SABBATINI BEATS FURYK, LANGER

IN CROWNE PLAZA PLAY-OFF

South African Rory Sabbatini from Zambia won the US PGA Tour's Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth in Texas on Sunday.
Sabbatini beat Jim Furyk and Bernhard Langer by holing a 15ft birdie putt at the first hole of the three-way play-off after they had tied on 266.

At 49, Langer was attempting to become the oldest winner in the tournament’s history. The German's last win in the United States was his 1993 Masters triumph, while his last victory on the European Tour came at the end of the 2002 season in the Volvo Masters.
"Even though I would have loved to have won, I'm very encouraged because this is the best I've played in a long time," Langer said. "There is a lot of stuff which goes through your mind when you are walking out there, but I had a lot of opportunities, which is encouraging.”

Put your money on Langer now to clean up when he has his 50th birthday and makes his debut on the US Champions (Seniors) Tour.

Picture of Sabbatini on left: What's with the "tartan" blazers? And have you seen a taller golf trophy than that?

FINAL TOTALS
Players from US unless stated.
266 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 65 68 66 67, Rory Sabbatini (SAf) 70 67 62 67, Jim Furyk 65 66 68 67 (Sabbatini won the play-off).
268 Pat Perez 66 67 69 66.
269 Nathan Green (Aus) 65 66 72 66, Tom Lehman 66 67 68 68.
270 Jerry Kelly 70 64 69 67, Kevin Na (Kor) 63 69 70 68, Harrison Frazer 68 67 69 66, Scott Verplank 70 66 63 71, D J Trahan 67 67 69 67.
271 Rodney Pampling (Aus) 67 69 70 65, Jeff Maggert 64 69 68 70, Tim Petrovic 70 68 67 66, Mark Hensby (Au) 69 67 68 67, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 70 66 68 67, Tim Clark (SAf) 65 64 74 68.
272 Anthony Kim 63 69 73 67, Justin Leonard 69 70 66 67, David Toms 70 68 68 66, Stewart Cink 67 69 66 70, Jason Bohn 68 66 70 68, Peter Lonard (Aus) 65 69 67 71.
273 Steve Stricker 67 71 68 67, Stephen Marino 69 68 71 65, John Rollins 69 68 67 69, KJ Choi (Kor) 67 70 69 67, Eric Axley 68 67 69 69.
274 Dean Wilson 68 67 71 68, Arron Oberholser 64 66 73 71, Lucas Glover 67 68 68 71, Ben Curtis 64 67 74 69, Cliff Kresge 69 67 70 68, Brandt Snedeker 66 70 67 71, Ryan Moore 71 66 66 71.
275 Jeff Quinney 65 72 68 70, Ted Purdy 64 71 72 68, Michael Putnam 69 65 70 71, Matt Kuchar 68 70 70 67 Stephen Leaney (Au) 68 68 70 69, Alex Cejka (Ger) 67 65 72 71, Chad Campbell 67 68 68 72, Douglas Labelle 67 70 69 69, Mark Brooks 67 71 70 67, Frank Lickliter II 65 71 69 70.
276 Joe Durant 67 72 68 69, Tim Herron 67 68 70 71, Billy Mayfair 71 67 71 67, Bo Van Pelt 68 71 67 70, Heath Slocum 70 65 72 69, Bob Tway 73 64 70 69.
277 Will MacKenzie 67 71 70 69, J J Henry 68 67 72 70, Brett Wetterich 66 69 71 71, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 74 65 70 68, Steve Elkington (Aus) 67 69 71 70, Stephen Ames (Can) 69 67 70 71.
278 Charles Warren 69 68 69 72, Mathew Goggin (Aus) 70 69 70 69, Davis Love III 69 68 72 69 279 Ryan Armour 67 68 74 70.
280 Steve Flesch 70 69 69 72, Tommy Armour III 71 68 71 70, Mark Wilson 68 71 70 71.
283 Richard S Johnson (Swe) 70 68 76 69, Duffy Waldorf 70 69 72 72, Brett Quigley 67 72 70 74, Matthew Every 69 66 75 73, Rocco Mediate 70 68 70 75.

285 Ryan Palmer 70 69 73 73.