Craig Stadler shot a stunning 9-under-par 63 Sunday to come from eight shots behind and win the B.C. Open in Endicott, N.Y., by one stroke over Alex Cejka and Steve Lowery.
It was the 13th victory on the PGA Tour for Stadler, 50, and his second win in two weeks. He captured the Senior Players Championship last week. With his victory here he matched a feat accomplished only by Ray Floyd in 1991, winning on both the Senior Tour and PGA Tour in the same year.
Stadler finished at 21-under-par 267 and pocketed the winner’s check of $540,000, the largest of his 26 years on the PGA Tour. Stadler clinched it with a birdie at 18. Cejka plunked his tee shot into water on 18 and settled for bogey when his putt for par stopped less than an inch from the hole.
– Hee-Won Han got her first LPGA Tour victory, shooting a par 71 for a two-shot victory over Meg Mallon in the LPGA Big Apple Classic in New Rochelle, N.Y. She is the tour’s third first-time winner in the last four weeks. Han finished at 11-under 273.
