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CaddyBytes 🏆 2025 Puerto Rico Open Final Round Highlights: The 2025 Puerto Rico Open delivered a Sunday shootout with birdies flying everywhere and the leaderboard packed with hungry contenders chasing their first PGA Tour win. With preferred lies (“ball in hand”) helping set the stage for record-low scoring, the tournament quickly turned into a full-blown sprint to the finish line. Early on, Vilips looked firmly in control, already pushing past the tournament scoring record as the field went deep under par. But the final groups had very little PGA Tour winning experience, and the pressure of closing out a first victory began to show as challengers surged. The biggest charge came from Fisk, who lit up the back nine with an eagle run that vaulted him into solo second at 21-under, just two shots back after notching two eagles in his last three holes. The momentum was real — “game on in Puerto Rico” as the broadcast put it — but a missed opportunity on a key birdie putt kept him from tightening the noose. Meanwhile, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, making his PGA Tour debut, caught absolute fire. He rolled in birdie after birdie, extending his streak to six straight, storming into a share of the lead at 23-under and forcing the tournament into a dramatic final stretch. It was a “heat check of all heat checks,” and for a moment it looked like he might steal the whole thing. But when it mattered most, Vilips answered like a champion. A clutch approach on the 14th set up a huge birdie chance, and moments later Vilips struck again with a brilliant shot that pushed him ahead and opened a two-shot cushion. Even after a rare bogey — his first in 49 holes — he stayed steady, never letting the pressure or the chaos of the packed leaderboard knock him off his rhythm. In the end, Vilips closed the door with a confident finish, sealing a statement win and officially becoming a Sunday winner on the PGA Tour — the kind of breakthrough performance that turns a contender into a name to watch for the rest of the season.

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