This fact about J.T. Poston, winner of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., caught my eye in this morning's sports section: "He became the first player since Lee Trevino in 1974 to win a 72-hole stroke-play event on tour without any bogeys or worse."
Trevino was the first to achieve such a four-round run (at least since the Tour split from the PGA in 1968), doing so at the Greater New Orleans Open Invitational. He shot a 267 that weekend, going 21 under and leaving two runners-up in his dust eight strokes behind.
In the last tournament to be held at Lakewood Golf Club, the 12-year host of the local event, Trevino scored 65 in the final round, remarking that it hadn't been since the 1968 US Open that he had "hit the ball so solid." He had shot 67, 68, and 67 in previous rounds and earned $30,000 for winning the championship. Bobby Cole's three-round total was the same going into March 31, but a 1-over 73 that Sunday sent him into a tie with Ben Crenshaw.
This was Trevino's 15th PGA Tour win (including majors) since the Tour went off on its own, and his sixteenth would come at the 1974 PGA Championship.
For comparison: at par-70 Sedgefield Country Club, Poston went 22 under (65-65-66-62), but finished just one stroke ahead of Webb Simpson and two ahead of Byeong-hun An to secure the $1,116,000 prize and his first PGA Tour win. Poston is 26 years old, and Trevino was 34 when he achieved his bogey-free weekend. Times change, and history doesn't Xerox itself.
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