Pre-event 27.026/1 chance, Ewen Ferguson, kicked off the ISPS Handa World Invitational with a nine-under-par 61 to lead by four and he was never headed after that. He led by three with a round to go and never really looked in trouble.
Richard Mansell, who began the final round trailing by five, was matched at a low of 2.186/5 after he'd birdied five of his first 10 holes but he finished poorly, bogeying three of his last four. Spanish outsider, Borja Virto, who was a 370.0369/1 chance, hit a low of 5.14/1 before dropping shots at 14 and 18.
One could argue Ferguson's task was made simpler by the way others finished but it's never easy to win wire-to-wire and he was impressive enough.
Matt Cooper's each-way 100/1 fancy, and my Find Me a 100 winner pick, Renato Paratore, finished tied for fourth but unfortunately, he was only matched at a low of 10.519/2 and I'd set my first lay back target at 10.09/1.
Smith penalised before Zalatoris sees off Straka
Over at the FedEx St Jude Championship, the drama in Memphis began on Sunday before play even started.
The Open champion, Cam Smith, heavily rumoured to be switching to the LIV Golf Tour after he's collected his FedEx Cup playoff cash, was the 4/1 favourite after round three as he trailed the 54-hole leader, J.J Spaun, by two strokes but he was retrospectively given a two-stroke penalty for an incorrect drop on the par three fourth on Saturday. See below tweet for details.
Smith certainly didn't gain any advantage and the penalty looked petty and ill-timed. What would have happened if a PGA Tour tournament winner had done it in round four? Would they have changed the result on a Monday? I very much doubt it. Unless they were off to the LIV Tour maybe?
Smith appeared to have put the incident behind him when he began round four with a birdie but he was poor after that - eventually finishing tied for 13th.
With Smith out of the picture and the 54-hole leader, Spaun, enduring an awful day (shot an eight-over-par 78!), Will Zalatoris looked the most likely winner for much of the day.
Pre-event 230.0229/1 chance, Brian Harman, was matched at just 5.49/2 after he'd birdied the 13th but he bogeyed the 14th and finished poorly and Trey Mullinax hit a low of 4.57/2 after he too had birdied the par three 13th before three-putting 15 for bogey.
Adam Scott and Lucas Glover (who bizarrely topped the Putting Average stats for the week) finished nicely but always appeared to have left it too late and the finish was eventually fought out between Zalatoris and huge outsider Sepp Straka.
Straka had shot just one round in the 60s since May and he'd missed his last six cuts so it was no real surprise to see him trading at a 1000.0999/1 before the off but he was very unlucky not to win.
Having birdied the par five 16th to draw alongside Zalatoris in the group ahead of him, birdie putts at 17 and 18 narrowly missed and we were into extra-time.
Extra-time drama as massive outsider falls short
It looked like advantage Straka after the tee-shots on the first extra hole but the pair both made par fours before Staka made the first of three poor plays...
Playing the 18th for a second time, and with the honour off the tee, Zalatoris hit a stinker of a drive that avoided going out of bounds by inches. Reaching the par four green in two was an impossibility and it was advantage Straka.
The big Austrian's price dipped to 1.384/11 after his tee-shot just cleared the lake to left of the fairway but as the camera angles changed, it was clear that although he'd made it over the water, he didn't have a stance.
Zalatoris chipped out and Straka took the decision to take a penalty drop so Zalatoris went favourite again. But not for long.
Straka stiffed his third to inside seven feet as Zalatoris gave himself a 14-footer to save par and Straka took over at the head of the market before they both holed for par and we were off to the par three 11th for the third extra hole.
After Zalatoris' tee-shot rested on the rocks, Straka hit a low of just 1.21/5 as it appeared that all he needed to do was to safely find the green but to say he messed it up is putting it mildly!
As shown in the below tweet, he found the water having taken a far too aggressive line off the tee and he then rushed his third from the drop-zone and found the bunker.
Within a few short minutes Straka had gone from looking an almost certain winner to a highly likely loser but it wasn't all over...
Zalatoris took an age to contemplate his options, considering playing the ball off the rocks, but sense prevailed eventually and after a decent third from the drop zone, he bravely holed his fourth shot from seven feet for his long overdue first PGA Tour win.
I doubt Straka got much sleep last night and that's a defeat he may take a while to get over. He really did throw it away.
Zalatoris had been a very popular and well-tipped pick before the off, with his price moving in from 32.031/1 to 23.022/1. But his backers must have though they'd done their dough as he drifted all the way out to 800.0799/1 when he played the first nine holes of the tournament in two-over-par.
Zalatoris now heads the FedEx Cop standings with two events to play, with the world number one, Scottie Scheffler, who missed the cut in Memphis, slipping to second.
The series moves on to Wilmington Country Club in Delaware for the BMW Championship on Thursday and the DP World Tour takes in the Czech Masters. I'll be back later today and tomorrow with the previews.
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