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Leave it to Brendon Todd to solve the mystery of his missing game in Bermuda of all places.

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Planes and ships that famously vanished in the Bermuda Triangle were less lost than Todd, a 34-year-old PGA Tour journeyman, who suffered through a stretch of missing 37 cuts in 41 starts between 2016 and 2018 and plummeted to No. 2006 in the world at the start of the year. But on Nov. 3, Todd capped off a remarkable comeback by playing 9 under in his first 11 holes en route to shooting a final-round 62 to win the Tour’s inaugural Bermuda Championship by four strokes over Henry Higgs.

“I went and found the wrecked ship and put it back together,” Todd said ahead of the Mayakoba Golf Classic, where he makes his first start Thursday since returning to the winner’s circle.

Jun 28, 2020 Brendon Todd is having a brutal afternoon at the Travelers Championship. On Saturday, Todd shot 61 during the third round at the Travelers at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut. Todd played his junior golf at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, North Carolina and Green Hope High School.He won the North Carolina High School 4A classification individual championship in his freshman, junior, and senior seasons at Green Hope, including winning the title as a freshman in 2000, the first year of the school being open after a fire destroyed its campus in 1963.

When asked to recall how his game went south, Todd can identify the exact moment it began to spin out of control. He was playing in the final pairing in the third round of the 2015 BMW Championship after shooting 66-63 and on the fourth hole he blocked a 4-iron 50 yards right that landed one hole over in a bush. He took a drop for an unplayable lie, made a triple bogey and shot 76, but that was just the beginning of his travails.

“I started seeing this right shot in my head and I couldn’t shake it,” he said. “The damage to my mind was done.”

Todd developed the nasty affliction known as the yips, an involuntary loss of control that typically affects a player’s nerves on short putts. Todd suffered from the full-swing yips.

“It’s really not using your mind the right way,” Todd explained. “Your fear takes over and blocks your instincts from doing what comes naturally. Once you see the bad result you have a fear of the same outcome until you fix it.”

This wasn’t the first time Todd had endured the loss of his game. In 2010, he missed the cut in all 13 of his starts on the Korn Ferry Tour and didn’t earn a check. But by 2014, Todd won the PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson Championship and climbed into the top 50 in the world. This slump, however, proved to be a longer journey into darkness.

“All of us as pros who knew him felt so bad for the struggles he went through,” said Matt Kuchar, the defending champion of the Mayakoba Golf Classic. “He went down to the bottom. He wasn’t just missing cuts. He was struggling to break 80.”

Todd sought answers from multiple teachers, but nothing seemed to help. That is until David Denham, a teammate from Todd’s 2005 National Championship squad at Georgia, suggested he consider working with Bradley Hughes, an Australian who won seven tournaments around the world as a pro before becoming an instructor. Todd bought Hughes’s $9 instructional e-book “The Victors,” and read it at the beach on family vacation and called him for a lesson.

“He didn’t want a paint-by-numbers (swing,) as he called it,” Hughes said. “He wanted to trust that the club was going to do what it should do.”

Around the same time, caddie Ward Jarvis suggested Todd read another book to help the mental side of his game, “The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life,” by former pitcher Rick Ankiel.

Still, as 2018 neared its end, Todd met with his financial adviser and discussed pursuing other careers. He looked into opening a pizza franchise. In November, he shot 61 to qualify for the RSM Classic and posted four rounds in the 60s. He put the pizza plans on hold. By April, the fog had lifted and Todd’s confidence in his swing reemerged. Regaining his playing privileges through Korn Ferry Tour Finals was big, but Todd had grander ambitions. Hughes recalls Todd looking him in the eye and declaring he was going to win again.

“Mate, I have no doubts,” Hughes said. “There were a lot of doubters but neither of them were us.”

Todd’s victory earned him the security of a two-year exemption, berths in the Sentry Tournament of Champions and Players Championship, but not an upgrade on his flight home.

“I either had a beer or a phone in my hand texting from the minute I won, so all of a sudden I was walking on the airplane and I was like, ‘I wonder what seat I’m in?’ And I looked up and there I was 16E, middle seat. You know what? That stuff matters so little to me. I’ve been flying to and from Monday qualifiers for the past three years. Do you really think I care about sitting in the middle seat on the way home from my second victory?”

Not when his game is flying high again.

Brendon Todd (born July 22, 1985) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the Web.com Tour.

Early career[edit]

Todd played his junior golf at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, North Carolina and Green Hope High School. He won the North Carolina High School 4A classification individual championship in his freshman, junior, and senior seasons at Green Hope, including winning the title as a freshman in 2000, the first year of the school being open after a fire destroyed its campus in 1963.

Todd attended the University of Georgia, where he was part of the 2005 team that won the National Championship.^[2] He was a four-time All-American at the university.^[3]

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Professional career[edit]

Todd joined the Nationwide Tour in 2008. That year he won the Utah Championship, and finished 19th on the money list, earning him a spot on the PGA Tour in 2009.

