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And now from the tour……………
CROMWELL, Conn. — The journeyman Ken Duke made a 2 ½-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday to beat Chris Stroud at the Travelers Championship and earn his first PGA Tour victory.
Stroud had chipped in from 51 feet on the 18th hole to force the playoff.
But the 44-year-old Duke made the better approach shot on the second extra hole, bouncing his ball in front of the flag and rolling it close.
“I’ve knocked on the door a lot, and here we are,” said Duke, who turned professional in 1994.
Duke would not have been in position to win at all had luck not intervened on the 10th hole, when his ball ricocheted off a tree and onto the green to about 5 feet from the pin, allowing him to make a birdie.
After a 17-foot birdie putt on the next hole, he made a 45-footer on the 13th hole, a shot that looked as if it might go past the hole to the right, before falling in.
He battled Watson for the lead down the back nine, until Watson, a former Masters champion, found trouble on the 16th.
Duke would not have been in position to win at all had luck not intervened on the 10th hole, when his ball ricocheted off a tree and onto the green to about 5 feet from the pin, allowing him to make a birdie.
After a 17-foot birdie putt on the next hole, he made a 45-footer on the 13th hole, a shot that looked as if it might go past the hole to the right, before falling in.
He battled Watson for the lead down the back nine, until Watson, a former Masters champion, found trouble on the 16th. – excerpts from nytimes.com
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