Sami Välimäki, 25, paid off more than $800,000 with his fine second place in the Mexican leg of the PGA tour.
Went to the finals from second place Sami Välimäki rose from the four-stroke chaser position to the shared top spot by Jake Knapp with, but fell behind in the fight to the American who won the competition by two strokes and made a score of -19.
Välimäki rose to the shared top spot for the first time with Knapp on the 7th fairway, when the Finn made a wonderful Eagle on his card with a par-four.
The Nokian’s birdie on fairway 12 lifted him to the shared lead for the second time, but after that the Finn’s hitting fumbled from time to time, and Knapp, on the other hand, did not fail in his own tight spots.
Knapp, 29, who started the final round badly, played the fourth round with a par result, Välimäki -2. The top two played their worst round in the competition on Sunday.
The winner received more than 1.4 million dollars from the competition. The second-placed Välimä, who scored -17, collected more than 800,000 dollars in prize money. For the entire last season, Välimäki earned 1.6 million euros in prize money.
The United States finished third in the competition Justin Lowerof Germany Stephan Jäger and Taiwanese CT Pan played with a combined score of -14.
The PGA Tour, or PGA tour, is the world’s most prestigious and highest-level golf tour, played mainly in the United States.
Välimäki, who is playing his first season on the PGA Tour, has now played five competitions this season. In the last three of these, he has reached the next rounds. Mexico’s ranking is the best of Välimäki’s PGA career so far.
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