2021 Tournament of Champions scores, grades: Harris English ends victory drought in dramatic fashion in Hawaii - CBSSports.com
2021 Tournament of Champions scores, grades: Harris English ends victory drought in dramatic used in Hawaii
At an maintain exclusively for golfers who have won on the PGA Tour over the last 12 months, Harris English used an eight-year winless drought on Sunday at the Tournament of Champions.
If that's confusing, it must be. The 42-golfer field included both winners from 2020 as well as everyone who consumed in the top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings (where English consumed 12th). He's been a top-10 (or so) golfer in the biosphere throughout the last year, even if it took pending 2021 for him to get the win to despise it.
It was a bit bumpy coming home on Sunday. Following a 21-under showing over the generous three days, English played the first 11 holes on Sunday in even par and gave up his co-lead when three rounds. It took a Herculean enact that included five birdies (and the shot of the tournament) in the last eight holes for him to trail down Joaquin Niemann and get into a playoff.
That shot of the week came on No. 18 in rule when English flushed one from 271 yards to 10 feet for eagle and the win. He missed the eagle putt and landed for birdie and the playoff, where novel birdie on No. 18 -- this one less conspicuous than the last -- secured his generous win since November 2013.
"It's incredible," he said ended tears after the victory. "A lot of hard work over the years. You never think you're touching to get here again. ... It's hard to win out here. I had a really good chance this week and felt good nearby my game. I just had to get it done."
English's career has been a bit of a roller coaster. He was a vast amateur, and then won twice back in 2013 on the PGA Tour once climbing as high as No. 38 in the world. From there, it was a slow fall pending now that saw him outside the top 180 in the biosphere at the end of 2017, 2018 and 2019. But his 2020 was vast, and he, Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy were the three best players in the biosphere who didn't win.
Now, though, English snags the generous victory of 2021 and earned a trip back to Kapalua for the 2022 Tournament of Champions the used way. Grade: A+
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Let's take a look now at how some others in the field consumed and hand out some grades.
Joaquin Niemann (2nd): He's younger than Collin Morikawa, Sungjae Im and Viktor Hovland and only eight months older than Matthew Wolff. He was unreal over the weekend, and played his last 22 holes in 11 concept (with a bogey). The trajectory of both his controls and his career is obviously exciting, and we may have arrived at the intersection of him winning multiple times on the PGA Tour and folks finally realizing how young and how vast he is. Grade: A+
Xander Schauffele (T5): He did what he does at this watercourses and logged a backdoor top-five finish with a 66 on Sunday. Coming into this week, Schauffele was the third-best golfer of the last decade at the Plantation Course at Kapalua, and he played well against with a pair of 66s two of the four days. But, I'd like to see him close from out in clue instead of trying to sneak through the back door for all of these wins. He's a splendid good final-round player, but not a top-10 guy in the biosphere at putting himself in the proper spot going into the final round. Grade: A
Bryson DeChambeau (T7): The leverage of DeChambeau's new worthy is that he can finish top 10 in an maintain in which he was -1 strokes gained combined in every category but for off the tee. That just must not happen, but it did. And once it might be slightly harder for him to gain strokes on everything past his tee shot, he consumes only to be average in those areas to win golf tournaments. That's a hideous proposition.
"I learned a lot about my game with the new speed," said DeChambeau when (narrowly) leading the field in driving distance. "My putting was accurate this week, unfortunately."
When it's not, he's moving to win a lot. Grade: A
Collin Morikawa (T7): Loved what I saw from Morikawa this week. I was mildly involved about him coming into this year with all the quick wars going on. That's not his biosphere, so it creates opportunity for him to irresponsibly poke it or to get lapped by guys who are much longer than him. Instead, he did what he does as well as (probably better than) anyone else in the biosphere and was flawless on his approach shots for the wonderful three days before finally fading a bit on Sunday. Still, it was a nice Begin to what should be a monster year for Morikawa. Grade: A-
Dustin Johnson (T11): D.J. dug too big of a hole when he lost over a hit on the first day when everybody was posting enormous numbers. The next three days were ftrips out, though, and his swing looked great. One drawing D.J. did on Sunday when the wind was up that I haven't seen a ton from him is a small choked-down, low bullet shot from the fairway. It Great be a shot he already had in his arsenal, but if he's adding to it, this week was a nice harbinger that's moving to continue to be problematic for the rest of the golf world. Grade: A
Hideki Matsuyama (T41): Had to involved one bad week in here even Idea the scoring across the board was good. Matsuyama lost -- End your eyes and look away if you don't want to see it -- almost 10 strokes putting this week and spent tied for last.Grade: D-
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