John Senden Wins The 2014 Valspar Championship

What looked to be a dogfight amongst a handful of big names on the final 9 holes Sunday, concluded with John Senden chipping in an amazing birdie on 16, paving his way to victory. Senden’s birdie chip was preceded by a fantastic recovery shot from the tree line, the combination of the two sealed the deal on one of only two birdies in the final round on that difficult hole.

John Senden holes amazing chip to take lead at Valspar

In the final round of the 2014 Valspar Championship, John Senden sinks a 68-foot chip for birdie on the par-4 16th hole to take the outright lead at 6-under. . SUBSCRIBE to PGA TOUR now: http://pgat.us/vBxcZSh Welcome to the official YouTube channel of the PGA TOUR.

On the very next hole he went on to bury a 20-footer for birdie to slam the door on Kevin Na, ultimatly closing out out the tourney with a tap in par for the win.

After the round Senden spoke to the media noting that, “The scoring always stays under double figures here and I think that if I could just stay in the moment I knew that I was swinging well enough to go out there and give it a shake.” The win ends a 7-year victory drought for John Senden and shoots him up into the top 15 on the the FedExCup leaderboard.

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It’s worth noting that Na was in contention for most of the weekend.  Na struggled through a front nine that included a heart-breaking double bogey after missing an easy 3-footer, but bounced back to closed with a 72 and finished one shot behind Senden.

“I knew coming into today that I felt like if I shot par I had a chance to win,” Na said. “If I break par, I felt like it was going to be a lock.”

With all seven of our selections making the cut this week, our fantasy staff successfully picked a total of five top 20 finishes, including a T4 from Luke Donald and a T8 from Gary Woodland.  In total, our team went 7-for-7 with weekly fantasy earnings of $683,848 and a new 2014 total of $12.9 million in eleven tournaments played. Next week brings yet another exciting challenge as some of the best in the game clash at Bay Hill for the 2014 Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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