STEVEN FISK BEATS TAYLOR PENDRITH ON THIRD PLAYOFF HOLE.TO WIN ISCO

 

Steven Fisk drives the ball off the 9th tee for the final round of the ISCO Golf Championship at Hurstbourne Country Club. July 12, 2026

Steven Fisk won his second PGA Tour title in nine months by prevailing on the third hole of a playoff against Canadian Taylor Pendrith to claim the ISCO Championship on Sunday in Louisville, Ky.

Fisk shot a 3-under 67 and Pendrith a 5-under 65 at Hurstbourne Country Club to finish regulation tied at 16-under 264. They replayed the par-4 18th hole twice, both players coming out with pars each time.

Tournament officials changed the pin location on the 18th green before their third playthrough. Pendrith's drive found a bunker, his second shot didn't have enough to reach the green and he failed to get up and down for par.

That meant Fisk's third consecutive par was enough to decide the tournament.

"Definitely (was) more nervous in regulation," Fisk said. "I think when you're in the playoff, it's kind of a match-play thing. Taylor and I are kind of feeding off each other, seeing what each other are doing. Once you get in that playoff you feel like you have a really good chance, but until you're there, it can be a little more nerve-wracking."

Fisk said it had been "a frustrating year trying to back up that first win" at the Sanderson Farms Championship in October.

"I've showed some pretty good signs of some solid golf, but haven't really had that opportunity to win a golf tournament that I've been kind of craving," he said. "It was unbelievable to get it done again."

Pendrith, 35, was looking for his second PGA Tour title as well and his first since the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson.

"I didn't hit a great drive," Pendrith said of the third playoff hole. "It's not a super comfortable tee ball for me and that right bunker's not ideal. I was there in Round 2 maybe and hit kind of the same shot. Just No. 1 thing is to get it over the lip, and missed my spot on the pitch shot. Thought I hit a good putt."

Fisk made the turn at even par before birdieing Nos. 10, 11 and 15, the latter a 4-foot putt after a precise approach shot. He needed birdie at the par-4 18th to win outright or par to tie Pendrith and force extra holes, and he two-putted from 30 1/2 feet to precipitate the playoff.

Canada's Ben Silverman shot 66 and Aaron Wise posted 69 to tie for third at 15 under, one stroke out of the playoff.

Lucas Glover squandered a 54-hole lead for the second week in a row. After tying for third at the John Deere Classic, he faded Sunday with a 1-over 71 and tied for fifth at 14 under with Davis Chatfield (66) and Norway's Kristoffer Ventura (66).

"I hit too many bad shots. Uncharacteristic," Glover said. "Missing a green with a wedge and big pull with a 6-iron on 12 and 13 and that was kind of it. Couldn't make enough birdies down the stretch. But those guys played great, hats off to them. And I did not, so that's the way it goes."

--Field Level Media

HARRY HALL BIRDIES 3RD PLAYOFF HOLE TO WIN ISCO CHAMPIONSHIP

 NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. -- Harry Hall chipped in for birdie from 45 feet on the third hole of a playoff Sunday to win the ISCO Championship for his first PGA Tour title, just days before the birth of his first child.

"Due date's Friday. She's scheduled to induce on Tuesday just because I was at a point in the FedEx Cup where I kind of needed to play more," Hall said about wife Jordan. "She would do anything for me. She's a star and, hopefully, she can do whatever she wants now. I might not play next week. I probably won't."

The 26-year-old Englishman closed with a 3-under 69 to get into the playoff with Matt NeSmith, Pierceson Coody, Zac Blair and Rico Hoey -- also all seeking their first tour victory. They finished at 22-under 266 on Keene Trace's Champions Course in the event co-sanctioned by the European tour.

"This is an opposite-field event, but it's still a quality field, still great players from Europe, still great players from the U.S.," Hall said. "Just to win any event's really tough."

Hall scrambled for par on the par-4 18th on the first extra hole, driving well left into long grass, hitting into the front greenside bunker and blasting out to a foot. He stayed alive when NeSmith's 8-foot birdie try slid by to the right.

"I grew up at West Cornwall Golf Club, which is basically on the beach back in Cornwall, in England," Hall said. "We didn't really have a driving range, all we had was a chipping green and 18 holes of golf, so I spent my life in the sand. I was really comfortable with that."

On the next trip down 18 in the playoff, Hall, NeSmith and Coody all missed birdie putts, with NeSmith's attempt the closest at 12 feet.

"I had two great opportunities on 18, that's all I can ask for," NeSmith said. "I hit two pretty good putts, just little misreads."

Hall ended it on the 209-yard, par-3 ninth. Hitting first after all three went long into the rough, the 6-foot-4 former UNLV player got his chip from the right side to fall before NeSmith and Coody missed their attempts from behind the hole.

"Before I chipped that, I was thinking, `Phil Rowe would love for me to win a PGA Tour event by chipping it in,'" said Hall, who jumped to 79th in the FedEx Cup standings. "He was my coach in college. Just walking up to that chip I was thinking about him."

NeSmith and Blair each shot 64, playing in back-to-back groups about two hours in front of the final pairing. Blair said he was 40 minutes down the road before turning around.

"We were like halfway to Cincinnati," Blair said. "We were watching the coverage and kind of figured we better turn around."

Coody, the leader after each of the first three rounds, closed with a 70. He made a 12-foot birdie putt on 18 to get into the playoff.

Hoey took a one-stroke lead into the final hole of regulation but made a bogey after his wedge approach bounced over the green and into rocks along the bank of a pond. He shot 69.

"It kind of sucks on 18, but I hit a great shot, hit a great tee ball and hit a great second shot," Hoey said. "Adrenaline's pumping. I've never really been in that situation where it like comes down to it."

Neal Shipley closed with a 70 to tie for sixth at 20 under in his third PGA Tour start as a professional. He was the low amateur at the Masters and U.S. Open.

S.Y. Noh (65), Ben Taylor (65) and Sam Bairstow (70) also were 20 under.

Luke Clanton tied for 37th at 13 under after a 71. A week ago, the Florida State sophomore tied for second in the John Deere Classic to become the first amateur since 1958 to finish in the top 10 in consecutive PGA Tour-sanctioned starts.

- Associated Press