Golf roundup
Glover earns first PGA Tour win in dramatic fashion LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) – Lucas Glover captured his first PGA Tour victory Sunday with birdies on the last two holes, making a 40-foot putt from the fringe and a 35-foot bunker shot on the last hole to win the Funai Classic at Disney.
Glover, who closed with a 7-under 65, was among 10 players who had a chance to win over the final four holes under threatening skies across from the Magic Kingdom. When he went from the left rough into the front bunker on No. 18, it looked as though his best chance would be getting into a playoff.
Then came a dramatic finish, typical at this tournament.
His bunker shot exploded from the sand, high in the air, landed about 5 feet short of the cup and rolled in for birdie.
Glover finished at 23-under 265, and had to wait to make sure that held up.
Tom Pernice Jr. missed a 15-foot birdie putt at the 18th that would have forced a playoff. He closed with a 69.
Glover, a 25-year-old from South Carolina, became the third Disney winner in the last four years to make this his first PGA Tour victory. He earned $792,000 and moved to 28th on the money list.
Justin Rose was on the verge of winning his first PGA Tour title and had the look of a winner when he hit a 6-iron into 8 feet on the 15th hole for a one-shot lead at 23 under. But he found the rough on the 16th and made bogey, then pulled his tee shot on the 18th into a hazard and dropped another shot for a 68 and a tie for third, two shots behind.
SBC Championship
SAN ANTONIO – Jay Haas won his second Champions Tour title in three weeks, shooting a second straight 5-under 66 for a two-stroke victory over Tom Purtzer at the SBC Championship.
Haas finished at 14-under 199 and won for the third time in his career at Oak Hills Country Club, site of his Texas Open victories in 1982 and 1993, two of nine PGA Tour wins.
Mallorca Classic
SON SERVERA, Mallorca – Jose Maria Olazabal won his first title in more than three years, closing with a 4-under 66 for a five-stroke victory at the Mallorca Classic. Olazabal is the third straight Spaniard to win the European tour event.
Sergio Garcia won last year and Miguel Angel Jimenez in 2003.
Garcia also closed with a 66 and shared second place at 275 with Spain’s Jose Manuel Lara (68) and England’s Paul Broadhurst (70).
Olazabal had four birdies on the front nine and then parred every hole the rest of the way for his first win since the Buick Invitational early in 2002.
Olazabal moved into the top five on the European points list as automatic qualifiers for the Ryder Cup team next year. He played six times from 1987-99 but has missed out the last two times.