RICHMOND, Va. — Harrison Frazar received his first PGA Tour Champions title Sunday when he birdied the 18th gap for a 3-under 69 to power a playoff with Richard Inexperienced, after which made an 8-foot birdie on the primary further gap on the Dominion Vitality Charity Basic.

Frazar wasn’t the one winner. Steve Stricker clinched his first Charles Schwab Cup title with two postseason occasions nonetheless to be performed, regardless that he skipped the match.

Inexperienced additionally closed with a 69, helped by a 10-foot par putt on the fifteenth and an 8-foot birdie putt on the sixteenth gap. However he did not birdie the 516-yard closing gap on the Nation Membership of Richmond, opening the door for Frazar and Brett Quigley within the closing group.

Quigley birdied the sixteenth and seventeenth, and he had a 10-foot birdie putt on the ultimate gap that he left inches brief for a 71 to complete alone in third, one shot behind.

Frazar didn’t make his first birdie till the eleventh gap, however he hit an excellent wedge from 75 yards to brief vary for birdie on the sixteenth, and he two-putted for birdie from 40 ft on the 18th.

Frazar and Inexperienced completed at 11-under 205.

Returning to the 18th for the playoff, each gamers missed the green. Inexperienced then missed on his fairway steel, nevertheless it caromed out of the timber into the green and he hit his third to 30 ft. Frazar cleared the cross bunkers, and his lengthy pitch spun again to eight ft under the outlet.

He clenched his fist when he noticed it drop for birdie. His first PGA Tour Champions victory got here 12 years after his lone win on the PGA Tour on the St. Jude Basic.

“Feelings are all-time excessive proper now,” Frazar stated. “I’m so completely happy and so proud at what I’ve completed. This implies a bunch. You surprise when you can actually do it. You surprise when you’ve nonetheless received it. To see that putt go within the gap, gosh, what a sense.”

Stricker has been so dominant on the PGA Tour Champions, successful six occasions and three majors, that he constructed a lead of slightly below $2 million going into the Charles Schwab Cup playoffs.

With only one,756,000 factors obtainable over the past two occasions, Stricker leads Steven Alker by 1,909,065. Stricker plans to play no less than one of many subsequent two occasions.

The highest 54 gamers within the Schwab Cup standings advance to the following playoff occasion in two weeks. 4 gamers moved into the highest 54 on Sunday — Shane Bertsch, John Huston, Rocco Mediate and Charlie Wi.