Cameron Percy records second best PGA Tour finish
Cameron Percy – file photo Henry Peters
US based Victorian golfer, Cameron Percy, recorded his second best ever finish on the PGA Tour when sharing 4th place at this week’s Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic.
The event was the alternate event on the PGA Tour this week with Dell Technologies World Match Play Championship taking centre stage, but for Percy it follows up a 7th place finish three weeks ago in Puerto Rico.
In three other events on the PGA Tour this year however, Percy has missed the cut so it has been a case of when he is good he is very good and vice versa.
Percy’s previous best finish since first joining the PGA Tour in 2010 was when beaten in a playoff for the 2010 Justin Timberlake event in Las Vegas when he fell victim to a hole in one by Jonathan Byrd.
The Victorian’s outward nine of 31 today had him contending for the title but he would bogey the 10th and add only one extra birdie on the way in to eventually finish just two shots from the winner, Chad Ramey.
Percy earns US$166,000 for his effort and gave thanks to his fellow countryman Greg Chalmers for some putting help he received earlier in the week.
“Yeah, at the start of the week if you said I was going to come fourth, I think I’ll take and not play, but played really nicely today.
“I’m rooming with Greg Chalmers and he gave me a putting lesson in the room last night and I putted fantastic, to me. Just was way better today. I just didn’t hit it as good on the back nine, unfortunately. I was just a bit off on the back nine, but still I played pretty nicely, I thought.”
Percy also mentioned that going forward he is keenly anticipating eye surgery in the next couple of weeks to improve that aspect of his game.
“Just the fact that I’ve got an idea what I’m doing with my putting. I’m getting my eyes operated on the next two weeks. I’m going home to get an eye operation so I can see. I’m blind as a bat, so I can’t see the ball once it goes 120 yards. So I’m hoping that might help me as well.”
Greg Chalmers finished tied for 28th.
