RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Leonard stayed affected person together with his placing on a windy Sunday and watched it pay massive dividends with a birdie-par-eagle completed for a 4-under 68 and a one-shot victory over Ernie Els within the Dominion Vitality Charity Traditional.
Leonard gained for the second time this yr on the PGA Tour Champions and moved into high 10 after the primary playoff occasion for the Charles Schwab Cup.
The highest 54 advance to the second postseason occasion subsequent week in Arkansas.
Els was in management on the again 9 of the James River course on the Nation Membership of Virginia and appeared to regular himself with birdies on reachable par-4 fifteenth and the par-5 sixteenth.
However he bogeyed the seventeenth as Leonard made his transfer. After a birdie on the sixteenth, Leonard hit a hybrid 4-iron to about 20 ft and holed the downhill eagle putt to submit at 12-under 204.
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Els didn’t make a 10-foot birdie putt on the closing gap that might have pressured a playoff. He closed with a 72 and shared second place with Thomas Bjorn (68).
Bernhard Langer, the 68-year-old German who has gained yearly on the PGA Tour Champions since turning 50, was inside two pictures of the lead till a protracted three-putt bogey ended his hopes. He shot 72 and completed three again in his bid for a primary Champions win this yr.
Scott Parel shot 71 and tied for twenty first, shifting up three spots to No. 53 to advance to the Simmons Financial institution Championship subsequent week. David Bransdon fell out.
The highest 36 after subsequent week attain the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
