Round 4: AT&T National

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Nick Watney shot a 4-under 66 Sunday to win by two.

By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Thanks to his final-round 4-under 66 Nick Watney not only won for the second time this year, joining Bubba Watson and Mark Wilson as the only multiple winners on the PGA TOUR this season, he moved to the top of the FedExCup standings.

The win is the fourth of Watney’s career and also gives him eight top-10s this year, which ties for the most on TOUR with Matt Kuchar and Luke Donald.

“With 27 holes to go in the tournament, I was really just trying to play my way back in and then for some reason the hole just got bigger for me,” said Watney, who catapulted into contention with a course-record 62 in the third round that included a 27 over his final nine holes. “I’m overjoyed to be in here as the winner. It was a very difficult, long day.”

It was also one in which Watney got the lead early and never lost it, at one point making six straight pars on the back nine while others faltered.

K.J. Choi did briefly tie Watney for the lead after a birdie on No. 14 however.

“I was just kind of like, well, game on,” Watney said.

But Choi double bogeyed the next hole and never recovered.

At last year’s PGA Championship it was Watney who never recovered from an early triple bogey on his way to a final-round 81.

He filed that experience away, though, and put to use earlier this season at the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship and again on Sunday.

”Definitely the moment got the best of me, and I performed very badly,” Watney said of the PGA. “But I really feel like I learned a lot that week, especially Sunday.

“I knew it was going to be a long, hard day. Even if you come out of the gate, make three birdies, it’s going to be a long day. I just really tried to keep my head down. Even on the last green, if K.J. makes that, then my four‑footer gets a lot longer. So it was a very rewarding day.”