Golf Update: Jason Gore wins the Miccosukee Championship for the trophy
The Nationwide Tour's Miccosukee Championship ended on Sunday the 17th with Jason Gore topping the boards. The event held in Miami witnessed the thirty six year old firing an even par 71 at the last round of the tournament.
The victory in Miccosukee Championship is Gore’s first win in five years, his last victory dates back to 2005 at the Lumber Classic. On the Nationwide Tour, this is his 7th win which has awarded him more trophies than any event and marks him the
only golfer in the Tour’s 21 years to collect this much trophies.
Other than collecting the trophy form the Miccosukee Championship, Gore also earned a winning dollar amount of $ 108,000 and has thus catapulted from position number 124 to number thirty nine on the money list. After a record jump in mere 15 days, the thirty
six year old has qualified for the last Tour Championship. The championship in two weeks is marked as the season’s finale and now has Gore in the top-60 players for the finale.
Gore made 18 starts in total but managed to make only 10 cuts earlier this year. Other than the cut deficit, the thirty six year old had only one top 25 finish this year.
Even though Gore started his year slowly, his quest for the trophy made him start the final round of the event with a 2 shot lead.
The tough battle had lethal winds to make the competition tougher than expected and made collecting birdies even more knotty. Gore knew this was happening and regards one slip-up a brutal way to collect big numbers.
The 2 shot lead by the thirty six year old soon subdued when two bogeys popped up in his score card. The lead however came back to him after he collected two birdies in the next three holes.
According to Gore, if somebody wanted to catch him, they needed to be really hot with the putters and the leader boards shows David Heam as the chosen one to chase him. Goer’s two shot lead was cut down to one after Heam scored a birdie while standing at
minus 15. His chase nevertheless faltered at the 11th hole when he carded one bogey.
Until the 18th hole, Gore continued to play his unreachable chase and reached a 5 shot lead. His play at the last hole decreased his lead to 4 shots, but he still won the event with the prize money and a trophy to go with it.
Heam played the last hole of event by carding a birdie putt and tied himself at the fourth position. Gore’s competitor moved from position number 30 to position number twenty six at the money list after collecting dollar amount of 23,625.
Gore carded a minus 16 with a two shot lead to win the event with a 4. Scott Gutschewski finished his game at the second place and travelled from position number 27 to 18th on the money list. Won Joon Lee finished his game at the T4 and moved to number 50
after standing at number sixty five. The previous year, Lee had moved from spot number 73 to number forty seven at the same event.
Jason Gore will next be appearing at the inaugural Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open where Gore is anticipated to win. He has a history of winning back to back events like the 2002 the Oregon Classic and the Albertsons Boise Open and 2005 National Mining Association
Pete Dye Classic and the Scholarship America Showdown.
Here’s what he had to say after the win:
“People play for the money, I play for the trophy...they shine!”
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