New Valero Texas Open winner Steven Bowditch picked up the biggest single pay cheque of his career along with a pair of size 12 Texas cowboy boots.
Hereunder is final round notes from Bowditch’s victory on the Greg Norman designed TPC San Antonio course.
2014 Valero Texas Open (The 20th of 41 events in the PGA TOUR Season)
San Antonio, TX March 27-30, 2014 FedExCup Points: 500 Purse: $6,200,000
TPC San Antonio – AT&T Oaks Course Par/Yards: 36-36—72/7,435
Weather: Mostly sunny, with highs in the low-80s with SE winds at 15-25 mph with occasional higher gusts.
Final Leaderboard
Steven Bowditch holds aloft the Texas Open trophy.
Steven Bowditch 69-67-68-76 – 280 (-8)
Will MacKenzie 69-72-70-70 – 281 (-7)
Daniel Summerhays 72-68-70-71 – 281 (-7)
Matt Kuchar 70-7 2-65-75 – 282 (-6)
Andrew Loupe 67-70-70-75 – 282 (-6)
Steven Bowditch
He wins for the first time in 110 career starts on the PGA TOUR. His previous best finish was a T2 at last year’s The Greenbrier Classic.
He earns 500 FedExCup points with his victory and is now 26th on the season-long points list with 626 points.
Steven Bowditch tries on his size 12 Texas Cowboy boots. (Photo – www.golfbytourmiss.com)
He becomes the third Australian native to win on the PGA TOUR this year, joining Jason Day (WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship) and John Senden (Valspar Championship).
He earns a first prize cheque for $1,116,000, the largest of his professional career. His previous best was $415,800 at last year’s The Greenbrier Classic where he was T2.
He won twice on the Web.com Tour — 2005Jacob’s Creek Open Championship and 2010 Soboba Golf Classic. He also won the 2010 New South Wales PGA Championship.
With his victory, Bowditch earns the second-to-last “win-and-you’re-in” invitation to the Masters Tournament in two weeks. He also earns fully-exempt status on the PGA TOUR through 2016.
With the win, Bowditch becomes the fourth consecutive Valero Texas Open winner to earn a berth in the Masters with his victory.
His final-round 4-over-par 76 was the highest score by a winner since Vijay Singh posted a similar score at the 2004 PGA Championship.Bowditch becomes the 17th Texas resident to win the Valero Texas Open. Bowditch now resides in Dallas.
He becomes the fourth Australian-born player to win the Texas Open after Adam Scott in 2010, Bruce Crampton in 1964 and Joe Kirkwood in 1924
Bowditch was 1-over-par on the front nine and 9-under-par on the back nine for the tournament.
Bowditch’s best finish coming into this event for the 2013-‘14 PGA TOUR Season was a T19 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
PLUS Bowditch also won himself a pair of size 12 Texas Cowboy boots.
