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Notas de la Ronda 4

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Final Leaderboard

P1	Blades Brown	66	68	68	63	265	(-23))
P2	Ben James	65	64	66	70	265	(-23))
3	Michael Kim	73	66	63	64	266	(-22))
4	Kensei Hirata	65	69	67	66	267	(-21))
5	David Ford	67	68	67	66	268	(-20))

*Brown def. James with a birdie on the second playoff hole (No. 18)

Playoff

First playoff at the World Wide Technology Championship since the event moved to El Cardonal at Diamante in 2023
Fifth playoff in tournament history and first since 2015 (Graeme McDowell def. Jason Bohn and Russell Knox)
Marks the youngest combined age of players in a playoff in the last 50 years on Tour.
Ninth playoff of season and first since Austin Smotherman defeated Seamus Power after weather-shortened 54-holes at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship

Blades Brown (Winner/-23)

Earns first PGA Tour victory in his 22nd career start (previous best finish on Tour: 3rd/2026 Puerto Rico Open)
Becomes the fourth youngest winner in PGA Tour history at the age of 19 years, 5 months, 18 days
Becomes the first teenager to win on Tour since Jordan Spieth at the 2013 John Deere Classic/li>
Previous youngest winner in tournament history: Viktor Hovland, 2020 (23 years, 2 months, 18 days)
Becomes the 10th first-time winner this season and fourth first-time winner of the event (first since Patton Kizzire/2017)
Entered the final round seven strokes back, marking the largest come-from-behind victory on Tour since William Mouw (2025 ISCO Championship) and the largest at the event since John Huh (2012)
Final round 9-under 63 marks his second-lowest score in 75 career rounds on Tour (60/R2/The American Express/Nicklaus Tournament Course)
Becomes the second teenager to shoot a final-round 63 on the PGA Tour (Tyler Watts/18 years, 10 months, 23 days/2026 Biltmore Championship Asheville)
266 marks his best 72-hole score on Tour (previous: 265/2026 CJ CUP Byron Nelson/finished T14)
Turned professional at 17 years old on December 17, 2024
Earned Korn Ferry Tour Special Temporary Membership in 2025 and finished No. 68 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List to earn exempt status for the 2026 season.
Finished No. 9 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List to earn PGA Tour membership for the 2027 season; became the youngest player to graduate from the Korn Ferry Tour
Win is one of three top-10s in 13 starts on Tour this season (3rd/Puerto Rico Open, T9/Myrtle Beach Classic)
Earned PGA Tour Special Temporary Membership in June following his T14 at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson
Exempt on the PGA Tour through 2028 and will compete on the PGA Tour Championship Series in 2028

Additional Notes

54-hole leader Ben James (P2/-23) records his second runner-up finish and fifth top-five in 13 starts this season; the No. 1 player in the 2026 PGA Tour University Ranking was seeking to join Ludvig Åberg (2023 RSM Classic) as the only players to win on Tour in the same season that they earned membership as the No. 1 player in PGA Tour University
Entering the final round seven strokes back, Michael Kim (3rd/-22) cards an 8-under 64 to finish solo-third, his second top-three finish on Tour this season (T2/Valero Texas Open)
Guadalajara, Mexico native and 2027 PGA Tour rookie Alvaro Ortiz (T6/-19) records the best finish of his career in his 14th start on Tour (previous: T13, 2024 VidantaWorld Mexico Open); top-10 secures a spot in the field at next week’s Austin Championship presented by Compliance Solutions
Defending champion Ben Griffin finishes T12 in bid to become the second player with multiple wins at the event (Viktor Hovland: 2020, 2021) and first at El Cardonal at Diamante