At the 2009 Athens Regional Foundation Classic on the Nationwide Tour, Todd became the first player on the Tour to ace the same hole twice in the same tournament. On April 16, during the first round, his ace on the 157 yard, par-3, 17th hole, came with a 7-iron. The next day, the ace came with an 8-iron from 147 yards.^[4] In his rookie season on the PGA Tour in 2009, he made only 5 of 21 cuts, and did not earn a tour card for 2010.

Todd rejoined the Nationwide Tour in 2010. In 2011, he had a steady season on that tour, and was medalist at the season-ending qualifying school to return to the PGA Tour. In 2012, he was the final person to retain any status on the PGA Tour. His finish of 150th on the PGA Tour's money list meant that he retained conditional status and avoided the second round of Q School. As a member of the 126-150 category on the PGA Tour, Todd also had full Web.com Tour status.^[5]

In 2013, Todd won his second Web.com Tour event, the 2013 Stadion Classic at UGA.^[6] He finished 20th on the 2013 Web.com Tour regular season money list, earning him a 2014 PGA Tour card.

On May 18, 2014, Todd won his first PGA Tour event, in his 77th start at the HP Byron Nelson Championship. Todd shot a bogey free round of 66 on the final day to finish two strokes ahead of Mike Weir. The victory earned Todd a two-year tour exemption and ensured a first visit to The Masters in 2015.^[7] He followed up his win with a T5 at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial to move inside the Top 60 in the Official World Golf Ranking. Therefore, he earned entry into his first major, the U.S. Open, where he ended 17th.

Todd placed as high as 40th in the world rankings in 2014, but a string of bad finishes and missed cuts cost him his PGA Tour card after the 2015–16 season.

On November 3, 2019, Todd shot a nine-under 62, including seven straight front-nine birdies, to win the Bermuda Championship on the PGA Tour by four shots over 54-hole leader Harry Higgs. 'A year ago, I wasn't sure if I was going to keep playing,' Todd said after the round. 'So it's really special to get this win this soon.' In September 2018, Todd had missed the cut in 37 of his last 40 starts. At that point, Todd had dropped outside the top 2000 golfers in the world and failed to get through the second stage of Q School. He was planning on retiring after the season and going into restaurant franchise ownership. 'It was basically the ball-striking yips,' Todd told Golf Channel in June 2019. 'Every time I played, I would hit a 4-iron or a 3-wood 50 yards right, and I knew why but I couldn't really fix it. When the misses get so big that it's an automatic double bogey, narrowing that miss up is hard.'^[8] On November 18, Todd won the Mayakoba Golf Classic for his second straight win.^[9]

On June 27, 2020, Todd fired his career lowest round of 61 during the third round of the Travelers Championship. This allowed Todd to hold the 54-hole lead by two strokes over Dustin Johnson. He shot a 75 in the final round to drop back to a T11 finish.

Todd held the 54-hole lead at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational by a single stroke after an opening three rounds of 64-64-69. He shot a final round of 75 to finish six shots behind the winner and a T15 finish. This was Todd's best finish in a WGC event.

Professional wins (7)[edit]

PGA Tour wins (3)[edit]

Web.com Tour wins (2)[edit]

*Note: The 2013 Stadion Classic at UGA was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

NGA Hooters Tour wins (1)[edit]

• 2007 Dothan Classic

eGolf Professional Tour wins (1)[edit]

• 2007 Musgrove Mill Classic

Results in major championships[edit]

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

CUT = missed the half-way cut
'T' = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in The Players Championship[edit]

CUT = missed the halfway cut
'T' indicates a tie for a place
C = Canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Results in World Golf Championships[edit]

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Results not in chronological order before 2015.

¹Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

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NT = No tournament
'T' = Tied

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Week 35 2020 Ending 30 Aug 2020'(pdf). OWGR. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
2. ^Towers, Chip (May 5, 2013). 'Brendon Todd becomes 3rd Bulldog to win Stadion Classic'. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
3. ^Mackey, Jason (May 20, 2014). 'Timing of first PGA Tour victory perfect for Peters Township native Todd'. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
4. ^'Todd aces same hole on 2 straight days'. Golf.com. Associated Press. May 30, 2009. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
5. ^Trowbridge, Matt (July 14, 2013). 'Rockford Pro-Am: Brendon Todd stars on course, but chances few'. Rockford Register Star. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
6. ^Stevens, Tim (May 6, 2013). 'Former Green Hope golf star Brendon Todd wins web.com event'. News & Observer. Archived from the original on May 21, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
7. ^Nichols, Bill (May 18, 2014). ''Dream week' propels Brendon Todd past more heralded competitors as he wins Byron Nelson Championship'. Dallas Morning News. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
8. ^Rapaport, Daniel (November 4, 2019). 'Brendon Todd, a year removed from nearly giving up the game, is a PGA Tour winner once more'. Golf Digest. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
9. ^'Brendon Todd, once beset by yips, wins again in Mexico'. Associated Press. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.

External links[edit]

• Brendon Todd at the PGA Tour official site
• Brendon Todd at the Official World Golf Ranking official site