Austin Eckroat picks up 2nd career PGA Tour win in Mexico thanks to spectacular final round 63

Austin Eckroat is a PGA Tour winner once more.

Eight months after winning the Cognizant Classic at PGA National, Eckroat fired a 9-under 63 to win the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico. He made 11 birdies during his final round and called it “some of the best golf [he has] ever played.”

The former Oklahoma State Cowboy began Sunday’s final round trailing Justin Lower, Nico Echavarria, and Carson Young by a stroke. But that small deficit did phase Eckroat in the slightest. Instead, he made a barrage of birdies, nine of which came over his first 12 holes. When he stood on the 13th tee, he held a

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