Bernhard Langer holed a greenside
bunker shot on the first playoff hole to
defeat John Cook in the Allianz Champi-
onship at Boca Raton
Fla. It was Langer’s
ninth victory on the
Champions Tour.
Langer won 58 times
internationally dur-
ing his career but
only three times on
the PGA Tour. He is
a Hall of Famer, at
least in part because
two of those three
Tour victories came
at The Masters.
“First of all, I
didn’t want to make
it that exciting,”
Langer said. “I’m
emotional because
I did it at home in
front of a home
Bernhard Langer
John Cook
crowd, family and friends.”
Cook almost matched Langer’s
heroics, but his eagle try lipped out
on the high side. Cook had run back-
ward, thinking the putt was going in,
but quickly walked toward Langer and
shook hands with the winner.
“Hall of Famers do stuff like that,”
Cook said about Langer.
Cook tied Langer at 17-under 271
before losing in overtime. Joey Sindelar
wound up third at 16 under.
It was a dramatic ending to an in-
triguing day of golf where at one point
eight players were tied for the lead.
The odd man out was Jay Haas, who
was tied for the lead after 18 holes
with Tom Jenkins at 64. Turns out Haas
has never won in 116 tries in Florida,
a streak that includes his 102 appear-
ances on the PGA Tour and his first 14
starts on the Champions Tour.
“I’m aware of it, but I didn’t come
here thinking, ‘Golly, let’s get this mon-
key off my back,’ “ Haas said Friday. “I
don’t think early in my career I was a
great wind player, and most of the time
in Florida we played in the springtime
when it was blowing. I would love to (win
here), but I’d like to win anywhere.”
Alas for him, he will have to wait.
REsULTs
BOTHMA WINs TELKOM
ON 30-FOOT pUTT ON 18
“I get the tears of emotion,” said
Vanegas. “I’m too happy, no words to
explain what I am feeling.”
REsULTs
OppENHEIM CAp TUREs sECOND
HOOTERs TOUR WINTER sERIEs EVENT
FROM MIssED CUTs TO WINNER,
sVANBERg TRIUMpHs IN gATEWAy
Rob Oppenheim, from Andover, Mass.,
fired a final-round 2-under-par 69 to
win the the Hooters Tour’s Bridgestone
Winter Series event at Forest Lake Golf
Club in Ocoee, Fla. The win gives him a
second title in the series. Oppenheim, a
current Nationwide Tour player, finished
with a three-day total of 9-under 204
and a one-stroke victory over Ted Potter,
from Silver Springs, Fla. Matt Parziale, of
Brockton, Mass., and Jonathon Moore, of
ChampionsGate, Fla., made the biggest
moves of the day, each carding final-
round 5-under 66s to finish solo third and
fourth, respectively.
REsULTs
Svanberg made 19 birdies to just six
bogeys all week at the challening Gold
Course at the Wigwam Resort. Svan-
berg plans to play the remainder of the
Desert Series before heading back to
his native land where he will attempt to
get into as many European Challenge
Tour events as possible.
REsULTs
AUssIE HARWOOD WINs
NEW ZEALAND sENIOR MAs TERs
EX-pgA TOUR pLAyER BARRON
MIssEs CUT ON MINOR TOUR
Michael Harwood, of Victoria,
Australia, won the inaugural $100,000
Handa New Zealand Senior Masters
at Millbrook Resort in Arrowtown,
Queenstown. Harwood shot a final-
round 70 for a 54-hole total of 10-under
206. Michael Clayton finished strong
with a 69 to take second place at 210.
Queenslander Wayne Grady was third a
shot further back. Simon Owen was the
leading New Zealander at T4 with Noel
Ratcliffe. Sir Bob Charles finished in
12th.
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