Phillip Archer closed with a 2-under-par 70
on Sunday to win the Pacific Rubiales Colombia Classic by a shot. Archer, who won for the
third time on the Challenge Tour, finished at
8-under-par 280. He earned € 29,947.
Archer birdied the last for a one-stroke win
over fellow Englishman Chris Lloyd (67) and
Dane Morten Orum Madsen (70).
Third-round leader Nick Dougherty stumbled
to a 1-over 73. The three-time European Tour
winner shared fourth place at 6-under-par 282
with Chris Hanson (71) and Matt Haines (71).
Archer had birdies on the second and
seventh to move to 8 under. However, he
stumbled to a bogey at the eighth. Archer
birdied the 11th for the fourth straight round,
but he gave that shot back when he bogeyed
the 13th.
The 39-year-old rolled in a four-foot birdie
putt at the last to earn the title.
RESULTS
Hutchison by one stroke in the $200,000 event.
He earned $28,000.
Jonathan Hodge, of Strawberry Plains,
Tenn., was one of the few golfers to break 70
on the 7,301-yard layout in the final round. The
former University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
golfer closed with a 3-under 69 to move into
a tie for third with Brandon Brown and Rick
Cochran III at 3-under par for the event.
Brown, of Shelbyville, Ky., shot a 2-under 70
on Sunday, while Cochran, the nephew of PGA
Tour winner Russ Cochran, shot an even-par
72. The trio earned $7,810 each.
READ MORE RESULTS
After winning in his first
Bridgestone Winter Series
start, Ken Looper needed just
three starts on the NGA Pro
Golf Tour’s Pro Series to earn his
first victory.
Looper, a former LSU
standout from Mandeville, La., who started the
final round T7 and three
shots back, shot a 4-un-
der 68 in the final round
of the Golden Hills Ocala
Classic on Sunday to best
third-round leader Randall
THIMBA WINS BIG EASY TITLE
Toto Thimba Jr. shot a 67 on the
second day to win the Houghton, Johannesburg tournament on the Sunshine
Big Easy Tour on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old reached 11-un-
der par, finishing the R100,000 event
one-stroke clear of Ross Welling-
ton, who charged to 10 under with
a second-round 64, breaking the
course record. Wellington finished
his second round with a bogey at
the 18th hole, putting a damper
on his record-breaking round
and leaving him a shot short of
a playoff.
Mark Williams, Ruan de
Smidt and amateur Musiwalo
Nethunzwi shared third at
6-under par.
