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Allenby
survives six-way playoff to win Nissan Open
Pacific
Palisades, CA (Sports Network) - Australia's Robert Allenby sank a
six-foot birdie putt at the first extra hole to survive a six-man
playoff for the title at the Nissan Open on Sunday. The victory allowed
Allenby to run his playoff record to 3-0 on the PGA Tour, as he captured
his first two titles in extra holes last year.
Allenby posted a one-under
70 in his final round at rainy Riviera to finish 72 holes of regulation
tied at eight-under-par 276 with Toshi Izawa (66), Brandel Chamblee
(67), Bob Tway (68), Jeff Sluman (69) and Dennis Paulson (70).
The playoff began at the
451-yard, par-four 18th, a hole that yielded only two birdies over
the final two days of the tournament. Five of the six players found
the fairway off the tee, with Izawa pulling his drive onto a muddy
bank on the left.
After both Izawa and Sluman
left their second shots short of the green, Chamblee roped a three-wood
right on line with the flag, but his ball caught the front fringe
and stopped. Although Tway managed to reach the green with his approach,
it landed way right of the left- side pin placement. Paulson, the
only player not to use a wood for his second, knocked his two-iron
onto the back right fringe.
With a three-wood from 223
yards out, Allenby fashioned a soaring shot that cleared the rough
guarding the left front of the green and fed down to within six
feet of the hole.
Izawa and Sluman made the
green with their third shots, and Chamblee, Tway and Paulson each
missed the mark with their long birdie attempts. That left Allenby,
who rolled his putt in the center of the cup to break the deadlock
and seize the $612,000 first prize.
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