Austin Eckroat shoots 4-under 67 | Round 4 | Cognizant Classic | 2024

In the final round of the 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, Austin Eckroat cruised to victory with a 3-shot lead posting a 4-under par 67 to claim his first win on the PGA TOUR.

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The PGA TOUR heads to Florida this week for the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches at PGA National. Rory McIlroy returns to the field before a busy Florida stretch that will also include starts at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard and THE PLAYERS Championship. This will be his 10th start at PGA National where he’s claimed victory once in 2012 (holding off Tiger Woods) and finished second in 2014. Chris Kirk returns this week and looks to successfully defend his title – something that hasn’t been done here since Jack Nicklaus in 1977-78. Kirk claimed victory at The Sentry to open 2024 and has been consistently strong at PGA National since 2021 with a T25 and a T7 preceding the win. Rickie Fowler will also be in Florida this week. The nearby Jupiter resident won at PGA National in 2017 and was the runner up in 2019. Others to look out for are Matt Fitzpatrick, Tom Kim, Shane Lowry and Justin Rose.

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Beautiful comfortable yardage here 113 just some kind of sand iron all about controlling the distance one bounce and should spin there it goes and that is a gimme should be able to get that in Smiley Luke and I were saying how this is the easiest hole location on

This H to see some player hit in the water you just can’t believe it and that’s a nice bounce wow that was a friendly bounce he made a mess with this whole yesterday fact down the hill moving just a little bit from his right to left Smiley ecro looks to me like he

Wants to be there he he really looks like he’s walking and keeping his head up that certainly helps yes it does one through the Fairway on the left that’s reachable this has been the strength of his game and start up the right turning towards that bunker

Oh just short of it so he’s fine there smile he’s missed only one Fairway and one green in regulation in this round this is a beauty just got to get there this there again boy is he striking it well okay e Road zeroing in here to push it to 16

Under and two clear of leag there you go yeah he kind of needed to see one go in he missed some really good opportunities and Austin has a two- shot lead finding this Fairway here is essential left bunker would be the worst place the players can carry it with some

Pace and that did depends on the lie Here asking for it to go it’s only a second Miss Fairway today oh asport to go hard and it did Austin ekro another really good look and another putt that’s not breaking left to right that’s three straight days Austin has made a birdie at 13 and now the lead has ballooned to

Three after backto back birdies for ecro 13 of 15 greens he’s been a machine just letting it rip swing after swing now this was aggressive up the right drawing up the left side of the Fairway just a repeat just so much confidence in that swing there is absolutely no steer in that

Swing a great contact that just a slight draw in there tremendous another great swing it’s just one flush after another is did he hit it yeah he did and that goes a long way in putting away this tournament he still has the dangerous 17th and par five 18th but the lead swells to

Three unreal just keep striping it just repeat all day and all weekend long probably that seven iron he hit at 15 and 17 and he’s been striping it with it look like it’s going to catch no problems here not at all probably within a yard

Of where he was aiming I mean it spun back a little bit on him into that wind with that much spin but still well done well executed free wheel in it coming down the stretch here and that play right there that he’s shown us kind of typifies the career of Austin ekro it

Was good ball striking poor putting the next week I putted better my short game was good but my ball striking wasn’t quite there this week all four days he put it all together number one Strokes gain Tia green he made the putts the birdies when it mattered when he hit it

Close earlier in this P nine this putt on the way good looking one and that is going to do it for E [Applause] Ro and that is official Austin ecro has broken through at the cognizant classic high school teammate it’s Austin congratulations a couple days ago you told me you looking forward

To the Battle of a final round on the PGA tour what are you most proud of and how you fought and navigated your way to your first PGA Tour win yeah I’m just really H you know happy with how I played the the bear trap you know it’s

Not a fun finish whenever you have to hold on to a lead um and then the adversity of you know sleeping mid round and you I’m just really happy with how I handled it you know you have such a calm demeanor what was the selft talk like

And the nerves like after you had shot after great shot through the bear trap right I just kept telling myself you know that you know I’m put myself in this position you know for a reason it’s what I want to do you know and then uh

You know I was just happy I was able to perform under the the situation your wife Sally is here your father Steve is here your old team Oklahoma State watching from Cabo how would you describe your support system that helped bring you to this moment I’ve got a

Fantastic support system you know big family you know all all love golf um you know the Oklahom State family um you know my my wife obviously I’m you know she’s the best and you know she travels pretty much every week it’s just um I’ve just got a great support system and I’m

Very very happy to do it not only for me but for them as well you know look forward to seeing you throughout the rest of the Florida swing congratulations than so much thank you thanks for watching the PGA Tour on YouTube to watch more click here to subscribe click here