Hoey fades in final push and finishes joint eighth in Barracuda Championship – BusinessWorld Online
THE Philippines’ Rico Hoey faded in the final push for the Barracuda Championship diadem and settled for joint eighth Sunday in Truckee, California.
Starting the day as joint pacesetter with eventual winner Ryan Gerard, Hoey stumbled with a double bogey and a bogey in the first two holes of the Tahoe Mountain Club and couldn’t recover from there.
The 29-year-old Fil-Am mixed four bogeys against four birdies the rest of the way, resulting in a scoreless card for the last round under the tournament’s Modified Stableford format scoring.
Stuck with the 34 points he pooled in the first three days, Mr. Hoey fell seven spots in the final leaderboard as he tied English David Skinns and Australian Jason Scrivener of Australia for eighth to 10th places.
The California-based parbuster banked $117,000 (around P6.7 million) for this Top 10 finish in Truckee, his second for the season and sixth overall in the PGA Tour.
American Ryan Gerard, Mr. Hoey’s third-round co-leader, fired a closing 13 points to get the job done at 47 markers. Mr. Gerard beat 2021 winner Erik van Rooyen of South Africa by three points on his way to a breakthrough title in the Tour. — Olmin Leyba