Tway makes dad Bob proud

– Kevin Tway (above) birdied his last five holes, three in a play-off, to win his first US PGA Tour title on Sunday at the Safeway Open, where Brandt Snedeker squandered a five-shot lead in the final round.

Tway rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt at the third hole of sudden death to win the first event of the US tour’s 2018/19 season over Ryan Moore at Silverado Resort in Napa, California.

Snedeker, who started the day with a three-shot lead and led by five with 11 remaining in regulation, fell by the wayside with a par at the first play-off hole.

Moore matched Tway’s birdies at the first and second play-off holes, before succumbing at the third – the par-four 10th.

“I’m kind of at a loss for words,” said Tway, the 30-year-old son of 1986 PGA Championship winner Bob Tway.

He had birdied 17 and 18 in regulation to complete a one-under par 71 at Silverado Resort in Napa, California, finishing tied with Moore and Snedeker on 14-under par 274.

Snedeker started the day with a three-shot lead and stretched that to five after birdies at the fifth and seventh before slumping with four bogeys on the back nine.

That included three in a row at 10, 11 and 12, and that was enough to see his lead evaporate as Moore birdied 15, 16 and 18 to reach 14-under with a five-under par final-round of 67.

Snedeker briefly regained a one-shot lead with a birdie at the par-five 16th.

But he immediately gave the shot back at the 17th, where he was far left off the tee and under a tree. He found a bunker at the par-five 18th and settled for a par and a two-over 74. –