Stephen Ames celebrated his 60th birthday by posting a four-shot victory on the Mitsubishi Electrical Traditional for the second 12 months working on Sunday in Duluth, Ga.
A pair of eagles helped the Canadian shoot 5-under 67 in Sunday's last spherical. That, coupled with a course-record-tying 64 Saturday, let Ames cruise to a 14-under 202 for the week, 4 higher than Doug Barron and England's Paul Broadhurst.
“Yeah, two causes to have a good time tonight,” Ames mentioned.
Ames opened his spherical with a birdie earlier than coming to the par-5 sixth gap, the place his third shot from the green skipped previous the opening, then backspun straight into the cup.
His spherical was quiet till the par-4 13th. Ames' drive acquired some nice roll onto the inexperienced and he watched his ball skate previous the cup, narrowly lacking a uncommon hole-in-one at a par-4. He may very well be heard exclaiming, “Can't consider I missed that!” earlier than he methodically made a mid-length eagle putt.
” was simply completely up for a quantity and I hit the shot that I wanted to hit,” Ames mentioned. “I imply, going within the gap was clearly a little bit of luck, which ultimately was plenty of luck that acquired concerned there. The one on 13 was drive, I acquired all of it the best way to the again finish there after which I had a straight uphill putt.”
Broadhurst opened the day with a one-shot benefit over Ames and combined three birdies with two bogeys on his entrance 9. However after one other birdie at No. 10, a double bogey on the par-4 12th knocked him again to 10 below for the event and swung the door open for Ames, who completed with two bogeys and two birdies over his final 5 holes.
Ames additionally received the event in 2017. Sunday marked his eighth PGA Tour Champions title.
“You've acquired to form your ball into the greens, you've acquired to hit your drives correctly,” Ames mentioned. “And the situations yearly after we come again right here, they're at all times in nice situation, so it's good, not like after we performed up to now on the PGA Tour, it was chilly and windy and I used to be like, I don't assume I'm going to return again right here anymore.”
KJ Choi of South Korea shot a final-round 70 and Steven Alker of New Zealand had a 71 to tie for fourth at 9 below.
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