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A look at the four-day scores indicates
that this might well have been Matteson’s landed on dry ground. He pitched onto
week all along. He opened with a the putting surface and made par to stay
disappointing 2-over-par 72 in the first in the playoff.
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round but stormed back with back- “It was a crazy shot,” said Lovemark. “It
The field at last
to-back 61s on Friday and Saturday, was a skipper.” year’s Frys.
setting a TOUR record for lowest scores While he lost, the 20-year-old Fowler,
com Open
included three
in consecutive rounds—and he took a who turned pro after playing in the Walker
players who won
three-stroke lead into the final round. Cup in late summer, was pleased with
on the 2009
Champions Tour:
“That’s really as good as I can play,” his performance, which saw him take the
Michael Allen,
said Matteson, a Georgia Tech grad. “I lead on Sunday after making a hole-in-
Tom Lehman
and Tom
really don’t have to worry about playing one on the fifth hole.
Pernice, Jr.
better than that, because that’s it.” “I knew I was capable of coming out
The luckiest play of the week probably and competing,” said Fowler. “But to
belonged to Lovemark who hit his finish tied for seventh (at Las Vegas the
Most Victories:
Mike Weir,
approach on the first extra hole into a previous week) and then tied for first and
Cameron Beckman,
water hazard, only to watch as the ball then losing a playoff, that’s a pretty quick Troy Matteson (1)
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