Associated Press photo by Rogelio V. Solis / Sebastian Munoz pumps his fist after sinking a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to force a playoff in the Sanderson Farms Championship on Sunday in Jackson, Miss. Munoz won a playoff to earn his first PGA Tour victory.JACKSON, Miss. – Sebastian Munoz didn’t think he was good enough for the PGA Tour until he watched Carlos Ortiz, his college teammate at North Texas, reach the big leagues.
He wasn’t sure he was good enough to win until watching Joaquin Niemann celebrate his first PGA Tour victory – and the first for a golfer from Chile – last week.
Munoz was on his own late Sunday afternoon in the Sanderson Farms Championship, and he delivered all the right shots.
Down to his last stroke at Country Club of Jackson, the 26-year-old Colombian holed a 15-foot birdie putt for a 2-under-par 70 to force a playoff with South Korea’s Sungjae Im. And in the playoff, he let Im make the more crucial mistake.
Munoz hit a chip-and-run shot to push the ball to just less than four feet from the hole, then made the par putt for his first PGA Tour victory.