Kevin Streelman finally won on the PGA Tour with a game that looked as if he had done this many times before.
Streelman didn’t make a bogey over the final 37 holes on the tough Copperhead course at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor, Fla. He didn’t miss a shot over the last 11 holes yesterday on his way to a 4-under 67. That gave him a two-shot win over Boo Weekley in the Tampa Bay Championship.
Streelman won in his 153rd start on the PGA Tour. The win puts him into the Masters for the second time in his career.
Weekley closed with a tournament-best 63 some three hours before Streelman finished.
Cameron Tringale had a 66 and finished alone in third. Jordan Spieth, the 19-year-old from Texas, tied for seventh and earned special temporary membership on the PGA Tour for the rest of the year.
LEWIS WINS FOUNDERS CUP
Stacy Lewis won the LPGA Founders Cup in Phoenix yesterday to jump to No. 1 in the world, taking advantage of Ai Miyazato’s collapse on the 16th hole.
A day after Lewis was penalized two strokes for her caddie’s blunder on the short par 4, the American took a two-stroke lead with a birdie on the hole after Miyazato made a double bogey following an errant approach shot that left her with an unplayable lie in a desert bush.
Coming off a victory two weeks ago in Singapore, Lewis won for the seventh time in her LPGA Tour career to end Yani Tseng’s 109-week run at No. 1.
Lewis closed with an 8-under 64 in perfect conditions at Desert Ridge to finish with a tournament-record 23-under 265 total on the cactus-lined Wildfire layout.
Miyazato was second, three strokes back after a 71.
FROST TAKES SENIORS
David Frost won the Toshiba Classic yesterday, shooting a final-round 65 to defeat Fred Couples by five strokes and tie the tournament record of 19-under 194 set by Jay Haas in 2007.