ROUNDUP : WHEN THE DUST CLEARS, IT'S PAVIN BY TWO STROKES.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. U.S. Open champion Corey Pavin held off two challengers in a hot, windy Texas shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. Sunday and won the golden anniversary Colonial by two strokes in Fort Worth. Pavin had a 1-under-par 69 for an 8-under total of 273. That was two strokes ahead of Jeff Sluman, who came from four shots back with a final-round 68 and briefly grabbed the lead late. Sluman, whose only victory was the 1988 PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. , was tied with Pavin until a bogey at No. 17 dropped him to 6 under. Rocco Mediate, the 54-hole leader, started the day at 8 under, a shot ahead of Pavin, and twice led by two strokes. But he dropped out of contention with a bogey at 17, posted a 73 and finished three back at 275. Fred Couples closed with a 71 for a 276, a stroke ahead of Davis Love III Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer. Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. , who finished fast with a 67. ``There were a lot of ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits today,'' Pavin said after securing his second Colonial title and his 14th on the PGA Tour. ``Today was quite a day out there. A lot of strange things were happening. . . . A lot of lead changes.'' The $270,000 top prize hiked Pavin's career earnings to nearly $7.5 million. At age 38, he becomes the MasterCard Colonial's career money winner, passing 1994 champion Nick Price. Pavin has earned $675,943 in his 13 visits to ``Hogan's Alley,'' named for five-time champion Ben Hogan. Pavin, a former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX star and a three-time member of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, first took the lead at the par-4 ninth, where he birdied and Mediate took a bogey. His pivotal birdie came at No. 15, but he ended with a flourish with another birdie at 18. Temperatures hovered in the mid-90s and winds gusted to 30 mph as several players tried and failed to sustain any kind of a challenge. Murphy wins: Bob Murphy, who started the $950,000 Cadillac NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga Senior Golf Classic with a course-record 62, shot a 3-under-par 69 to complete a two-stroke victory in Clifton, N.J. Murphy, who finished second in the tournament the past two years, never trailed this time. His 14-under 202 total was three strokes better than George Archer's record for 54 holes set last year at the Upper Montclair Country Club. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Pavin |
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