Moore wins CIMB Classic in playoff: October 2013

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Kenny Perry made a 10-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with Bernhard Langer on Sunday to win the Champions Tour's AT&T Championship.

Perry and Langer each shot 5-under 67 to finish at 13-under 203 on TPC San Antonio's AT&T Canyons Course. Perry saved par on the final hole of regulation with an 18-foot putt.

''I made clutch putts just to even hang in there with him,'' Perry said. ''Putter saved me.''

He didn't know he needed to make the long putt on 18 in regulation to remain tied with Langer, who was playing in the group behind him.

''When I made that putt, I thought I had a one-shot lead and that he would have to birdie 18 to catch me,'' Perry said. ''I look over there, and he had birdied 17. I thought, 'Dang, I had to make that to tie.' So, I guess it was a good mindset for me to know that I was relaxed and could putt with a good speed and hit it right in the middle.''

Perry hit an 8-iron from 176 yards to set up the winning 10-foot putt in the playoff.

''It was perfect,'' Perry said. ''I was jacked up, downwind, lot of adrenaline. I hit it the perfect distance. It was an amazing shot. I usually hit 160 with an 8-iron. Isn't that funny what adrenaline does to you?''

Perry extended his lead in the Charles Schwab Cup from 494 to 612 points entering the season-ending Schwab Cup Championship next week in San Francisco. The 14-time PGA Tour winner won the Senior Players Championship and U.S. Senior Open in consecutive tour starts this summer and has five career victories on the 50-and-over circuit.

''I'm the guy that's being hunted,'' Perry said. ''I think you have a different attitude when you're the hunter, and you're trying to attack. He's in the attack mode every week, trying to catch me, and I'm trying to play defense like a goalie in hockey. I'm trying to block him and keep him away.''

The top 30 on the money list qualified for the finale, though Perry and Langer are the only players with a shot at the $1 million annuity for the points title.

''He's going in with a very large lead,'' Langer said. ''I don't know if it's over. Theoretically, it's possible. I'm going to play as well as I can and see what happens.''日本JPX825 ドライバー

Langer also lost a playoff last year in the event, falling to David Frost on the second extra hole.

''I don't feel all that bad,'' Langer said. ''I played really good golf and kept my emotions in check. I was pretty relaxed. I have no regrets whatsoever. It just turned out that one person in the field beat me in the playoff. There's not much I can do about that.''

Fred Funk, Colin Montgomerie and Kirk Triplett tied for third, two shots back. Funk shot 67, Triplett had a 68 and Montgomerie a 69.

By JUSTIN BERGMAN (Associated Press)42 minutes agoAP - Sports

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Ryan Moore birdied the first hole of a playoff with Gary Woodland on Monday to win the CIMB Classic after an overnight wait caused by thunderstorms.

Moore had to fight just to get in the playoff, hitting an awkward 60-yard wedge shot on the 18th hole Sunday that dropped within several feet of the hole and allowed him to salvage par.

He and Woodland finished at 14-under 274, with the playoff postponed until Monday because of fading light.

In the playoff, Moore hit a similarly well-placed approach with an 8-iron to the same green that stopped about 5 feet from the hole, setting up his winning putt.

''I had a great opportunity there on 18 with my third shot and it was just an absolute perfect number,'' he said. ''It was coincidentally the exact shot I was working on on the range.''

It was Moore's third PGA Tour title and came nearly a year after he won his second at the 2012 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.

''I've always enjoyed playing in the fall. I'm not sure why,'' he said. ''It's actually kind of funny, I won a week before my son (Tucker) was born last year; I won a week after (his birthday) this year.''

Woodland, who was also trying to win his third PGA Tour title, had a chance to end things as dusk was descending in a steady rain Sunday evening but he barely missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th that would have given him the title.

The players had endured about 3 1/2 hours of storm delays earlier in the day, which caused the playoff to be put off until the morning.

''Obviously, I'd like to make that putt,'' Woodland said. ''I hit it where I wanted to, it just broke more. I can see it now, it was a little lighter out right now, I can see it broke a little more, but it is what it is.''

He pulled his approach shot to the 18th green wide Monday, leaving himself a difficult chip shot from the rough that he couldn't hole for birdie. 激安JPX825 ドライバー

Still, it's been a remarkable turnaround in form over the past few months for the American who has struggled with wrist injuries in recent years and a loss of form that had sent his world ranking plummeting to 268th this summer.

Woodland began making changes to his game last January when he started working with new swing coach Butch Harmon. He later switched to Harmon's son, Claude, hired a new short-game coach, Pat Goss, and then added a new psychology coach, Julie Elion.

The results finally started to come in August: Woodland won his second PGA Tour title at the Reno-Tahoe Open and followed that with a share of second at The Barclays a couple of weeks later.

Starting the new wraparound PGA Tour season this month, Woodland also added a new caddie, veteran Tony Navarro, who previously worked with Greg Norman and Adam Scott.

''I put a lot of hard work in,'' he said. ''It's been a process with the changes I've made, switching to Butch and his son, and it's finally starting to come together, which is nice. I put a lot of work in on the short game, a lot of work on the middle game, and we're starting to put it together now.''

Moore is also hoping to build on the victory at the $7 million Malaysian tournament, which became an official PGA Tour event this year, awarding FedEx Cup points and a spot in the Masters.

Given how well he has played at this time of year, he's also glad the new wraparound season is starting in October.

''Now that it counts, now that it's a full FedEx Cup event and counts as a win on the PGA Tour, it does so much for you. To get a win this early in the season, it's just incredible, to be able to get some FedEx Cup points racked up,'' he said.

Moore wins CIMB Classic in playoff

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Moore wins CIMB Classic in playoff

Moore wins CIMB Classic in playoff