Regulation golf wasn't going to settle this one. Fisk and Pendrith finished tied at 16-under 264 at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, and instead of a tidy Sunday finish, the two of them turned the back nine into overtime. Three separate trips down the same stretch of holes, a hole location change mid-playoff because nobody could get it done, and a whole gallery standing around wondering when someone was finally going to blink.
The playoff dragged into a third hole, with officials moving the pin after neither guy could close it out.
The sand save/flop-shot sequence described there is basically the whole playoff in miniature — both guys kept scrambling their way out of trouble instead of just making the putt to go home. That's what happens when two players who know how to grind refuse to give the other one an inch. Fisk eventually walked away with it, closing it out with a two-putt par after Pendrith couldn't save par out of a fairway bunker on the third extra hole.
For Fisk, this is starting to look like a pattern rather than a fluke. He broke through for his first career win back in October at the Sanderson Farms Championship, a runaway victory that came with an emotional backstory — Fisk's father Christopher had passed away from cancer earlier that year at 59. Less than a year later, he's got a second trophy, and this one came the hard way, grinding through a playoff instead of running away with it.
The moment it finally ended — Fisk's second win in less than a year, confirmed.
It's also a rough one for Pendrith, who's still chasing his first PGA Tour win and now has another runner-up finish to add to a resume full of close calls. The Canadian has been knocking on the door for a while, and playoff losses like this one sting more than a standard runner-up because he had every chance to close it on 3 different holes.
This was reportedly the 7th playoff on Tour this season and the 5th at the ISCO Championship specifically — the first since Harry Hall won there in 2024. That track record of drama isn't a coincidence; the event has a habit of not letting anyone walk away easy. Fisk pocketed $720,000 for the win, and with 2 titles now on his resume in less than a year, he's turned from rookie storyline into someone worth watching every time he's near the lead on a Sunday.