Nobody wanted to leave Hurstbourne Country Club on Sunday. Steven Fisk and Taylor Pendrith finished regulation tied at 16-under and then just kept playing the same hole over and over, refusing to blink. Two trips down the par-4 18th ended in matching pars, so officials did something you don't see every week and moved the pin for a third go at it.
Steven Fisk & Taylor Pendrith are going to a THIRD playoff hole at the ISCO. Fisk sand save, Pendrith full-flop up & down over a bunker. They’re now changing the hole location… awesome way to end a great day of golf.
That's how absurd this got — a full flop-shot up-and-down from a bunker just to survive to hole 3. According to ESPN, Fisk closed regulation with a 3-under 67 to force the playoff at 16-under 264, and it was Pendrith who finally cracked on the third extra hole, finding a bunker off the tee and then failing to get up and down for par. Fisk's third straight two-putt par was enough. No fireworks, no closing eagle — just outlasting a guy who wasn't giving an inch.
STEVEN FISK WINS THE ISCO AFTER A 3-HOLE PLAYOFF MARATHON WITH TAYLOR PENDRITH. HIS SECOND WIN ON TOUR IN LESS THAN A YEAR🏆🏆
The scoreboard-topper here is the timeline. Fisk didn't even have a TOUR win to his name until October, when he birdied his final 3 holes to take the Sanderson Farms Championship as a 28-year-old rookie in his 24th career start, a win that reportedly came with his late father on his mind. Less than a year later he's got a second trophy, and this one's arguably harder-earned given the marathon it took to close it out.
It's easy to forget how quickly job security shifts on the PGA Tour, and this is exactly why. One year Fisk is grinding through Q-school stress with no guaranteed status, the next he's a 2-time winner cashing a reported $720,000 check and banking 300 FedExCup points on top of the 500 he picked up in Mississippi. That's the kind of stretch that turns a guy from replaceable name on a leaderboard into a fixture.
For Pendrith, it's another heartbreaker to add to the pile — he's now been on the wrong end of one of these Tour playoff dogfights and will have to shake it off fast with the FedExCup Playoffs looming. For Fisk, the story writes itself: 2 wins in under a year, both delivered in pressure-cooker finishes. The only question left is whether this is a guy who just found his level, or whether he's still got another gear nobody's seen yet.