u2019s victory and a T2 finish at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic, his only other made cut in five starts this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Korte closed in at 9-under 61, the low round of this week\u2019s tournament, for his first top-10 in five career starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seung-yul recorded his his first top-three finish on the Tour since his victory at the 2013 Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Montgomery finished T4 at 18-under with Shad Tuten, It was Montgomery&#8217;s second consecutive top-10, having finished tied-seventh at the The Panama Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuten, meanwhile, recorded his highest finish on the Ferry Tour since a T3 at the Tulum Championship last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian Gilligan (T9\/-15) and Hunter Eichhorn (T9\/-15) each recorded their Tour-leading third top-10 of the season<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leaderboard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Pos.<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Player<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R1<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R2<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R3<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R4<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Alistair Docherty<\/td><td>63<\/td><td>66<\/td><td>64<\/td><td>65<\/td><td>258 (-22)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T2<\/td><td>Chris Korte<\/td><td>67<\/td><td>62<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>61<\/td><td>259 (-21)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>S.Y. Noh<\/td><td>66<\/td><td>63<\/td><td>64<\/td><td>66<\/td><td>259 (-21)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T4<\/td><td>Taylor Montgomery<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>62<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>62<\/td><td>262 (-18)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Shad Tuten<\/td><td>65<\/td><td>64<\/td><td>67<\/td><td>66<\/td><td>262 (-18)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alistair Docherty birdied the 72nd hole of regulation to earn a one-stroke victory over Chris Korte and Noh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty.jpg",2002,1153,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty-300x173.jpg",300,173,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty-768x442.jpg",640,368,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty-1024x590.jpg",640,369,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty-1536x885.jpg",1536,885,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty.jpg",2002,1153,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/international\/\" rel=\"category tag\">International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alistair-Docherty.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10040,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions\/10040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}