Mediate rocks to first PGA win since 2002
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SAN MARTIN, Calif. — The familiar chants of “Rocco! Rocco!” never sounded better or louder as he approached the 18th hole.
Rocco Mediate holed out for eagle for the fourth straight day, hitting a pitching wedge approach from 116 yards that spun back into the cup on the par-4 17th hole Sunday en route to a one-stroke victory over Bo Van Pelt and rookie Alex Prugh in the Frys.com Open.
“Do you believe what just happened out there?” Mediate said. “I have a job again.”
The 47-year-old Mediate won his sixth PGA Tour title and first since 2002, finishing with a 2-over 73 for a 15-under 269 total at CordeValle. He earned US$900,000 and a two-year tour exemption.
Mediate had a hole-in-one on the par-3 third hole Thursday, holed out from 160 yards Friday on the par-4 fourth, and holed out from 111 yards Saturday on the par-5 15th hole.
Prugh and Van Pelt each birdied the final hole, giving Mediate exactly what he wanted on his final shot — a four- or five-foot putt that mattered. Mediate said he never saw the ball go into the hole.
He turned, flipped his putter and embraced Achatz before shaking hands with Prugh and Van Pelt.
Recari gets first LPGA title
DANVILLE, Calif. — Spain’s Beatriz Recari won the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, overcoming soggy conditions and a late bogey for a one-stroke win over France’s Gwladys Nocera.
The 23-year-old Recari, a tour rookie who made cuts in only three of her first 13 stroke-play events this season, rebounded from a bogey on the No. 17 with a par on the 18th for a 2-under 70 and a 14-under 274 total on the Blackhawk Country Club course. Nocera birdied the final hole for a 70.
The win ended a 14-month world victory drought for Recari, who nearly tripled her career winnings with the US$165,000 first-place prize.
— The Associated Press