Ireland’s Seamus Power breaks through to become a winner on the PGA Tour in capturing the Barbasol Championship in Kentucky.

Hereunder is all the facts and figures on his win.

 

Weather: Partly cloudy. High of 82. Wind ENE 7-14 mph.

Final-Round Leaderboard

Seamus Power                   65-68-67-67—267 (-21)*

J.T. Poston                          65-66-66-70—267 (-21)

Anirban Lahiri                    68-67-68-65—268 (-20)

Sam Ryder                          66-69-68-65—268 (-20)

*Defeated J.T. Poston with a par-4 on the sixth playoff hole (No. 18)

Things to Know

• Seamus Power defeats J.T. Poston in a six-hole playoff to pick up his first PGA TOUR victory
• Power becomes the eighth first-time winner of the season
• Playoff records: Power (1-0), Poston (0-1)
• Poston falls to 0-for-2 in his career when holding the 54-hole lead/co-lead
• Defending champion Jim Herman finishes T20

 Seamus Power (following the week)

Category	Seamus Power
Age	34 (3/4/1987)
FedExCup	69
OWGR	113
Starts at Barbasol Championship	4
Wins at Barbasol Championship	1
Top-10s at Barbasol Championship	1
PGA TOUR starts	106
PGA TOUR wins	1
PGA TOUR Top-10s	10
Starts in 2020-21	15
Wins in 2020-21	1
Top-10s in 2020-21	4

Seamus Power (1st/-21)

• Earned his first career PGA TOUR win in his 106th TOUR start at 34 years, 4 months, 14 days
• Entered the final round trailing J.T. Poston by three-strokes; closed with a 5-under 67 to earn a spot in the playoff
• Wins in his first playoff appearance on the PGA TOUR; was the 10th playoff of the season on TOUR
• Win comes in his fourth start at Barbasol Championship (T18/2017, T34/2018, T53/2019, 1st/2021)
• Collects 300 FedExCup points and projected to move to No. 69 in the FedExCup standings; took 376 points to qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs in 2019 (last full regular season), 659 for BMW Championship and 1254 for the TOUR Championship
• Becomes the eighth first-time winner this season, joining Jason Kokrak, Carlos Ortiz, Joel Dahmen, Sam Burns, K.H. Lee, Garrick Higgo, Cam Davis
• Previous-best finish on TOUR was T5 (2018 Corales Puntacana, 2019 Zurich Classic of New Orleans)

J. T. Poston (2nd/-21)

• Falls to 0-for-2 in his career when holding the 54-hole lead/co-lead this season (3^rd/2020 Sanderson Farms Championship, 2nd/Barbasol Championship)
• Most recent top-10 result before Sunday’s runner-up finish was third-place finish at the 2020 Sanderson Farms Championship
• Was in search of his second PGA TOUR win (2019 Wyndham Championship)

Additional Player Notes

• James Hahn (T5/-19) follows a career-best and tournament-record-tying 12-under 60 with a 70 for first top-5 since the 2020 Shriners Children’s Open
• Sam Ryder (T3/-20) notched his fourth top-10 of the season after posting the most bogey-free rounds on the week (3)
• In his tournament debut, India native Anirban Lahiri (T3/-20) finished just one stroke back in search of his first PGA TOUR title
• Coming off a T6 in last year’s Barbasol Championship, Lexington native and Morehead State University graduate Josh Teater (T15/-17) used a final-round 6-under 66 to claim his best finish since the 2020 Puerto Rico Open (2^nd)
• Defending champion Jim Herman finished T20 (-15) in bid to become event’s first repeat winner

Course Statistics

Toughest Hole                                                Easiest Hole

R1:         Par-4 17^th (4.214)                                            Par-5 15^th (4.221)

R2:         Par-4 18^th (4.110)/Par-3 14^th (3.110)              Par-5 15^th (4.386)

R3:         Par-4 18^th (4.289)                                            Par-5 15^th (4.053)

R4:         Par-4 4^th (4.250)                                              Par-5 15^th (4.329)

Week:    Par-4 18^th (4.124)                                            Par-5 15^th (4.261)

Scoring Averages

              Front 9                 Back 9                  Total                    Cumulative

R1:         34.282                  35.389                  69.672                  –

R2:         34.937                  35.480                  70.417                  70.039

R3:         34.539                  34.776                  69.316                  69.802

R4:         34.750                  35.184                  69.934                  69.885

Bogey-free Scores

R1 (10): Will Grimmer (64), Seamus Power (65), Bobby Bai (66), Bo Hoag (66), Sam Ryder (66), Adam Schenk (66), Lee Hodges (67), Beau Hossler (67), Davis Riley (68), George McNeill (69)

R2 (13): Dominic Bozzelli (65), Ryan Brehm (66), J.T. Poston (66), Patrick Rodgers (67), Josh Teater (67), K.J. Choi (68), Michael Gligic (68), Luke List (68), J.J. Spaun (69), Nick Taylor (69), Sam Ryder (69), Cameron Percy (69), Aaron Baddeley (71)

R3 (7): James Hahn (60), Luke List (65), Bo Van Pelt (66), J.T. Poston (66), Bo Hoag (67), Ben Taylor (68), J.J. Spaun (69)

R4 (3): Robert Garrigus (65), Sam Ryder (65), Michael Gligic (66)