Nico Echavarria birdies the last and stares down Justin Thomas to win the 2024 Zozo Championship

Nico Echavarria birdied 2 of nan last 3 holes to sprout 3-under 67 astatine Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club connected Sunday to unafraid his 2nd PGA Tour title astatine nan Zozo Championship.

With conscionable 1 apical 10 this play and 3 missed cuts successful his past 4 starts, Echavarria was nan astonishment of nan tournament, racing into nan lead pinch a brace of 64s and a 65 to group nan 54-hole tourney scoring people and a two-stroke lead.

Echavarria reached nan par-5 18th successful two, leaving himself a 40-foot eagle putt. He lagged to 3 feet and converted nan clinching stroke, finishing astatine 20-under 260, to separator Justin Thomas and Max Greyserman by 1 shot.

Echavarria, a 30-year-old from Colombia, started nan last information 2 up and made birdies astatine Nos. 2 and 7 earlier a bogey astatine No. 8 dropped him backmost into tie. He reclaimed sole possession of nan lead astatine No. 13, planting his tee changeable astatine 13 to 13 feet and canning nan downhill, right-to-left breaking birdie putt. He pumped his correct fist but 1 spread later, location was a two-shot plaything arsenic he made a sloppy bogey astatine nan par 5 and Greyserman canned a 29-foot birdie putt astatine No 13. Echavarria answered pinch different 13-foot birdie astatine nan par-3 16th. Echavarria and Geyserman, who had been partners this play astatine nan Zurich Classic of New Orleans and vanished fourth, remained tied until nan 72nd hole.

Greyserman missed nan fairway astatine 18 and had to laic up and his birdie putt brned nan correct edge. He closed successful 65 and topped nan section successful Strokes Gained: Putting, and made complete 100 feet of putts successful each round.

Thomas closed pinch a bogey-free 66 but aft sinking 3 birdies successful his first six holes, his putter went cold. Before nan tourney began, he switched backmost to a trusty mallet that he’d utilized successful galore of his 15 erstwhile Tour tutles but it fto him down erstwhile it mattered most. He burned edges and lipped retired putts, making 11 consecutive pars earlier a birdie astatine nan last. He classed 64th successful SG: Putting successful nan 78-man section connected Sunday and mislaid strokes pinch nan short instrumentality for nan week.

Rickie Fowler changeable a bogey-free 6-under 64 and vanished fourth. It marked his champion consequence successful 23 starts this play and making love to his past triumph astatine nan Rocket Mortgage Classic past July.