Four years after the first time, the Canadian Corey Conners returned to win the Valero Texas Open golf by celebrating the second success in the United States, in 153 tournaments played, on the Pga Tour. In San Antonio, Conners won with a total of 273 (64 72 69 68, -15) hitting, narrowly surpassing the American Sam Stevens, 2/o with 274 (-14) ahead of compatriots Matt Kuchar (runner up in the 2022) and Sam Ryder, both 3/s with 275 (-13).
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“I’m very happy and now I can say it: this event has entered my heart. Compared to 2019, it’s a different victory, which gives me energy and confidence towards the next appointments”, satisfied Conners.
The affirmation earned the 31-year-old from Listowel (Ontario) 1,602,000 dollars against a total prize pool of 8,900,000. And it allowed him to move from 40th to 28th position in the world rankings and from 82nd to 18th in the FedEx Cup.
In the last round, with a bogey free test closed in 68 (-4) shots, with four birdies, he managed to make him the contender. No way for Patrick Rodgers. Leading at the end of “moving day,” he ranked 5/o with 277 (-11) after a fourth swing, with four birdies and five bogeys.
Conners thus distinguished himself as the first player since 2021-2022 (Lee Kyoung-hoon at AT&T Byron Nelson) to record his first two circuit victories in the same event. And now the big world players from 6 to 9 April will meet in Augusta, Georgia (USA), for The Masters, the first men’s Major of 2023.
The PGA Tour is an organization that curates major professional golf tours in the United States. It is based in Ponte Vedra Beach, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida. The PGA Tour became its own organization in 1968, when it split from the PGA of America, which is now primarily an association of golf professionals, such as instructors and club managers.
Tournament players first formed their own organization, the Association of Professional Golfers (APG). Later, in 1968, the players abolished the APG and agreed to operate as the PGA “Tournament Players Division”, a fully autonomous division of the PGA, overseen by a new 10-member Tournament Policy Board.
