KAPOLEI, Oahu — Paul Goydos won the Hawaii Championship on Sunday for his first Champions Tour title, breaking out of a tight pack with four straight birdies. ADVERTISING KAPOLEI, Oahu — Paul Goydos won the Hawaii Championship on Sunday for
KAPOLEI, Oahu — Paul Goydos won the Hawaii Championship on Sunday for his first Champions Tour title, breaking out of a tight pack with four straight birdies.
Making his fifth start of the 50-and-over tour since turning 50 in June, Goydos closed with a 4-under 68 at Kapolei Golf Club for a tournament-record 19-under 197 total. He opened with rounds of 66 and 63 for a share of the second-round lead with Fred Funk.
“I think I used what I’ve learned today,” Goydos said. “I’m making progress, which I’m pleased with. I didn’t play well on the PGA Tour this year. Happy held it together. Handled adversity well.”
Funk finished with a 69 to tie for second with Scott Dunlap. The 58-year-old Funk had a hole-in-one on No. 16, using a 4-hybrid on the 200-yard hole.
“It was good and bad,” Funk said. “Disappointing. Had a lot of chances. … I’m doing everything I can to stay competitive.”
Dunlap shot a 65.
“Today was the toughest day wind-wise,” said Dunlap, the Boeing Classic winner last month and also second two weeks ago in the Quebec Championship. “I’m playing the best golf that I’ve played in a long, long time.”
After birdieing Nos. 14-17 to take a two-stroke lead, Goydos scrambled for bogey on the par-4 18th after flying his approach well above the green and through trees to the left of the grandstand.
“You’re a little nervy up there,” Goydos said.
He started the birdie run with a 6-footer on the par-5 14th, hit a 140-yard shot to an inch on the par-4 15th, holed a 15-footer on the 16th and made a 6-footer on the par-5 17th.
The putt on 16 gave broke a tie with Funk and Dunlap.
“I couldn’t hit a better putt than the I did on 16,” Goydos said. “That putt on 16 was key. I’m proud of that. … I’m happy how I handled things at 16 after Fred made ace.”
The birdie putt on 17 gave him the cushion he ended up needing on 18.
“That was massive,” Goydos said.
Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic
PRATTVILLE, Ala. — Mi Jung Hur held off top-ranked Stacy Lewis on Sunday to win the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, finishing with a 6-under 66 for a tournament-record 21-under 267 total.
The 24-year-old South Korean player birdied four of the final eight holes to beat Lewis by four strokes for her second LPGA Tour victory.
Hur opened with rounds of 64, 70 and 67 on Capitol Hill’s links-style Senator layout. She broke the tournament mark of 19 under set by Katherine Hull-Kirk in 2010. It was the best 72-hole score of Hur’s career.
Lewis won in 2012 at the tournament that was dropped from the schedule last year after losing its title sponsor. She also closed with a 66.
Rookie Paula Reto was third at 14 under after a 73. She shared the third-round lead with Hur at 15 under.
