HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) – Wesley Bryan hadn’t played in a PGA Tour sanctioned event 15 months ago. Now, he’s a tour winner.
What’s changed?
“I do not know,” Bryan said Sunday after winning his first tour title at the RBC Heritage, choosing to cite Will Ferrell’s line from the movie Anchorman: “That escalated quickly.”
Bryan got some attention for his internet trick shots, but had not done much in his mini-tour career after playing college golf at South Carolina until making the Web.com Tour and winning three times in his debut season last year. Bryan earned a promotion to the PGA Tour, and now he’s got a trophy, the first South Carolinian to win the tour’s lone stop in the Palmetto State.
“Honestly, I’ve got no idea,” Bryan said. “It’s still kind of surreal. Maybe one day I’ll wake up and kind of realize what’s gone on the last 15 months or so.”