“Conversations with Champions presented by Sentry” is a weekly series from Golfweek. This week: Seamus Power, winner of the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Seamus Power was 34 before he broke through for his first PGA Tour win. Now, 15 months later, he’s got another one.
He had 28 birdies over four days at Port Royal Golf Course, breaking the old mark by one. Three of those came on the 16th hole on each of the first three days; his bogey Sunday on the par-3 ended that streak.
The highest-ranked player in the field, he was No. 48 before the action got started. On Monday, Power found himself in the No. 32 spot.
Here’s everything Power said after his win Sunday in Bermuda.
SP: “It was an interesting day. I felt great all day, played very nicely for the first, honestly, for the first 14 holes, played very, very nice golf, but it’s so tough coming in. I was able to hang on somewhere close to Ben there. He made quite a few birdies there through 11, but I was able to just do enough coming in. But it was tough going. It was a kind of day full of all sorts of emotions because, again, same as yesterday, you knew once you get to 12 tee that the next hour and a half was going to be really tough going. So I was able to make a couple birdies on the front and then kind of hang on there coming back in. I’m absolutely over the moon. The first one was amazing but to be able to win again, it’s fantastic. I get whatever, it’s pretty much a three-year exemption and all the kind of cool things that come with it. It’s just you’re kind of so proud and it’s amazing to be able to do it again.”
Q: Three-year exemption, plus you’re now No. 5 in the FedEx Cup and No. 32 in the Official World Golf Ranking. All those things combined, what does this do for you going forward?
SP: “The thing when you don’t have the exemption is like every year is year to year and it’s tough going, so an extra couple years is fantastic. To be able to focus on just practicing and improving and just playing my own game and not really worrying about all that stuff. I noticed that last season having the winner’s exemption for ’21-’22, I was really able to play much more freely like when you’re up near the lead and I think that’s a nice thing to be able to do. That’s also a goal to be doing anyway, but sometimes it’s a little harder than normal. So it’s going to be great. It gets a lot of bonuses. I mean, one of my favorite memories in golf was in…
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