LA QUINTA, Calif. – Andrew Landry was reeling Sunday after blowing a six-stroke lead on the back nine of PGA West’s Stadium Course.
“I don’t want to be a part of something like that ever again,” the 32-year-old Texan said.
He regrouped – telling caddie Terry Walker, “Let’s go get this job done, like, quit messing around” – to finish first at The American Express, winning the second PGA Tour title of his career with a shot to spare.
Landry broke a tie with Abraham Ancer with a seven-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole, the jagged rock-ringed, island-green par 3 called Alcatraz.
“That was probably the shot of the tournament for me,” Landry said. “Just to be able to go over there and to that right hole location and just hold one up and hit a good distance and have a seven-, eight-footer to look at. Thankfully, it went in and kind of made 18 a little bit easier.”