Rod who? wins US Seniors Tour play-off
CBS Sports.com wire reports
SAN ANTONIO -- Canadian Rod Spittle, who got into the event through the Monday qualifying competition, was the shock winner of the AT and T Championship on Sunday for his first US Champions (Seniors) Tour victory. The little-known Spittle beat Jeff Sluman with a par on the first hole of a play-off.
Spittle, a 55-year-old Canadian, and Sluman closed with four-under 67s to finish at 12 under on the Oak Hills Country Club course. Spittle earned $262,500.
Spittle birdied Nos. 15-17, hitting a wedge shot to 2 feet on the 17th and parred the 18th, while Sluman birdied 15 and 16 and finished with two pars.
Sluman bogeyed the play-off hole -- the par-3 18th -- when he hit his tee shot into the front bunker. Spittle won with a 4-foot par putt.
Two-time Oak Hills winner John Cook (68), second-round leader Larry Nelson (70) and Chien Soon Lu (69) tied for third at 11 under. Nelson, the 63-year-old Hall of Famer who was looking for his first win in six years, fell out of the lead with a double bogey and bogey on consecutive front-nine holes.
Cook missed an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole. Cook, Spittle's teammate at Ohio State, led by two strokes after he birdied No. 8, but he had bogeys on 11 and 13.
Corey Pavin (66), Steve Haskins (67) and Jay Don Blake (70) tied for sixth at 10 under, and Charles Schwab Cup points leader Bernhard Langer (69) was another stroke back along with Jay Haas (67).
The tournament was the final full-field US Seniors Tour event of the year. The top 30 on the money list earned spots next week in the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco.
Next year, the AT and T Championship will move from A.W. Tillinghast-designed Oak Hills to a TPC course across town designed by Pete Dye. Oak Hills, opened in 1922, was the tournament site since 2002 and was the site of the US PGA Tour's Texas Open for 24 years until 1995.
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CBS Sports.com wire reports
SAN ANTONIO -- Canadian Rod Spittle, who got into the event through the Monday qualifying competition, was the shock winner of the AT and T Championship on Sunday for his first US Champions (Seniors) Tour victory. The little-known Spittle beat Jeff Sluman with a par on the first hole of a play-off.
Spittle, a 55-year-old Canadian, and Sluman closed with four-under 67s to finish at 12 under on the Oak Hills Country Club course. Spittle earned $262,500.
Spittle birdied Nos. 15-17, hitting a wedge shot to 2 feet on the 17th and parred the 18th, while Sluman birdied 15 and 16 and finished with two pars.
Sluman bogeyed the play-off hole -- the par-3 18th -- when he hit his tee shot into the front bunker. Spittle won with a 4-foot par putt.
Two-time Oak Hills winner John Cook (68), second-round leader Larry Nelson (70) and Chien Soon Lu (69) tied for third at 11 under. Nelson, the 63-year-old Hall of Famer who was looking for his first win in six years, fell out of the lead with a double bogey and bogey on consecutive front-nine holes.
Cook missed an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole. Cook, Spittle's teammate at Ohio State, led by two strokes after he birdied No. 8, but he had bogeys on 11 and 13.
Corey Pavin (66), Steve Haskins (67) and Jay Don Blake (70) tied for sixth at 10 under, and Charles Schwab Cup points leader Bernhard Langer (69) was another stroke back along with Jay Haas (67).
The tournament was the final full-field US Seniors Tour event of the year. The top 30 on the money list earned spots next week in the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco.
Next year, the AT and T Championship will move from A.W. Tillinghast-designed Oak Hills to a TPC course across town designed by Pete Dye. Oak Hills, opened in 1922, was the tournament site since 2002 and was the site of the US PGA Tour's Texas Open for 24 years until 1995.
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