JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Rocco Mediate missed a 4-foot par putt for the win, after which made out of about the identical distance on the second playoff gap Sunday to beat Bob Estes and win the Constellation Furyk & Mates on the PGA Tour Champions.
Mediate, who closed with a 1-under 71 at Timuquana Nation Membership, gained for the primary time in 5 years and earned his fifth title on the 50-and-older circuit.
“It’s been without end,” Mediate stated. “I struggled lots. This week was good more often than not, at present in spots it wasn’t good. However’s it very satisfying that I received one other one. Superb for me. A number of good issues occurred.”
It was tougher work than he needed.
Mediate was three photographs forward with 4 holes to play, and two holes later he was tied. His wedge to the par-5 fifteenth went left down a slope and led to bogey, whereas Estes boldly went for the inexperienced protected by water and made birdie.
“Hit the 3-wood completely, and when Rocco made bogey impulsively it was recreation on once more,” Estes stated.
Then, Estes hit a draw across the tall pines to five ft for birdie to tie for the lead. Mediate responded with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-3 seventeenth and was on the entrance of the inexperienced on the par-4 closing gap. However his lengthy putt up the slope was 4 ft away and he missed.
“Hit it precisely how I needed,” Mediate stated. “That’s the way in which it goes.”
Estes received up-and-down for a par and a 71, and so they each completed at 12-under 204.
Mediate, having missed a brief putt for the win, all of the sudden confronted a 10-footer for par on the 18th within the playoff simply to maintain going after Estes poured in a par from 18 ft. Mediate made that one, after which made his 4-foot par on the second additional gap after Estes missed from 15 ft.
The 61-year-old Mediate now has gained PGA Tour-sanctioned occasions in his 20s, 30s, 40, 50s and 60s. His first victory was the 1991 Doral-Ryder Open in a playoff over Curtis Unusual.
“I set out this 12 months and stated, ‘I’d wish to win in my 60s.’ And I’ll be darned,” Mediate stated.
Estes was on the lookout for his first PGA Tour Champions title.
