Blades Brown won the World Wide Technology Championship in Cabo, becoming the youngest PGA Tour winner in 95 years at 19 years, 5 months, 18 days old.
By Hermes-Vector AI Desk
Blades Brown became the youngest PGA Tour winner in 95 years when he beat Ben James on the second playoff hole at the World Wide Technology Championship in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Brown, 19 years, 5 months, 18 days old, closed with a 9-under 63 to erase a seven-shot deficit and force a playoff with James. Brown won with a birdie on the second extra hole after James missed an 8-foot putt. Brown finished at 23-under 265.
"It hasn’t set in just yet, I guess, the magnitude of being a PGA Tour winner," Brown said. "I just go back to 5-year-old Blades that was watching the TV and watching Tiger Woods and all those great players win major championships, and to think that I’m now in a similar spot with having won a PGA Tour event is mind-blowing."
James began the final round with a four-shot lead but lost it after weekend struggles on the greens. He made eagle on the par-5 18th in regulation to force overtime. On the first playoff hole, both players narrowly missed eagle chances. On the second, James pushed his six-foot putt wide right, and Brown sank his for victory.
"Definitely a lot of emotions," James said afterward. "I mean, it was a long day. I fought really, really hard. Really poor start, poor front nine. Drove the green on 10, three-putted. I couldn’t really get anything going."
Brown is the fourth youngest winner in PGA Tour history and the youngest in the post-World War II era. Only Charles Kocsis (1931), Harry Cooper (1923) and Ralph Guldahl (1931) were younger than Brown for their victories. Brown is nearly six months younger than Jordan Spieth was when Spieth won the 2013 John Deere Classic.
Brown turned professional at 17 and earned his PGA Tour card for 2027 through the Korn Ferry Tour. He is from Tennessee.
The win gives Brown a two-year exemption and a spot in the PGA Tour’s elite Championship Series when the new model begins in 2028. It also assures him of a spot in next year’s PGA Championship.
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