SAN ANTONIO — James Driscoll didn’t see where Zach Johnson’s approach landed on the first hole of a sudden-death Sunday.
He didn’t have to. Thanks to the gallery, he heard it.
“I figured it was about 10 feet,” Driscoll said.
The crowd got even louder when Johnson sank the birdie putt to successfully defend his Texas Open title and end Driscoll’s unlikely final-round surge from eight strokes back at La Cantera Golf Club.
Johnson’s win capped a wild shootout in which seven players stood within a stroke with four holes left. The 2007 Masters champion followed his third-round 60 with a 70 to match Driscoll at 15-under-par 265, then hit the 6-iron approach in the playoff to set up his sixth career PGA Tour victory.
Paul Goydos had a one-shot lead with two holes left but closed with two bogeys for a 69, leaving him a stroke back with Bill Haas (65).
Oh wins second title
CLIFTON, N.J. — South Korea’s Ji Young Oh won the Sybase Classic for her second career LPGA Tour title, finishing with a 2-under 70 for a four-stroke victory over Norway’s Suzann Pettersen.
Amateur wins Irish Open
BALTRAY, Ireland — Irish amateur Shane Lowry won the Irish Open in his first PGA European Tour start, beating England’s Robert Rock with a par on the third hole of a playoff at County Louth. Lowry, who missed a 3-foot putt on the final hole of regulation, matched Rock with a closing 1-under 71.
Footnotes.
Keith Fergus won the rain-shortened Regions Charity Classic in Hoover, Ala., shooting his second straight 6-under 66 for a three-stroke victory over Gene Jones.
• Australia’s Michael Sim won for the second time in three Nationwide Tour starts, beating Fabian Gomez with a par on the first hole of a playoff in the BMW Charity Pro-Am in Greenville, S.C.
