Young gun Dunlap sets PGA Tour first with second win

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Young **** Dunlap sets PGA Tour first with second win

Nick Dunlap has become the first player in PGA Tour history to win as an ******** and as a professional in the same year, rallying for a two-point victory in the Barracuda Championship.

In January at The ********* Express in La Quinta, the 20-year-old Dunlap – then a sophomore at the University of Alabama – became the eighth ******** to win a tour event and the first in 33 years. He turned professional days later.

On Sunday at Tahoe Mountain Club in California in the only PGA Tour event that uses the modified Stableford scoring system, Dunlap took the lead with a 55-foot eagle putt on the par-5 15th.

He went on to win from Vince Whaley with Patrick Fishburn a further point back in third place.

Players receive eight points for a double eagle, five for eagle and two for birdie. A point is deducted for bogey and three for double bogey.

“After I made the putt on 15, we started playing through some serious adrenaline,” Dunlap said on the Golf Channel broadcast.

“Never even thought that was a possibility, to be honest with you,” Dunlap said of his feat in winning as both an ******** and a pro in the same season.

“I gotta thank my team. They’re so supportive.”

Nine points behind leader Mac Meissner entering the day, Dunlap had 19 points in the bogey-free round to finish with 49. He birdied six of the first 12 holes on the tree-lined Old Greenwood course.

With two events left in the regular season, Dunlap jumped from 95th to 63rd in the tour’s FedEx Cup standings. The top 70 will advance to the playoffs.

Whaley made a 17-foot birdie putt on par-4 18th for a nine-point day.

Fishburn had 46 points, holing a 10-footer for birdie on 18 to cap a 12-point round.

Meissner was fourth at 44. He closed a five-point round with a bogey.

Taylor Pendrith and Patrick Rodgers tied for fifth at 43.

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