Why the Classic Profas Classical Win was rare PGA Tour feat

Four feet, seven inches.

This is the premature party that Joe Highsmith had Friday at the National PGA to make the cut In 2025 Classic Cognizant on Palm Beaches. Highsmith poured the hook in the center to play the weekend, but he had no idea what would hold the next 48 hours.

The Pepperdine product had a terrible heat before the third round of Saturday, but rode a hot vase in a 64-year-old to throw into the quarrel. Sunday in the PGA National Champion Course, Highsmith observed while any other contensions stumbled while he fired a 64 without bogey to finish in 19-nine par BY Pretend his first PGA Tour victory.

In doing so, Highsmith became the first player in nine years to do the number and continued to win. Brandt Singeker was the last to do so at Open Farmers Insurance 2016.

“I feel like I did it in number, I knew I would go out early on Saturday, and that would be a good chance because the results simply become more difficult as the day goes on,” Highsmith said on Sunday after his victory. “I definitely used this. I played really nice on Saturday.

“Then the course became really harsh, so I ended up moving the road closer to the superiority than I should have. I knew I would be on the opposite side of it today. I really played, really well today, so it was good to conquer that course when it was a little easy, but even when it was ripe and crust and all. It was really difficult there in the afternoon.”

While Highsmith described his Saturday’s heat as terrible, he had a good session in the verse before his Sunday time and went out and chose a course that punished everyone else in the manager’s table. His 36-hole score of 128 over the weekend is the lowest ending with 36 holes in the 53-year-old story previously known as Honda Classic.

The 24-year-old credits a change in mentality for the last raising in his game, but it was the flat stick that led him through the bear trap this weekend. During the last two rounds, Highsmith made 231 meters of stroke, including bird wells 14, 14, 15, 18, 18, 20 and 35 meters. He only made a trick over his last 36 holes.

Highsmith culminated in the Cognizant Classic Classic Table several times at first and was not sure if he would have enough in the reservoir to track the winners proven before him.

His putter, the one he put in his bag shortly before the farmers were opened, pushed him to pass some of the most visible PGA Tour names.

“Many big names, obviously, on that board, and knowing that there are many excellent realized players who are right around the same result, and I saw, like Russell Henley was under the beginning, I think, and I was playing so well, and I think I was in 14 and he was in 17, and I was like me to catch?” Highsmith said. “He was able to stay with him alone.

“Putter probably saved me. Parto part of my game was really good today, but I did a lot of long. These are just items that do not really happen very often, especially in greens like this. “

Highsmith’s victory gives him a two-year exception and spots on Masters, PGA Championship, players and Arnold Palmer Invitational next week.

None of them would be possible if that four -legged, seven -inch putt would have found the bottom of the cup on Friday.

“It was, like, the worst blow you would ever want,” Highsmith said about his overtaking. “The greens were so ripe and bumpy and it was right to fall left. Just a super sketch blow. I hate right shocks to the left because I have a tendency to wipe them or block them a little.

“I had already been a kind of destruction under the cut pressure. I think I had deceived two of the five or something last, I did a few pars, and of course I ended up with this five pedestrians just to make the cut. The same kind of thing. I just tried to make sure, at least, I was committed to it. “

Armed with a new mental clarity and a buckle that will not leave the bag at any time soon, Highsmith poured into Parting and marching at the weekend. He then continued to suffer the National PGA National PGA and change its life in the process.

And it all started with a Friday “Sketchy” Friday Put at dusk.