Barracuda Championship 2016: Final Leaderboard Scores, Prize-Money Payouts
While the focus for most golf fans was on Dustin Johnson's win in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Greg Chalmers narrowly held off a challenge by Gary Woodland to win the 2016 Barracuda Championship in Reno, Nevada, on Sunday.
Chalmers earned five points with an eagle on the final hole of the tournament to defeat Woodland by six points:
| 1 | Greg Chalmers | 43 | 4 | $576,000 |
| 2 | Gary Woodland | 37 | 4 | $345,600 |
| 3 | Colt Knost | 35 | 10 | $217,600 |
| 4 | Tim Herron | 34 | 13 | $153,600 |
| T5 | Brendan Steele | 32 | 12 | $121,600 |
| T5 | Steve Wheatcroft | 32 | 5 | $121,600 |
| T7 | Martin Laird | 31 | 3 | $103,200 |
| T7 | Ben Martin | 31 | -2 | $103,200 |
| T9 | Kyle Reifers | 30 | 9 | $86,400 |
| T9 | Miguel Angel Carballo | 30 | 8 | $86,400 |
| T9 | Sam Saunders | 30 | 8 | $86,400 |
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The Barracuda Championship is the only tournament on the PGA Tour schedule that utilizes modified Stableford scoring, which can create confusion for those not familiar with the format.
A golfer earns a set score on each hole depending on how he performs. Here's a quick breakdown for the six different point values, per the PGA Tour's official website:
| Double Eagle | 8 |
| Eagle | 5 |
| Birdie | 2 |
| Par | 0 |
| Bogey | -1 |
| Double Bogey or Worse | -3 |
Sunday's win was the first of Chalmers' career, and according to Golf.com, he had gone the most tournaments (385) among active golfers without finishing atop the leaderboard.
Chalmers can rest easy now, but nerves appeared to be getting the best of him on the final day. Before his eagle on No. 18, he was on pace to finish with minus-one point in the final round.
Woodland made a late charge to try to overtake Chalmers. He birdied the 13th and 14th holes to climb to within two points of the leader.
Heading onto the 18th tee, a birdie would've given him the lead. Woodland started off well with a drive down the middle of the fairway, which the PGA Tour shared on Twitter:
He dropped his second shot into a bunker to the right of the green, though, and three shots later, he settled for a bogey to conclude his tournament.
That left the Barracuda Championship firmly in Chalmers' hands. Although he was unable to pad his advantage over Woodland after bogeying No. 17, he needed only a par on No. 18 to end his winless drought. He landed his second shot on the green, a little more than eight feet from the hole.
The PGA Tour provided a replay of the excellent approach:
From there, he sunk his third shot, via the PGA Tour:
ESPN's John Buccigross was happy to see the 42-year-old finally come out on top:
Chalmers took home the biggest chunk of the $3.2 million purse—$576,000, per the PGA Tour's official website—and also earned a spot in The Open Championship and the PGA Championship.
With flooding in West Virginia forcing the cancellation of the Greenbrier Classic, Chalmers will be going to the Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland in place of the Greenbrier winner. He won't have long to prepare, with The Open Championship set to tee off on July 14.
Post-Round Reaction
"It's hard to win and I'm very thrilled and very pleased to get it done. ... I knew today would be difficult. And we had difficult conditions. I was blessed, I think, that guys found it tough just the same as I found it tough," said Chalmers, per the Associated Press (via ABC News).
He was also appreciative of Woodland's bogey to close out the final round: "Quite fortunate that Gary didn't birdie the last. That would have put a lot of pressure on me."
"I hit it just like I wanted to," Woodland said of his second shot on No. 18, per Jim Krajewski of the Reno Gazette-Journal. "I thought it was too much. I didn't see where it landed. I couldn't tell with it shot, because obviously it bounced right of the bunker."
The 32-year-old hopes he can continue his momentum created by the second-place finish: "I've been playing well for a long time. I just haven't done much on Sunday. So it was nice to at least hit it well. Hopefully we get some putts to go in. We'll take a lot from this and build on it and keep playing well and hopefully break through soon."
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