Late birdie flurry carries Stenson to Wyndham title
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Henrik Stenson kept making birdies on the back nine Sunday at the Wyndham Championship. They added up to a tournament record — and his first victory of the year.
Stenson closed with a 6-under-par 64 for a one-stroke victory over Ollie Schniderjans in the final event of the PGA Tour regular season.
The 2013 Fedex Cup champion finished at 22-under 258 at Sedgefield Country Club, breaking the course’s 72-hole record set by Carl Pettersson in 2008 and matched last year by Si Woo Kim.
The Swede earned $1,044,000 and 500 Fedex Cup points for his sixth win on tour and his first since the 2016 British Open.
“It’s certainly a good time to start firing,” Stenson said. “We know the kind of damage you can do in the playoffs. … If you get hot and keep on playing well, you have a chance to challenge.”
For the second straight day, he had four birdies in a five-hole stretch of the back nine.
Ollie Schniederjans shot a 64 in the final round. Webb Simpson was 18 under after a 67.
Low scores and tight leaderboards once again were the norm at Sedgefield. With seven holes left for the final pairing, four players — Stenson, Schniederjans, Ryan Armour and Las Vegas resident Kevin Na — shared the lead at 18 under.
Stenson had three consecutive birdies on Nos. 15-17 — leaving a 20foot eagle putt on the 15th hole about a foot short — after he and Schniederjans were both at 19 under.
Stenson’s 30-foot birdie putt on No. 17 moved him to 22 under.
With Schniederjans watching the television broadcast and hoping for a tie, Stenson rolled a 35-foot birdie putt on No. 18 off the right edge of the cup and then made a 3-footer to end it.
■ At Los Angeles, Doc Redman rallied from two holes
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down with two to play and won the U.S. Amateur, beating Doug Ghim on the first extra hole at Riviera Country Club.
Ghim was 2 up heading to the 17th, but Redman made a 55-foot putt to win the hole with the tournament on the line. Redman then holed an easier birdie putt on the 18th to force overtime.
The 62nd-seeded Redman is a 19-year-old sophomore at Clemson. After barely reaching match play through a playoff, he became the second-lowest seed to win the title since 1985.
■ At Endicott, N.Y., Scott Mccarron birdied the final three holes to beat California childhood rival Kevin Sutherland by one stroke in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open.
Mccarron, 52, closed with an 8-under 64 a day after shooting a 61 at En-joie to join Sutherland atop the leaderboard entering the final round in the PGA Tour Champions event.
Sutherland birdied the 16th and 18th in a 65.
■ At Bad Griesbach, Germany, Adrian Otaegui came from behind to beat home favorite Marcel Siem 2 and 1, clinching the Paul Lawrie Match Play for his first European Tour title.
The Spaniard won six of the eight holes after the turn on the Beckenbauer Course, including the final four, to claim his first win in his 123rd event.
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