Ethan Tracy knows how to hole them under pressure. Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images.
Ethan Tracy won the Club Colombia Championship on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour title, holing out from 101 yards for eagle on the 18th to get into a play-off and beating Roberto Diaz with a 20-foot birdie putt on the par five on the second extra hole.
“I was just grateful to be in the playoff,” Tracy said.
“Somehow, I made a great shot, and I was fortunate that it went in. I capitalised on a good shot in the play-off with a great putt. Overall, the 18th was pretty good to me.”
Tracy also birdied the par-four 17th in a closing 6-under 65 at Bogota Country Club. Diaz, from Mexico, birdied the 16th and 18th for a 64.
They finished at 13-under 271.
“I was trying to make it,” Tracy said.
“I knew 13 was the number. I was going to get it all the way back to that pin and, if it went over, so be it. I had to give it a chance.”
Making his fourth career start on the tour, the 27-year-old former Arkansas player earned R1.7 million after missing the cuts in the tour’s opening two events in the Bahamas.
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