Davis Thompson made the John Deere Classic his first PGA Tour win. Stacy Revere/Getty Images During the final round of the John Deere Classic on Sunday, 2018 winner and PGA Tour Twitter king Michael Kim , as he does so often during events, took to Twitter. But this time, it was a personal plea.
Calm down Davis, no need to break the tournament scoring record or anything...
😂 “Calm down Davis, no need to break the tournament scoring record of anything,” Kim wrote. Back in 2018, for his first and only PGA Tour title, Kim set the John Deere Classic scoring record with a 27-under 257 total for four days. Davis Thompson didn’t take Kim’s wishes into account.
Starting the day up by two after a sparkling 62 Saturday, Thompson kept his foot on the gas, making birdie on five of his first six holes, including making a 44-footer at the 1st, and then adding one more to turn in 29. He tallied TK more birdies on the back nine to reach TK under, besting Kim’s record at taking the John Deere Classic for his first PGA Tour victory. The 25-year-old gets his breakthrough win in just his second season on Tour and just after his second career runner-up just a week ago in Detroit.
Thompson’s game had been trending upward since the U.S. Open where he earned his first top-10 and first made cut in a major.
He credited the improvement to a new set of irons inserted just a few weeks before at the CJ Cup. But his entire game was dialed in the Quad Cities as he played the first 27 holes of .
