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Perry Sets Course Record in Travelers Win
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Kenny Perry shot 63 yesterday to finish with a course-record 22-under-par 258, giving him a three-stroke victory over Paul Goydos and David Toms in the Travelers Championship.
The 48-year old Perry, who led after each of the first two rounds at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., trailed by a stroke to Paul Goydos heading into the final round.
He responded by shooting a 32 on the front nine and was up by five strokes heading to the par-4 15th.
Perry birdied 15 and put the tournament away by making birdie on 17 after hitting a 164-yard approach to within eight feet.
"I knew that I had to keep making birdies," he said. "I wasn't going to let up. I wasn't going to play defensive golf."
Perry has won five times in just more than a year, the most of any player on tour. He has 12 top-10 finishes over that span. His 14th career win also moves him to the top of the FedEx Cup standings.
-- CHAMPIONS TOUR: In Endicott, N.Y., Lonnie Nielsen shot a 9-under 63, passing second-round leader Fred Funk with a flourish on the front side and holding on to win the Dick's Sporting Goods Open by three shots.
Nielsen, who turns 56 today, finished at 21-under 195, a record in the three-year history of the event. After going 6 under through the first four holes to move quickly into the lead, Nielsen made birdie at No. 12 to break a tie with Funk and followed with birdies at Nos. 16 and 18 to win for only the second time on the Champions Tour.
-- LPGA TOUR: Jiyai Shin dedicates each one of her golf victories -- make that five in 11 months -- to her mother.
The 21-year-old South Korean star, whose mother was killed in a car crash in 2004, shot a 1-under 71 to win the Wegmans LPGA by seven strokes with a 17-under 271. It was the biggest margin of victory at the tricky, tree-lined Locust Hill course in Rochester, N.Y., since Patty Sheehan beat Nancy Lopez by nine strokes in 1992.
