SILVIS, Ill.—Davis Thompson had been working toward a moment like this, and he wasn’t about to let anything stop him—not a soft golf course that produced the best scores of the week, not the pressure of trying to win for the first time on the PGA Tour.
He started with a two-shot lead. Six holes into the final round Sunday, July 7, Thompson had five birdies, had stretched his lead to six shots, and was on his way to a four-shot victory, a spot in the next three majors, and the lowest 72-hole score in John Deere Classic history.
