In the end, the tournament came down to the crowd favorite with 43 PGA Tour wins and five major championships — the guy who had finished in the top six in the California desert for the last three years — or a 31-year-old tour rookie who had missed the cut in four of his five tournaments and had previously spent as much time on the moon as he had on the leaderboard.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 21, 2019 02:26 UTC