SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — After the first two playoff holes Sunday, neither Kenny Perry nor Charley Hoffman looked capable of winning the FBR Open.
In fact, it looked as if they might have to play until dark.
“The playoff was ugly,” Perry said. “We were hitting it everywhere, having to scramble from all over the place.”
Perry finally finished off Hoffman, making a 22-foot birdie putt on the third extra hole Sunday at TPC Scottsdale.
Perry closed with a 2-under-par 69 to match Hoffman (67) at 14-under 270. It was the 13th PGA Tour victory for Perry, the 48-year-old who won three times last year and played on the winning U.S. Ryder Cup team.
Perry blew a chance to win in regulation, bogeying the final hole.
In the playoff, Perry and Hoffman bogeyed and parred the first two extra holes. Perry then rolled in the long putt on the 332-yard, par-4 17th to end it.
Kevin Na (68) finished third at 13-under, barely missed an 8-foot putt on the 18th hole that would have put him in the playoff.
• Teenager Rory McIlroy shot a 2-under 70 for his first European Tour victory, a one-shot win over Justin Rose (67) at the Dubai Desert Classic in the United Arab Emirates.
McIlroy, a 19-year-old from Northern Ireland, finished at 19- under 269 to become the seventh- youngest winner on the European Tour. Henrik Stenson (67) finished third at 17-under.
Davis closing in on 1,000 title
ERFURT, Germany — Olympic champion Shani Davis of the U.S. won a men’s speedskating 1,000-meter World Cup race to close in on the title at the distance.
With one race remaining on the schedule and 100 points at stake, Davis has 690 points. His closest challenger, Denny Morrison of Canada, has 600.
Davis set a course record by winning in 1 minute, 8.40 seconds. Morrison was second in 1:08.78, and Jan Bos of the Netherlands was third in 1:09.03.
German star Anni Friesinger won the women’s 1,000 for her second victory in two days after taking the 1,500 on Saturday. She now has 57 World Cup wins.
Friesinger finished in 1:15.61. Yu Jing of China was second in 1:16.41 and teammate Jin Peiyu was third in 1:16.42.
Footnotes.
Bradley Wiggins of Britain took the yellow jersey and his team, Garmin Slipstream of Boulder, won the time trial on the opening day of the Tour of Qatar.
Wiggins finished the 3.7-mile race in 6:34. Seventeen teams are taking part in the six-day race that ends on Friday. Today’s second stage will cover 83 miles.
• Teddy Mayer, who helped build McLaren into a Formula One powerhouse, has died in Woking, England. He was 73.
• Kip Deville held off Just as Well to win the $300,000 Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
• Kendrick Perkins was fined $10,000 by the NBA for a flagrant foul on Detroit’s Jason Maxiell that led to the Boston forward being ejected Friday night.
The Associated Press
