Sepp Straker won for the third time in his PGA Tour career by taking home the winner’s trophy for the 3rd event on the 2025 PGA Tour Schedule Sunday evening in La Quinta, CA.
Straker wins “The American Express”, at one time in history known as “The Bob Hope Desert Classic” (a long time ago).
Straka beat out Justin Thomas by two strokes ending at 25-under for the win.
Straka earns $1.58 million and 500 FedEx points. I’d probably take the money over the points, personally.
Either way-probably not the most exciting golf tournament on the weekend of the divisional round of the NFL playoffs, but it will make many golf fans happy to see JT atop the leaderboard. It seems like he’s due to for a W.
Straker is a 31-year old Austrian who played his college golf at Georgia and earned his PGA Tour card in 2019.
It was still a pretty phenomenal week for Thomas, who went bogey-free Sunday to card a 66.
Said Thomas after the runner-up finish, “I played well. I mean, I had a chance, it wasn’t obviously a great one on the back nine, but I was proud of myself, I did what I needed to do on the front nine today and at least be making some noise and kind of moving up the leaderboard.”
Straka had an amazing Saturday, scoring 8-under, playing the third round at 64, setting up for his win Sunday.
“Yeah, 64 around there, that was one of my best rounds I’ve ever played probably,” Straka said in his post-round press conference.
“No, I played great. I kept hitting my spots and I kept giving myself birdie looks and made a lot of those birdie looks. I putted really well that day, struck it really well that day, and any time you can have your low round of the tournament be at Stadium it’s a good thing, it means you’ve done something right that day. That was definitely the biggest round of the week for me.”
“It was a fun day, trying to manage the lead and manage my nerves,” Straka said. (I) just had a good time playing out there, and, yeah, very happy to come out with a win.”
So, it was a bit of a ho-hum week on the PGA Tour. This week the Tour heads to Torrey Pines in San Diego for the Farmers Insurance Open.
