VIDEO: John Murphy wins St. Andrews Links in Playoff

June 10, 2018 | by AmateurGolf.com Staff

St. Andrews Links Trophy champion John Murphy <br>(St. Andrews Links Photo)

An additional five players finished within two shots of the playoff

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (June 10, 2018) - John Muprhy has a memory that will last a lifetime. On Sunday he won the St. Andrews Links Trophy on the Old Course.

The victory was his first career Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com Rankings title. Murphy finished regulation 9-under following rounds of 70-66-71-71, including consecutive 1-under 71's on the 36-hole final day.

Murphy, a rising junior for Louisville, started the final round quickly with birdies on Nos. 3 and 4 to reach 10-under where he remained until he bogeyed the 13th to fall back to 9-under. Unfazed by the bogey the native of Ireland parred his way to the house before besting Germany's Jannik de Bruyn in extra holes.

John Murphy won a dramatic sudden death play off in style to be Links Trophy Champion 2018. He also tried to tell us all about it, despite the local pipe band trying to drown him out to the side of the Swilcan Bridge!#LinksTrophy @John_murphy5 pic.twitter.com/JSJNyfgg5n
— St Andrews Links (@TheHomeofGolf) June 10, 2018

Bruyn combined rounds of 71-71-68-68 to reach 9-under, playing the final day two rounds in a combined 8-under after beginning Sunday 1-under. The final round for Bruyn was a thing of beauty as he birdied four-times without dropping a shot. The only downside of the round was that Bruyn couldn't find anything but a par over the course of the last four holes.

England's Jake Burnage and Australia's Haydn Barron shared third at 8-under while Pierre Mazier of France, England's Laird Shepard and Canada's Joey Savoie were at 7-under were part of a tie for fifth.

Results: St. Andrews Links Trophy

Place	Player	Location	Pts	Scores
1	John Murphy	, Ireland	1200	70-66-71-71=278
2	Jannik De Bruyn	, Germany	900	71-71-68-68=278
T3	Jake Burnage	, England	700	71-69-70-69=279
T3	Haydn Barron	, Australia	700	71-71-67-70=279
T5	Pierre Mazier	, France	700	71-70-70-69=280

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VIDEO: John Murphy wins St. Andrews Links in Playoff

72-hole stroke play that draws one of the top amateur fields in Europe. Field plays two rounds, one at the Old Course and one additional (sometimes the Jubilee, sometimes the New), then the field is cut to the low 40 and ties. The final two rounds ar...