Monday, July 29, 2002
Hayes mows down John Deere field by 4 shots
Park, Gilder, Beljan win playoffs; Sugai runs away with British Senior
Enquirer staff and news services
SILVIS, Ill. - J.P.Hayes won his second PGA Tour title Sunday, closing with a 4-under-par 67 for a four-stroke victory over Robert Gamez in the John Deere Classic.
Hayes, also the 1998 Buick Classic winner, had a 22-under 262 total on the TPC at Deere Run, the lowest score in relation to par in tournament history. David Frost had a 21-under 259 total in 1993 on the par-70 Oakwood Country Club course.
Hayes had just one bogey in the tournament, on the par-4 eighth Friday when he shot a course-record 61. He earned a two-year exemption on the tour.
BIG APPLE CLASSIC: South Korea's Gloria Park made a 6-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with compatriot Hee-Won Han to win the LPGA tournament in New Rochelle, N.Y..
Park and Han held off Annika Sorenstam in the final group of the day, finishing 72 holes at 14-under 270. Sorenstam, a six-time winner on the tour this year, shot a 1-under 70 to miss the playoff by one stroke. Park, who started the final round tied for the lead with Sorenstam, shot a 69. Han had a 67.
The victory was Park's second in her third year on tour. The 22-year-old won the Williams Championship in Tulsa, Okla., last year.
FLEETBOSTON CLASSIC: Bob Gilder won a Senior Tour playoff for the second straight week, beating John Mahaffey with a birdie on the third extra hole in Concord, Mass.
Gilder, who beat Hale Irwin on the first playoff hole at the SBC Open in Chicago last week, closed with a 2-under 70 to match Mahaffey (65) at 13-under 203.
SENIOR BRITISH OPEN: Japan's Noboru Sugai shot a 3-over 74 for a two-stroke victory over John Irwin in Newcastle, Northern Ireland.
Sugai, the first Japanese player to win the title, had a 3-under 281 total . Five-time British Open champ Tom Watson had a triple-bogey 7 on the second hole and shot an 8-over 79 to tie for 14th at 294.
U.S. JUNIOR AMATEUR: Charlie Beljan , 17, birdied the second playoff hole to beat Zac Reynolds, 17, in the final at Atlanta Athletic Club in Duluth, Ga.ñ
DUTCH OPEN: German Tobias Dier won his second European tour title, closing with a 1-under 69 for a one-stroke victory in Hilversum, Netherlands. Dier, 25, who shot a European tour-record tying 60 in the first round, had a 17-under 263.
BUY.COM TOUR: Patrick Sheehan won his first title, closing with an even-par 72 for a wire-to-wire victory in the Price Cutter Charity Championship in Springfield, Mo.
“This is an unbelievable feeling,” Sheehan said.
He finished with a 19-under 269 total on the Highland Springs Country Club course, and earned $85,500 to jump from 27th to fifth on the money list with $158,573. The top 15 at the end of the year will earn 2003 PGA Tour cards.
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