It’s time to start taking this Sepp Straka character a lot more seriously. Not that you would ever dismiss a player ranked 17th in the world, but Straka is entering a different stratosphere after his two-stroke victory Sunday in the $20 million Truist Championship in Flourtown,

Sepp Straka has become exactly the golfer that instructor John Tillery envisioned the first time he played with him during a practice round with one of his other pupils. “I don’t want to sound like some weird prophet but I knew he could be this good because I saw it the first few times we played with him that this guy was the real deal.

Straka went head-to-head with Lowry in the final round at Philadelphia Cricket Club and prevailed for his second win of the season.