West High School graduate Tony Finau will keep waiting for his second career PGA Tour victory, after losing to Webb Simpson in a playoff Sunday in the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Finau missed an 8-foot birdie attempt on No. 18 that would have given him the win in regulation. Simpson, who had birdied No. 17, made a 17-foot birdie putt on No. 18 in regulation and birdied the hole again in the playoff.
Finau took a one-stroke lead over Simpson in the final round at TPC Scottsdale, near the home where he recently moved his family from Lehi. He closed with a 1-under-par 70, while briefly losing his lead and then moving ahead with birdies on Nos. 12 and 13.
The winner of the 2016 Puerto Rico Open, Finau has finished second six times in the past three seasons. The Puerto Rico Open was played the same weekend as a World Golf Championships tournament, so Jay Don Blake remains the most recent winner of a full-value PGA Tour event among Utah high school products. Blake won the tour's San Diego stop in 1991.
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