Brandon Wu is a winner on the Korn Ferry Tour.
The 23-year-old won his first Korn Ferry Tour title Sunday at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship. He finished one shot ahead of Greyson Sigg.
Wu, who was coming off a T-58 finish at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, fired a bogey-free 7-under 65 in the final round to take the title at Victoria National Golf Club in Newburgh, Indiana.
Wu said that throughout Sunday’s final round, he knew he was playing well but tried to stick to his game plan and stayed in the moment. He didn’t even know he was leading until his second shot on 18 when he asked his caddie.
“It’s almost surreal,” Wu said. “I mean I think over a month and a half ago and I was still playing Monday qualifiers and just hoping to get kind of a schedule going and I think standing here 6, 7 weeks later being a winner of the (Korn Ferry) Tour Championship is just an awesome feeling and quite surreal.”
Wu, who earned a spot in the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot with his win, carded rounds of 67-69-69-65 to finish the event at 18-under 270.
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One of the biggest up and downs of his life so far.@bwu97 earns his first #KornFerryTour win @TourChampULF. 🏆 pic.twitter.com/dV9FIAnU5a
— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) August 30, 2020
Before Sunday’s win, Wu’s best finish was T-2 at the Albertsons Boise Open in August. Wu has competed in six tournaments, recorded three top 10s and made five cuts. He also finished T-9 at the Price Cutter Charity Championship in July.
Wu competed in five PGA Tour events this season including the 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in which he finished T-38 at 2 under and the 2019 Houston Open where he finished T-17 at 8 under. The former Stanford Cardinal also competed in two PGA Tour majors last season. He qualified for the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, finishing T-35 at 1 over, and the 2019 British Open, where he missed the cut.
Sigg was 3 under on the day at Victoria National until a double-bogey on the par-4 14th derailed his round. He finished the day with a 1-under 71. Vince India, Seth Reeves and Dan McCarthy finished T-3 at 16 under.
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