'Relax Davis': Thompson units John Deere scoring document for first PGA Tour win

In the course of the closing spherical of the John Deere Classic on Sunday, 2018 winner and PGA Tour Twitter king Michael Kim, as he does so typically throughout occasions, took to Twitter.

However this time, it was a private plea.

“Relax Davis, no want to interrupt the match scoring document of something,” Kim wrote.

Again in 2018, for his first and solely PGA Tour title, Kim set the John Deere Traditional scoring document with a 27-under 257 complete for 4 days.

Davis Thompson didn’t take Kim’s needs into consideration.

Beginning the day up by two after a glowing 62 Saturday, Thompson saved his foot on the gasoline, making birdie on 5 of his first six holes, together with making a 44-footer on the 1st, after which including another to show in 29. He tallied TK extra birdies on the again 9 to achieve TK underneath, besting Kim’s document at taking the John Deere Traditional for his first PGA Tour victory.

The 25-year-old will get his breakthrough win in simply his second season on Tour and simply after his second profession runner-up only a week in the past in Detroit. Thompson’s recreation had been trending upward for the reason that U.S. Open the place he earned his first top-10 and first made lower in a serious.

He credited the development to a brand new set of irons inserted only a few weeks earlier than on the CJ Cup.

However his complete recreation was dialed within the Quad Cities as he performed the primary 27 holes of the weekend in 15 underneath par to grab a seven-shot lead as he began his again 9 Sunday.

He birdied the tenth gap to briefly convey within the potential of a second 59 this week at TPC Deere Run, however a hiccup and a missed inexperienced on the par-3 twelfth led to a bogey and rapidly put that concept to relaxation.

Then celebrity rookie Michael Thorbjornsen, making simply his third PGA Tour begin as a professional, completed off a run of six straight birdies to drag inside three photographs.

However immediately, Thorbjornsen bogeyed his subsequent gap, the drivable par-4 14th and two teams later, Thompson got here to the tee and blocked it subsequent to the cart path proper of the inexperienced. Going through a troublesome downhill pitch shot, Thompson had a deft contact as he flew his ball onto the inexperienced and rolled it to inside three ft of the outlet. Any doubt was ended.

In his typical trend, he didn’t crack a smile.

From there, Thompson parred in his final 4 holes for a 64, the win and the document.

His win additionally continues a enjoyable pattern of the winner of the John Deere Traditional coming from the same rental house shared by six pros for the week of the tournament. Thompson even stayed in the identical room defending champion Sepp Straka was in final 12 months. It’s now three wins in a row for the John Deere Traditional’s “Champion Home.”

As is custom, Thompson now has to pay for the home for everybody who stayed there this week.

“I’ll gladly write the verify for that,” Thompson joked afterward.

Jack Hirsh

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