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Rookie Gribble wins in Mississippi
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 01 - 11 - 2016

PGA Tour rookie Cody Gribble blew away the field with a closing seven-under 65 to win the Sanderson Farms Championship by four strokes in Mississippi on Sunday.
Gribble, in his eighth start on tour, bolted clear of a tight leaderboard with a hat-trick of birdies from the 15th hole at the Country Club of Jackson.
The left-handed Texan finished at 20-under 268, with compatriots Chris Kirk (70) and Luke List (70) and Englishman Greg Owen (68) equal second on 16-under.
Gribble, 26, barely earned his card to play on the PGA Tour this season, after finishing 40th on the secondary tour ranking.
"It was pretty rough towards the end of the year ... but here I am," he said in an emotional greenside interview. "There are no words right now. It's an unbelievable experience."
The low-key tournament, played on the same dates as the WGC HSBC Champions event in Shanghai, gave the tour's lesser lights a chance to shine in the absence of the big boys.
Canadian Graham DeLaet, in his 150th career start, looked prime to post his first tour win when he picked up three front nine birdies. But a double bogey at the par-five 11th set him back and he eventually finished seven strokes off the pace, equal eighth.
Kiwi Steven Alker had the shot of the day, a hole-in-one with his very first swing. Teeing off at the 10th hole, Alker made his ace with a five-iron from 212 yards. He finished equal 35th.
Now for a major, says Japan
sensation Matsuyama
Japan's Hideki Matsuyama set his sights firmly on winning a major after destroying a world-class field to become the first Asian to win a World Golf Championship at the weekend.
"Winning today, I feel has got me closer to being able to compete a lot better in the major tournaments," said the 24-year-old sensation after winning the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai in record-breaking style.

Matsuyama finished on 23 under par to win by seven shots — the biggest margin in the history of the event dubbed "Asia's Major" — from Henrik Stenson and Daniel Berger, with Rory McIlroy and Bill Haas one shot further back.
"My next goal is, of course, to win a major. I'm going to do all that I can to prepare well for that," added the quietly spoken Matsuyama.

Ye Yang is the only Asian man to have won a major — the 2009 US PGA Championship. Matsuyama, with two wins a second in his last three starts, rose to a career high sixth in the world in the new rankings released Monday.
Matsuyama made it look ridiculously easy at Sheshan International Golf Club against a field that contained all four current major champions, 10 major champions in all, eight of the world's top 10 and 40 of the world's top 50. — Agencies


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