Wise Earns First Career PGA Tour Win
05/20/18 | Men's Golf
DALLAS – Former Oregon men's golfer Aaron Wise got his first career PGA Tour win in dominant fashion, finishing 23 under for the week in the AT&T Byron Nelson Sunday at Trinity Forest Golf Club.
Wise began the day tied for the lead with Marc Leishman at 17 under, but used a 5-under 31 on the front nine to take a two-shot lead. He made six birdies in a seven-hole stretch between holes four and 10 before making eight pars to close out his bogey-free round of 6-under 65.
"I felt oddly calm all day long," Wise told CBS following his round. "To pull that off and to play as well as I did – bogey-free – it was awesome."
The 2016 NCAA Individual Champion is the fourth former Duck to win on the PGA Tour. Ben Crane is the most recent ex-Oregon standout to win on tour as he won the 2014 FedEx St. Jude Classic. Peter Jacobsen won seven times on the PGA Tour while Thomas Shaw won four times.
The win gives Wise a PGA Tour exemption through the 2019-20 season and moved him into 18th place in the FedEx Cup Standings. His score of 23 under for the week also set a new record-low to-par in the AT&T Byron Nelson.
Wise began the day tied for the lead with Marc Leishman at 17 under, but used a 5-under 31 on the front nine to take a two-shot lead. He made six birdies in a seven-hole stretch between holes four and 10 before making eight pars to close out his bogey-free round of 6-under 65.
"I felt oddly calm all day long," Wise told CBS following his round. "To pull that off and to play as well as I did – bogey-free – it was awesome."
The 2016 NCAA Individual Champion is the fourth former Duck to win on the PGA Tour. Ben Crane is the most recent ex-Oregon standout to win on tour as he won the 2014 FedEx St. Jude Classic. Peter Jacobsen won seven times on the PGA Tour while Thomas Shaw won four times.
The win gives Wise a PGA Tour exemption through the 2019-20 season and moved him into 18th place in the FedEx Cup Standings. His score of 23 under for the week also set a new record-low to-par in the AT&T Byron Nelson.
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