Séamus Power and Graeme McDowell both finished in a share of 12th place at the Bermuda Championship on Sunday where Irish Open champion Lucas Herbert came out on top for his maiden PGA Tour win.
It’s the best finish of the 2022 season for both players in the early stages of the campaign and Power may well have claimed a top five were it not for a couple of late bogeys.
The Waterford man signed for a round of 67 in the end but birdies at the second, seventh, 10th, 11th and 13th had moved him to 11 under par with five holes to play. However, a bogey at the Par 4 14th and another at the Par 3 16th saw him slip back before he finished with a birdie at the last to end on 10 under par, five shots behind Herbert’s winning score.
For McDowell it was a bogey-free final round but one that may leave him a little frustrated after a number of birdie chances slipped by, his only one of the round dropping at the Par 5 17th to get to one under for the day and see him finish with a round of 70.
In the end it was Herbert who came out on top after a dramatic final round on another blustery day at Port Royal.
The 25-year-old, who went into the decisive day four shots off the pace, kept his cool in howling wind and rain to finish 15 under par following a final round of 69.
Patrick Reed charged up the leaderboard on Sunday but his impressive six-under 65 left him agonisingly short, a single stroke behind the champion and tied for second with New Zealand’s Danny Lee.
Fourth-placed Patrick Rodgers was a shot further back while overnight leader Taylor Pendrith spectacularly fell out of contention.
Canadian Pendrith surrendered a three-shot advantage to finish joint fifth alongside Scott Stallings after three bogeys and a double bogey left him five over on the day and 12 under overall.
Testing weather conditions prompted the action to be temporarily suspended, with players forced to kneel down and shelter while holding onto their umbrellas.
Tournament winner Herbert previously triumphed twice on the European Tour.
Those victories came at the 2020 Omega Dubai Desert Classic, when he won in a playoff against South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout, and the 2021 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Mount Juliet.
Final scores from the Bermuda Championship, Port Royal Golf Course (USA unless stated, Par 71)
269 Lucas Herbert (Aus) 70 65 65 69
270 Danny Lee (Nzl) 67 67 65 71, Patrick Reed 68 69 68 65
271 Patrick Rodgers 68 64 69 70
272 Taylor Pendrith (Can) 70 61 65 76, Scott Stallings 74 68 68 62
273 Peter Malnati 70 65 67 71, Davis Riley 71 66 69 67, J. J. Spaun 73 65 67 68, Curtis Thompson 69 67 67 70, Vincent Whaley 66 67 68 72
274 Brian Gay 75 67 64 68, Russell Knox (Sco) 72 68 67 67, Graeme McDowell (NIrl) 70 67 67 70, Séamus Power (Irl) 67 70 70 67, Alex Smalley 69 67 70 68
275 Patrick Flavin 69 66 68 72, Justin Lower 67 68 67 73, (Cha) Ramey 65 71 68 71
276 Jonathan Byrd 72 68 65 71, Stephan Jaeger (Ger) 72 67 66 71
277 Thomas Detry (Bel) 73 66 68 70, Austin Eckroat 68 71 69 69, Dylan Frittelli (Rsa) 68 70 70 69, Mark Hubbard 74 63 69 71, Sean O’Hair 69 68 73 67, Chase Seiffert 71 65 72 69, Greyson Sigg 68 71 66 72, Adam Svensson (Can) 68 68 68 73
278 Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng) 71 68 67 72, Kramer Hickok 70 68 71 69, Seung-Yul Noh (Kor) 73 69 67 69, Guillermo Mito Pereira (Chi) 73 68 65 72
279 Garrick Higgo (Rsa) 67 72 65 75, David Skinns (Eng) 67 67 70 75, Peter Uihlein 71 65 68 75, Camilo Villegas (Col) 77 65 69 68, Brandon Wu 70 70 66 73
280 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha) 67 72 71 70, Scott Brown 71 69 69 71, Brett Drewitt (Aus) 72 66 69 73, Scott Gutschewski 69 70 69 72, David Hearn (Can) 69 72 69 70, Ben Kohles 74 68 64 74, Denny McCarthy 72 68 71 69
281 Luke Donald (Eng) 72 66 68 75, Robert Garrigus 72 67 72 70, Adam Hadwin (Can) 74 66 68 73, Nick Watney 70 72 71 68, Dylan Wu 69 69 66 77
282 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe) 68 68 73 73, Brandon Hagy 65 72 73 72, Ben Martin 71 70 72 69, Matthias Schwab (Aut) 74 63 72 73, Sepp Straka (Aut) 74 67 71 70, Johnson Wagner 74 67 66 75
283 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa) 71 68 70 74, Jim Knous 76 66 69 72, David Lingmerth (Swe) 75 67 69 72, Guido Migliozzi (Ita) 72 65 69 77, Seth Reeves 69 72 70 72
284 Max McGreevy 73 65 73 73, Aaron Rai (Eng) 71 69 71 73, Kyle Wilshire 73 67 72 72
285 Sang-Moon Bae (Kor) 71 69 68 77, Kurt Kitayama 74 68 70 73
287 Ryan Armour 73 69 72 73, Ben Crane 71 68 71 77, D. A. Points 69 69 71 78, John Senden (Aus) 72 70 72 73
288 Arjun Atwal (Ind) 70 72 75 71, Hayden Buckley 71 68 75 74, Lee Hodges 72 70 70 76
292 Sahith Theegala 74 66 72 80
294 John Merrick 72 68 76 78
