JACKSON, Miss. — Luke List gained when he least anticipated it, getting right into a five-way playoff Sunday within the Sanderson Farms Championship and ending it rapidly with a birdie putt from simply inside 45 ft for his second profession PGA Tour victory.

The playoff wouldn’t have been potential if not for Ben Griffin struggling down the stretch on the Country Club of Jackson. Griffin missed an 8-foot par putt on the ultimate gap.

That gave an opportunity to List, Swedish sensation Ludvig Aberg, Henrik Norlander and Scott Stallings, all of whom returned to the par-4 18th gap alongside Griffin. None regarded to have an inexpensive birdie probability till List poured in his putt and slammed his fist in celebration.

List closed with a 2-under 70 and missed a birdie probability from simply inside 10 ft on the ultimate gap, gifting away his cap to a fan as a result of he figured that might be the final gap he performed.

“It’s been a full roller coaster,” List mentioned. “I hung in there. I didn’t think it was going to be enough, but here we are. It’s been a crazy 20 minutes.”

Griffin had a birdie putt within the playoff from about 35 ft and slapped his left knee when he realized it was going to overlook on the low facet. This was his match to win, beginning the ultimate spherical with a three-shot lead and nonetheless main by two photographs with three holes to play.

But he went from the fitting tough to lengthy and proper of the sixteenth inexperienced, chipping to some 20 ft and lacking the putt to take bogey. Still with a one-shot lead, he was within the left tough when he pulled his method to the 18th gap close to the grandstands. He chipped 8 ft by the outlet and his par putt for his first Tour win grazed the fitting fringe of the cup.

“I hit the wrong shot at the wrong time,” Griffin mentioned of his method into the 18th in regulation. “I needed to keep it low with the wind up there, and I chose a club that I was hitting it high. I wish I had maybe taken a bit more time and really thought through the shot.

“It’s a bummer,” he mentioned. “I thought I was going to still be able to get it done today.”

Griffin had gone 44 holes with out a bogey till making one on No. 8, and it was a wild trip the remainder of the way in which. He closed with a 74 and completed with 4 others at 18-under 270.

Norlander, additionally going for his first Tour title, briefly had the lead till he hooked his method on the par-5 14th into the water and made bogey, after which pulled his method on the seventeenth and wound up lacking a 12-footer for par. He closed with a 70.

Norlander had the final probability to increase the playoff, placing from off the inexperienced on the 18th about 20 ft away. It had an excessive amount of tempo and was off line.

Stallings additionally shot 70, getting up-and-down for par from left of the 18th inexperienced to maintain alive his probabilities. In the playoff, he was simply over the again of the inexperienced however had a troublesome putt via the perimeter and a ridge from simply exterior 30 ft.

Aberg, informal as ever, was at a desk when he completed his spherical of 68. Given a shock probability, he pushed his method to the 18th within the playoff properly to the fitting to some 55 ft. He lagged it simply left of the outlet and it regarded as if he would get one other probability till List made his unbelievable birdie putt.

“To be fair, I thought whenever I was on the golf course that 18 (under) wasn’t going to make it,” Aberg mentioned. “It ended up the way it did, and I was very fortunate for that. But congrats to Luke for that last putt. It was unbelievable. Kudos to him.”

List gained for the primary time since one other playoff victory at Torrey Pines in early 2022. He had not completed within the prime 10 since then, and he stopped enjoying in the course of July to deal with accidents to his thumb and his foot.

Now he’s headed again to the Masters, and he begins the brand new 12 months at Kapalua for The Sentry.

The ultimate hour was so unpredictable that two others additionally had an opportunity to win. Mark Hubbard stood over a 12-foot birdie putt on the seventeenth gap to take the lead. He three-putted for bogey, took bogey on the ultimate gap and shot 67 to overlook the playoff by one shot.

Carl Yuan was seemingly out of it till he holed out on the fly for eagle on the seventeenth gap, placing him one shot behind Griffin. But he got here up properly wanting the 18th gap, made bogey and shot 72 to overlook the playoff by one.