Valspar Championship leaderboard 2019.
The details
Venue: Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead), Palm Harbor, Florida
Date: March 21-24, 2019
Course stats: Par 71, 7,340 yards
Course summary: This undulating parkland requires a surgeon’s knife, with water coming into play on five holes and wind from the ocean often playing a part. There are five par 3s and it is a very tough finish with the last three holes known as the Snake Pit. Get on the greens in regulation and handle the short holes to win.
Purse: $6.7 million
Defending champion: Paul Casey (-10)
Valspar Championship leaderboard 2019
Valspar Championship report: What happened at the Innisbrook Resort?
Paul Casey became the first man in Valspar Championship history to lift the trophy in consecutive years.
A final-round of 72 was enough to seal the win on a Sunday where the Copperhead Course was playing its toughest.
History made. ??@Paul_Casey is the first back-to-back winner @ValsparChamp! #LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/0ZKtDZh1Tq
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 24, 2019
None of the leaders really made much progress in terms of scoring and it was a case of making pars and trying to avoid bogeys, although no players to go bogey-free in round four.
Final leaderboard
Casey held the lead heading into the last day and played some solid golf when it mattered to ensure he stayed just a step ahead of the chasing pack.
What touch from @Paul_Casey.
Will he defend his title @ValsparChamp?#QuickHits pic.twitter.com/lgIcOEMdvH
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 24, 2019
Jason Kokrak came closest to matching Casey’s final target of 8-under-par, but his bogey at 18, where he missed an eight-foot par putt, dropped him back into a tie for 2nd with Louis Oosthuizen.
For Casey though, it’s all shaping up nicely for the Masters. “If I drive it as well as I did this week then I’ve got a chance,” the Englishman said of his Augusta hopes. “But if Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson are on top of their game I’ve got no chance.”
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