2024 Sony Open leaderboard, grades: Grayson Murray emerges from playoff with first PGA Tour win since 2017
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Murray is now a two-time winner on the PGA Tour after a dramatic ending in Hawaii
Grayson Murray, who finished at 17 under and got into a playoff at the Sony Open with an up and down from 78 yards on the 72nd hole, won that crazy playoff with a 39-foot birdie putt for his first PGA Tour victory in nearly seven years. Murray took the playoff over Keegan Bradley and Ben An, who missed a 4-foot putt that would have tied him.
The ending was improbable -- getting up and down from 78 yards is unusual and making a 39-footer even more so -- but the result, given the wilderness Murray has been in, is somewhat astonishing.
Murray's best PGA Tour season came in 2016-17, his rookie year, and he finished 66th in the FedEx Cup standings. It's the only time he's finished inside the top 100 in the FedEx Cup; he's bounced back and forth between the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour since then.Murray struggled with life on the PGA Tour in his 20s. He was one of golf's bad boys who often found himself in trouble because of things he said. In short, he was easy to dislike.
