Blades Brown wins PGA Tour's World Wide Technology at 19 - ESPN

LOS CABOS, Mexico — Blades Brown became the youngest PGA Tour winner in 88 years Sunday, when the 19-year-old rallied from a seven-shot deficit with a 9-under 63 and beat Ben James with a birdie on the second playoff hole in the World Wide Technology Championship.

Brown, at 19 years, 171 days, became the youngest tour winner since Bobby Dunkelberger captured the St. Augustine Pro-Amateur in 1938 at the age of 18.

More recently, Jordan Spieth won the John Deere Classic in 2013 at 19 years, 352 days.

«It hasn't set in just yet, I guess, the magnitude of being a PGA Tour winner,» Brown said. «I just go back to 5-year-old Blades that was watching the TV and watching Tiger Woods and all those great players win major championships, and to think that I'm now in a similar spot with having won a PGA Tour event is mind-blowing.»

James lost a four-shot lead going into the final round at El Cardonal at Diamante and then showed his moxie by smoking a 285-yard shot to 20 feet on the par-5 18th and making eagle to salvage a 70 and force the playoff.

But he missed an 8-foot putt on the second playoff hole, and Brown made his 3-footer.

«Had a feeling that it was going to go in,» James said of his clutch eagle, the only putt he made all day longer than 15 feet. «Hadn't really made anything all day. Just had a really good line on it and it was a good putt. Played the best I could.»

For a sleepy FedEx Cup Fall event on the southern tip of Baja California, this was pure theater between two players from the next generation. James was the No. 1 player in the PGA Tour University ranking last season. Brown made a surprising choice to turn pro two years ago while a junior in high school.

Brown was tested even more by going through two bags of