Herbert breaks Tour duck with narrow victory at Bermuda Championship

Lucas Herbert shot a 2-under 69 in ferociously difficult wind to finish at 15-under 269 and edge Patrick Reed (65) and Danny Lee (71) by one shot at the Bermuda Championship on Sunday.

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Things to Know

• Lucas Herbert picks up his first PGA TOUR victory in his 20th start
• The PGA TOUR rookie entered the final round trailing by four strokes; marks the third come-from-behind win at the event
• The Australian becomes the fourth international winner on the PGA TOUR in as many weeks
• World No. 24 Patrick Reed finishes T2 to record seventh runner-up on TOUR
• Playing on a Minor Medical Extension, Danny Lee secures conditional PGA TOUR status with a runner-up finish
• After holding the outright lead after the second and third rounds Taylor Pendrith shoots 5-over76 and finishes T5
• Three players finish T7 to become exempt for next week’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba: Davis Riley, Curtis Thompson and Vincent Whaley
• In the final start under his Major Medical Extension, Jim Knous earns enough FedExCup points to retain conditional PGA TOUR and full Korn Ferry Tour status

Lucas Herbert

• Picks up his first PGA TOUR victory in his 20th start; previous-best career finish: T18/2021 the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday
• At 25 years, 10 months, 26 days, becomes the youngest winner of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship
• Becomes the first player to pick up his first PGA TOUR victory at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship and first first-time winner of the season
• Records the third come-from-behind win at the event; entered the final round trailing Taylor Pendrith by four strokes and closed with a 2-under 69,
• Four-stokes marks largest come-from-behind win of the season (previous: 3/Sungjae Im/Shriners Children’s Open)
• Collects 500 FedExCup points and moves to T5 with Rory Mcllroy in the FedExCup standings; projected to move from No. 57 to within the top 45 in the Official World Golf Ranking
• Australian becomes the first international winner of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship
• Records the fourth win by an international player on the PGA TOUR in as many weeks (Sungjae Im/Korea/Shriners Children’s Open, Rory McIlroy/Northern Ireland/THE CJ CUP @ SUMMIT, Hideki Matsuyama/Japan/ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP)
• With second European Tour title at the 2021 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open earlier this year, becomes the first Aussie since Adam Scott in 2008 (Qatar Masters, AT&T Byron Nelson) to win individual titles on both the European Tour and PGA TOUR in the same year
• Becomes the 10^th PGA TOUR player to win on Halloween and first since 2004 (Vijay Singh/Valspar Championship)
• Earned PGA TOUR membership for this season via Korn Ferry Tour Finals, highlighted by a T4 finish at 2021 Albertsons Boise Open

Additional Notes

• The highest-ranked player in the field at No. 24 on the Official World Golf Ranking, Patrick Reed, closes with a 6-under 65 to finish T2 (-14) and record his seventh runner-up result on TOUR; marks best finish since fifth at 2021 the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday
• Playing in the final group, New Zealander Danny Lee (T2/-14) was in search of his first PGA TOUR win since the 2015 Greenbrier Classic; playing on a Minor Medical Extension secured conditional PGA TOUR status and has two tournaments remaining to earn 44 FedExCup points to regain full PGA TOUR status
• Patrick Rodgers (4th/-13) improves results with each start in Bermuda (MC/2019, T59/2020, 4th/2021); marks second top-10 finish of the season (T6/Fortinet Championship)
• Scott Stallings (T5/-12) started the day 14-strokes (T50) off the lead and recorded nine birdies en route to 9-under 62, the low round of the day and his lowest round in an individual stroke play event on TOUR since the 2017 Barbasol Championship (60/R3)
• PGA TOUR rookie Taylor Pendrith (T5/-12) held the outright lead after the second and third rounds before shooting a final-round 5-over 76; marks best finish of his TOUR career (previous: T11/2021 Barbasol Championship); week highlighted by matching the Butterfield Bermuda Championship 36-hole scoring record and tying the 54-hole tournament record
• With T7 (-11) results, Davis Riley, Curtis Thompson and Vincent Whaley post career-best results and earn a start in next week’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba
• Peter Malnati (T7/-11) earns his second top-25 finish of the season (T22/Sanderson Farms Championship) 
• Defending champion Brian Gay finished T12 at 10-under; first player to record 100 putts or less in a tournament this season
• In the final start under his Major Medical Extension, Jim Knous (T56/-2) earns enough FedExCup points to retain conditional PGA TOUR and full Korn Ferry Tour status for the remainder of the season; entered the week needing 3.516 points (solo 67th) to do so and earned 5 points with the five-way T57