PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic: Joel Dahmen received the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory, avoiding a playoff when the wind pushed taking part in companion Rafael Campos’ last birdie attempt to the left.
Dahmen closed with a 2-under 70 on the windswept seaside course. He began quick with birdies on three of the primary 4 holes and added one other on the par-5 seventh, then performed the final 11 in 2 over with bogeys on par-3 eleventh and par-5 14th and a sequence have hard-earned pars.
The 33-year-old Dahmen completed at 12-under 276. He didn’t get into the Masters with the victory as a result of the event was performed reverse the WGC Match Play occasion in Texas, however did wrap up a PGA Championship berth and a spot at Kapalua within the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
Campos, the Puerto Rican participant whose household has lengthy had a house within the Dominican, had a 71. Winless on the tour, he bogeyed the par-3 seventeenth to drop out of a tie for the lead and watched the wind transfer his 15-footer off-line in the previous few inches on the par-4 18th. His solely birdies got here on the 2 front-nine par 5s.
Sam Ryder had a 67 to tie for second with Campos.
Graeme McDowell, the 2019 winner, and Michael Gligic tied for fourth at 10 beneath. McDowell closed with a 69, and Gligic shot 71.
Defending champion Hudson Swafford (70) and Emiliano Grillo (71) had been 9 beneath.
