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Vegas Baby! Turnesa Wins First.
Footjoy Blog, October 19, 2008
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Marc Turnesa completed a wire-to-wire victory for his first PGA TOUR title, closing with a 4-under 68 on Sunday to win the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open by one shot. He earned a career-best $738,000 to jump from 138th to 75th on the money list.
The fourth rookie to win on the PGA TOUR this season, Turnesa opened with rounds of 62, 64 and 69 at TPC Summerlin en route to a tournament-record 24-under 263 total. Turnesa birdied Nos. 9, 11, 12 and 14 to reach 25 under on the mostly sunny, breezy day. He also birdied the par-3 17th, but dropped a stroke on the par-4 18th.
“I only won by a shot, so obviously every birdie I made was important,” said Turnesa, the 30-year-old former North Carolina State star who broke the event mark of 23-under 264 set last year by fellow FootJoy player George McNeill.
Turnesa, who also won last year on the Nationwide Tour, is part of a famous golf family. His great-uncle, Jim, won the 1952 PGA Championship, and his grandfather, Mike, was a six-time winner on the PGA TOUR who finished second to Ben Hogan in the 1948 PGA Championship.
Mike was one of seven brothers, six of whom played on PGA TOUR. One of those, Joe, was a 15-time PGA TOUR winner. The only brother who didn’t turn professional was Willie, the 1938 and 1948 U.S. Amateur champion and 1947 British Amateur winner..
Marc prefers the slick looks and stable platform of FJ Classics Dry Premiere. His Sunday shoe of choice was style 50730
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