Hottest player on the planet?
Brendon Todd, easily, no contest.
The man who went for five years without a win is suddenly the player to beat at the RSM Classic. Todd won two weeks ago in Bermuda then won his second straight early Monday morning at the Mayakoba Classic when he holed a clutch four-footer for victory at the 72nd hole.
In this final regular event of the 2019 season, the big question remains: Can Brendon Todd go back-to-back-to-back — as in three straight.
This is Tiger Woods kinda stuff, no one wins three straight PGA Tour events these days, no one. Yet there is Todd on the roll of his career.
Even Todd is somewhat taken aback.
“It is so surreal,” he said on Monday after the win. “Harris (English) just said to me in the scoring area, ‘It’s just amazing how fast this game can turn.’ It turned fast in the wrong direction for me in 2015, it turned fast the other direction for me, so I’m enjoying it and I’m just going to keep grinding.”
Todd earned a measly $540,000 for his win in Bermuda. At Mayakoba, he picked up a more PGA Tour-like $1,296,000.
Todd has also experienced a meteoric rise in the Official World Golf Rankings. He finished 2018 ranked 2,006. His Bermuda win pumped him up to 184 and with the Mayakoba victory, he’s now 83rd in the world.
He’ll be taking on the Seaside Course at Sea Island starting Thursday with Charles Howell III trying to defend the title he won last year.
Can Todd win three straight? That seems a tough task but going from 2,006 in the world to 83rd was a lot tougher.
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