2018/2019 TOURNAMENT OVERVIEW
March 28-31, 2019
Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship Location Corales Golf Course, Puntacana Resort & Club, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Course Information
Yardage 7,670; par 72
2018 Champion Brice Garnett, U.S.
Media Coverage Golf Channel
Tickets Daily grounds tickets cost $10 and a weekly ticket is $50, available through www.puntacana.com/ coraleschampionship.
“Once I looked at the board I was five or six ahead, so I knew smart golf was going to take care of things.” —Brice Garnett
HOW BRICE GARNETT WON
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Puntacana Resort & Club has 45 holes, including the Tom Fazio-designed Corales Course, which opened in 2010. The course plays along the cliffs, bays and coves of the Caribbean Sea, with six oceanside holes, and the inland holes are dotted with lakes and coralina quarries. The course features ever-changing elevations, strategic bunkering and massive, elevated greens.
Brice Garnett opened with a 63 and went on to a wire-to-wire victory with an 18-under 270 total. Garnett led by one stroke after each of the first two rounds and by two through 54 holes. He stretched the advantage to five with birdies on Nos. 2-4 in the final round. After a 2-under 34 on the front nine, he managed an even-par back nine as the weather conditions worsened with wind and rain, finishing with a 70. It was the first victory on the PGA TOUR for the 34-year-old, who won twice on the Web.com Tour in 2017. Keith Mitchell and Kelly Kraft each closed with 67, but started the final round too far back and finished second and third. Corey Conners, the player closest to Garnett through 54 holes, finished with a 74 for T13. Garnett didn’t make a bogey in the first or second rounds as he shot 63-68. Garnett ranked second for the week in Putts per Round at 25.5. He needed only 10 putts in his first nine holes on Sunday. Garnett was No. 1 in Par 3 Scoring at 2.75.
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Runner-up Keith Mitchell shot a final-round 67.
Kelly Kraft was third with a 13-under 275 total.
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