Playoffs just par for course

Rival delivers a Horn blow

GARY Woodland beat Chez Reavie with a par on the first playoff hole in the Phoenix Open.

Playing three groups ahead of Reavie, Woodland birdied three of the last four holes for a seven under 64 to finish at 18-under 266 at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona.

Reavie made a six metre birdie putt on the par-four 18th to force the PGA Tour’s fourth straight playoff and the event’s third in a row. THEY haven’t exchanged punches yet but already undefeated American Terence Crawford has hit Jeff Horn low, saying he lags behind the best welterweights in the world.

Crawford met his 86-year-old promoter Bob Arum in Texas at the weekend to thrash out the final details for his April 15 fight with Horn at New York’s Madison Square Garden and said he was ready to repel the Brisbane boxer’s American invasion.