Power continues hot streak with T8 finish in Detroit
Seamus Power
Seamus Power moved a step closer to regaining a full PGA Tour card when he closed with a five-under 67 to clinch his second top-10 of the season in the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.
The West Waterford star went bogey-free for the third time in four days, finishing tied eighth on 15-under par, just three shots outside a three-man playoff between Australian Cam Davis (67), American Troy Merritt (68) and Chile’s Joaquin Niemann (68).
Niemann bowed out with a bogey at the first extra hole where Davis missed from six feet for the win but went on to claim his maiden PGA Tour win with a par-three on the fifth playoff hole.
Power picked up $211,875 to take his season’s earnings to $672,679 and was projected to move up 19 places to 140th in the FedEx Cup standings and within striking distance of the top 125 who will have full playing privileges for the 2021-22 campaign.
"I played very well for the four days and not making many mistakes with just the one bogey for the week,” said Power, who tees it up in this week’s John Deere Classic where there is a spot in The Open up for grabs.
“I almost got something exciting going there at the end with my birdie putt on 16 hanging there right on the edge and leaving an eagle putt right in the jaws on 17.
“It could have been a little bit lower but, as I said, overall it’s been a good week with my game in a good spot and I hope I can keep it going into next week.”
The Tooraneena man has been in a rich vein of form on the PGA Tour for the past few months, shooting in the sixties in 10 of his last 16 rounds.
He's 46-under par for his last four starts, finishing tied ninth in the AT&T Byron Nelson, tied 19th in the Palmetto Championship and the Travelers Championship before his share of eighth place at Detroit Golf Club, where he made his lone bogey in Friday’s second round.
Davis (26) holed a bunker shot for eagle at the 71st hole, then birdied the last to get to 17-under with a 67.
“It's still so surreal for me,” said Davis, who made it a day of triple celebration for Australia following Lucas Herbert’s win in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open and Stephanie Kyriacou’s win in the LET’s Big Green Egg Open in the Netherlands.
“I've been in some good positions before, but to play the golf that I played coming down the stretch was just awesome.”
