Daly gets 1st victory since 2004
John Daly won the Insperity Invitational in The Woodlands, Texas, on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title.
Daly made it interesting by bogeying the final three holes for a 3-under-par 69 and a onestroke victory over Kenny Perry and Tommy Armour III.
Needing just a bogey to win it, Daly knelt to the ground and kissed the Arnold Palmer umbrella painted on the grass for luck. It must have worked; Daly pumped his fist after tapping in for bogey on 18, then was sprayed with Champagne by friends, led by fellow player Esteban Toledo.
“It’s awesome,” Daly said in his postround interview after stumbling to the finish line. “It wasn’t the greatest of finishes . ... A win’s a win, man . ... Pretty cool.”
Daly, 51, won for the first time since the PGA Tour’s 2004 Buick Invitational. He finished at 14under 202.
The two-time major champion becomes the 12th member of the senior tour to record a win on all three PGA Tour circuits, including the European Tour.
“Now I can say I’m a champion on the Champions Tour, which is really cool,” Daly said. “Hopefully, I can keep this confidence going.”
Perry shot a 69, and Armour had a 67.
Kevin Sutherland was fourth at 11-under after a 67. LPGA Tour: Sei Young Kim held off Ariya Jutanugarn 1 up to win the Lorena Ochoa Match Play in Mexico City for her sixth LPGA Tour title.
After Jutanugarn won the par-5 17th with a birdie to force another hole, Kim finished the match with a halve for a par on the par-4 18th.
In the morning semifinals at Club de Golf Mexico, Kim beat Mi Jung Hur 5 and 4, and Jutanugarn topped Michelle Wie 4 and 3.
Hur beat Wie in the thirdplace match. Wie had a 5-up lead over Hur after 10 holes. Hur took five of the next seven holes to tie it and won with a birdie on the 22nd hole.
Wie is winless since the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open. She won the then-Lorena Ochoa Invitational in stroke play in 2009 for her first tour title. European Tour: Thorbjorn Olesen and Lucas Bjerregaard gave Denmark the inaugural GolfSixes title, teaming to beat Australia’s Scott Hend and Sam Brazel in the final of the matchplay event at St. Albans, England. Olesen and Bjerregaard won the last three holes for a 3-1 victory in the six-hole final. The Danes beat France in the quarterfinals and Italy in the semifinals.