HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. --Graeme McDowell vanquished colleague U.S. Open champ Webb Simpson in a playoff to score the RBC Heritage on Sunday for his second lifework triumph on the PGA Tour.
McDowell was four shots behind when the round began, however he mobilized with an end 69 over wind-blown Harbour Town Golf Links. The 2010 U.S. Open champ had his main bogey of the day on the 72nd opening to fulfill at nine-under 275 to constrain a playoff with Simpson, the dominant U.S. Open titleholder.
McDowell struck his methodology on the added opening something like 15 feet away and two-putted for standard. Simpson can't answer, missing a 10-footer for standard.
Luke Donald and Kevin Streelman tied for third.
McDowell's score finished a strong day in which just three players shot in the 60s.
Donald shot a 69, and Streelman had a 72. Jerry Kelly adjusted the top five after his even-standard 71.
Charley Hoffman, the 54-gap guide, ballooned to a 77 and fell into a tie for sixth.
Both McDowell and Simpson had an opportunity to score on the 72nd gap. McDowell missed a 12-foot standard putt for his main bogey of the round.
Simpson had a 22-footer for birdie a short time later on the 18th, yet he sent it 3 feet past, prompting the competition's third playoff in four years.
McDowell congratulated Simpson after the playoff miss and grinned substantially as the pontoons in Calibogue Sound tooted their horns and shrieks.
Not McDowell or Simpson made the decrease, in an enormous manner at Harbour Town.
The course bristled some fur, winds arcing flagsticks and blowing garbage. Donald upheld off his putt on No. 7 when a great leaf tumbled through his line. Groups watered a few greens to keep balls holding rather than skipping off the grass.
Champions Tour: Bernhard Langer added to his unbelievable Champions Tour flavor by shooting a 67 to score the inaugural Greater Gwinnett Championship at Duluth, Ga., by three strokes. Langer, 55, who completed at 10-under 206, brought control with a long chip-in for birdie on No. 10. He had six birdies for his fifth top-three completion in six occasions. Tom Lehman, whose 67 incorporated birdies on 17 and 18, tied for second at seven under with Tom Pernice Jr. (70). Esteban Toledo, the second-round pioneer, dropped out of controversy with a 75.
European Tour: Raphael Jacquelin of France won a playoff at the Spanish Open, edging Germany's Maximilian Kieffer on their ninth attempt at the 18th opening. Jacquelin made a 5-foot birdie putt to end the here and there and then here again fight with Kieffer in what begun as a three-way playoff incorporating Chile's Felipe Aguilar. The three were tied at five-under 283, with Jacquelin and Kieffer both checking one-under 71s in the last round. Aguilar completed with a 70.
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