Quigley gains narrow victory

Dana Quigley shot a 2-under 69 Sunday and held off a final-round charge by Bob Gilder to win the Senior PGA's SBC Championship by one stroke.

Quigley's 12-under 201 total at the Oak Hills Country Club was worth $217,500 and a gave him a lift heading into the Senior PGA Championship next week at Gaillardia Golf and Country Club outside Oklahoma City.

The win was Quigley's second this year and his seventh on the Senior PGA Tour. He won the Siebel Classic in San Jose, Calif., in March.

Vicente Fernandez (70) was third at 10-under 203, while Tom Watson (70) finished another two strokes back and Gil Morgan (71) was at 206.

Quigley was two strokes up with two holes to play. But on the par-4 17th, a dogleg left, he played conservatively by laying up on his second shot and then two-putted from 22 feet for a bogey.

He dropped his tee shot on the 198-yard, par-3 18th about 12 feet from the pin and left his birdie putt about a foot short.

Gilder, who started Sunday six strokes behind Quigley, closed with a 64. He moved into contention with six consecutive birdies starting on No. 3.

After parring No. 9, he birdied the par-5 10th. He bogeyed the par-4 12th, but got the stroke back on the next hole, and then made a birdie on the par-5 15th after pitching out a bunker above the green to get to 11 under.

Fernandez parred each of the first nine holes, birdied No. 10 and then closed out with eight more pars.

Rodger Davis, who started the day alone in third at 8 under, quickly fell out of the hunt by bogeying three of his first four holes. He finished with a 74 and a 208 total, tied for eighth.

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