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ROUNDUP : WOODS TAKES EIGHTH BEHIND WINNER LONARD.


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No, Tiger Woods Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled.  doesn't win every week.

Woods had to settle for eighth Sunday at the Australian Masters The MasterCard Masters is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia. It is played annually in December at Huntingdale Golf Club in Huntingdale, Victoria, Australia. In 2006 it was co-sanctioned by the European Tour for the first time.  in Melbourne, confounded again by his putting game on difficult greens.

The winner was Peter Lonard Peter L. Lonard (born July 17, 1967) is an Australian golfer who plays mainly on the U.S. based PGA Tour. He credits fellow Australian Greg Norman as his inspiration.

Lonard was born at Epping and educated at Denistone and Eastwood in Sydney.
, a cash-strapped Australian who has spent four years recovering from a rare tropical disease that had left him so weary he could not walk two holes on a golf course. The fight to regain his health also left him with just $100 in the bank.

Now he has his first victory as a professional, defeating countryman Peter O'Malley on the second extra hole to win $102,600.

Lonard and O'Malley finished 16-under, a shot ahead of Australians Shane Tait and Wayne Grady.

Woods closed with a 1-under-par 73, seven strokes off the pace. His total was 9-under 283, tied with Larry Mize and Australian veteran Rodger Davis.

Stankowski prevails: Paul Stankowski rolled in a one-foot birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole to beat defending champion Jim Furyk and win the Hawaiian Open in Honolulu.

Stankowski, who won the BellSouth Classic last year for his only other PGA Tour victory, drove his second shot on the par-5, 18th hole to just off the green and then two-putted to win the $216,000 first prize.

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 Classic in Lutz, Fla., and collect the biggest paycheck of his career.

Graham finished with a 54-hole total of 9-under-par 204 on the par 71, 6,638-yard course at the TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of  of Tampa Bay and earned $135,000 nearly twice as much as he ever took home for a week's work in 20 years on the PGA Tour.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Feb 17, 1997
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