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All three of his titles have now come in a playoffs on the first playoff hole. He had also won the 2024 Valero Texas Open, defeating Denny McCarthy and the 2023 Barracuda Championship, defeating Patrick Rodgers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berger looked like he had this won, building a four-shot lead at the turn. He lost the lead by missing a 7-foot par putt on the 17th hole and only a difficult on the final hole for a 70 forced the playoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bhatia and Berger had finished at 15-under 273.Berger, who missed 18 months with a back injury after the 2022 U.S. Open and suffered a broken finger last August, was trying to become the first wire-to-wire winner at Bay Hill in 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ludvig \u00c5berg (T3\/-12) notched his best finish on Tour since winning the Genesis Invitational last year. He was tied with Cameron Young , who was one of the two players to play a bogey free final round. The other was defending champion Russell Henley who finished ties sixt at 10-under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collin Morikawa (5<sup>th<\/sup>\/-11) claimed his third consecutive top-10 finish while Sahith Theegala (T6\/-10) recorded the low round of the day with a 6-under 66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After playing the front nine in 3-over 39, Lee Min Woo Lee (T6\/-10) closed in 5-under 31 on the back and secured his best finish in five career appearance in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (T24\/-2) carded a final-round 73 and recorded his first finish outside the top 20 since the 2025 WM Phoenix Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Gotterup, the only player with multiple wins on Tour this season finished  T18 with a three-under total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Castillo wins maiden title<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ricky Castillo won his first PGA Tour title in his 35<sup>th<\/sup> start by a solitary stroke, The 25-year-old carded a final round of 67 for a 271 under-17 total. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the second first-time winner this season after Jacob Bridgeman at the The Genesis Invitational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandler Blanchet finished second with a 16-under total ahead of 18-year-old Blades Brown (3<sup>rd<\/sup>\/-14), who held the lead at 16-under with six holes of his round remaining before making triple-bogey 7 at No. 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Redman sinks first Korn Ferry title<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doc Redman closed in 4-under 67 to convert the 54-hole solo-lead into his first Korn Ferry Tour victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He finished on 19-under 265, for a five-stroke victory, the largest on Tour since Adrien Dumont de Chassart\u2019s seven-stroke victory at the 2025 Compliance Solutions Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2017 U.S. Amateur, finished ahead of the duo of Cooper Dossey and Michael Johnson. 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