Atlanta, GA – Former eGolf Tour winner Billy Horschel completed a torrid stretch of golf on Sunday afternoon with a win at the season-ending TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola. The victory marked a third-straight top-2 finish, which helped Horschel emerge from the ashes of a missed cut at The Barclays last month all the way to the 2013-14 FedEx Cup title.

Horschel’s march towards $10 million dollars began with a runner-up finish at the Deutsche Bank Championship earlier this month and a follow-up win the next week at the BMW Championship at famed Cherry Hills Country Club outside of Denver. The win pushed the former Florida Gator star to No. 2 on the FedEx Cup points list, just nine points behind leader Chris Kirk.

Entering TOUR Championship week at historic East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Horschel was confident to the point of almost being brash, telling media members that if he was to bet on anyone, he would bet on himself.

Never one to lack in the department of self-promotion, Horschel delivered, with opening rounds of 66-66-69—201 to seize a share of the 54-hole lead alongside world No. 1 Rory McIlroy entering Sunday’s final round.

Early birdies on Nos. 4 and 5 took Horschel to 11-under for the week, but it was a winless veteran who made the Sunday charge towards the confident young buck.

Jim Furyk, who entered the week with four runner-ups on the year, posted three birdies on his opening nine holes to reach 10-under par, just one shot back of Horschel with only nine holes to go in the 2013-14 PGA TOUR season.

Billy Horschel

Both players bogeyed the par-4 10th, but birdied the par-5 15th, to maintain their one-shot differential with three holes to play, and Furyk in the day’s penultimate twosome.

On the par-4 16th, Horschel drove into the right trees and wisely pitched out to the fairway, only to watch his third shot spin back on the green, roughly 30 feet from the hole. Needing to convert the par save in order to avoid falling into a tie, he delivered with a putt that had zero chance of finding anything but the bottom of the cup.

"It came off and got up on top of that ridge and I said, 'This looks good.' And it went in, and it was huge," Horschel said. "I knew Jim was nipping at my heels and everything, and that was a big, big putt."

As Horschel was fist-pumping, Furyk was fading, closing with bogeys on his final two holes to finish off an 8-under par week.

With room to spare, Horschel closed with solid pars on 17 and 18 to round out a final-round 68 and an 11-under-par tally – good for a three-shot victory over Furyk and his third career PGA TOUR title.

“It's surreal, it really is. It hits me a little bit and it still doesn't hit me,” said Horschel after the round. “But you know, I woke up this morning and I just had this sense of calm over me, which is a little bit unusual, but I was just so calm waking up, and I wasn't nervous at all, and got to the course and felt so relaxed out there.”

The win delivered the prestigious FedEx Cup title for Horschel, as well as a $10 million dollar payout to go along with the oversized trophy. The bonus coupled with the three-week stretch of golf parlayed itself into a $13.5 million dollar payday and the notion that, perhaps, dreams do occasionally come true.

“I just remember something like that in December or January, I just had this (dream) ‑‑ you know, I woke up and I wasn't sure if it was real or not because it was very faint, but I remember holding up the FedEx Cup trophy, and as the season went along, I never thought about it, but I just said, well, maybe it was just a dream that wasn't real,” said Horschel. “And obviously being in the position where I was, I thought about it last week after I won. I've thought about it this week a little bit that maybe this is actually something that is supposed to happen.”

After finishing a star-laced career at Florida in the spring of 2009, Horschel turned to the eGolf Tour to start his professional career. In four starts, the can’t-miss kid from Grant, FL recorded three top-10 finishes and his first pro win at the Columbia Open, where a 17-under par total gave way to a three-shot win over Dane Burkhart and the event’s $50,000 first-place prize. Horschel wound up finishing 12th on the eGolf Tour money list that year with $68,566 in season-long earnings.

Since then, Horschel has competed on the PGA TOUR, overcoming a wrist injury and multiple trips to Q-School to breakthrough in 2013 with his first win at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, which helped to cement his status as one of the game’s rising stars.

Chris Kirk, who also competed on the eGolf Tour in 2009, wound up second on the FedEx Cup points list with 3,100 total points – a distant 1,650 behind Horschel.