Thriston Lawrence practically had his Masters invitation thrown again in his face Sunday night at Royal Troon.
After discovering a pot bunker off the tee on the par-4 ending gap, Lawrence acquired aggressive and despatched his method shot proper into the bunker’s sodded face. His ball ricocheted again, nearly hitting the burly South African however as a substitute coming to relaxation on turf behind the entice.
His ball having traveled negative-2 yards, Lawrence abruptly discovered himself grinding to punch his ticket to Augusta Nationwide subsequent spring. At 6 underneath, Lawrence was solo fourth and a shot forward of Russell Henley. With the highest 4 and ties being exempt into the next yr’s Masters, bogey or higher would get the job carried out for Lawrence; a double or worse, nevertheless, wouldn’t.
Lawrence did one higher than mandatory, hitting his third shot 148 yards to eight toes and rolling within the par save to solidify his solo-fourth displaying, his finest main end in six profession begins but in addition his first top-40.
“I didn’t really put myself underneath the stress that some persons are purported to,” Lawrence mentioned. “I simply checked out it as a standard Sunday of a standard golf match. Sure, it’s The Open, it’s a larger stage. However being in that second, I felt so calm. It felt like a standard Sunday, me making an attempt to win a golf match, making an attempt to be inventive, and I managed to perform that. So very pleased with myself.”
Billy Horschel, No. 62 on the earth rankings coming into the week, additionally clinched his 2025 Masters berth with a T-2, as did No. 67 Justin Rose, the opposite runner-up to Xander Schauffele this week.
The highest 10 and ties earned their approach again for the 2025 Open at Royal Portrush, a listing that included just a few gamers who weren’t but formally within the discipline: Henley (fifth), Shane Lowry (sixth), Sungjae Im (T-7), Adam Scott (T-10), Dan Brown (T-10) and Matthew Jordan (T-10). Jordan, a qualifier final yr for Royal Liverpool, now has back-to-back Open top-10s.
