Tom Hoge Winner’s Bag

Tom Hoge rebounded from a seemingly disastrous double-bogey 5 on the par-3 fifth hole to overtake Jordan Spieth at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with a one-two punch of birdies at the 16th and 17th—the latter a 22-footer—Sunday.

The win made Hoge the second player in two weeks to earn his first career PGA Tour title after having gone winless for 200-plus starts, with Luke List achieving that feat the week prior at the Farmers Insurance Open.

Those birdies added to Hoge’s tournament-leading total of 27. Hoge used a normally successful combination of solid iron play and strong putting to earn the win. Hoge ranked fourth in strokes gained/approach-the-green with a split set of Titleist irons—he uses Titleist 620 CBs for his 4-iron and 620 MB blades for the rest of his set. The clubs have Project X 6.5 shafts and Golf Pride Tour Velvet grips. Among the many key shots Hoge hit down the stretch was a 9-iron from 140 yards on the par-4 16th hole that stopped mere inches from the cup, allowing him to tie for the lead.

That was followed by a 7-iron to 22 feet on the par-3 17th that Hoge rolled in to take a two-shot lead as Spieth, playing in the group ahead, bogeyed the hole. Hoge ranked fourth for the week in strokes gained/putting for the two rounds they tracked the stat, picking up more than four shots on the field with an Odyssey White Hot OG 2-Ball putter he put into play just this week.

“I switched putters this week,” Hoge told the media after his opening-round 63 at Pebble Beach. “To see one go in right off the bat [a 20-footer] on the first hole was huge for me. I felt like I made a lot of good putts out there today.