Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri had a forgettable final day with a five-over 75 to finish a disappointing tied-59th at the Honda Classic here on Monday.<\/p>\n
After being in the running for a decent finish with rounds of 67, 70 and 71, Lahiri stumbled on the final day for a total of three-over 283.<\/p>\n
The two birdies on the second and third holes were Lahiri’s only bright spots of the day. On the Par-4 second, he reached the green in two but had a 35-footer for birdie and he rolled it in.<\/p>\n
On the next hole, Lahiri had an 11-footer for an eagle following a great second shot. He failed to make it but still managed a birdie. That was the last of the gains he had and he made five bogeys and an eagle in all.<\/p>\n
Keith Mitchell rolled in a 16-footer for a winning birdie, which left Brooks Koepka and Rickie Fowler in tied-second place, despite finishing with birdies.<\/p>\n
Mitchell ended with a total of nine-under and Koepka and Fowler were at eight-under.<\/p>\n
Vijay Singh, playing in the final group of the day with 54-hole leader Wyndham Clark and bidding to become the oldest winner ever on the PGA Tour, managed only an even par 70 and ended tied-sixth.<\/p>\n
Both Koepka and Fowler had some late birdies, but Mitchell managed to hold on for a maiden PGA Tour win.<\/p>\n
Mitchell had a superb back nine, as the competition was a real close one. He birdied 12th and 13th and added one more on the 15th. Then came the clincher, the big birdie from almost 16 feet under pressure for a well-deserved win.<\/p>\n
Ryan Palmer, who teed off more than four hours ahead of the lead group, shot 7-under for a 63 and rose from T-39 to the clubhouse lead. As the day wore on, Palmer was joined by Lucas Glover (66) and then overtaken by Mitchell, Koepka and Fowler.<\/p>\n
Koepka handled the treacherous Bear Trap as he birdied 16th and then his two-putt birdie on 18th took him past Palmer and Glover.<\/p>\n
Fowler had three birdies in his last four holes but he too reached only eight-under. It was a great finish but like Koepka he came up short.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri had a forgettable final day with a five-over 75 to finish a disappointing tied-59th at the Honda Classic here on Monday. After being in the running for a decent finish with rounds of 67, 70 and 71, Lahiri stumbled on the final day for a total of three-over 283. The two birdies on the second and third holes were Lahiri’s only bright spots of the day. On the Par-4 second, he reached the green in two but had a 35-footer for birdie and he rolled it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21030,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21028\/revisions\/21030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}