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Tom Hoge celebrates with the trophy after profitable the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am at Pebble Seashore Golf Hyperlinks. (Picture by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Photographs)
PEBBLE BEACH >> Unheralded Tom Hoge is winless no extra after upstaging Jordan Spieth in an unlikely end Sunday on the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am.
Hoge, taking part in in his 203rd profession begin, shot a final-round 68 at Pebble Seashore Golf Hyperlinks for a two-shot cushion over Spieth and a three-shot margin over Beau Hossler who shot 71.
Hoge, 32, ranked No. 64 on the planet, birdied two of his final three holes together with a 22-foot effort on the seventeenth gap to maneuver to 19 below en path to his 268 whole. 
“It feels fairly good, nearly a bit bit in shock,” Hoge stated, who improved to thirty ninth on the planet rating. “I suppose it’s been so lengthy since I’ve gained something, I forgot the way to have a good time there at 18.”
Hoge final gained in a Canadian Tour occasion in 2011.
“It was a bizarre day as a result of I felt like I made just a few too many errors early on and was form of out of it,” stated Hoge, who improved from sixty fourth to thirty ninth on the planet rankings. “I appeared up and I used to be nonetheless form of proper within the sport there making the flip. Fortunately made just a few putts lastly on the again 9.”
Patrick Cantlay, No. 4 and the top-ranked participant within the subject, completed with a 71 and tied for fourth with Troy Merritt at 15 below. Merritt completed with a 67.
Second two weeks in the past on the American Specific Championship in La Quinta, Hoge had grabbed the first-round lead within the match by making six consecutive birdies starting on the third gap (his again 9) en path to a nine-birdie opening 63.
Hoge started the ultimate spherical in a three-way tie for the lead with Hossler and Andrew Putnam.
“Clearly quite a lot of arduous work with my caddie and possibly simply bought a bit bit smarter out right here all these years,” stated Hoge of his enchancment. “I’ve actually made sufficient errors to determine the way to not do this anymore.
“So it’s been a pleasant development and I believe simply being comfy on this ambiance now. Actually helped being within the last group a few weeks in the past in Palm Springs so I actually felt good at this time proper from the get-go and, yeah, you by no means know the place that slight edge goes to come back, so we hope that you realize that you simply get sufficient and it'll all add up.”
Spieth, briefly main by two pictures with 5 holes left, bogeyed the seventeenth en path to a 69.
Blue skies, little wind and temperatures reaching into the lows 60s made dressing in layers pointless. It was a welcome again present to spectators prohibited from attending the match final yr by way of the pandemic protocol.
With the climate at its week’s finest within the last spherical, low scoring began early and by no means eased.
Merritt, whose second of two PGA Tour titles was the 2018 Barbasol Championship, started the ultimate spherical 5 strokes behind the three leaders. However he moved to 15-under, one shot off the lead, with 5 birdies in his first six holes.
Hoge fell off the leaders’ group to 14-under with a double-bogey on the fifth gap.
Whereas exchanging birdies and bogeys, not one of the leaders moved decrease than 17 below, with Joels Dahmen and Cantlay reaching the bottom within the first 9 after seven holes.
After the opening 9, Dahmen, Spieth, Cantlay and Putnam have been all 16-under with Merritt becoming a member of the group after 13 holes after three straight pars.
Merritt took a one-stroke at 17-under with a birdie on the 14th. Spieth joined Merritt with a birdie on the twelfth and took the lead at 18-under together with his 12-foot birdie on the thirteenth.
Hoge earned $1.56 million of the $8.7 million purse.
Taylor Moore and novice accomplice Kyle Adams of Longview, Texas, claimed the pro-am division by one shot with a final-round 62 and a 254.