O'Hair defeats Blanks in playoff
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July 26, 2011, Tuesday
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SEAN O'Hair beat fellow American Kris Blanks in a sudden death playoff to capture the Canadian Open on Sunday in Vancouver while Adam Hadwin's stirring bid to become the first home-grown winner in 57 years fell short.
O'Hair bogeyed the first playoff hole then watched as Blanks missed his bogey putt from five feet for a chance to extend the playoff as he recorded his fourth career PGA Tour win and first since 2009.
O'Hair, who started the day three shots behind overnight leader Bo Van Pelt, clawed his way into contention with a 2-under-par 68 while Blanks, the first-round leader, shot 69 to force a playoff after rolling in a 10-foot par putt on 18.
Blanks and O'Hair, who had been without a top 10 finish this season, both finished 72 holes at 4-under-par 276.
"Obviously it has been a tough year," O'Hair told reporters. "When I played the Pro Am, this is a very intimidating golf course, I played horrific.
"Wednesday night was probably the lowest point of my year.
"I just didn't know how I was going to play this week and to be sitting here now is amazing."
Argentine Andres Romero finished in third, one shot out of the playoff, after an even-par 70.
The playoff capped a dramatic afternoon at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, much of it centered around Hadwin, a 23-year-old unknown who started the day just one shot off the lead and in position to become the first Canadian since Pat Fletcher in 1954 to win the national championship.
Teeing it up in just his third PGA Tour event, Hadwin had been a cool customer all week but finally seemed overwhelmed by the enormity of the moment carding a bogey on the opening hole, another at the fourth and a double-bogey at the eighth.
He finished with a 72 and a tie for fourth with Australian Geoff Ogilvy (70) on 278.
O'Hair bogeyed the first playoff hole then watched as Blanks missed his bogey putt from five feet for a chance to extend the playoff as he recorded his fourth career PGA Tour win and first since 2009.
O'Hair, who started the day three shots behind overnight leader Bo Van Pelt, clawed his way into contention with a 2-under-par 68 while Blanks, the first-round leader, shot 69 to force a playoff after rolling in a 10-foot par putt on 18.
Blanks and O'Hair, who had been without a top 10 finish this season, both finished 72 holes at 4-under-par 276.
"Obviously it has been a tough year," O'Hair told reporters. "When I played the Pro Am, this is a very intimidating golf course, I played horrific.
"Wednesday night was probably the lowest point of my year.
"I just didn't know how I was going to play this week and to be sitting here now is amazing."
Argentine Andres Romero finished in third, one shot out of the playoff, after an even-par 70.
The playoff capped a dramatic afternoon at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, much of it centered around Hadwin, a 23-year-old unknown who started the day just one shot off the lead and in position to become the first Canadian since Pat Fletcher in 1954 to win the national championship.
Teeing it up in just his third PGA Tour event, Hadwin had been a cool customer all week but finally seemed overwhelmed by the enormity of the moment carding a bogey on the opening hole, another at the fourth and a double-bogey at the eighth.
He finished with a 72 and a tie for fourth with Australian Geoff Ogilvy (70) on 278.
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