By PGATOUR.COM wire reports
HUMBLE, Texas — D.A. Points can always find a ray of light in the darkest clouds.
He arrived at the Shell Houston Open having failed to break 70 in his last nine rounds on the PGA TOUR. He had made only two cuts in nine tournaments this year, both times finishing at the bottom of the pack. All that changed Sunday, even after a final round most appropriately delayed by thunderstorms.
Points returned from the long delay by making four pars, and the last one from just outside 13 feet gave him a one-shot victory in the Shell Houston Open.
It also provided another two-year exemption on the PGA TOUR, 500 FedExCup points and a start next year at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.
And he’s on his way back to Augusta National for the Masters.
“I never count myself out,” said Points, now 19th in the FedExCup standings. “I never just chalk it up like, `Oh, this year is over with.’ I’ve never felt like that. I was just grinding, just trying to wait and try to find that one thing that like, `Boom! There it is.’ And there I go. Fortunately, it was this week and I capitalized on it.”
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