Sunriver, OR (Sports Network) – Rod Perry closed with a 3-under 69 on Wednesday and rallied to win the 46th PGA Professional National Championship.<\/p>\n
Perry, who led after the second round, finished at 10-under-par 277 at the Sunriver Resort’s Crosswater Course.<\/p>\n
Ryan Polzin and Jeff Sorenson both closed with 1-under 71s. Polzin ended alone in second place at minus-7, while Sorenson grabbed third at 5-under 282.<\/p>\n
Mark Sheftic and Chip Sullivan, the third-round leaders, both stumbled to 4- over 76s to drop into a share of fourth place at 4-under 283. They ended alongside three-time winner Mike Small (72) and JC Anderson (67).<\/p>\n
Perry played a solid front-nine with birdies at two and six to go along with seven pars. He birdied the 10th to move to minus-10. Perry traded a bogey for a birdie from the 15th, before making par at the final two holes to seal the win.<\/p>\n
Bob Sowards closed with a 73 to take eighth at minus-2, while David Muttitt (70), Mark Brown (70), David McNabb (71), Kirk Hanefeld (73) and Sonny Skinner (73) shared ninth at 1-under-par 286.<\/p>\n
The previous 13 players mentioned all qualified to play in this year’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club.<\/p>\n
The remaining qualifiers were Stuart Smith, Jeffrey Martin, Lee Rhind, Caine Fitzgerald, Rob Labritz, Danny Balin and Bob Gaus.<\/p>\n
Balin and Gaus birdied the first playoff hole to survive a 6-for-3 playoff. On the second extra hole, Labritz chipped out of a fairway bunker, then holed his third shot for birdie. The other three couldn’t match and the final of the 20 available spots in PGA Championship went to Labritz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sunriver, OR (Sports Network) – Rod Perry closed with a 3-under 69 on Wednesday and rallied to win the 46th PGA Professional National Championship. Perry, who led after the second round, finished at 10-under-par 277 at the Sunriver Resort’s Crosswater Course. Ryan Polzin and Jeff Sorenson both closed with 1-under 71s. Polzin ended alone in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}