HAMILTON (Canada), Sept 8: Bob Tway won the Canadian Open by defeating Brad Faxon on the third playoff hole on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory in eight years.
Tway won with a bogey after hitting his approach shot into a greenside bunker as Faxon suffered a disastrous hole in which he took four shots to reach the green and then two-putted.
The victory earned Tway $756,000 as he enjoyed his first victory on the PGA Tour since the 1995 MCI Classic.
The pair both parred the first playoff hole, the par-four 18th, before Faxon missed a chance to win when his six-foot birdie putt at the second playoff hole, the par-five 17th, rolled past the high side of the cup.
Tway had shot a final round four-under-par 66 to finish level with Faxon (67) at eight-under 272.
Faxon birdied 13 through 15 and was later tied by Tway, whose third-shot chip at the par-five 17th skimmed the edge of the hole and left him a three-foot birdie putt.
Tway saved par at the 18th with a 23-foot putt, while Faxon finished with a two-putt par.
Tom Pernice Jr (68) bogeyed the 18th hole to miss the playoff by one stroke as he finished third at seven-under 273.
South Korea’s K.J. Choi (66) and Japan’s Hidemichi Tanaka (71), the 54-hole leader,
finished at six-under 274, while Fiji’s Vijay Singh (68) and Fred Funk (70) tied for sixth at
five-under 275.
Faxon was left to rue his missed opportunity to win the event on the second playoff hole.
After hitting a miraculous fairway bunker third shot to just above the hole he uncharacteristically missed the short putt.
Final-round scores
272 - x-Bob Tway 70-70-66-66, Brad Faxon 67-72-66-67
273 - Tom Pernice 68-72-65 68
274 - KJ Choi (KOR) 71-70-67-66, Hidemichi Tanaka (JPN) 66-70-67-71
275 - Vijay Singh (FIJ) 75-67-65-68, Fred Funk 69-68-68-70
276 - Matt Gogel 69-70-70-67, Loren Roberts 70-67-71-68
277 - Mike Weir (CAN) 69-69-70-69
278 - Stephen Allan (AUS) 72-66-69-71, Tommy Armour 68-71-70-69, Garrett Willis 70-69-69-70
279 - Charles Howell 67-68-70-74, Thomas Levet (FRA) 72-70-70-67, Peter Lonard (AUS) 71-69-72-67, Jeff Sluman 72-69-71-67, Tom Byrum 67-69-73-70, Jay Don Blake 71-72-71-65, Bob Estes 70-69-71-69, Paul Goydos 71-70-67-71, Len Mattiace 71-69-70-69
280 - Mathew Goggin (AUS) 69-72-68-71, Stephen Ames (TRI) 72-69-69-70
282 - Adam Scott (AUS) 74-69-68-71, Deane Pappas (RSA) 72-70-70-70
283 - Steven Alker (NZL) 72-68-73-70, Aaron Baddeley (AUS) 71-69-71-72
284 - Carlos Franco (PAR) 74-67-70-73, David Frost (RSA) 73-66-71-74
286 - Kaname Yokoo (JPN) 73-70-73-70
287 - Paul Gow (AUS) 73-67-74-73, Glen Hnatiuk (CAN) 71-70-74-72
288 - David Morland (CAN) 71-70-71-76, Kenichi Kuboya 69-67-74-78
293 - Esteban Toledo (MEX) 72-70-75-76
LONDON: Britain and Ireland’s amateur golfers retained the Walker Cup here on Sunday after a thrilling final day.
Trailing by two points going into the concluding eight singles matches at the Ganton Golf Club in North Yorkshire, they won 12 1/2 - 11 1/2 to win the trophy for a third successive time.
With the sides locked at 11-11, it was left to Welshmen Stuart Manley and Nigel Edwards to write their names into the record books with Manley beating top American Trip Kuehne three and two to ensure the cup was retained.
Then Edwards knocked in a 60-foot birdie putt on the 17th to draw level with Lee Williams and then clinched a half on the last to make it a first-ever hat-trick of wins.
Edwards, 35, finished unbeaten with two wins and two halves and to be the team’s top scorer meant so much because in the victory in Georgia two years ago he played just one game and lost it.
Earlier, America had maintained their overnight two-point lead after a dramatic morning foursomes were shared 2-2. —AFP