The Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - England's Mark Foster made a 35-foot eagle putt on the second extra hole to win a six-man playoff in the Dunhill Championship on Sunday.

Foster beat Paul Lawrie, Bradford Vaughan, Trevor Immelman, Doug McGuigan and Anders Hansen in the first six-man playoff on the European Tour since the 1990 Vinho Verde Atlantic Open.

Foster closed with a 4-under 68 and finish at 15-under 273 for his first European Tour win.

On the first playoff hole, Hansen and McGuigan were eliminated after the four other players birdied the hole.

Foster, who missed a 12-foot putt for eagle on the first extra hole, rolled in a snaking, 35-foot eagle putt for the win.

Immelman, coming off his first European Tour win a week earlier at the South African Open, narrowly missed a chip-in from off the green on the first playoff hole.

England's Justin Rose closed with a 7-under 65, but he missed the playoff by two.

NEW ZEALAND OPEN: New Zealand's Mahal Pearce won his first pro title, shooting a 2-under 70 for a two-stroke victory over Australia's Brett Rumford.

Pearce, who began the round two strokes behind Australia's Chris Downes, took a four-stroke lead to the final hole but dropped two strokes with a double-bogey 6. Pearce finished at 10-under 278 on the Auckland Golf Club's Middlemore course. Rumford closed with a 68.

ARNIE NOT DONE YET: Contrary to his previous statement, Arnold Palmer's career on the PGA Tour might not be over, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.

He played the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, the Bay Hill Invitational and The Masters.

Palmer says he might enter a PGA Tour event this year - either the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic or Bay Hill Invitational, or both - which would mark his sixth decade in professional golf. His first event was the 1953 U.S. Open. Jack Nicklaus, with 45 straight years in a Tour event, has the second-longest active streak.