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Former Bama golfer Lee Hodges gets first PGA Tour win
Posted on 7/30/23 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 7/30/23 at 5:26 pm
Huntsville AL guy. Lapped the field at at the 3M open, winning by 7 strokes and vaulting from 74th to 33rd in the FedEx Cup standings. Top 70 make the playoffs. Not a complete full-field event with many top players taking the week off after The Open, but still impressive. He also earned a cool $1.4 million today to bring him to over $4 million in a 5-year career.
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Posted on 7/30/23 at 7:37 pm to KingOfTheWorld
a lot of roll tide on the broadcast today! Congrats to Hodges!
Posted on 7/30/23 at 7:59 pm to Kashmir
RollTide.com (note: Davis Shore also won today)
Former Standout Lee Hodges Earns First Career PGA Tour Victory, Claiming the 3M Open Championship
Hodges becomes the second former Crimson Tide golfer from the 2017-18 national runner-up team to claim his first career PGA Tour win in 2023
BLAINE, Minn. – Former Alabama men's golf standout Lee Hodges claimed his first career PGA Tour victory, capturing the 3M Open title Sunday at the TPC Twin Cities with a winning score of 260 (63-64-66-67). Hodges, who won the event by seven strokes, led wire-to-wire to become the first champion in the tournament's history to achieve the feat.
Lee Hodges Captures First PGA Tour Victory
With his victory, Hodges became the second Crimson Tide golfer from the 2018 national runner-up team to claim a win on the PGA Tour in 2023, joining Davis Riley who won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in April
Hodges is the second former Crimson Tide golfer to win the event, joining Michael Thompson, who claimed the win in 2020, and the 10th different former UA golfer to win on the PGA Tour
He vaulted up the FedEx Cup point standings with the victory, rising from 74th entering the event to a projected 33rd, making him eligible to compete alongside the top-70 players in the world at the season-ending Tour Championship
His 54-hole score of 20-under 193 was a career-best total and set a tournament record
Hodges previous best finish came last year when he finished T-3rd at the The American Express
Head coach Jay Seawell flew to Minnesota Sunday morning and was on-hand at the TPC Twin Cities to witness Hodges' first career Tour win
Another teammate from that 2017-18 team, Davis Shore, claimed his first professional win, capturing the PGA Tour Canada's Osprey Valley Open on Sunday
Former Standout Lee Hodges Earns First Career PGA Tour Victory, Claiming the 3M Open Championship
Hodges becomes the second former Crimson Tide golfer from the 2017-18 national runner-up team to claim his first career PGA Tour win in 2023
BLAINE, Minn. – Former Alabama men's golf standout Lee Hodges claimed his first career PGA Tour victory, capturing the 3M Open title Sunday at the TPC Twin Cities with a winning score of 260 (63-64-66-67). Hodges, who won the event by seven strokes, led wire-to-wire to become the first champion in the tournament's history to achieve the feat.
Lee Hodges Captures First PGA Tour Victory
With his victory, Hodges became the second Crimson Tide golfer from the 2018 national runner-up team to claim a win on the PGA Tour in 2023, joining Davis Riley who won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in April
Hodges is the second former Crimson Tide golfer to win the event, joining Michael Thompson, who claimed the win in 2020, and the 10th different former UA golfer to win on the PGA Tour
He vaulted up the FedEx Cup point standings with the victory, rising from 74th entering the event to a projected 33rd, making him eligible to compete alongside the top-70 players in the world at the season-ending Tour Championship
His 54-hole score of 20-under 193 was a career-best total and set a tournament record
Hodges previous best finish came last year when he finished T-3rd at the The American Express
Head coach Jay Seawell flew to Minnesota Sunday morning and was on-hand at the TPC Twin Cities to witness Hodges' first career Tour win
Another teammate from that 2017-18 team, Davis Shore, claimed his first professional win, capturing the PGA Tour Canada's Osprey Valley Open on Sunday
Posted on 7/30/23 at 8:08 pm to Alabama_Fan
Posted on 7/31/23 at 9:25 am to Kashmir
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a lot of roll tide on the broadcast today!
I think I lost count at a dozen. Two strong ones from Faldo. Good stuff.
Hodges looked great. Very cool under the pressure.
Field was not first tier but was actually pretty solid. Good win!
This post was edited on 7/31/23 at 9:50 am
Posted on 7/31/23 at 10:47 am to dirtsandwich
Posted on 7/31/23 at 11:12 am to KingOfTheWorld
quote:Wasn't he 24 UNDER? Damn!
Huntsville AL guy. Lapped the field at at the 3M open, winning by 7 strokes and vaulting from 74th to 33rd in the FedEx Cup standings. Top 70 make the playoffs. Not a complete full-field event with many top players taking the week off after The Open, but still impressive. He also earned a cool $1.4 million today to bring him to over $4 million in a 5-year career.
Posted on 7/31/23 at 12:33 pm to KingOfTheWorld
Graduated with his mom from Arab in '85. Sweetest person on earth. That family deserves every good thing that happens to them.
Posted on 7/31/23 at 2:14 pm to ArabianKnight
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Graduated with his mom from Arab in '85.
FYI - the “Lee1” link posted above is a short vid of him talking with his mother right after winning the tournament
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