https://www.pgatour.com/news/2020/06/14/different-victory-just-as-sweet-for-daniel-berger-charles-schwab-challenge.html
In this most unusual of weeks for the PGA TOUR and its return to golf, Colonial found a winner who somehow managed to stay hot during the three-month long suspension of this season. Berger’s last three starts before the conoravirus pandemic changed everything? A T-9 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, a T-5 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and a T-4 at The Honda Classic. Scoring-wise, he rolled into Cowtown with 24 consecutive rounds under par.
In retrospect, we should’ve seen this coming, but given a field with so many big names, including the world’s top-five ranked players, it might’ve been easy to overlook a guy who ranked 107th in the world and 45th in the FedExCup, and whose last TOUR win came three years ago – prior to a wrist injury that developed in 2018 and eventually put him on a Major Medical Extension entering this season.
Berger had just gone to 15 under with a final-round 66 and was now the man to beat with six players still on the course. You could’ve heard a pin drop. But then, Berger isn’t one likely to hear his name chanted anyway, even though it should be, considering he’s a two-time TOUR winner and played on the U.S. Team that steamrolled the International Team in the 2017 Presidents Cup at Liberty National.
Sunday’s win comes against the deepest field in tournament history – and it sends a message that Berger is healthy now and ready to get reclaim some of the territory he had carved out on golf’s landscape before his wrist problems.
“There was so many times today where I could have given it up or let the pressure get to me,” Berger said, “but I hung in there and I played practically some of the best golf I've played the last six years the last five holes today.”
He still had to win a playoff, though, after Morikawa failed to convert a 6-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole that could’ve won the tournament. Berger had lost each of his first two playoffs, including the 2017 Travelers Championship when Jordan Spieth holed a shot from the bunker.
It’s the kind of scar tissue that can pay dividends in these situations, especially against a youngster such as Morikawa, making just his 21st TOUR start since turning pro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_State_Seminoles_men%27s_golfers
This List of Florida State Seminoles men's golfers includes notable athletes who played for the Florida State Seminoles men's golf team that represents Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, and who play or have played golf professionally. These Florida State University alumni played on the PGA Tour and/or on the affiliated Web.com Tour or Champions Tour. The table lists their wins on these tours and other notable golfing achievements.
| Name | PGA wins (Majors) | Web.com wins | Champions wins | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Azinger | 12 (1) | – | – | Azinger won the European Tour's BMW International Open in 1990 and 1992. |
| Daniel Berger | 3 | – | – | Earned Team USA's clinching point at the 2017 Presidents Cup |
| Jonas Blixt | 3 | – | – | Blixt's win at the 2017 Zurich Classic of New Orleans was a team event with Cameron Smith. |
| Cristóbal del Solar | – | – | – | Won two events on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica. |
| Bob Duval | – | – | 1 | |
| Harry Ellis | – | – | – | One of three players to win both the English Amateur and The Amateur Championship. |
| Downing Gray | – | – | – | Twice finished as low amateur at the Masters Tournament |
| Hubert Green | 19 (2) | – | 4 | |
| Nolan Henke | 3 | – | – | |
| Brian Kamm | – | 1 | – | |
| Richie Karl | 1 | – | – | Karl was a 2-time winner of the Alaska State Amateur, and 4-time winner of the Iowa PGA Championship. |
| Stephen Keppler | – | – | – | Inducted in 2014 into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame. |
| Drew Kittleson | – | – | – | Kittleson advanced to the finals of the 2008 U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst before falling to Danny Lee, 5 & 4. |
| Kenny Knox | 3 | – | – | |
| Brooks Koepka | 7 (4) | – | – | Back to back wins in U.S. Open (2017, 2018) and PGA Championship (2018, 2019). Moved to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking in October 2018. He has two wins on the Japan Golf Tour. Prior to joining the PGA Tour, Koepka won four tournaments on the Challenge Tour and one tournament on the European Tour. |
| Hank Lebioda | – | – | – | Won one event on the PGA Tour Canada |
| Jack Maguire | – | – | – | |
| George McNeill | 2 | – | – | |
| Jeremy Robinson | – | – | – | Won five times on the Challenge Tour. |
| Chase Seiffert | – | – | – | Won the 2012 Florida Open as an amateur. |
| Bob Shave | – | – | – | Won the Pennsylvania Open Championship, and was a 3-time winner of the Ohio Open. |
| Jeff Sluman | 6 (1) | – | 6 | Other wins include the 1978 New York State Amateur, two wins at the CVS Health Charity Classic, and two wins at the Franklin Templeton Shootout. |
| Ken Staton | – | – | – | Won six events on the PGA Tour Canada. |
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