With a final round in 68 strokes, at the Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, Nico Echavarria finished in 21-under PAR, edging out Akshay Bhatia by two strokes in the 2023 Puerto Rico Open.
Echavarria scored 67-67-65-68 over the four rounds, making a total of 22 birdies, two eagles and six bogeys over the 72 holes.
Puero Rico Open, results
Rookie on the PGA Tour, Echavarria said he found something new in his swing:
“Something changed last Friday and it changed my entire week… if I hadn’t done that training session on Friday afternoon very late and found that feeling, I don’t think I would be here because it cleared my head. I was thinking about too many things.”
The Colombian champion becomes the 10th player to win his first career title on the PGA Tour.
Bhatia, on the other hand, started the day in fifth position and finished in second, achieving his best finish on the Tour.
PGA Tour players will also be busy March 2-5 at the Grand Reserve Golf Club of Río Grande in Puerto Rico. This year will be the 14th running of the event which has managed to remain consistently on the PGA Tour calendar even after two hurricanes and a worldwide pandemic.
Players in attendance this week will compete for a prize pool of $3,800,000.
The defending champion, Ryan Brehm, who last year won with a score of -20, will not be on the field to defend his title this week, as he is engaged in Orlando in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Due to the multiplicity of similar denominations, it is good to explain what the PGA Tour does and does not do. The PGA Tour does not operate any of the major four tournaments or the Ryder Cup. The PGA of America, not the PGA Tour, organizes the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, and co-organises the Ryder Cup with the PGA European Tour. The PGA Tour is not involved in the women’s tours of the United States, which are controlled by the LPGA. Furthermore, the PGA Tour is not the official body that regulates the game of golf in the United States: this is instead the role of the USGA, which also organizes the U.S. open. Instead, what the PGA Tour does is organize all the rest of the golf events week after week, including The Players Championship and the FedEx Cup as well as the biennial Presidents Cup.
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