RESULTS OF THE 20TH TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

VARGAS’S GO 1-2
IN THE 20TH TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Walter Bests Doug In Tie-Breaker

Walter Vargas ended his 2022 season with his 3rd victory – 2nd in a major – after winning the Tour Championship Saturday at Chester Washington. It marked the 2nd time he claimed the MGM Tour’s club championship (he won in 2008), but first in the “modern era” of the event.  The Vargas brothers both ended their rounds with a net-66 on the par-70 course, triggering the tie-breaker: lowest cumulative gross on holes 9 and 10.  Walter went bogey-bogey (9) while Doug carded double bogey-bogey (10).  The victory marked the 19th of Walter Vargas’s career.

2022 TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL SCORES (par-70)

QUICK CHIPS

Major accomplishments: Walter Vargas joins Chris Moawad and Travis Gordon as the only double major winners in a single season… Sibling rivalry: Walter’s 5th career win in a major ties him with brother Doug. Saturday marked the 3rd time the brothers finished 1-2 in a major. Walter prevailed twice in the Masters (2015 by a single stroke, and 2010). Doug defeated Walter in the 2009 Match Play Finals… Tournament leaders: Pars (6), Doug Vargas followed by Walter Vargas (2); bogeys (10), Walter Vargas followed by Martin Witt (5)… Tweet-tweet: no birdies, $12 now rolls over to next season… Milestones: Gerry Vaughan made his 110th start, P-Jay Fidler his 80th.
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OVER BEFORE IT BEGAN

The highly anticipated showdown between #1 Chris Moawad and #2 Walter Vargas to determine Player of the Year never materialized after the shocking news on the eve of the tournament that Moawad had tested positive for Covid.  It was a scenario neither golfer preferred but Walter Vargas’s win in the Tour Championship – his 3rd victory of the season – dispelled any ambiguity of the rightful winner of 2022 Player of the Year.