GOLF ROUNDUP : Perry Wins Playoff for First Victory
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Kenny Perry birdied the first playoff hole of the Memorial at Dublin, Ohio, to defeat Hale Irwin Sunday for the first victory of his five-year PGA Tour career.
Irwin, 44, made up five strokes on Perry over the last 18 holes of regulation play with a six-under-par 66 and caught Perry at 273, 15 under par.
Irwin, who lost a playoff to Roger Maltbie at the first Memorial tournament in 1976, lost this one when he chopped up the first extra hole, scoring a bogey-six to Perry’s winning birdie-four.
Lee Trevino and Mike Hill teamed for a six-under-par 66 to hang on for a two-shot victory in the Legends of Golf.
The pair held off the sizzling charge of Al Geiberger and Harold Henning, who shot a 58 to finish second after starting the day 10 shots behind.
Trevino and Hill ended at 252, 36 under, in the better-ball event at the 6,769-yard Barton Creek course at Austin, Tex., and earned $140,000 for the pair.
Pat Bradley bounced back from successive bogeys with three birdies and defeated Japan’s Ayako Okamoto by one stroke in the $1.1-million Centel Classic at Tallahassee, Fla., the richest purse on the women’s tour.
Bradley survived four bogeys during an up-and-down, one-under-par 71 to finish with a 10-under 278 total. It was the 27th career victory for Bradley.
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