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[PGA TOUR]

HERMAN closes out

'very Satisfying'
win at the Wyndham

Championship

윈덤 챔피언쉽

짐 하먼 우승

'매우 만족스러운'

마무리

REENSBORO, N.C. – Jim at the Wyndham Championship “Yeah, the FedExCup was definitely
Herman had planned to get and grab the Sam Snead Cup. off the radar,” Herman said.
Gin his rental car on Sunday So, instead of driving to Palm City, In some ways, so was Herman, a
night and start driving down 1-95 Florida, to see his wife Carolyn and three-time winner who nonetheless
toward his home in Florida. their kids Abigail and Andrew, Her- has spent the bulk of his career
Herman had about 10 hours and man will head to TPC Boston for living on the fringes of the PGA
700-odd miles ahead of him. If he the FedExCup Playoffs opener at TOUR.
made it halfway and grabbed some THE NORTHERN TRUST. The 42-year-old has only had 10
sleep, he figured he could make it “My son's probably not going to top-10 finishes in 195 starts on
home Monday in time to see the be too happy about that, but he'll TOUR – but defied the odds by
kids get back from school. forgive me since I'm bringing home turning three of those into victo-
“It was just going to be dad again the trophy,” Herman said with a ries.
and try to figure out this thing, smile. The first, which Herman termed
figure out this game of golf, try to Herman’s victory, one that even he “life-changing,” came at the 2016
get my head right and start back up called “out of the blue,” enabled Houston Open when he beat
at Safeway,” Herman said, thinking him to jump from No. 192 to 54th Henrik Stenson by one and Dustin
ahead to what he expected to be a in the FedExCup and make the Johnson by two. The second, which
three-week break before the PGA Playoffs for only the fourth time in was “redemptive,” he said, came a
TOUR’s 2020-21 season began. his career. It was the largest move year ago at the Barbasol Champi-
Even the best-laid plans have a way in the regular season finale since onship, ending a dismal string of
of changing, though. And Herman’s 2009, eclipsing the 110-point surge 16 missed cuts in his previous 19
did – in a big way – when he fired a when Davis Love III won at Sedge- starts.
63 on Sunday to beat Billy Horschel field in 2015. And making the win at Sedgefield

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