Reed outlasts DeChambeau for one-shot win at WGC-Mexico Championship

Patrick Reed poses with the winner’s trophy following the final round of the WGC - Mexico Championship golf tournament at Club de Golf Chapultepec - USA TODAY Sports

Reuters: Patrick Reed displayed typically steely resolve and an assured putting touch, outlasting fellow American Bryson DeChambeau for a one-stroke victory at the WGC-Mexico Championship on Sunday.

Reed took the lead with a tap-in birdie at the 16th hole and went further ahead with another birdie at the 17th at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City.

Though the 2018 Masters champion bogeyed the last after a wild drive, his cushion proved enough, with a four-under-par 67 final round sealing the deal.

Reed finished at 18-under 266 for his eighth PGA Tour victory, and his second at the World Golf Championships event, his previous one coming at Doral in Florida in 2014. He is expected to vault to eighth in the world rankings. Six players were bunched within one stroke of the lead halfway through the final round, before DeChambeau seemingly seized control with five birdies in six holes.

But DeChambeau’s charge petered out, and a three-putt bogey at the 17th pretty much ended his chances as Reed instead timed his run to the finish line perfectly.

“I had to get up-and-down almost every hole on the front nine,” Reed said in a greenside interview, explaining his gritty determination to hang in until things turned around. “This was the same attitude I bring every time I go to the golf course, something to prove to myself, that I deserve to be in this position, deserve to have a chance to win tournaments. “And when I get in those positions being able to deal with the nerves and the highs and lows that go on during a round.