Out Of Nowhere, Jim Herman Takes Third PGA Tour Title

Nice to see all-around nice guy Jim Herman find something with a remarkable 61-63 run at Sedgefield CC to win the 2020 Wyndham Championship. The win is his third, and tops his previous best finish this season, a 27th at the 20 player TOC at Kapalua.

Herman turned it around and—besides that 2021 Masters berth (don’t ask)—that all-important spot in the playoffs. Or in the latest lame FedExCup parlance, he worked his way in. Many others worked themselves out Sunday. Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work.

Loved Herman’s post round remarks on finding his putting in Adam Schupak’s game story:

Herman, 42, made one critical switch this week, changing to a Bettinardi putter he’d used before and going to a cross-handed putting grip. It did wonders as he holed 444 feet of putts this week and rankled third in Strokes Gained: Putting. The short stick has always been Herman’s bugaboo. He used the claw putting stroke when he won the Shell Houston Open in 2016 and a conventional grip at the 2019 Barbasol Championship.

“For those that struggle putting, you definitely experiment often. I thought maybe last summer when I putted so well at Barbasol, maybe I was on to something, it would be something that stuck,” Herman said. “Then I was off the putter and out of that style by the end of the wraparound Fall start.”

A week after Collin Morikawa posted the lowest final 36 by a major winner, Herman tied the lowest weekend 36 by a winner in PGA Tour history, writes GolfChannel.com’s Will Gray.

And he did it by playing his final 36 holes in 16 under par, equaling the lowest-ever weekend score by a winner in Tour history.

Herman’s two wins in the last 13 months puts him in good company.

Jim Herman now has as many PGA Tour wins over the past 13 months (two) as Rory McIlroy.

— Ryan Lavner (@RyanLavnerGC) August 16, 2020

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