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Tommy 'Two Gloves' wraps mitts around mug
Blisters Sea Island for final-round 60
Stephen Morton / The Associated Press The gloves were on as Tommy Gainey roared to victory on Sunday. (CP)
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- Tommy Gainey narrowly missed golf's magic number. He happily settled for a course-record 60 at Sea Island, and his first PGA Tour win Sunday in the McGladrey Classic.
Gainey became the fourth player this year to rally from at least seven shots behind in the final round to win on the PGA Tour. He made seven straight 3s on his way to a 29 on the back nine, and then had to wait more than two hours to see if Jim Furyk or anyone else could catch him.
No one came particularly close.
Tournament host and Ryder Cup captain Davis Love shot 71 and finished fourth. Furyk shot 69 and finished third. David Toms finished one back after a 63.
Gainey finished at 16-under 264 and earned $720,000, along with a trip to Kapalua in January for the Tournament of Champions and a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour.
"It's been a hard year for me and finally, we got it right," Gainey said.
Gainey, a 37-year-old from South Carolina with a homemade swing who is known as "Two Gloves" for wearing black gloves on each hand, joined a long list of unlikely winners this year. He was seven shots behind going into the final round, and his 60 was nearly 9 1/2 shots better than the average score.
It was the first 60 on the PGA Tour since Patrick Cantlay last year at the Travelers Championship, and it was the lowest closing round by a winner since Stuart Appleby shot 59 in The Greenbrier Classic in 2010.
Toms needed a birdie on the 18th hole to catch Gainey, but he pushed his drive well right into the bunker and had little chance of reaching the green.
"I was thinking about what kind of putt I was going to have before I ever hit the fairway," Toms said. "You get ahead of yourself and that's what happens."
On the LPGA Tour, Suzann Pettersen won the HanaBank Championship in Incheon, South Korea for her ninth title, beating Catriona Matthew with a five-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff after blowing a big lead.
Seven strokes ahead of Matthew at the start of the round, Pettersen shot a 2-over 74 to finish at 11-under 205 on Sky 72 Golf Club's Ocean Course.
-- The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 22, 2012 C5
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