Senior defies age to snatch Aussie title
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December 14, 2010, Tuesday
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AUSTRALIA'S Peter Senior won the rain-delayed Australian PGA yesterday, beating Geoff Ogilvy with a par on the second hole of a playoff to become the oldest player to win a major professional tournament in Australia.
The 51-year-old Senior, a regular on the Champions Tour, made a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole in regulation for a 1-under 71 to match Ogilvy, the Australian Open winner last week in Sydney, at 12-under 276. Ogilvy finished with a 66.
It was Senior's third Australian PGA title and comes 21 years after his first. He won at Riverside Oaks near Sydney in 1989 and in 2003 at Coolum.
Both players parred the 18th hole on the first hole of the playoff, and Ogilvy three-putted for a bogey on the second extra hole to give Senior his third Australian PGA title.
"What a great way to finish the year," Senior said. "Geoff hit a pretty indifferent iron shot into 18, and we all know how difficult it is to get down from that area. But I would have rather made my (birdie) putt instead of Geoff three-putting, but that's what happens."
Ogilvy said he was disappointed with the finish but not with his play overall in the past two weeks.
"That's the best way I've finished a year in a long time," Ogilvy said. "But to be honest, I never really felt that I was in this tournament until Sunday. And I never thought my 12 under would hold up for a playoff."
Ogilvy had to wait at least an hour - "I hit a lot of balls on the range" - between his finish and Senior completing his round in the final pairing.
Twenty-four players finished the round yesterday after heavy rain delayed play on Sunday.
Australians Nick O'Hern (69), Peter Fowler (71) and Andre Stolz (71) tied for third at 11 under. Stolz bogeyed the 18th after hitting his tee shot into the water.
American Bobby Gates, who led by a stroke after the third round, bogeyed two of his final nine holes and finished with a 74, leaving him two strokes out of the playoff.
In South Africa, Pablo Martin successfully defended his Alfred Dunhill Championship title on Sunday as he recovered from a late stutter for a final-round 2-under 70 and a two-shot win.
The Spaniard made a triple-bogey 7 at No. 17, but then birdied the last for an 11-under 277 at Leopard Creek Country Club, two clear of Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen and South African pair Charl Schwartzel and Anthony Michael.
Martin finished with a birdie four for successive victories at the European Tour's season-opening tournament, winning a US$210,000 check.
He is the first winner on the 2010-11 Race to Dubai and the first player to retain a European Tour title since Padraig Harrington won a second straight British Open in 2008.
The 51-year-old Senior, a regular on the Champions Tour, made a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole in regulation for a 1-under 71 to match Ogilvy, the Australian Open winner last week in Sydney, at 12-under 276. Ogilvy finished with a 66.
It was Senior's third Australian PGA title and comes 21 years after his first. He won at Riverside Oaks near Sydney in 1989 and in 2003 at Coolum.
Both players parred the 18th hole on the first hole of the playoff, and Ogilvy three-putted for a bogey on the second extra hole to give Senior his third Australian PGA title.
"What a great way to finish the year," Senior said. "Geoff hit a pretty indifferent iron shot into 18, and we all know how difficult it is to get down from that area. But I would have rather made my (birdie) putt instead of Geoff three-putting, but that's what happens."
Ogilvy said he was disappointed with the finish but not with his play overall in the past two weeks.
"That's the best way I've finished a year in a long time," Ogilvy said. "But to be honest, I never really felt that I was in this tournament until Sunday. And I never thought my 12 under would hold up for a playoff."
Ogilvy had to wait at least an hour - "I hit a lot of balls on the range" - between his finish and Senior completing his round in the final pairing.
Twenty-four players finished the round yesterday after heavy rain delayed play on Sunday.
Australians Nick O'Hern (69), Peter Fowler (71) and Andre Stolz (71) tied for third at 11 under. Stolz bogeyed the 18th after hitting his tee shot into the water.
American Bobby Gates, who led by a stroke after the third round, bogeyed two of his final nine holes and finished with a 74, leaving him two strokes out of the playoff.
In South Africa, Pablo Martin successfully defended his Alfred Dunhill Championship title on Sunday as he recovered from a late stutter for a final-round 2-under 70 and a two-shot win.
The Spaniard made a triple-bogey 7 at No. 17, but then birdied the last for an 11-under 277 at Leopard Creek Country Club, two clear of Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen and South African pair Charl Schwartzel and Anthony Michael.
Martin finished with a birdie four for successive victories at the European Tour's season-opening tournament, winning a US$210,000 check.
He is the first winner on the 2010-11 Race to Dubai and the first player to retain a European Tour title since Padraig Harrington won a second straight British Open in 2008.
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