Scotland’s Russell Knox was heading to Mexico looking for less bruising weather conditions than he faced on the final day of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

Knox had been out in the second group on day one experiencing cramps in  both hands as he fought to control his umbrella in the wet and very windy conditions on the Port Royal course.

And it was a repeat of the wild Atlantic weather on day four with Knox standing tall in shooting a gutsy four-under par 67 for an eventual 10-under total that saw the Scot finish top-16 in the now three hostings of the PGA Tour event.

Knox had birdied three holes in succession from the second before a birdie on 11 only to drop a shot at 14 ahead a birdie on 15 but then after bogeying the penultimate hole, he emerged from the rain with a 72^nd hole birdie.

Russell Knox now heading to Mexico looking for windy condtions less testing than the brutal Bermuda Championship weather

Knox said: “I am very happy with the way I played given the weather as I haven’t had a nice good finish in a while, even though I have been playing good and feeling good about my game.

“Also, I’m really pleased given how difficult the conditions were on Thursday morning and then again today in similar weather, so to finish up there in the top-15 makes me pretty happy”.

Organisers brought the final day tee times forward to earlier in the day to avoid the worst of the conditions but the weather turned for the worst before the leaders had made the turn.

And for a second time in the four days, there was a short stoppage due to another driving rain squall making play impossible with Knox at the par-3 16^th tee and probably the most exposed part of the course.

He said: “The 16^th tee was not the hole you wanted to be waiting on given it’s high above looking out over the Atlantic but in saying that I was pleased for the stoppage as I would not like to have hit it in the pouring rain, at the time

“I grew-up in strong winds like this week back home in Scotland and the only place on the Tour where we’ve had stronger winds was a few years back in San Antonio, and that was a much harder course”.

Knox’s Bermuda effort is easily his best finish in just a fourth event of the new 2021/22 season while it’s a result since his seventh place result last April at Pebble Beach.

Knox had been one-over post his first round with just three birdies and then amassed 16 birdied over the ensuring round and with the result seeing him jump some 50 spots to 54 on the FedEx Cup standings

Though pleased to be off the Bermuda course, the Scot was hoping for windy conditions at Thursday’s starting World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba laid out along the exposed Caribbean shoreline in Mexico.

He said: “Over the years, my goal has been to have really good weather or really bad weather.  So it would be strange if it was calm next week after what we’ve gone through this week.

“I would like the wind to be blowing but at 10 to 20 mph just to keep it interesting.”

And it’s not lost that Knox went so close to back-to-back PGA Tour wins in the 2015 event in losing out in a play-off to Graeme McDowell.