Homa tops field at Wells Fargo
Holds off Bradley to win PGA title by two shots
Max Homa shot a 2-under-par 68 in the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship to outduel Keegan Bradley and win his fourth career PGA Tour title Sunday at Potomac, Md.
Homa started the day two shots off the pace of Bradley, the 54-hole leader at 8 under. Playing in the final pairing of the afternoon, they traded the lead back and forth before Homa drew away to finalize an 8-under 272.
Bradley posted a 2-over 72 to drop into a tie for second at 6 under with Cameron Young and England's Matt Fitzpatrick.
After Homa earned his maiden PGA Tour title at the 2019 Wells Fargo, at its usual home of Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C., he doubled up at the temporary site of TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm.
“This week felt very one shot at a time. With the weather, how difficult the golf course was, it just felt like, `Just play golf,'” Homa said. “You're going to make bogeys, you're going to make doubles, you're going to mess up. This week more so than others, where it's maybe been a little cleaner on Sunday, this one was just hit it, find it, hit it again.”
Mackenzie Hughes (-2, tied for ninth) was the top Canadian. other Canadian results: Nick Taylor (-1, T15), Corey Connors (par, T21) and Michael Gligic (+4, T37).
Homa took control early when he birdied the opening hole and Bradley ran into disaster with a double-bogey at the par-5 second. But after another bogey at No. 4, Bradley charged back to 8 under with birdie 3s at Nos. 5, 7 and 8, a stroke better than Homa at the time.
But Bradley struggled at the par-4 11th, when he missed right of the fairway off the tee and landed his second shot in a creek. It turned into his second double-bogey of the round.
“It was weird,” said Bradley, the 2011 PGA Championship winner. “I didn't play my best golf today. It was choppy and then I had a couple good stretches, but I had a chance there at the end, so I'm proud of that aspect of it. But I'm pretty bummed, I felt pretty good about this one.”
The mishap gave Homa a three-stroke cushion, but Homa's bogey 5 at No. 13 and Bradley's birdie at the following hole narrowed that margin to one. Bradley couldn't capitalize, barely missing a long par putt at No. 15 before Homa rolled in a 13-foot birdie putt.
Bradley made one final push by hitting his second shot at the par-4 16th inside 9 feet and making birdie. Homa made a 5-foot bogey save to drop back to 8 under, but he saved par on the last two holes while Bradley could not pull out one more birdie.