Michael Sim finishes joint fifth at Coolum, Queensland

In-form Allenby wins

Australian PGA title

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Robert Allenby is on a roll. Today he shot a 5-under-par 66 for a four-stroke victory at the Australian PGA championship. It was his second tournament win in two weeks.
Allenby, pictured, who won last week's Nedbank Challenge in South Africa, claimed his fourth Australian PGA title. His last came in 2005, when he swept all three tournaments in the so-called Australian Triple Crown -- the Aussie PGA, the Aussie Open and Aussie Masters.
The 38-year-old Allenby, who only entered the tournament on a sponsor's invite three weeks ago when Vijay Singh withdrew with a knee injury, finished with a 14-under total of 270 on the par-71 Hyatt Regency resort course at Coolum, Queensland.
Fellow Australians John Senden (67) and Scott Strange (69), were tied for second. Another, Marc Leishman, was in fourth after a 68, five back of Allenby. Aberdeen-born Australian Michael Sim finished fifth after a closing 70 which included too many bogeys.
"There were a lot of great players behind me, and I never knew what they were going to do," Allenby said as he walked up the 18th fairway with the victory secured.
"When you start with the lead, all you have to do is to hold it and don't do anything stupid. I've had my emotions intact all day.
"I did what I had to do, from the first hole to the last hole. I felt totally in control on every shot. It's a nice feeling to win in that fashion."
Defending champion Geoff Ogilvy, who started the day two strokes off the lead, shot 71 and was tied for seventh at 7-under 277. Rod Pampling had the best round of the day -- a 65 -- including five straight birdies on the back nine -- to also finish at 7-under in a group that included Stuart Appleby (68).
Last week's Australian Open champion Adam Scott, who threatened for the lead early in the final round, hit two balls in the water on 18 and took a triple-bogey 7 for a 73 and a tie for 12th, nine back of Allenby.
John Daly shot 72 and finished with a one-over total of 285, 15 strokes back of Allenby and tied for 40th place. Daly also made the cut at last week's Australian Open, a big improvement on his performance Down Under last year when he failed to qualify for the weekend in all three Australian tournaments.
Allenby, who started the day with a one-shot lead, played consistently well all day, When he did miss a fairway -- on the par-5 12th -- his shot from the right rough bounded on to the green, where he two-putted for a birdie that gave him a two-shot cushion.
Ogilvy, Scott and Aberdeen-born Michael Sim, playing in the second-last group of the day, all birdied the first hole, but the trio had its problems the rest of the day -- Scott and Sim with two bogeys on the front nine and an increasingly frustrated Ogilvy with three bogeys in six holes that left him trailing Allenby by five strokes with nine holes to play.
Sim finished with a 70 and tied for fifth with Nick O'Hern (67).
The tournament has been played at Coolum on Queensland state's Sunshine Coast for eight years and is in the final year of its contract with the Australasian PGA Tour.
Local organisers are hoping to sign a new contact early next year which would see the event remain at the course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., who also oversaw the construction of six new opening holes used for the first time this year.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4x71)
270 Robert Allenby 70 68 66 66
274 John Senden 73 67 67 67, Scott Strange 67 70 68 69
275 Marc Leishman 70 71 66 68
276 Michael Sim 71 70 65 70, Nick O'Hern 70 70 69 67
277 Rodney Pampling 73 69 70 65, Geoff Ogilvy 70 66 70 71, Josh Geary (Nzl) 70 73 66 68, Stuart Appleby 67 69 73 68
278 Mathew Goggin 70 72 68 68
279 Adam Scott 68 70 68 73, Shin-Ching Chan (Tpe) 68 70 71 70, Matthew Griffin 67 68 73 71
280 Chris Campbell 72 67 71 70, Jason Norris 69 67 76 68, Aron Price 74 69 67 70, Kyle Stanley (USA) 71 71 70 68, Stephen Dartnell 68 73 69 70, Bryce Molder (USA) 73 69 70 68, Brad Kennedy 76 66 69 69
281 Scott Laycock 76 66 68 71, Cameron Percy 72 69 67 73
282 Mahal Pearce (Nzl) 73 70 69 70, Greg Chalmers 68 70 67 77, Anthony Brown 71 71 68 72, Paul Sheehan 73 68 69 72
283 Brett Rumford 70 70 70 73, Marcus Both 70 72 69 72, Michael Curtain 73 65 71 74, Stephen Leaney 71 70 69 73, Gavin Flint 71 71 70 71, Heath Reed 70 75 69 69, Adam Crawford 71 71 70 71
284 Steve Marino (USA) 70 73 66 75, Nathan Green 71 72 73 68, Andrew Dodt 67 73 71 73, Michael Wright 71 69 70 74, Tim Wilkinson (Nzl) 68 71 73 72
285 John Daly (USA) 71 70 72 72, Scott Barr 74 70 70 71
286 Jarrod Lyle 70 73 69 74, Matthew Millar 71 73 70 72, Richard Green 71 70 71 74, Leigh Mckechnie 72 70 73 71, Kurt Barnes 76 70 70 70, Ji-Man Kang (Kor) 74 72 69 71
287 Peter Wilson 72 74 72 69
288 Min-kyu Han (Kor) 62 75 73 78, Craig Parry 71 73 72 72
289 Brad Andrews 72 74 70 73, Bronson LaCassie 68 69 80 72, Nick Flanagan 76 67 73 73
290 Paul Marantz 69 72 73 76, Henry Epstein 67 74 72 77, Darren Beck 74 72 71 73, Ryan Haller 66 77 75 72, Anthony Summers 76 70 74 70, Steven Conran 70 75 72 73
291 Rick Kulacz 71 74 73 73
292 Tae hee Lee (Kor) 75 70 72 75, Terry Pilkadaris 71 75 72 74
293 Graeme Stockley 75 71 78 69, Peter O'Malley 73 71 72 77
295 Chao Li (Chn) 71 71 74 79
296 David Smail (Nzl) 71 75 76 74, Andrew Tschudin 73 69 83 71
297 Ben Burge 79 67 77 74
298 Paul Gow 75 71 73 79
301 Aaron Townsend 69 77 79 76