Senior claims Australian PGA title

Peter Senior won his second Australian PGA Championship by one stroke from Rod Pampling on Sunday after taking a five-shot lead into the final round.

Senior, 44, who had not won a tournament since 1997, carded a four-round total of 17-under-par 271 including a final round of 73 at the Hyatt Coolum course in Queensland.

Relieved Queenslander Senior said he was glad the tournament was over after taking three putts for a bogey on the par-four 18th hole.

"Just as well there weren't too many holes left. I was leaking (shots) pretty bad coming home. But it's a great feeling," said Senior, who also won the tournament in 1989.

Senior was joint leader after the first round and outright leader by five shots after the second and third rounds.

Queensland's Pampling and Craig Parry were in joint second place after three rounds on 13 under par and pushed Senior with sub-par rounds on Sunday.

Pampling had a 69 for a four-round total of 16-under-par 272 while triple Australian Masters winner Parry fired a 70 to finish a shot behind Pampling in third place.

Scott Laycock with a 67 was fourth on 14-under-par 274, one shot ahead of Peter Lonard who had a 68 and Euan Walters, who was sixth on 12-under-par 276 after his closing 67.

271 Peter Senior 64 65 69 73

272 Rod Pampling 65 69 69 69

273 Craig Parry 67 68 68 70

274 Scott Laycock 71 69 67 67

275 Peter Lonard 68 72 67 68

276 Euan Walters 71 67 71 67

277 Wade Ormsby 67 73 63 74

278 Peter Fowler 69 69 69 71, Peter O'Malley 68 67 69 74

279 Stephen Allan 70 67 71 71

280 Steven Conran 72 71 70 67, Andrew Bonhomme 72 66 71 71, Scott Gardiner 68 71 65 76 281 Chip Beck (U.S.) 71 73 69 68, David McKenzie 77 66 69 69, Nick O'Hern 67 68 74 72, Matthew Ecob 67 72 70 72, Adam Crawford 69 70 68 74, Ryan Palmer (U.S.) 69 69 68 75

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