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Maginnes
holds on for two shot win
John Maginnes
carded a final-round, two- under 69 on Sunday to win the Buy.com
Carolina Classic by two shots at 15- under 269.
Ryuji Imada
finished second, Phil Tataurangi took third at 11-under par and
Todd Fischer came in fourth at minus-10.
Maginnes held
a three-shot lead overnight but a bogey at the second hole coupled
with a birdie by Tataurangi at the first dropped the lead to one.
Tataurangi
birdied the fifth to tie Maginnes at the top of the leaderboard
and then birdied the next to get a one-shot lead. The lead did not
last long as Tataurangi went double-bogey, bogey, double-bogey from
nine through 11 to drop out of contention.
Maginnes birdied
No. 11 when he drained a 30-foot putt to get a two-shot margin,
but he dropped another stroke at 12 when he missed a three-foot
par save. He reclaimed the lost stroke with a two-putt birdie at
the par-five 13th and followed with a 15-foot birdie at 14 to extend
his lead to three.
Maginnes holed
a six-foot par save at 15 after Imada ran home a 15-foot birdie
at the same hole. Maginnes cemented the win when he drilled a two-footer
at the last to save par.
"The year has
really just gotten started and this puts me in good position for
everything," said Maginnes, who earned $81,000 for the victory.
"I don't know what it does for me on the money list but I won't
even look at that until September anyway."
He jumped to
eighth on the money list with his third victory on the Buy.com Tour.
Maginnes previously won the 1995 San Jose Open and the 1998 Dakota
Dunes Open.
Imada carded
a 69 on Sunday, but it was not enough to catch Maginnes.
"I knew today
was going to be a hard day with the way the wind was blowing in
different directions," Imada said. "My goal was to hit all the fairways
and greens, which I did pretty well except a few holes, but I couldn't
capitalize on a few of the easier holes that I should have made
birdies. John made some good birdies coming in and also good up
and downs and that was the two-shot
David Kirkpatrick,
Paul Claxton, Willie Wood and Tim O'Neal shared sixth at seven-under
277.
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