Snedeker Wins Farmers Insurance Open

Now he has a trophy to show for it.

The final round suspended three times because of conditions deemed too severe to play, and it was uncertain if the Farmers Insurance Open would finish Sunday.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be a champion here again, how unbelievable the last 48 hours have been”, said Snedeker, the first player in more than five years to make the cut on the number and win the tournament. “They got the raw end of the stick this morning”.

“It’s one of those days where you throw everything out of your mind and go play golf and grind as best as you possibly could”.

“[It] feels eerily similar, actually”, Snedeker said Sunday.

He posted at 6-under 282. The Sunday scoring average was working out to be a shade of 78, which would position this as the second-highest scoring average in a non-major PGA Tour final round since 1983. After missing a 15-foot par putt on the opening hole, Snedeker bore down and kept his round from getting away by knocking in a 35-foot par putt on the fourth hole that runs along the ocean, and then a 15-foot par putt on the next hole.

Choi went to the par-5 18th hole with a chance to tie, but pushed his approach 45feet right and above the pin and left his birdie putt 3 feet to the left of the hole. He closed with a 76. He did not regroup during the night, finishing with six bogeys and two double bogeys on the back nine.

It was the second time Snedeker has won at Torrey Pines, and he needed help both times.

Choi was six-under through 10 when the play was halted, one behind Jimmy Walker and tied with Snedeker, who’d already completed his round of three-under 69, an impressive score given the treacherous conditions.

Snedeker did his part. But at 8 a.m., “I looked outside my hotel window and there was no wind”. A 75-foot-tall eucalyptus fell into the fairway at the par-4 15th, according to the newspaper.

Players were hitting wedge into the 14th on Sunday. He was in control of the ball, hit handsome iron shots, putted well.

Needing an eagle to force a playoff, the third-ranked Lewis parred the par-5 18th for a 68. The only volunteers who will be working Monday will be driving the vans used to evacuate the players if necessary.

It was his eighth career victory, four of them in California.

Snedeker began 206 in 49th position in the world ranking – he is now 12th.

Choi had his best finish since June 2014.

“It played tough into the wind”, the 37-year-old Walker said.

That’s what Brandt Snedeker did on Monday at the Farmers Insurance Open, where he snuck into the clubhouse Sunday with an astounding 3-under 69 while the rest of the field was terrorized by the wind and simply tried to break 80.