Woodland defeats Reavie in playoff
Mickelson double bogeys No. 18, finishes four back.
Gary Woodland SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — beat Chez Reavie with a par on the first hole of a playoff Sunday in the Phoenix Open.
Woodland birdied three of the last four holes for a 7-under 64 to finish at 18-under 266 at TPC Scottsdale.
Reavie closed with a 66. After making a bogey on the par-3 16th, the former Arizona State player chipped to 3 feet for birdie on the short par-4 17th and ran in a 20-footer for birdie on the par-4 18th to force the PGA Tour’s fourth straight playoff.
In the playoff on the 18th, Woodland hit short of the green from the left fairway bunker and chipped to 2 feet to set up his third PGA Tour victory. Reavie missed the green left and couldn’t get an 11-footer to fall.
The crowd was estimated at 64,273 for a record week-long total of 719,179. On Saturday, an estimated 216,818 jammed the grounds, the biggest turnout in golf history.
Ollie Schniederjans (65) and Brendan Steele (67) tied for third at 269.
Phil Mickelson was next at 69-270. He made three consecutive birdies on Nos. 15-17 but then double bogeyed the last hole.
European Tour: Shubhankar Sharma of India won his second European Tour title after carding 10 birdies in a 62 in the final round of the Maybank Championship at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sharma, 21, who also won the Joburg Open in December, finished with a 21-under 267 and pocketed the first prize of $500,000.
Spain’s Jorge Campillo was two shots back after a closing 68. He finished one ahead of Ryan Fox (66) and Pablo Larrazabal (66).
Lee Westwood, who shot a 62 on Friday, ended in a tie for 11thplace following a final-round 70.