Hovland wins 2nd PGA event this year

Viktor Hovland says his nerves are a jangled mess when he gets into contention. It sure didn't look that way at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico, where he captured another PGA Tour title with another big putt at the end.

Hovland saved par with a splendid 40-yard save from a waste area on the 16th hole, and then he delivered the winner with a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole to beat Aaron Wise and win for the second time this year.

It was the first time since the Mayakoba Classic began in 2007 that it was won with a birdie putt on the final hole. For the 23year-old from Norway, it's becoming old hat. Hovland won the Puerto Rico Open in February for his first PGA Tour title by holing a 30-foot birdie putt on the last hole.

“I was shaking there at the end,” Hovland said after closing with a 6under 65. “I thought I lost it after second shot on 16. I made an awesome par there. I knew I had to make birdie on 18.”

Wise closed with a 63 and did everything right over the last two holes except make the birdie putts. Tied for the lead, he missed birdie putts from 12 feet on each of the last two holes at El Camaleon Golf Club.

Adam Long (67) and

Tom Hoge (69) tied for third at 17-under 267.

Elsewhere: Christiaan Bezuidenhout won a second straight tournament on the European

Tour when he finished with a 69 for 18 under par overall and a convincing fiveshot victory at the South African Open. The 26-yearold South African became the first player since Justin Rose in 2017 to win European Tour events on consecutive weeks. Bezuidenhout won the Alfred Dunhill Championship, also in South Africa, last weekend and now has three career tour titles. … Angela Stanford won her home LPGA Tour event in front of her parents, closing with a 4-under 67 for a two-stroke victory in the Volunteers of America Classic in the Colony, Texas.

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