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Durant gains second win of season

Joe Durant fired a final-round 65 on Sunday to erase a four-shot deficit and win the Genuity Championship. His 18-under 270 was two better than overnight leader Mike Weir, who posted a one-under 71 on Sunday.

Durant became the first multiple winner on the PGA Tour this year. Last month, Durant broke the PGA Tour record for most strokes under par after 72 and 90 holes, en route to capturing the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. Sunday marked the third time in Durant's career that he visited the winner's circle as he also won the 1998 Western Open.

He got out of the gate quickly in the final round with an eagle at the first hole and a pair of birdies at two and four. Durant dropped a sand-wedge to 15 feet at the second and then drained a 30- footer at four to cut Weir's lead to one.

Weir birdied the par-four seventh to take a two-shot advantage and then traded birdies with Durant at number-eight, where the eventual champion holed a eight-foot putt.

The overnight leader ran into trouble when he made the turn with bogeys at nine and 10, thus knotting the two players atop the leaderboard.

Durant took sole possession of first place at the par-five 12th. He blew a three-wood through the green on to the back fringe for his second shot and two-putted from 50 feet for the birdie. He extended his lead to two after the 14th when he hit a seven-iron out of a fairway bunker from 166 yards out. He rolled home the birdie putt from eight feet to get to 18-under.

The 36-year-old Florida resident built the lead to three with a 20-foot birdie putt at 16 but dropped his only shot of the weekend at Doral on 18 when he three-putted from 25 feet. Weir needed to hole his second shot from 150 yards out in the final group to tie and when he missed the green right, Durant earned his second title in as many starts.

"I was playing well yesterday and the last couple of weeks have been unbelievable," said Durant, who pocketed $810,000 for the win, which vaulted him to first on the PGA Tour money list.

Durant spoke about the difference between the start of his 2001 campaign and his other years on tour.

"Putting. The putts have gone in instead of rimming out," said Durant, who lead the field in greens in regulation. "I've made a lot of eight to 20 foot putts which is where I usually struggle."

By virtue of his top spot on the tour's money list through this event, Durant qualified for the 2001 Masters. The top-three players after this event received invitations to Augusta. Davis Love III is second, but already qualified and Steve Stricker, who finished in a tie for 34th this week, also made the list thanks to his victory at the World Match Play Challenge.

For the fourth time in Weir's career, he failed to win an event where he lead after 54 holes. He finished alone in second at 16-under 272.

Reigning Masters champion Vijay Singh carded a 67 on Sunday and shared third with Jeff Sluman and Hal Sutton. Sluman made it around Doral in 70 while Sutton shot even-par 72.

Love was alone in sixth after he played in the final group for the third straight week on tour. Nick Price shot a 67 on Sunday and finished one behind Love at minus-11.

Stewart Cink, who was on top after two rounds, continued to struggle on Sunday. He followed his 75 on Saturday with a 74 and tied for 12th at nine-under.

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