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                    Tuesday 18 april 2017

              RBC Heritage                                                                                                      front-nine  run,  with  bird-
                                                                                                                                ies on the fourth, fifth, sixth
                                                                                                                                and seven holes. After Bry-
                                                                                                                                an  moved  in  front  on  the
               Continued from Page 17                                                                                           15th, he sweated out three
                                                                                                                                straight two-putt pars.
            While  excited  about  the                                                                                          The 23-year-old Schnieder-
            breakthrough       victory,                                                                                         jans, five shots behind when
            Bryan  believes  it’s  just  a                                                                                      the  round  began,  made
            stepping  stone  to  bigger                                                                                         it all up and was out front
            dreams  he’s  had  since                                                                                            with  five  front-nine  bird-
            playing  the  game  as  a                                                                                           ies.  Competing  for  his  first
            child.                                                                                                              PGA Tour win at the tricky
            “At  the  end  of  the  day,                                                                                        Pete  Dye  layout  proved
            it  doesn’t  really  change                                                                                         too  daunting  for  the  inex-
            anything other than I now                                                                                           perienced  Schniederjans.
            have  one  PGA  Tour  vic-                                                                                          He missed makeable birdie
            tory,”  he  said.  “There  are                                                                                      tries on the 13th, 14th and
            a lot of guys that have just                                                                                        15th,  then  failed  to  get  in
            one  PGA  Tour  victory.  My                                                                                        for par after hitting into the
            one goal is to get number                                                                                           bunker on the par-3 17th.
            two at this point.”                                                                                                 “It was a great week and
            Donald shot 68 in his latest                                                                                        a good experience on the
            close call at Harbour Town                                                                                          back,” Schniederjans said.
            Golf Links — it was his fifth   Wesley Bryan holds the trophy after winning RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island,   “I tried to win the golf tour-
                                         S.C., Sunday, April 16, 2017.
            second-place  finish  here                                                                         Associated Press  nament and I came up a
            since 2009.                                                                                                         little short maybe this time.
            The    27-year-old   Bryan   Ollie Schniederjans, Patrick  and brother George IV, an-  There were no tricks to Wes-  But  another  good  experi-
            tapped  in  for  par  on  the   Cantlay and William McGirt  other  Gamecocks  golfer,  ley Bryan’s round this time,   ence Sunday.”
            closing,  18th  lighthouse   tied  for  third,  two  strokes  pulling off often unbelieve-  the  first  to  win  at  Harbour   Donald  appeared  done
            hole  to  make  the  former   behind Bryan.               able trick shots — like chip-  Town in his first try since Boo   after driving out of bounds
            trick-shot  artist  the  first   Schniederjans   shot   68,  ping the ball 20 yards to a  Weekley won the first of his   on  the  second  hole  and
            South  Carolinian  to  win   Cantlay 67 and McGirt 69.    waiting  Bryan  brother  to  two straight RBC Heritages   leaving   the   birdie-able
            the  state’s  lone  PGA  Tour   Bryan  was  largely  known  belt away before it hits the  in 2007.                  par-5 with a double-bogey
            event.                       as a YouTube sensation, he  ground.                       Bryan  got  it  going  with  his   seven. q
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