Michael Brennan should not have made winning his first PGA Tour title on Sunday as easy as it looked. It was just his third career PGA Tour start. He’s just 23 years old. It was the ultimate “this guy seems very talented, but no way he’s closing this one out” spot. If you thought that, you probably didn’t realize that this dude has been closing ’em out regularly on the PGA Tour Americas.
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There, Brennan won three times between mid-August and late September, the first victory coming at the BioSteel Championship, the second in a playoff at the CRMC Championship and the third at the ATB Classic. Those recent experiences were what Brennan leaned on as he headed into Sunday at the Bank of Utah Championship, which he was playing in on a sponsor’s exemption.
“Being in those situations [on PGA Tour Americas], that has been just so fruitful for me in my development as a golfer,” said Brennan on this week’s episode of The Loop podcast. “To be in those situations pretty consistently at the end of the season, I think I had five or six rounds in the final group in the last six tournaments on the Americas tour.
“So I just tried to lean back on that experience and tried to enjoy the day.”
The day only got more enjoyable after the victory, as Brennan, his family, his caddie and his agent got to enjoy an intimate steak dinner. He told us how that came to be during our full chat, which can be heard below:
