Paul Goydos wins third US Senior Tour event

By Kevin Casey

Paul Goydos finished his week at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open with a flawless 69 to win. (Getty Images)

Paul Goydos’ streak of winning every year he’s on the US PGA Senior Champions Tour continues.
The 52-year-old American fired a bogey-free 69 Sunday at En-Joie Golf Club in Endicott, New York State  for a two-shot win at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open. 
The flawless 3-under round was Goydos’ third straight sub-70 score for the week and earned him his third Senior Tour title in three years on the over-50s circuit.
Despite that consistency in winning, Goydos coming out on top this week was still a bit out of the blue.
While he hasn’t missed a cut in 14 starts this season, the California native entered the latest event with a recent slate of T24-T38-T36-T17-T54-T36.
Most shocked by the sudden surge in New York was Goydos himself.
“My game is like a jack-in-the box, kind of keep spinning it and it pops up every once in a while,” Goydos joked. “There was no inkling that I was going to play well, other than the mythical law of averages. Things hadn’t gone well, hadn’t played well, my attitude was bad, so naturally I won.”
Goydos sucked the drama out of the tournament for the most part on the final day. After birdies on Nos. 6 and 10, he had built a three-shot lead. And a final birdie on 16 secured his final cushion.
He finished the week at 14 under and jumped from 31st to 12th in the Charles Schwab Cup money list with the win. Wes Short Jr. placed solo second at 12 under and Neal Lancaster sat third at 10 under. John Riegger, Goydos’ co-leader at the beginning of the day, dropped into a tie for fourth with Joe Durant at 10 under following a closing 73.
John Daly, who inexplicably started putting one-handed during the final round and took a 73, his worst round of the three, placed T-11 at 7 under par 209

FINAL TOTALS AND PRIZEMONEY
par 216 (3x72)
 

1	Paul Goydos	67	66	69	.		202	$300,000
2	Wes Short Jr.	69	66	69			204	$176,000
3	Neal Lancaster	69	66	70			205	$144,000
T4	Joe Durant	67	71	68			206	$107,000
T4	John Riegger	66	67	73			206	$107,000
T6	Glen Day	66	72	69			207	$76,000
T6	Kevin Sutherland	67	71	69			207	$76,000
T8	Michael Allen	70	70	68			208	$57,333
T8	Bart Bryant	66	70	72			208	$57,333
T8	Carlos Franco	68	69	71			208	$57,333
T11	Marco Dawson	71	67	71			209	$44,000
T11	John Daly	68	68	73			209	$44,000
T11	Scott Dunlap	64	70	75			209	$44,000
T14	Esteban Toledo	75	68	67			210	$35,000
T14	Tom Byrum	73	70	67			210	$35,000
T14	Billy Andrade	70	71	69			210	$35,000
T14	Jay Haas	68	72	70			210	$35,000
T18	John Inman	70	71	70			211	$26,400
T18	Gary Hallberg	68	72	71			211	$26,400
T18	Miguel Angel Martin	68	72	71			211	$26,400
T18	Gibby Gilbert III	67	72	72			211	$26,400
T18	Mike Goodes	71	68	72			211	$26,400
T23	David Frost	70	74	68			212	$20,040
T23	Fred Funk	70	71	71			212	$20,040
T23	Willie Wood	71	69	72			212	$20,040
T23	Duffy Waldorf	71	68	73			212	$20,040
T23	Stephen Ames	68	68	76			212	$20,040
T28	Gene Sauers	69	74	70			213	$15,840
T28	Woody Austin	71	70	72			213	$15,840
T28	Brad Bryant	72	67	74			213	$15,840
T28	Tom Pernice Jr.	69	70	74			213	$15,840
T28	Mark Brooks	71	68	74			213	$15,840
T33	Scott Hoch	74	69	71			214	$13,200
T33	Craig Parry	68	74	72			214	$13,200
T33	Olin Browne	69	72	73			214	$13,200
T36	Vijay Singh	69	75	71			215	$11,467
T36	Jeff Maggert	72	71	72			215	$11,467
T36	Jerry Smith	71	72	72			215	$11,467
T39	Jeff Sluman	77	70	69			216	$9,600
T39	Doug Garwood	75	72	69			216	$9,600
T39	Jim Rutledge	75	72	69			216	$9,600
T39	Greg Kraft	74	70	72			216	$9,600
T39	Jim Carter	68	74	74			216	$9,600
T39	Jay Don Blake	71	70	75			216	$9,600
T45	Jean-Francois Remesy	73	74	70			217	$6,800
T45	Chien-Soon Lu	75	70	72			217	$6,800
T45	Jose Coceres	69	75	73			217	$6,800
T45	Bill Glasson	74	69	74			217	$6,800
T45	Joey Sindelar	73	70	74			217	$6,800
T45	Jeff Hart	71	72	74			217	$6,800
T45	Tommy Armour III	71	71	75			217	$6,800
T45	Craig Stadler	71	71	75			217	$6,800
T53	Mike Small	70	79	69			218	$4,600
T53	Stan Utley	73	73	72			218	$4,600
T53	Steve Lowery	68	74	76			218	$4,600
T53	Scott Verplank	69	73	76			218	$4,600
T53	Brian Henninger	70	71	77			218	$4,600
T58	Mike Reid	74	71	74			219	$3,800
T58	Loren Roberts	70	74	75			219	$3,800
T58	Dan Forsman	70	73	76			219	$3,800
T61	Bob Friend	73	72	75			220	$3,200
T61	Steve Pate	70	73	77			220	$3,200
T61	Grant Waite	72	71	77			220	$3,200
T64	Blaine McCallister	74	74	73			221	$2,700
T64	Lee Janzen	70	75	76			221	$2,700
T66	Rod Spittle	72	78	72			222	$2,300
T66	Mike Grob	72	75	75			222	$2,300
T68	Mark Wiebe	76	74	73			223	$1,940
T68	Larry Nelson	73	71	79			223	$1,940
T70	Kirk Triplett	74	79	71			224	$1,700
T70	Mike Springer	75	72	77			224	$1,700
72	Bob Tway	75	70	80			225	$1,520
T73	Bobby Wadkins	78	76	72			226	$1,360
T73	Jean Van de Velde	75	74	77			226	$1,360
T75	Bob Gilder	78	75	77			230	$1,200
T75	Ken Green	77	73	80			230	$1,200
T77	Tom Purtzer	73	84	74			231	$1,040
T77	Wayne Levi	75	74	82			231	$1,040
79	Gary Bendert	82	85	82			249	$920