Houston Chronicle

Pampling victory ends long drought

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Rod Pampling won for the first time in 10 years on the PGA Tour when he closed with a 6-under-par 65 for a two-shot victory in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Pampling sank a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas that clinched the win. The 47-year-old Australian last won on the PGA Tour at Bay Hill in 2006.

Brooks Koepka closed with a 67 to finish second.

Lucas Glover was tied with Pampling with two holes to play until he made a bogey from the bunker on the par-3 17th. He closed with another bogey to shoot 69 and finish third.

Pampling lost his PGA Tour card after the 2013 season and spent two years on the Web.com Tour. He had to return to the Web.com Tour Finals last month just to get his card back. In other news: • Scott McCarron won the Dominion Charity Classic at Richmond, Va., to get a top-five spot next week in the PGA Tour Champions finale, beating Tom Byrum with a 6-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff. McCarron will start next week in Arizona second in the points to two-time defending champion Bernhard Langer, with all of the top five in the reset standings — Colin Montgomeri­e is second, followed by Joe Durant and Miguel Angel Jimenez — in position to win the season title with a victory at Desert Mountain. McCarron and Byrum each shot 3-under 69 to finish at 13 under on the James River Course at The Country Club of Virginia. Byrum missed a 15-footer before McCarron holed the winning putt.

• Shanshan Feng needed every bit of the three-stroke lead she took to the final hole to finish off her second consecutiv­e LPGA Tour victory. The 27-year-old Chinese star closed with a double-bogey 6 to beat Ha Na Jang by a stroke in the TOTO Japan Classic at Ibaraki. Feng closed with a 2-under 70 for a 13-under 203 total.

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