Tom Kim now has something in common with Byron Nelson as the only players to have won the same PGA Tour event twice in the same season.
Kim successfully defended his title Sunday in the Shriners Children’s Open as he closed with a 5-under 66 to emerge from a pack of a dozen players who had a chance in the final hour. Kim wound up winning by one shot over Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., who birdied the final hole for a 67.Kim now has three PGA Tour titles in the last 15 months, at 21 the youngest player since Tiger Woods in 1997 to have three tour wins.
Nelson won the San Francisco Open in January 1944 and the same tournament in December 1944, both times at Harding Park.With an hour left in the tournament, there was a six-way tie for the lead and 12 players were separated by a single shot. The key stretch at TPC Summerlin was holes No. 13 through No. 16, which ranked as four of the five easiest holes in the final round.
It turned on the par-5 16th. Kim hit to the fat of the green in two, 50 feet away for eagle. Hadwin knew he missed his shot right after contact and it came up well short and into the water. Hadwin missed a six-foot par putt after his penalty drop and Kim three-putted — he had to make a five-footer on his third one — for par.
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