Cam Davis won the Rocket Home mortgage Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title when Troy Merritt missed out on a 6-foot par putt on the 5th hole of a playoff.Davis missed out on putts to win on each of the playoff openings. The 26-year-old Australian left 6-and also 18-foot putts high, a 25-foot putt low as well as a 19-footer high. He misread a break on a 12-foot putt on the 5th playoff hole, then won when Merritt made bogey.Davis closed
with a 5-under 67 to match Merritt (68) as well as Joaquin Niemann (68) at 18-under 270 at Detroit Golf Club. Niemann quit of the playoff with a bogey on the very first added opening, his initial bogey of the week.Niemann had a chance to win it on the 72nd hole, but left a 17-foot putt high.
Davis holed a 50-foot sand shot for eagle on the par-5 17th and birdied the par-4 18th to reach 18 under.Niemann adhered to with 2 shots that went 569 backyards and also he two-putted from 14 feet to take the lead at 18 under, but he promptly had company.Merritt, that remained in the final team with Niemann, made his 4th birdie in a five-hole stretch to share the lead. Davis joined them with the eagle-birdie surface. The 22-year-old Niemann shared the second
-and third-round lead and was runner-up for the 3rd time, including losing in a playoff at the Sentry Competition of Champions.Last week at the Travelers Championship, Harris English beat Kramer Hickok in an eight-hole playoff that tied the second-longest premature death in PGA Excursion background. Hickock stuck about to see the playoff in Detroit after ending up 6 under.Alex Noren(64) had a share of the lead at 17. He left the heat and also moisture, yet intended to leave the comfortable club as quickly somebody was a stroke ahead of him which taken place with a trio of competitors. Noren connected for 4th with Hank Lebioda (68 ). Bubba Watson surged up the leaderboard earlier on the hot and also steamy afternoon with a 64 to place him at 16 under.
That briefly offered him a share of the lead, as well as he tied for sixth with Brandon Hagy (68 ).