Justin Thomas beat Patrick Reed and Xander Schauffele in a three-way playoff to win the PGA Tour’s Sentry Tournament of Champions in windswept Hawaii on Sunday.
Thomas clinched victory with a three-foot birdie at the third extra hole, the par-five 18th, at the Kapalua Plantation course on Maui.
Schauffele was eliminated at the first hole of sudden death while Reed fell two holes later as Thomas earned his 12th PGA Tour victory.
He had one hand on the trophy with a one-shot lead playing the final hole of regulation but hooked his three-wood second shot into a penalty area and could not find his ball in the waist-high tropical grass.
He made a bogey for a four-under-par 69, while Schauffele had a three-putt par, missing a seven-footer for the win, and carded 70.
They fell into a playoff with Reed, who earlier shot 66, at 14-under 278.
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