As if winning a golf tournament wasn’t hard enough, brutal weather brought added pressure to the final round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Unless you’re Lucas Herbert, who fully embraced the wild conditions on the way to his first win on the PGA TOUR. “I love playing when it’s really hard. It makes you be that little bit better … I just enjoyed the struggle out there,” said the 25-year-old champion.
It certainly was a struggle out there, and not just because of the weather. Patrick Reed put his feet up after birdies on his last two holes to post the clubhouse lead at 14 under. Herbert’s playing partner Danny Lee overcame a double bogey-bogey-bogey stretch to get within one on the 18th tee.
But the young Aussie, who also has two wins on the European Tour, maintained his composure to seal it with a par at the last. “It opens up so many doors,” said Herbert.
After securing his first TOUR card in last season’s Korn Ferry Tour Finals, Herbert picked up 500 FedExCup points and has secured his foreseeable future in golf.
Lucas Herbert carded four birdies on Sunday in Bermuda. (Getty Images)
