Austin Smotherman won the Butterfield Bermuda Championship on the 3rd playoff hole at Port Royal in Southampton, the PGA Tour reported on 26 October. The result gave him a second victory in consecutive starts and changed the FedExCup position of both finalists.
How the Bermuda playoff unfolded
The PGA Tour's 26 October account says strong wind made the scheduled final round unplayable, leaving Smotherman and Seamus Power tied at 16-under 197 after 54 holes. The leaders returned on Monday morning to settle the title in sudden death.
The PGA Tour's 26 October report places the extra holes on Port Royal's par-3 16th beside the Atlantic. Both players made par on their first two attempts. Power had a birdie putt to win at the first extra hole but missed, then saved par after finding a bunker on the second. The hole location was moved forward for the third attempt, while the wind continued to affect shots into the green.
Smotherman found the putting surface again. Power's tee shot finished in deep rough left of the green, and his recovery left a par putt that did not fall. Smotherman took two putts for par and the win. The PGA Tour's 26 October payout account confirms that par, rather than a birdie, settled the contest on the third extra hole.
Why the wind and result mattered
Smotherman had won the Bank of Utah Championship three weeks earlier, his first PGA Tour title in his 100th career start, according to the Tour's 26 October report. Bermuda was his next start. The sequence put him among the Tour's winners in consecutive starts this season, while the shortened event became its first weather-reduced 54-hole victory since the Pebble Beach tournament in 2024.
The conditions had been difficult before the final round was lost. “Once we turned, I felt like the wind just kept picking up,” Austin Smotherman, one of the co-leaders, told a PGA Tour report after Saturday's play. The comment concerned the back nine of the completed third round.
What the result changes
- The PGA Tour's 26 October payout report awards Smotherman 500 FedExCup points and $1,080,000. It places him 51st in the FedExCup and confirms a place in the 2027 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. The Tour also says that position secures entry to the early Signature Events at Pebble Beach and Riviera.
- Power's runner-up finish moved him from 103rd to 68th in the FedExCup, the PGA Tour reported on 26 October. That move secured his full Tour card for 2027. Power had entered the week outside the top group retaining full status, so finishing second carried a clear consequence beyond the prize money.
Both finalists appear in the Mexico Open field
SportsRivo checked the PGA Tour's Mexico Open field against its Bermuda result: Smotherman and Power are both listed for the next event. The Tour's 26 October preview dates the VidantaWorld Mexico Open in Vallarta for 29 October to 1 November 2026. The published field establishes their entry at the time of this check; it does not establish a starting tee time or guarantee that either player will compete.
Source: PGA Tour Bermuda result